Just recently, on 3 September, Sheryl Underwood, an African-American TV presenter, faced a backlash when she showed disgust at the idea of afro-hair. The topic was former model Heidi Klum keeping her son’s hair as a keepsake. Amidst laughter, Underwood said: “Why would you save afro-hair? You can’t weave that afro hair. You never see us at the hair place saying ‘Look here, what I need is this curly nappy weave’. That just seems nasty.” When her white co-host turned around and said she also kept her son’s hair, Sheryl Underwood, still laughing, replied “which is probably some long silky stuff’’. This followed by a flick of her long wavy weave. You see, this is a typical example of a black woman who has been so brainwashed that she does not even know what she is saying. For a black woman, a well-known TV presenter at that, to sit on her own show, with her white co-hosts and disrespect her own hair like that is deep. If this is not hatred of your own hair, then what is? And to hate your own hair is I think a serious disease. Because deep down inside there must be something wrong with the woman that looks in the mirror and hates what stares back at her. Just like the anorexic person hates their body, so too is the hatred of one’s own hair and skin an illness. And maybe it’s time we started talking about it as such. Maybe then black women will wake up and ask themselves, what really is going on? But hey, these are just the reflections of an ordinary African woman.