Sesame Street recently aired a new song and video on PBS entitled “I Love My Hair.” The music video teaches pre-schoolers and kindergartners (particularly black girls), about the importance and value of loving their natural hair. Check out this cute and positive video.
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Sadly i hated the wig on the muppet…… sorry I’m just saying.
i cant watch ot but i hope its positive cuz im gettin tired of seein black girls 10- having weave in their hair!
Good message to send to black girls at a young age, esp. since the default societal message is that black hair is “bad” or “not good enough.” I’m just learning to love my (natural) hair now that I’ve been growing out my relaxer over the last few months, and I’m excited about all of the possibilities.
What a perfect message for our beautiful girls of color…would’ve been great if BET did it first…but at least it’s out. Thanks CL for sharing positive messages for our youth. Love this site!
Loving your hair says a lot! It speaks to a person self esteem, self love and that aig old HATE N HATING. GAWD KNOWS THERE IS A LOT OF THAT IN HERE so Sesame Street is doing a good awareness deed.
I decided to go natural a few days ago and I just love this video. I wish they had this kind of thing on Sesame Street when I was little.
I’m glad sesame street did this. because I was just in the beauty supply store the other day and this little girl, she had to have been like 6, was saying how she hated her hair to her mother.
she was pointing to all these pictures of how she wanted her hair and it was just sad, because she had SO much beautiful hair on her head.
I frreaking love this video! What an awesome idea to empower little girls about their unique hair. I’m going to write to PBS and let them know just how much I love it, maybe they will continue to keep children of color in mind with positive and empowering messages.
Typo : big not aig.
I get it… but I”m dying laughing right now. Maybe that’s not mature but I’m SO amused lol. I love this!
I adore this Video……Kudos to Sesame Street!
this is so cute!
This Christine girl, i like her posts.
Now this is what i am talking about. Good look for Sesame Street but how much are parents instilling in girls and boys about loving not just their hair but all of them? My inquiry mind wanna know. Sesame Street is doing a good service by featuring and showcasing this but parents need to do too and for those that are, BIG UPS.
Cool…maybe this also can help teach some mothers to stop putting perms and weaves in their children’s hair at a young age and let their hair finish growing until their old enough to do their own hair!
Willow Smith’s voice?!
Willow Smith’s voice?!
Woo Hoo! I love it!
That was sooo cute!! Loved it, loved it, loved it! Very positive! Keep it up Sesame Street!
This was good Concreteloop, you get an A+!
oh yeah watch someone say something negative about this! 1 2 3……
LOVE it. Great message. Cause I think a lot of young black girls see little white/mexican/chinese girls and feel like they hair should be silky and straight like theirs. When we should embrace our hair!
this was cute
Also, how can the same ppl have something negative to say abt this too?? Just goes to show…smh
I don’t think that is Willow Smith. It kind of sounds like her though.
But anyways I can see what people are saying concerning weave and little girls because they are covering their hair up and not appreciating what they have. But if this is about relaxers then no ma’am because natural is not my style. It’s cute on some people but I prefer straight because it fits me better. Just my preference. So if I was a little kid seeing this I don’t think it would have changed my mind in the long run. This is excellent for kids that are like under 12 and wanting relaxers and weaves because their friends have it. Unfortunately it’s not going to stop them from wanting relaxers and weaves later on.
SO CUTE….BUT #DEAD @ THE CORN ROLLS LMAO
I BELIEVE THAT IS BABY WILLOW!!
@TRES BIEN Awww *blushes* Thank you
Dont need a trip to the beauty shop, cause I love what I got on top……. LMFAO. Its a good look though. Then corney rolls gotz to go. lol
Thank you.. sisters you are beautiful the way you are. There is nothing better than natural beauty. I can’t stand weave and women who where make-up all the time!
LMAO @ the cornrows and the braids.. she was whipping that hair though. they should’ve played a snippet of willow’s song at the end.
i love this video cause it promotes good self esteem for girls with natural hair.
I went natural years ago
Nice message but realistically, a growing girl sees mummy has relaxed hair, sister has relaxed her, cousin, aunty, grandma, friends and most black women on TV have black and you’re tryna tell her ‘love your natural hair’??
It’s not powerful enough
What is the point of a clip for the young girls when it is the grown women that need to be reprogrammed? They’re getting programmed by their mothers to hate their hair.
AW. that was cute.
and 1 2 3…..lol
lmao @ 30.
Yessss Sesame Street.. <3
I love my hair & I love being natural.
I love CL for posting this and SS for making it.
First and probably last time I’ll somewhat agree with Judah
Some (a lot) ARE being programmed by their ignorant lazy mothers to hate their hair and not take care of it and just perm it and then complain about it and put weave in it and be done with it.
Some (also a lot), however, ARE being programmed by society and other, negative outside forces to hate their hair and dislike it and want “better” hair without realizing that black people (when they take care of it) can have extremely beautiful and versatile hair.. black (american) people (majority, OBV.) just don’t know and don’t want to. They just want to complain about how much better everyone else’s hair is and not actually learn to take care of their own but again, Judah is right, because their parents don’t know and didn’t teach them so they don’t know etc.
i luvvvvvvvvvv it!!!!! i love my hairrrr
So true @ Judah. Their mothers and their idiot fathers too.
Who the hell was that singing? I could not take it. I had to stop it. They could have chosen a better singer and a better looking puppet.
That puppet looked like an ugly granny.
Ugly granny looking puppet. They could have done better with choosing the singer and the puppet. Whoever that child is singing can NOT!
Sounds like Willow Smith, or maybe I’m just making a correlation between “I love my hair” and “Whip my hair”.
I wonder why it took them this long to a) have a black muppet (besides Elmo who i guess is technically black since his muppeteer is) and b) to have a song like this.Sesame Street has been on since the 60′s. I guess later is better than never.
That’s not WIllow, but Willow ought to go on the show and do her song with the Muppets…that would be cool!!!!
This was too cute & too funny…..thats I how feel about my hair too!
Nice post!
Good luck with that
Kudos to Sesame Street!! If only this was on when I was a chld… Glad to see Some advancement. Now if only the mothers will listen.
… and it got me a lil misty-eyed, which surprised me lol; hair can be a Tough battle, especially in the early years…
OK I’M PRETTY SURE THAT WAS WILLOW SMITH’S VOICE.. ITS SOUNDS JUST LIKE HER.. YUP THATS HER.. GREAT JOB AND GREAT MESSAGE.. BRAVO..
Why do so many black people think that a person does not love their hair if it is not natural. It is so many possiblilites to doing black hair and I think alot of ladies just love to explore. Because one person want their hair , kinky, dreads, twists or other natural styles…………….doesn’t mean the next person want those styles. My hair is absolutely beautiful and when it is in it’s natural state, it is curly. Not tight curls either, Kimora girls texture. I have been getting relaxers for years and I love it. All I hear from sistahs, girl if I had your hair, I would do this, I would do that. No they wouldn’t, because they would get tired of one style too. Why is it that a sistah is trying to be white if she have a head full of weave? Why can’t it be that she like the look. I like wigs also, straigh wigs, curly wigs, afro wigs, wavy wigs, etc. Some of ya need to get off that roller coaster because someone relaxes their hair or wear weave. Just like you might like tight naps in your head, the next person might like straight weave to their arze.
awww, too cute.. i shed a tear.. I’m still in love with Sesame Street.
thanks Christine.
Really like this, its adorable. Its true that our hair is very versatile. I wish more people would just wear their natural hair. Its like its rare. Most people wearing other folks hair stuck onto their head. Their natural hair cant look half as bad as those weaves. Some people just stick it on their head to be lazy and then develop bald edges from the friction and pulling of it all. Our hair isnt all that bad to hide it. Think we use too many chemicals and products that block out growth.
This is a positive message. I support it.
@ 49
I agree……it’s really sad when a black woman sees another black woman w/ straight hair or weaves and thinks that it’s self hate.
THATS SO CUTE!!!!
Proud to say that I’m 17 and have been rocking natural hair for almost 2 years. It’s been a rough path but overall I love the freedom of my own texture and I’m never going back. My hair has grown at a rate that I never would have experienced with relaxed hair. These young ladies (and their mothers) need to know that the only type of good hair is healthy hair. For all of these girls saying they wish they had white hair, did you know that they HAVE to wash their hair every 3 or 4 days (sometimes every day) because if they don’t it will get oily and nasty?
I love the video and the message. Like Judah stated ,I think the mothers of the young girls need to be deprogrammed because many of them start putting relaxers and weaves as early as 5 sometimes. I decided to go back to my natural self in 2006 by doing the big chop down to 3 inches. This is the honest truth,it has been 4 years and my hair is at my bra strap.I started learning about sulfate free products,natural oils,protective styles,shea butter,the right combing technique,satin bonnet caps,etc.
I fell in love with my natural texture and started taking care of my hair the right way.
Alot of black women are starting to go back natural again(just like the 50s,60s,and 70s)and I think it’s a beautiful thing.If you want to wear it straight,you could blow it up and flat iron just to switch it up. But that crack creme is very dangerous and is not healthy at all. Buying other people’s hair (wig or weave) and attaching it to your head is very expensive and many of our people don’t have the luxury to be buying other people’s hair.A mother could seen her child to medical school with that money instead of buying a lifetime supply of wigs/weaves IMO.
This is awesome, but, you know, it’s kind of weird too lol. Love the vid though…I Loooover myyyyyyyy Haaaaaaaaaaaair
@49.
EXACTLY! Not everybody is the damn same. Not everybody wants to walk around with some nappy ass hair YES I SAID IT. If that is your style then go for it. Not everybody looks good with kinks and sh*t. Get over yourselves. Women with natural hair think they are so much better and they are embracing this and that. CHILLE BYE! I knew this post was going to turn into this direction. Not everybody wants to look like Africa’s mother earth. We all have different styles, personalities, etc no one is identical nor should we all walk around this earth looking the same. My hair is healthy, thick, shoulder length and I LOVE IT and no I don’t want it to crinkle up so I can go natural. If I want to, hell I might get a Halle Berry cut and be just as happy. Does anybody tell white girls not to tan and buy fake lips and ass? Are they promoting self hate?
In fact they need to do an episode like this for white girls. I love my thin lips, I love my pale skin, I love my flat ass! SO SIT THE F*CK DOWN. Quit letting white people make you believe black women hate themselves because of our hair. It’s not us its them.
Umm, @49, no one said not having natural hair is “wanting to be white” or NOT loving your hair but there’s no point of relaxing it if you’re gonna wear it curly when you can just straighten it..
Heat damage will hurt your hair a LOT less than chemically completely altering its texture.Think about it.
And I’m natural and I wear my hair STRAIGHT. You have just as much of a misconception about natural people as you assume we do about permed women.
If you want to perm your hair, more power to you. Being natural doesn’t mean you have to be afro-centric and wear it in an afro / dreads / bantu-knot it out and walk around singing Lauryn Hill and doing spoken word while beating African drums.
Being natural means realizing that if black people just take care of their hair and don’t add harsh chemicals to it, it can be just as beautiful NATURALLY, if not more so, than other races who already do..(just take care of their natural hair).
I have white friends with curly hair, they just straighten their hair with a flat iron, it grows to their waists.. if black people achieve straight hair the same way, they can have the same results. Just tryna get black people to appreciate and understand THAT fact.