Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Awww... This padre is dedicated because a lot of black kids that get adopted by white parents suffer from unusually strange hair styles...
Clifton Green waited a decade to become a dad, imagining he would be like the man who raised him and made him feel like the most special kid in the world.
That day came in 2005, when Green and his wife adopted daughter Miriam Tigist from an Ethiopian orphanage.
Suddenly, fatherhood demanded a task few white men ever contemplate: hours of cleaning, combing, twisting and braiding African hair.
Such skills typically are handed down from older family members and, as this Emory University associate professor of finance discovered, take hours of practice. In the wrong hands, hair like his daughter's can break off.
"Besides the color of her skin, her hair is one of the few ways we are different," Green said last week as he twisted the thick curls of Miriam, now 4. "The more tangled it is, the more it hurts, the more she protests — in that way, it's pretty universal."
By knowing how to make straight parts, neat twists and careful braids, he has earned high-fives from stunned African-Americans.
"That meek and mild guy? He does not do her hair! You could have picked me off the floor when I found out," said Latise Egeston, an African-American counselor at Miriam's preschool. "Her hair looks fabulous every day, and I know what it takes." (Full Story)
Grinded by "hell if i know."
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LOL, i'm sorry ...i can't stop laughin...is this nigguh parting her hair with a fork????????LMMFAO
*^i had said comb instead of fork..lol
LMAO he doing what he gotta do K!
wait damn it, lmmfao why his wife ain't combing that shit?
and the article talking bout hours????? hours to do what, take her ass to the damn beauty shop like i do my daughter
one more thing the article also said something bout it being passed down from generation to genration......MAN PLEASE i had no mofo clue how to comb hair when i had my daughter, that shit wasn't passed down it's called trial and error, or on the job training,
i can't get over the hours shit, it take me bout 45 mins if i am braiding my daughter hair and she got waaaaaaaaaaay more hair than that lil girl with the fork to her scalp, but then agin i take my kid to the beauty shop to get a perm damn it, and that is what he need to do, hours my ass, lmmfao okay my rant is done
calm down chrissy...it's ok. breathe in breathe out lol
OHHHH NOOOO, I would be giving him the side eye for using a fork in my head LOL!!
I enjoyed this story..it is very heartwarming. The father stated he uses the plastic fork because it doubles as a rat-tail comb and is just the right size for her tender nape, and he takes 10 passes with it. This man sounds like a better parent than the people who are posting on this board. You drop your kids off to the beauty shop instead of taking this as an opportunity to spend quality time with your kids. Not to mention the high prices you pay at the salon. Also, what's up with all the foul language in these posts. Can you not write a simple and coherent sentence. Why do black people find joy in sounding "ghetto". In case you are wondering...I am an African-American with pride and I carry myself with great pride.
Thank you for coming through and leaving a comment foxyroxy...
It is good he gets to spend time with his kids, but why did you attack everybody else in your comment? We're just having fun making each other laugh.
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