*Everybody just needs to stop hatin’ on our girl Gabby Douglas.
She’s really outdone herself and made history, but some folks just want to talk about her hair.
Yeah, her weave ain’t all the way tight, but that’s not the focus of the girl’s accomplishments. And she agrees.
She’s become the first African American woman to win gold in the Olympic women’s gymnastic all-around competition and the first U.S. gymnast to ever win team gold and individual gold.
Douglas said she’s not quite sure where the hair comments are coming from because it’s been the same since the beginning – slicked back with a few clips.
”I don’t know where this is coming from. What’s wrong with my hair?” Gabby asked the Associated Press. ”I’m like, ‘I just made history and people are focused on my hair?’ It can be bald or short, it doesn’t matter about (my) hair.”
Fortunately, she’s a self-defining woman and doesn’t care about what people say. She’s going to keep wearing her hair the way she feels is best and keep it moving.
”Nothing is going to change,” she said. ”I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.”
Serena Williams supports the notion, probably because her hair ain’t always been the greatest either.
“It’s gorgeous! People don’t know what they’re talking about,” Williams said in an interview with USA TODAY Sports on Friday. “It’s ridiculous. It’s so ridiculous. Her hair is gorgeous.”
Gorgeous? Eh… regardless, she’s a history making athlete with a glow like no other.
Gabby’s awesome, hair and all.
Even Gabrielle Union took to Twitter in defense of the 16-year-old athlete.
“@gabrielledoug is a winner. I am proud of her. She is beautiful exactly the way she is. Shes #Gabulous#byehaters.”
She later added, “Any1 who insults a TEEN whose accomplished so much while displaying grace & dignity is beyond lame & should be ashamed of themselves #byehate.”
Ignorance never ceases to amaze me!
Is that really a weave she is wearing or us black folks only assume it is??? regardless it looks okay ot me. Enough with her hair now!!! I am glas Gabby is handling herself so well about this craziness and she is ignoring the haters. Go Gabby!!!
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I swear we are our own worst enemy at times. It’s sad that this young lady cannot truly enjoy an accomplishment she worked so hard for to achieve without the silly ignorance from people who probably will not ever achieve anything as great as her in their lifetime. First its her hair, then mocked to being a monkey swinging in the air, the attack on her mother’s private financial matters and now some house negro talking ish about being non-patriotic. I have to give her credit for staying humble and poised. Now to all the haters, she can afford to buy all the horses she want for YOUR next ridiculous weave-do that you honor in an epic-failed fashion.
“Yeah, her weave ain’t all the way tight, but that’s not the focus of the girl’s accomplishments.” What’s with this jab from EUR?? And Babycakes is right…how do we know it’s a weave? AND AGAIN..WHO GIVES A FLYING FUK!!
Well, hope all the BS really didn’t get to her. She was looking good in the uneven bars until that handstand. And I just heard that she fell in the beam.
But two golds, including the individual all-around, still left her at the top of the list for the class of 2012.
I think it’s a bit much to keep writing about Gabby’s hair. It’s not an issue to the overwhelming majority so why keep harping on it trying to embarrass the girl or put her on the defensive at this particular time???
This was never a story. A black blog turned it into one.
TEAM GABBY!!!! the same thing happens to my hair when I put jell on it . . . .everybody posting knows it HAD to hurt her feelings being harrassed on such a personal level. People did the same thing to SUPERMODEL Alek Wek, being bald and guess what? Like Gabby, they had GPS and took the “high” road. Don’t we have enough on our plates w/o breaking a fellow sister down? Baby girl is bringing home GOLD!!! Some folks just can’t get out of their own way . . .
I just really wish that AA women felt confident and free enough to embrace our hair as it is naturally instead of working sooo hard to achieve a European look. Our hair is not naturally straight or blonde (with some exceptions). Really tired of looking at the runner with the blonde corn row thingy across the top of her head and the gelled up sides and front in a different color altogether. Or the other runner with the obvious weave all pinned down around her head. Just nasty, cause as much as they perspire they can’t really wash their hair thoroughly with all that fake (or some one else’s real) hair glued and or braided into their own hair. Never mind the fact that this style causes stress to the hair follicles and traction baldness – so what’s to defend about a hair style that is inordinately expensive and damaging?