Gabby Douglas’ Hair and Mom Filing Bankruptcy: So What, Get over it!

The Gabby Douglas Story

At first I was going to stay out of the conversation regarding the online hoopla over the first African American all around gold olympic medal winner, Gabby Douglas, hair because I thought it was just stupid for people to be focused on her hair when this young woman just made history. To be quite frank, I did not think it was worth my time to even blog about such nonsense.

But  today, when I saw that the blogs were picking up on the fact that her Mom, Natalie Hawkins,  filed bankruptcy, it just really took me to another level of disgust how African Americans are treated by the media including, unfortunately, social media!

Initially, I thought to myself, this cannot be happening. This child just won her second Gold medal and an endorsement from Kellogs and the only thing we can write about is  her hair and now her Mom filing bankruptcy, Are you serious!

First let’s tackle the hair.
I am absolutely dumbfounded that people would expect an African American to still have a need to affix their hair with relaxers. GET Over it America, Black Women are going natural whether you like it or not and you can’t stop it. For those of you that may not know what natural means check out Naturallymemedia, the number one website resource on this matter. Once you check out what these sisters are doing, I don’t think we need further conversation about black women and their hair. point blank, period!

Now out of respect, I will post Gabby’s response to the London AP over the hair hoopla.

 

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“I don’t know where this is coming from. What’s wrong with my hair?” said Douglas, the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in team and all-around competition. “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.”

Douglas uses gel, clips and a ponytail holder to keep things in place while she competes, a style she’s worn for years.

“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.”

 

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Next let’s tackle her s Mom and her filing bankruptcy issue, first of all that is yesterday’s news and how many of you would not have done the same thing for your child who had the potential that Gabby Douglas had.

For the Record,Natalie Hawkins, a single mother of four did file for bankruptcy in January, 2012.  She filed Chapter 13 which allows individuals to reorganze their finances and pay the debts back following a court approved plan.   So, she was doing what she had to do to get her daughter to the finish line.

I am not going to go into detail about her bankruptcy you can search other blogs for that foolishness, what is important to note is that Ms. Hawkins did not and surely now, is not trying to dodge her creditors she needed time to reorganize and the court gave her that time, point blank period.

Question, what does this have to do with Gabby Douglas winning two not one but two Gold medals and an endorsement from Kellongs in a three day period????

What makes me so mad about this story is that other olympians parents are in the same boat but you don’t see that glaring across the pages of some of these major online news outlets.  If Gabby had not won, would Ms. Hawkins filing bankruptcy even been a story that would trump other exciting olympian news happening today???

What I can’t understand for the life of me is why some many urban social media sites are posting this nonsense as opposed to staying focused on her winning the Gold, haven’t we learned yet that the media is a powerful tool that can be used to guide and or distract us from real issues.

Well The Church Lady intends to keep it focused on the positive and give you the real deal.

The Real deal America is that Gabby Douglas is  the WORLD’s Gymnastics sweetheart for the next few years, hair, her Moma bills and all.

Haters, GET OVER IT!

Congratulations Gabby and Natalie, you both are doing African Americans proud, let the haters hate on baby while you take your Moma to the bank to pay off  her debts.