OK. First, watch this…

Lemme start slowly here.

Honestly, I’m not trying to be a hater, here. I am on record as being a BIG fan of Sesame Street. I go waaaaaaaay back with the show. Pre-Elmo. I go way back to a black dude named David, to when there was a Mr. Hooper and he was alive,  and back to when Cookie Monster ate cookies EVERY TIME, not just after he had a balanced meal.

So I am REEEEEALLY and HONESTLY not trying to hate on the above video.

It’s almost excellent. It is very nearly, completely and utterly excellent. But unfortunately it’s just short of excellent. and sadly for me, that makes it totally wrong.

When I first saw a link to this video, it was posted by a black woman that I follow on Twitter. And I clicked the link and read her blog about how Sesame Street had made a video celebrating black women’s hair in it’s natural state. and I immediately thought, “Way to go Sesame Street! You still got it!” And then I thought, “I should go post it on Martha’s Facebook page.” Martha is one of my best friends and she has a black daughter and she has often talked about the struggle to make sure that her daughter knows that her hair doesn’t need to be straightened or blonde-ed or flat ironed-ed-ed (Do people still flat iron?) So I thought to myself, “This video will be perfect ANNNNND I’ll get some very valuable ‘I’M A GOOD FRIEND!’ points.” I can always use more of those. Believe me. But first I thought, “Well, I should probably watch the video first…

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