Ms. Samuels,

Are you suggesting Brad and Angelina straighten Z's hair so that it will look more like their own? Rather than answer her question with honesty and love in a way that will encourage her to celebrate her diversity?

Honey, you need to get over yourself.

Ms. Samuels,

Are you suggesting Brad and Angelina straighten Z's hair so that it will look more like their own? Rather than answer her question with honesty and love in a way that will encourage her to celebrate her diversity?

Honey, you need to get over yourself.

Allison, please stop talking about this 4 year old girl's hair. Just stop it.

OMFG, is this clueless, self-hating Aunt Jemima spouting the same bullsh*t AGAIN? Wasn't the ass-whoopin' she took the first time around enough?

Allison Samuels is as dumb as a box of rocks. She has deep-seated identity problems which she projects onto the head (excuse me, the hair) of a four year old girl.

Yes, Z is the only black child in the family. SO DAMN WHAT?! Her parents love her and appreciate her for WHO SHE IS. They aren't trying to turn her into a little white girl like her siblings by frying her hair into submission to make it lie down flat. What is Samuels going to suggest next, that the Jolie-Pitts bleach her skin white and pop some blue contacts into her eyes so she will look more like Shiloh and Vivienne?

Samuels needs to lay the hell off Z's hair. She is not Samuel's child. How her parents let her wear her hair is none of Samuels' damn business. Her hair does not reflect neglect, abuse, or uncaring on the part of her parents. They love Z for herself, not for her hair. Z is a beautiful, lovely, radiant child. She will grow up to be a proud, confident black woman, not a self-hating negress like Allison Samuels.

Oh, I get it. Guys, she's just going for controversial attention. Publicity. No one is this dense, or brainwashed...right?

IGNORE HER. I'm done...

Samuels says: "Self esteem can be just as vital as food and shelter". Honey, if your self-esteem is related to that over-processed, over-permed, over-fried, dried-out, zip-bang mess on top of your own head (yes, we've seen your photograph poted on here), then you have some serious problems. If my mother had tortured my hair the way your mother tortured yours when I was little, I'd have self-esteem problems just like you do. Maybe if your mother had let your hair alone when you were growing up, you wouldn't be such a miserable, self-loathing excuse for a human being.

Believe me when I tell you that that hot mess on top of your head isn't nearly as bad as the f*cked-up mess INSIDE your head.

you are a self hating low self esteem trash
stop attacking a 4 year old
have some dignity

newsweek should be ashamed giving this loser a place to write her bs

Once again Ms. Samuels is writing about a child's hair as though she's the parent. I think it's time to step back and let Brad and Angelina parent her, not some random Newsweek writer. Zahara looks happy and healthy, a far cry from where she was before she was adopted from that orphanage. She would have died had she been left there, but I guess that discussing her hair is more important than that.

Angelina is smart enough to know that part of being a parent is picking your battles and obviously she's decided that hair is not worth fighting over. She has stated in interviews before that as soon as Zahara's hair is done up she pulls it down so it's actually not as simple as "putting it up in a top knot in a rubber band" as Ms. Samuels suggests. I think I'll trust that Angelina knows how to parent her child just fine.

i held a discussion about this very topic and in over 140 comments, the vast majority agreed that Ms. Samuels is nuts to be up in arms over Zahara's hair - and that includes a great deal of comments from black women. http://www.pittwatch.com/discussion-post-the-debate-over-zahara-jolie-pitts-hair/

Leave Zahara's hair alone. With the family's money and resources (and yes, attention to cultural detail), I'm sure there will be no problem if a teenage Zahara wants her hair styled but in the meantime for the love of all that is holy, let that little girl be a little girl instead of a statement.

Sherry of PittWatch.com

Why are you assuming that Angelina Jolie must be the one to take care of her hair? She's also the daughter of Brad Pitt, just so you know. Furthermore, you are assuming that Zahara doesn't make her own choices - the last thing I wanted to do as a child was sit still long enough for my hair to be properly maintained.

Here's the thing that Samuels forgets to take into account--the little girl gets photographed almost every day! There are probably more photos out there of her than there are of any of us combined. If someone photographed my daughter every day, sometimes she would look like the best groomed, best dressed little girl ever--and sometimes, like someone who just rolled out of bed.

Give it a rest, Allison.

Have you never seen a black woman who wears her hair wild and natural, I know plenty of hair blogs that are dedicated to women who appreciate wearing their hair like Zahara. Women who are proud of their kinks, coils and curls and who refuse to beat/comb them straight into submission. Many of these women have given up the comb and their hair has flourished and grown healthy because of it. I am someone who is "Happy to Be Nappy" I relish in the fact that Zahara Jolie-Pitt has her hair wild, free and HEALTHY! Please get off your soap box and let her curly from be free!

I agree with Samuels; there is no reason that that child's hair is not groomed everyday. My mother would not allow me or my sister out of the house before combing our hair. And, my daughters hair was always brushed and combed EVERY DAY. Of course, i appreciate what Jolie and Brad has done for that little girl, but as Samuels says, it does not end there.

As a black woman, I see no problem with Zahara hair. Because I see it the way YOU SHOULD SEE IT and it is: SHE IS NOT YOUR CHILD. YOU ARE NOT HER MOTHER. So save those complex issues that you have with yourself and use them for children of your own. Of all the things to talk about in the black community, hair should be the least of the issues or shouldn't be a issue. We as black women have more important issues to worry about, not about a child that is being well taken care of that hair so-called issues. Newsweek and you Ms. Samuels should be ashamed for having not 1 but 2 articles about hair in a magazine about real issues in the world.

She's a 4 year old child. Her hair and clothes are supposed to be messy and mismatched. That and how do you know that Angelina and Brad have not tried several times to fix her hair and she has said no-leave it alone. And how is it a bad thing that she asked what makes her different from her siblings or why is her hair different? I mean seriously all that proves is she doesn't need glasses.

But what bugged me the most was the blatant hypocrasy of your statements--because somehow it's okay for Maddox to wear his hair in a blonde mohawk--which I am assuming is not a traditional hair style choice in his country--that somehow its okay-like one day he's going to go---hmm Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee don't wear blonde mohawks--I must be less of an Asian now? Or maybe Shiloh should go to only wearing her hair in pigtails or barretts because we all know ALL blonde white little girls who don't wear pigtails grow up to be lesbians.

Geez this whole argument is so stupid. That and I was beginning to think maybe the Republicans (mostly from South Carolina) had cornered the market on saying stupid, stereotypical S*** and then mumbling an apology because they were busy chewing on their shoe (after inserting foot).