I think so. Basically, the article says that it's still a controversy. I've had women tell me that I was selling out for straightening my hair, whatever. I do wonder about this:

Oddly, Patricia Gaines, the founder of Nappturality.com, a pro-natural Web site, points out that dyeing one’s Afro puffs or double-strand twists blond isn’t viewed as conforming to a Euro-centric look.

I don't see why it's okay to be blond, but not to straighten your hair. Whatev.

I don't see why it's okay to be blond, but not to straighten your hair.

I don't think that blonde kinky hair looks particularly white, but I may be personally biased there. I was always startled at people who thought my hair colour could be natural, whereas sometimes you can't tell with hair texture--some people do try to pass it off as good hair.

I believe most people who say that straightening their hair isn't an aspiration to a white ideal of beauty, but I do know women who've been lying to my face when they said it too.

Bon Bon, looks like everywhere else has confirmed it.

I don't think that blonde kinky hair looks particularly white, but I may be personally biased there.

My mom had blond kinky hair as a kid, but it turned brown as a teenager. And now she dyes it blond, but also straightens it (or, at least, tries to), so it mostly just looks processed.

According to TMZ, DJ AM is your next celebrity decedent.

Holy shit! Survived a plane crash to die within the year. Crazy.

My mom had blond kinky hair as a kid

Black people hair kinky?

Black people hair kinky?

She usually referred to it as "brillo pad hair," and has said quite a few times that she's very grateful that neither my sister nor I inherited it. When I was a kid, she didn't straighten it, and it would grow up and out like an Afro for at least five inches or so, rather than hanging down. (She never purposely grew it that long -- she usually kept it at about two or three inches, but there were a few times, after surgery or a broken leg, that she wasn't able to go out to get it cut for a while, and it got kind of wild.) I don't know what it would do longer than that -- I've seen some pictures of her in high school and college with shoulder-length hair, but it's straightened and looks like it's basically plastered into place.)

Coates has some interesting discussion about that article in the comments, FYI.

Also, I did go to high school with a girl who was biracial with blonde kinky hair.

If you scroll down to post 14 here, the second and third pictures (the woman with pearls, and the guy on what I think is a polo field) have similar hair texture to my mom. [link]

My hair is like that, only with a bald spot. When I was growing up it was called a "Jewfro".