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Tommy TJ Sotomayor, aka Mr. Controversy, is a comedian, online radio show host of Your World, My Views, and documentary film producer of an upcoming film entitled A Fatherless America. Mr. Sotomayor is known for his strong opinions on a variety of topics including African-American women who wear hair weave. We learned about Mr. Sotomayor after our readers shared his controversial hair-relatedvideos in online broadcasts. After our team watched several of Sotomayors controversial videos, we felt compelled to reach out to him for an in depth interview to fully understand his point of view. Below is my interview with Tommy Sotomayor about his views on black women and their hair choices.

Phillips: Please share your views on African-American women who wear hair weave?

Sotomayor: I think my views on black women who wear hair weave are misunderstood. I think there is an assumption that I hate black women who wear weave, but thats not my issue with them. I hate their attitude! The black women who wear weave or hair hats as I prefer to call them think that they are super human because of their hair hats. There are lots of black women who are overweight, who have no job, and whos lives are in a state of crisis but their high-priced hair hats are supposed to fix all of their problems.

In my opinion, hair is supposed to be a womans crown, and the black queen is supposed to behave in a royal way. The queens hair isnt supposed to look like the peasants or the servants hair. My questions to all of the black women who wear those horrible hair hats: why are you ashamed of your hair? Why are you putting another persons DNA (who youve never met before) on your scalp? Black women spend $10 billion on their hair, but not even half of that on educating their children. I say they are spending $10 billion to look foolish by wearing these crazy looking hair hats!

The same black women who regularly attend church and love to say that God dont make no mistakes are the same ones who wear those horrible hair hats! Are they saying that God made a mistake on their hair so they have to fix it by purchasing a hair hat? Ive heard lots of excuses for why they need their hair hats! They wear their hair hats because its a protective hair style. In reality, hair hats damage their hair.

Most black women look like mannequins with their high priced hair hats, fake eye lashes, and un-ladylike tattoos. The truth is that most black women are trying to out-white white women. You cant complain about white women stealing all of your men when you are trying to look like her! If a black man wants a white woman, he isnt going to get an American Euro-black or Negropean woman pretending to be a white woman.

Phillips: Do Naturalistas have higher self-esteem than women who wear weaves?

Sotomayor: Okay Rashad, here is where Im going to get a lot of black women mad at me. But this wont be the first time. At first, I thought Naturalistas had higher self-esteem but later I learned that many of the natural women are members of the Natural Hair Nazis, people who couldnt afford hair weave and/or werent that attractive. The best way I can describe the Natural Hair Nazis is that they are like the young Christian women who couldnt fit in during high school, so they joined the church. The church was their haven and they used it to pick on the other kids that they secretly wanted to be like. Well, many of the Natural Hair Nazis were unattractive when they had a relaxer and decided to go natural to attack the attractive women who have relaxers.

Heres my problem with the Natural Hair Nazis. You dont go natural, you are born natural. Also, I have an issue with most of the images on social media of women with natural hair. Most of them are mixed chicks. The Natural Hair Nazis love the mixed chicks with natural hair.

I saw the August 2013 cover of your magazine and that looked like a mixed chick on the cover. I rarely see dark-skinned women with natural hair on the cover of magazines or heavily promoted on social media. If she is light skinned, its all about her pretty face but if she is dark-skinned, the focus is on her bangin body. Its still that situation where if you are light skinned you have good hair but if you are dark skinned you are happy to be nappy. I will say that some natural black women do have higher self-esteem because they dont hide their hair as opposed to the hair hat wearers who base their self-esteem on somebody elses hair.

Phillips: Why do you have an issue with African-American women who wear hair weave, but not with white women who wear hair weave?

Sotomayor: White women dont walk around with black womens hair in their head. If they did we would say that they were racist or that they were making fun of black womens hair. Black women who wear hair hats are proud to walk around with white womens hair, or, let me get it correct before I get blasted on YouTube black women are proud to wear Malaysian, Brazilian, and Indian womens hair. Im not saying all of this to tear down black women; I want black women to look as natural as possible. If a black man wore a Ted Coppell looking wig or hair piece, people would laugh and clown that dude. Why dont people laugh at black women who wear hair hats? It used to be a point in time (in the 80s and 90s) when men would talk trash and wouldnt even date women who wore wigs or weaves. But now we arent supposed to say anything.

Getting back on track, I dont focus on white womens hair because Im not raising a white child and I dont live in white culture. Im raising a little black girl. Me focusing on white womens hair would be like a Jewish person focusing on Christianity it just doesnt make sense.

Phillips: Do you have any closing comments?

Sotomayor: I just want black women to be honest and really think about what I am saying: Who do you think a black man would want to deal with? A woman who cuts her cuts and styles her hair every 3 months or a woman who spend thousands of dollars annually on hair maintenance? After the black woman spends thousands of dollars on her hair, you cant do anything with her that might mess up her hair like go swimming or have sex in the shower. If you do, she has to wear this ugly plastic cap or put a grocery bag on her hair. A lot of the time, black women expect men to chip in with paying for their high-priced hair, new hair dos, and hair products, but at the same time we cant have fun or spontaneous sex because of your hair. This just doesnt make any sense. I know Im going to take heat for almost everything I said in this interview but somebody has to tell the truth.

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