Gabriella Douglas's Hair???

To be quite honest, I'm tired of believing  in my people's growth and development. All I can really do is do exactly what I am doing by talking about it and hoping others take heed and raise my children to be so much better than this. We are so mentally destroyed and we don't seem to care at all. Our priorities are so twisted in a loop and we have no clue where to start to even untwist it let alone, start to put it in a decent order! We worry about money, keeping up with the trends and fashion more than intelligence and properly trying to educate ourselves and it's so sad because all of these things are nothing but clear physical and material lies to us. On the American Dollar it clearly gloats about just being a Federal Promissory Note; a debt that could be temporarily used to replace a debt! We follow trends of people that start it and move on to the next as soon as the pipe gets the rats running and wear things that the people who made them won't even wear and probably hate our guts but love the position of power we keep them in!
This world is banking off of the deeply instilled insecurities of our Black Community! I was really hoping that I would see some sort of clear change by 2012 since it's the beginning of a new cycle and since we were finally able to see a real person of color take on a lead position in our generation but instead I read articles of how my people chose to ridicule another young beautiful black because her hair wasn't done while she was basking in the energy of her dream! You mean to tell me, my young black sister has made it all the way to the OLYMPICS and instead of rooting and cheering for her success you were talking about how she should have been up there FRONTING like the rest of us trying to be too cute???? Got to be kidding me! When I heard this, I went and did some research on the young Gabby Douglas.....
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Douglas is the daughter of Timothy Douglas and Natalie Hawkins.[20] She began training in gymnastics at age six when her older sister, Arielle, convinced their mother to enroll her in gymnastics classes.[21] When she was eight years old, Douglas won an all-around gymnastics award for her level at the 2004 Virginia State Championships.[22] When Douglas moved to Iowa to train under Liang Chow, Douglas and her sister had to convince their mother to let Douglas leave Virginia and live with a host family in West Des Moines.[23][24] - Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Douglas)

She had a beautiful sister to believe in her gift before anyone else noticed it! A rising star from a young age and still on the rise while most of my people are sitting at our social networks talking about how high we are from our millionth blunt of weed, or how we just spent $2,000 on some fashion that will be out of style in no time and talking negative about someone that will have a future that could afford to MAKE the things we love to buy so much and will have the ones who spoke negative eating out her hands soon! This is a 16 year old black girl competing in the MOST competitive competition for our people and we sit on Twitters and Facebooks and Instagrams frowning upon her HAIR! The media is having a field day with this, they never fail at being able to show how WE make OURSELVES look like idiots in public.
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"Now it's time for Gabby Douglas to relax and let her hair down.

 Douglas, the 16-year-old gymnast from Virginia Beach, is on top of the world after winning the Olympic gold medal in the all-around competition. But along the way, in a bizarre sidelight to her joyful journey, she has been the focus of intense criticism (mostly via social media) of her hair.
Too much gel. Too many pins. Never mind that she is more concerned with aerodynamics than with fashion sense when she's competing.Type "Gabby Douglas" into google, and the most dominant phrase is not "Gabby Douglas gold" or "Gabby Douglas Olympics."  It's "Gabby Douglas hair."
The critiques were at times mean-spirited, and they consistenly made you wonder how grown adults could watch an adolescent girl make athletic history and somehow be this concerned about what her hair looks like." - Daily Press

"@MessyMeil said, "So for real though nobody wanted to go to London to do Gabby Douglas' hair?" - Tweeter
"@Kimehouse posted, "Gabby Douglas is cute and all...but that hair.......on camera." - Tweeter
"I find it sad that I have seen more Black women post criticizing comments about Gabby's hair than I have comments of praise about her athleticism or adding color to USA Gymnastics since Dominique Dawes," wrote Monisha Randolph at SportyAfros.com.

Randolph also wrote:
Many African American women choose not to work out in order to protect their hairstyle, Randolph points out. "The last time I checked when you play a sport, you sweat. I know I do. And when a Black woman who has chosen to wear her hair straight begins to sweat, her hair will (not might) begin to revert back to its natural coily, curly, or kinky state," she writes. "Some of us are sitting up right now with our hair done but suffering from high blood pressure, borderline diabetes, obesity, and/or a lack of energy. Oh, but the hair is on point." - Yahoo
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I conclude this post with the big question: WHEN WILL WE GET IT TOGETHER???? Or should we go extinct and start back over because we're a hopeless and lost race of people?

I'm really looking for some intelligent responses to this.