Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:47 PMSubject: my daughter's natural hairAs a white mom of an Ethiopian daughter, I'm often asked when I will get her hair straightened. People ask as if it's a foregone conclusion that we would/should prefer that. I love her curly hair, and while it takes time to style it, she looks like her beautiful self and not like everybody else. She sometimes says that she