Simply Cheris. . .

This firestorm about golden Gabby Douglas's hair just won't die down. Social media is lit up with comments about it. There are pictures of a beaming Gabby with words telling her haters that she's been to busy winning the gold to care about their crass comments. I pulled up a Yahoo! News story, which I won't link to because I think it is VERY STUPID, and looked at these negative comments about Gabby's hair. The comments were pulled from Twitter, and there are three of them. The offending tweets are written by women who are 1. Very young--in age and mentally. 2. Post pictures like this: 3. And have an overly inflated ideal of themselves. I mean, one of these girls posted her eyebrows. Who really cares? But again, it was three tweets. Three tweets that turned in to national news. Why can't Gabby just have her moment in the golden sun without the media looking for some water to throw on her? Three Tweets. And don't get me started on Kevin Hart.

Sixteen year old Gabby Douglas won a gold medal in the London Olympics. She's the first African American to ever, EVER, win gold in the all around gymnastics. And you petty people are talking about her hair? And when I say YOU PEOPLE, I'm looking at the media. The Huffington Post : I really thought you all were more progressive than this. I guess your progression stops at the African American hairline. The New York Times points out how people weren't happy for Gabby. It kind of only matters that her mother, her beautiful mother, was over the moon proud of her child. And at the end of the day -- this is all that matters: Douglas, a 16-year-old who left her Virginia Beach, Va., home and her family when she was 14 so she could train and learn better gymnastics in Iowa, won the Olympic gold medal Thursday at the North Greenwich Arena. She led from start to finish, scoring 62.232 and leaving a pair of Russians, Victoria Komova and Aliya Mustafina, as disconsolate silv...