I believe that a lot of black women began to bald from permanent treatments and hair weaves used to help them appear to have a BETTER hair grade and to be able to wear hairstyles mostly worn by white women. I believe that they also experience baldness due to these treatments being used on their hair at too early an age. Thereafter, they are left with no recourse. Continue to wear weaves or go to full wigs. I also believe this hair ritual stemmed from black women having no role models in the media (i.e., who wore their hair as it was given to them, naturally). Although I am finally proud to be my true self without a wig, I believe that education should be the start of ending some of the baldness problems within the black female society. I hope that in the near future, more and more of us will be finally able to embrace the beauty that is ours without hair.