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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:14 PM Jan 2020

I thought I'd heard most all kinds of discrimination, until today. This is a new on to me for sure!

Hair discrimination! I apologze to all my black friends on DU, but I never heard of anyone forced to "go home" if they didn't change their hair style.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-democratic-lawmaker-seeks-end-hair-discrimination/3OAu4TKDmfOHapI0xO3syK/?utm_source=newspaper&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11304312&ecmp=newspaper_email&

"Legislation filed last week would make it illegal in Georgia for schools or businesses to practice what they’re calling hair-based discrimination.
“Our hair is an expression of who we are and conforming is almost no longer the norm,” said legislation sponsor state Sen. Tonya Anderson, a Lithonia Democrat.
Senate Bill 286 addresses what is considered “professional” at work, school or when seeking housing and bans the institutions from discriminating based on how hair is styled."


Apparently this occurs not only here in Ga. but in other States too.

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I thought I'd heard most all kinds of discrimination, until today. This is a new on to me for sure! (Original Post) napi21 Jan 2020 OP
throw back to long hair in the 60s. nt msongs Jan 2020 #1
Signs signs everywhere are signs lame54 Jan 2020 #16
California has a signed bill JustAnotherGen Jan 2020 #2
It's a huge issue jberryhill Jan 2020 #3
The first thing I thought of. /nt tonedevil Jan 2020 #4
You and I both know better malaise Jan 2020 #8
The thing I don't get jberryhill Jan 2020 #10
You need to understand the networks malaise Jan 2020 #11
Interesting jberryhill Jan 2020 #14
Not really a new thing. TDale313 Jan 2020 #5
African-American male singing groups in the 50's and 60's were forced to chemically-straighten Aristus Jan 2020 #6
And remember earlier last year, that poor wrestler being forced to cut his dreads? cwydro Jan 2020 #12
Me too. Aristus Jan 2020 #13
I think they fired the stupid umpire/judge whatever, but I'm not sure about that. cwydro Jan 2020 #15
Not new. Ms. Toad Jan 2020 #7
Well, if they want to discriminate against hair styles... llmart Jan 2020 #9
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. It's a huge issue
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:34 PM
Jan 2020

Having white people in charge of how everyone's hair "is supposed to look" turns out not to be a popular idea among people whose hair differs from that of white people.

Who would have imagined that white people are not the best persons to decide how everyone's hair is supposed to look, eh?

https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/new-jersey-wrestling-hair-dreadlocks-referee-alan-maloney-suspended-buena-20190918.html

South Jersey wrestling referee gets two-year suspension for viral hair-cutting incident



malaise

(267,827 posts)
8. You and I both know better
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:55 PM
Jan 2020

That shit happens even in the Caribbean with the church going preying posse (Afro-Caribbean people) terrorizing Rasta children and others in schools with their natural hair.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
10. The thing I don't get
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:49 PM
Jan 2020

Is how well certain types of non-mainstream denominations do. Assembly of God, JW's, Seventh Day Adventist, etc., which are sort of out of the mainstream in the US where they originated, and kind of borderline cultish, grow like weeds in the Caribbean.

malaise

(267,827 posts)
11. You need to understand the networks
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:03 PM
Jan 2020

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visas, jobs (particularly in the hotel industry), college opportunities

I'll never forget a young man who was part of a community sports club where I was active. One day I saw him riding around with the Mormons. Now I knew this kid before he could walk so a few days later I asked him what it was about - he said Auntie you really think I believe any of their crap. He said he had a simple plan - two free degrees from Brigham Young and then he was returning home and getting on with his life.
And yes his plan worked He's a big man with his own family now and has nothing to do with any religion or church.

Our societies are full of parasites- foreign and local - and people learn fast how to use one another,

TDale313

(7,820 posts)
5. Not really a new thing.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:37 PM
Jan 2020

I mean, it’s obviously not really about the hair... and it may be a convenient fig leaf for schools and businesses who know saying they’re discriminating against someone based on race isn’t acceptable, but prejudice against natural hair on African Americans (particularly women) and pressure to make it look less “ethnic” is absolutely a thing, and has been for a long time.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
6. African-American male singing groups in the 50's and 60's were forced to chemically-straighten
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:43 PM
Jan 2020

their hair and slick it down like white groups if they were going to get airplay.

Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad were abused and threatened into cutting off their queues, which were an important cultural symbol for the Chinese.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
12. And remember earlier last year, that poor wrestler being forced to cut his dreads?
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:07 PM
Jan 2020

That made me sick.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
15. I think they fired the stupid umpire/judge whatever, but I'm not sure about that.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 07:52 PM
Jan 2020

I hope so anyway.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
7. Not new.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:51 PM
Jan 2020

Black hair - policies in the 80s:

However, in the 1980s, American society at large reverted to old racist stereotypes of natural hair. Chemical straighteners and permed styles like the Jheri curl rose in popularity. Then, Black protective hairstyles like locs and braids—which are culturally significant and practical—became increasingly disparaged across the country. Administrators and employers deemed Black hair “unprofessional.” School policies banning and demeaning Black hair as “inappropriate” and a “signal of gang affiliation” were on the rise.


And it's not just black hair:

From 2010 - re Native American males and long hair: http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/601

And it's not just school - there are a fair number of business policies regarding black women's hair, as well.

And - you know, of course, it isn't really hair that is being discriminated against . . .

llmart

(15,501 posts)
9. Well, if they want to discriminate against hair styles...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 05:55 PM
Jan 2020

I say let's start at the top! That ugly, dead, orange animal on Trump's head for instance. He should be fired for forcing us to look at it all the time. I say it's harassment.

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