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Is Hotel Shampoo Kind of Racist? Plus: Do people understand what “racism” actually means?
The Root ^ | July 16, 2014 | Jenée Desmond-Harris, associate editor of features

Posted on 07/21/2014 2:07:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Don Mullen: Why don’t America’s hotels provide hair products for black as well as white hair? Is there a way to get them to correct this “micro-aggression”?

Jenée Desmond-Harris: Thanks for your question.

I thought about the issue of hotel toiletries when I was writing the Race Manners column that answered the question, “Is Using Lotion a Black Thing?” In my opinion, the tiny moisturizer that most hotels provide is very clearly not designed for those who want or need to use it on their entire body (read: most black people).

But off the top of my head, I’m not so sure about the shampoo and conditioner selection as a “micro-aggression.”

Here’s why: I would argue that hotels tend to provide very basic hair-care products for people who don’t have any particular hair needs and/or just plain don’t care about their hair aside from making sure it’s clean. (I mean, really, what other kind of person would just lay themselves at the mercy of Marriott and take whatever scent and level of conditioning was provided, never having tried the products before?)

Really, no one who needs or wants anything special for their hair—black or white—is particularly well served by hotel products. That’s why it seems to me that most people (especially most people with more than an inch of hair) pack what they need or prefer while traveling....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: blacks; discrimination; hotels; hypersensitivity; racecard; racism
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1 posted on 07/21/2014 2:07:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

wow! I thought sure this one was from the onion.


2 posted on 07/21/2014 2:09:03 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Vah-mitt.


3 posted on 07/21/2014 2:09:30 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, let’s accomodate every nuance of difference between 10% of the population and the rest.

Unreal!


4 posted on 07/21/2014 2:10:32 PM PDT by mkboyce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“need to use it on their entire body (read: most black people)”

Ewwwww. . .talk about the mattresses soaking up disgusting stuff. . .


5 posted on 07/21/2014 2:10:34 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Really, no one who needs or wants anything special for their hair—black or white—is particularly well served by hotel products. That’s why it seems to me that most people (especially most people with more than an inch of hair) pack what they need or prefer while traveling....

You mean "Did" until airlines imposed that stupid 3 oz. restriction.

6 posted on 07/21/2014 2:11:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
when I was writing the Race Manners column

"Race Manners"???

That's RACIST!!!

7 posted on 07/21/2014 2:11:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well a racist is someone who drives a car really fast for 500 miles going in one direction only.


8 posted on 07/21/2014 2:11:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s just The Man’s way of keeping bald people DOWN!


9 posted on 07/21/2014 2:11:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: mkboyce

Is having hair that makes using hotel shampoo difficult racist?


10 posted on 07/21/2014 2:11:58 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hotels stock hair products used by 87% of the American population and 90% of the world’s population. Not hard to explain.


11 posted on 07/21/2014 2:12:36 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

how big ARE these people?
I use the hotel lotion and have leftover.
and I haul my own hair stuff if I think it is necessary, so do most women, I think.


12 posted on 07/21/2014 2:13:03 PM PDT by ronniesgal (Good Grief.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even lotion to cover your whole body? Checking into hotel doesn’t mean they took you in to raise you. Entitlement never ends.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 2:14:13 PM PDT by hometoroost
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you don’t like hotel shampoo, bring your own. I do.

Simple, really.


14 posted on 07/21/2014 2:14:35 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is microaggression a new thing? Seen it twice in two days after never hearing of it before.


15 posted on 07/21/2014 2:14:40 PM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The infuriating part is that if hotels gave black guests different toiletries than the white ones, that would be racist as well. The only solution for these professional victims is for hotels to carry black oriented products and ignore the 90% of their customers who are white. In other words the only suitable answer is black supremecy.


16 posted on 07/21/2014 2:14:44 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Almost every single person in the entire world and every single thing in the entire world is racist according to liberals.

And if they don’t get exactly what they want given to them exactly when they want it then people are extremely racist.


17 posted on 07/21/2014 2:15:43 PM PDT by detective
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To: Crazieman

They’ve been pushin’ it hard for about a year now.


18 posted on 07/21/2014 2:15:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we are just the same, in a colorblind society...

...why the need for different hair care products.

I guess we are 100% exactly the same...except for hair.


19 posted on 07/21/2014 2:16:04 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pack your own toiletries.


20 posted on 07/21/2014 2:16:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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