"My hair don't get lookin' this good by usin' whitey's hair care products."
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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Then Gays will demand hotels have KY Jelly in their hotel rooms.
Get rid of the 3 oz. limit on airplane carry ons.
That works just fine in Zimbabwe (fka Rhodesia) and South Africa because they’re majority black. But how is a 12% minority going to push-around a 76% majority, especially since that majority is heavily armed?
Some of the smaller, shadier ones probably do
As a conservative; I feel “micro and macro aggressed on” all the time.
There’s a lot to say for that.
"My hair don't get lookin' this good by usin' whitey's hair care products."
Is being white racist?
This “microaggression” is such BS. Everything that can possibly seen as no perfect to a grievance group is a purposeful insult.
About a dozen years ago, I had a kid who had a overly PC English teacher. She was into exactly this sort of “anti-racism”. She saw problems everywhere—for example, why aren’t there more brown-colored bandaids? My kid really ticked her off by saying it’s a marketing decision—because in some of the Caribbean islands, the bandaids are all brown. Not a white-flesh-colored bandaid to be found. “How do you know” she asked, assuming he’d been pumped up by his parents. “We were there on vacation over Christmas.” End of that discussion... but there were always others.
“micro-aggression” doesn’t really exist,
except in the minds of the “hyper-sensitive”.
LOL
Asking that question is.
I don't care whether this is meant to be parody or not, a navel-gazing debate about whether small moisturizer bottles in hotels is micro-agression racism is damn funny.
Turning in one direction only...
If he were “going” in one direction only, we’d need race tracks crossing several states.
Speaking as a former Chief Engineer in da hotel biz, and hearing the Head Housekeeper kvetch about the ruined pillowcases from all the goop [Afro Sheen, etc.] them folks use, we’d have gladly given them as many of those little bottles they’d have needed to wash that stuff out before they’d crash out. Micro-aggression, my ass. It was like Tammy Faye Bakker slept face down in full makeup, left an image, almost. Sheesh!
Well at least I’m sure they left a big tip...
What about the snacks in the vending machines, or the drinks in the soda machine, or the music playing in the lobby and elevators, or the restaurant downstairs?
What about the continental breakfast and the free coffee and room service??
White sheets,pillow cases,comforters, drapes, toilet paper......
HOW MUCH MORE RACISM WILL WE OVERLOOK FROM THESE GUILTY INANIMATE OBJECTS, IT’S GOTTA STOP
Or the Eddie Murphy routine about how everyone told him people in Texas were racist so he lands at the airport,
Little white dude walk up and say: “This your bag?”
I said “YEAH, THAT’S MY F______ BAG! WHY, M______ F_____? A BLACK MAN CAN’T HAVE A SUITCASE?”
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