Posted on 03/18/2017 8:59:19 AM PDT by rightistight
Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., the General Council at Medgar Evers College of the City of New York, believes that, when it comes to natural hair, African Americans are often stigmatized in their workplace.
Ms. Favors details her feelings in her article, "Nappy Professional Negroes Need Not Apply."
Expectations of how one should look at their job is heavily swayed by perceptions, Ms. Favors details, and that white people often perceive black peoples' hair as not being neat or natural, when in fact "Black hair has different standards and is structurally different than White hair."
Unfortunately, "Black elders put White discomfort at ease by co-signing on the idea that natural hair indicates a lack of professionalism," she explains.
The fact of the matter is, "Natural hair in the workplace is not about 'neatness,'" Ms. Favors argues. "When we use the word “neat” in this context - let us recognize what it really means. The word “neat” is about conforming to a standard that says Blackness – whether it is Black hair, skin color, nose/lip/body size is not acceptable “as it is.”"
She continues, "When Black women are told nappy hair has to be “neat” we know that this is a code word for “straight” or “White.”"
Ms. Favors then goes on to call on people to be proud of their natural hair. "Natural Black women have come too far to go back into the nappiness closet," she states forcefully. "We are here, we are nappy, we aren’t going anywhere and we could get a lot more done in the workplace if we weren’t constantly dealing with the racist constructs for our hair. Kindly step aside as we and our nappiness work our magic."
Depends on how large your fro is and how dirty your dreads are. This is just nuts
How many times do I remember in my NYC work life the boss coming out and yelling to the black employees: “Your nappy hair must be neat! Go home until your hair is neat!!” They were all brutes those white men.
Part of the collective neurosis that has people trying to eliminate anything remotely connected to “White”.
White people can get fired for saying “nappy”. Who are the PC police and how can we get them off school boards and out of HR positions?
Nappy headed his need not apply.
S/b hos
She looks nice. She should get treatment for her schizophrenia. As should all these liberals who think people are communicating in code or in code words to them.
That's paranoid schizophrenia and is quite common on the left, it appears.
Your hair looks fine.
Lol.
LOL!!
Seriously, if this were true, employers would be facing lawsuits.
I agree. Those hairstyles look clean and well-cared-for. Good grooming knows no ethnicity.
It must be horrible for these lefties to live in a world where nothing is real.
Oh brother. Blacks are so much more advantaged than whites in the corporate world, because they check more boxes in the social engineering of society. Especially black females (which dominate every HR department in this country).
They act as if no white person has ever run askance of an employer’s dress or grooming codes.
How come Michelle Obama didn’t have nappy hair? Why was she lucky enough to be born with straight hair?
American blacks have been driven race crazed by the left.
In my youth I had a fro that would make black guys jealous...
The only negative comment I ever got was from the new barber where I got my haircut...an old Italian barber...
“How am I supposed to cut that”
When I was in High School, you got sent to the Boys Vice Principal’s Office if your Hair went over your Shirt Collar.
I shoulda sued them Honky Bastards!
>>>How come Michelle Obama didn’t have nappy hair? Why was she lucky enough to be born with straight hair?<<<
Well, you either have to ask the former Royal Wig Maker or the former Royal Hair Straightener.
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