Satire, right?
RIGHT?!
What are they going to do, give them all Opra hairstyles?
I’d assume this was a spoof, but nowadays...
Why not just shave the heads of anyone with a body mass index of 35 or more?
Absolutely unreal!!!!!!
When will people of color rise up and tell these nutcases that dark skin doesn’t make them stupid?
“. . . I’m proud to join with First Lady Michelle Obama to attack this problem head-on . . .”
This HAS TO BE SATIRE.
Uh... if someone is obese, cutting off hair isn’t really going to help much.
Ha!
On a related note, when lefty fascists start whipping themselves into a frenzy about fining or surcharging overweight people under PelosiCare, I bring up that Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans have a much higher obesity rate than Caucasions and Asians (statistically). First they deny it, then when you whip out the relevant studies from CDC they pipe down real fast about punitive measures against fat people.
Until they can figure out how to only fine fat white people, that is.
If changing my hairstyle would make me lose weight I’d leave work this very minute.
Isn’t this racists to target the Blacks? Don’t they have to have a different race as a token? I’ll volunteer, but I don’t look good in braids, or rows, and while my hair will frizz on any given humid day, it still can’t fro. No jerricurl either. What’s this little fiasco costing us?
Ohhhhh I REALLY thought it was satire. It should be satire.
I have read that Black men prefer obese women sexually. True or not, I have no idea as the one Black man I know well enough to ask the question to is married to a very tiny lady.
I don’t know if this particular article is satire or not, but I know it’s an issue. I have black girlfriends and former coworkers who are overweight and say they can’t go swimming because the water would wreck their costly blowouts. The ones who are serious about sports either have their hair cut short or put into rows, but the rows aren’t perceived as being entirely suitable for a business environment. They say, “You’re white, you can just run a comb through your hair after a shower—we can’t. It’s a big production for us.”
OK, whatever. But I notice that more upmarket black women manage to exercise, keep their weight down, and have nice hair. Perhaps the discipline that lets successful black women find time and energy to work out is the same discipline that takes them up the financial ladder?
The lifestyle of lower-middle-class people, whether black or white, does not incline toward working out, running, biking, playing tennis, swimming, etc. Weight is class related. The further up the social scale you go, the more fit and slender the women are.
Oh yeah it is the hair, not the junk food and sitting on your ass.
