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General Council at NYC College: "Neat Hair" at Work Could Mean "Blackness is Not Acceptable"
The Social Memo ^ | 3/18/17 | Aurelius

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."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: racism; thugculture
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1 posted on 03/18/2017 8:59:19 AM PDT by rightistight
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To: rightistight

Depends on how large your fro is and how dirty your dreads are. This is just nuts


2 posted on 03/18/2017 9:02:24 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rightistight

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.


3 posted on 03/18/2017 9:05:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: rightistight

Part of the collective neurosis that has people trying to eliminate anything remotely connected to “White”.


4 posted on 03/18/2017 9:06:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: rightistight

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?


5 posted on 03/18/2017 9:09:30 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: rightistight

Nappy headed his need not apply.


6 posted on 03/18/2017 9:10:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

S/b hos


7 posted on 03/18/2017 9:10:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rightistight

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.

8 posted on 03/18/2017 9:12:05 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: miss marmelstein

Lol.


9 posted on 03/18/2017 9:12:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: miss marmelstein

LOL!!

Seriously, if this were true, employers would be facing lawsuits.


10 posted on 03/18/2017 9:16:38 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear these slings and arrows for you, the American people)o)
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To: ifinnegan

I agree. Those hairstyles look clean and well-cared-for. Good grooming knows no ethnicity.


11 posted on 03/18/2017 9:19:15 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: rightistight
Pretty woman...too bad she chooses to use her race as a weapon.


12 posted on 03/18/2017 9:23:02 AM PDT by moovova
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It must be horrible for these lefties to live in a world where nothing is real.


13 posted on 03/18/2017 9:32:41 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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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).


14 posted on 03/18/2017 9:40:48 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: rightistight

They act as if no white person has ever run askance of an employer’s dress or grooming codes.


15 posted on 03/18/2017 9:44:54 AM PDT by Will88
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To: rightistight

How come Michelle Obama didn’t have nappy hair? Why was she lucky enough to be born with straight hair?


16 posted on 03/18/2017 9:45:33 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: rightistight

American blacks have been driven race crazed by the left.


17 posted on 03/18/2017 9:55:41 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: rightistight

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”


18 posted on 03/18/2017 10:01:11 AM PDT by Popman
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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!


19 posted on 03/18/2017 10:01:36 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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>>>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.


20 posted on 03/18/2017 10:03:27 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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