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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."
I feel sorry for blacks - especially in America. They have so many issues with their hair and also with their skin color.
Black women, although only a tiny minority in the U.S., buy most of the hair weaves and wigs so they can have nice, long, or wavy attractive hair like white women, hispanics, and Asians.
Many black women are so obsessed with having hair like white women that a riot damaging a weave/wig shop brings the community to a halt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJodJS9xQk
And no one discriminates against dark skinned blacks more than lighter skinned blacks.
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“Black hair has different standards and is structurally different than White hair.”
I am old enough to remember when blacks decided to “integrate” barber shops, and demanded that white barbers cut black hair.
Some white barbers responded that black hair was different, and they didn’t know how to do a good job cutting it. These barbers were called “racists” and “bigots” and “members of the KKK” and ...
Used to watch girl fights on youtube.
When black girls fight you should see the weaves a flyin.
>> “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.””<<
I have never heard anyone asked to keep their lips neatly trimmed. Neat means just that: trim and orderly.
This is almost as stupid as feminazis whining about Wonder Woman being too good looking.
LOL! One of my favorite little rascals.
That’s right blame whites for them wanting straight hair. Cultural appropriation.
BS. Black women fund a multi billion dollar industry to hide their African features. Weaves, hair straightening, skin bleaching, sculpted makeup... This angry racist woman needs to stop convincing white people properly kept "black" hair is acceptable. I know not a single white person who complains about black hair. What she really needs to do is convince black women black hair is acceptable. When black women run around with colored weaves to hide their natural hair they look absolutely ridiculous.
Nice touch with the earbobs, but I think gold hoops might be more correct.
That poor bastard. Nappy Headed Hoes vs Tennessee.
LOL.
Medgar Evers College says it all.
Lordy,I’m sick of it.
I have an ultra liberal niece and SHE is even sick of this type of thing-——which came as a pleasant surprise to me.
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That's what gets me. Every professional person spends a lot of time on their hair. Natural curls and a good cut would take far less time than dealing with my long, thick straight hair with its cowlicks.
And they just ignore altogether the biggest uproar over grooming standards in the memory of any living person. And that was the long hair, hippy influence of the sixties which caused much contention in most K-12 schools and in many business settings for at least a decade.
During the entire eight years she “served” as First Lady, Michelle Obama NEVER went “natural,” and more’s the pity for that. It was a missed opportunity to set a positive example for Black Women everywhere to take pride in the beautiful hair God gave them.
I expressed that opinion on Facebook during the campaign, and boy, oh boy did I hear it from my Lefty friends.
“If Michelle Obama had worn her hair natural, racist white men like YOU would have accused her of trying to look like Angela Davis!” Huh?
I have never met this woman - she may be a very nice person. Having said that, I’d still like to wipe that smug smirk off her face...
To me-—ANY hair do that says “”look at me! Look at ME”” is out of place in the work place.
(But I’m just a fuddy duddy old fogie)
ML/NJ
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