Posted on 10/21/2019 12:57:49 PM PDT by Starman417
With all of the other big stories going around these days, this is hardly the most Earth shattering, but it is yet another example of how The Radical Left's pretense of compassion is just a mask for bigotry.In the September 19th edition of The Washington Post, an article "More states are trying to protect black employees who want to wear natural hairstyles at work"opens with this anecdote:
In 2017, at a gala luncheon hosted at the opulent Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, Minda Harts found herself seated next to a recruiter for corporate board positions. Over cocktails and a plated fish entree, the two talked about race in the boardroom; the recruiter, a white woman, complained about the challenges of finding black women to be corporate directors.And the rest of the article goes pretty much as you'd expect, building a weak case that somehow not allowing Colin Kaepernick level afro or dreadlocks in the workplace equate racial discrimination. The article cites how some companies/schools include hairstyle in their dress code, but stop short of asking the obvious question: Why?To test how she’d respond, Harts, who founded a career development company for women of color and had a book on the topic released in August, asked the recruiter who she would feel more comfortable putting forward as a candidate for a board: a woman of color with a sleek ponytail, or one with a natural hairstyle such as locs or an Afro. The recruiter said the woman with the ponytail, Harts recalled. “The phrase she used was ‘clean-cut,’ ” Harts said.
Harts said she wasn’t altogether surprised, given the woman had said it was difficult to find black female directors. But it was a reminder that “these unconscious and conscious biases keep us from even having the opportunity to have a seat at the table. We haven’t even had the chance to introduce ourselves, and there [are] these assumptions of unprofessionalism,” Harts said.
The simple answer, for anyone who's in a profession that shows more professionalism than journalism is that when you're at your job, you are the face of your company, especially if your role is dealing with the public or external customers. The company has every right to control its image. And I don't know how to say this without coming off as obnoxious so I won't even try to sugarcoat it: Being dressed professionally while rocking a wild hair style makes you look like a complete dingleberry.
I'll preface hat I'm about to say by noting that I know it's a lot harder to style curly hair than straight hair. That said, some years back I let my hair grow to halfway down my back. By my reckoning my hair being hippie levels long lasted for about four years. As soon as it grew long enough to do so my hair went into a ponytail any time I was in a work setting. During those years I had three different employers1 and the number of times my coworkers saw me with my hair down? Once. And that was at the holiday party for a very small company. Why? Because while I liked my long hair I also wanted to be taken seriously professionally. Wearing my hair loose while also wearing a suit or at least shirt and tie would have just made me look like a guy who got rejected to play one of the villains from the original Die Hard. And why did I eventually cut my hair? I was ready for a career change and was not going to take my chances with anything that might have hurt me in a job interview.
But when I was getting ready for work It always took a fair amount of hair spray to secure my hair so it wouldn't be flying away or dropping in my eyes during my work day. Again, I know that curly hair is a lot harder to style, but you can also get away with a fairly decent afro in the workplace (male or female) without looking unprofessional. And if you do want the full blown afro? Take the time and style your hair. Is it a pain? Yes. But life is a series of tradeoffs. Exercise your right to choose.
I'm just tired of Leftists playing this game of "New subject that I didn't care about 24 hours ago is now horrific and how dare you not be as outraged as I am!"
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
you can make a political statement or cultural declaration, or you can represent my company the way i wish to represent it.
number one is competency. do your job.
look the part, more so if you need to work on your competency...
when i achieved a level of competency that i knew was desired by clients... i was able to dress more comfortably for my position... but never detrimental to the image of my employer.
my jeans were never tattered and my shirts were comfortable but not worn. my hair, though not combed because of wearing headsets, short and managed.
Yes, and resumes with names like Shawanda and Rayquan go straight to the round file.
Progressivism - as the word itself indicates - always needs a new crisis and new bogeyman: telephone books, plastic bags, paper bags, bottled water, beef, automobiles, petroleum, natural gas, gluten, GMOs, vaping, the lack of gay superheroes, transgender pronouns, Islamophobia, hate speech, blackface, whiteness, toxic masculinity, burkas, sombreros, sex-specific bathrooms, gender, tampon availability, tampons for men, defending the Kurds, dress codes, and on and on. Progressivism has no defining limits, so it MUST always find something new to regulate and to obsess about.
That’s what bush hogs are for....................
That can be afro style without causing offense to anyone.
Man looks at outward appearance. God looks at the heart.
I was raised on that. I assumed most people were. I was wrong. Most people really believe that God looks on outward appearance.
Yes but I am not hiring his soul. It is a business proposition not a spiritual one.
Exactly.
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