'Whites Only' Barber

KATC3 TV NEWS Lafayette, Louisiana ABC affiliate ^ | 10/26/05

[wideawake]

People, especially your black people are not very broadminded.

That statement wins the Howard Dean Prize.

[proxy_user]

Replace sign immediately:

"I am not experienced in cutting African-American hair. I'll be happy to try, but you might get a better result with a different barber"

[mtbopfuyn]

Actually, I have heard some hair stylists won't do certain races' hair because it is different.

[cripplecreek]

It makes sense. The hair of blacks is different than that of whites. If I were black I think I would want someone who knew what they were doing cutting my hair.

The "Whites only" sign isn't the wisest move.

[MineralMan]

"People, especially your black people are not very broadminded" Your black people, eh? Now, your black people...they're good at dancing, basketball, and other things like that. Your white people...they're good at being executives and stuff like that you know. It's like your jews. They're good at numbers and banking. And your orientals? Well, they can run a good restaurant or laundry.

[vrwinger]

How about Asian hair? Hispanic hair?

Maybe he should say "Straight hair only"...

*shakes head*

[MineralMan]

Sarcasm tags didn't make it through for some reason.

[Sans-Culotte]

What if it was a white dude with curly hair, like the late artist Bob Ross, or Gabe Kaplan, or that Napoleon Dynamite guy?

[contemplator]

You put your finger on it. A very telling statement indeed. Of course, the guy who made the statement will never be able to understand what's wrong with it.

[nmh]

There is definitely a difference in hair. If he doesn't want to hire someone confident to cut black hair then I suppose he is obligated to tell these customers he can't cut it. It is awkward ... . I'm not sure what the answer is. If he doesn't want to learn to cut it or hire someone who can ... I guess that's his choice.

[Dan from Michigan]

That's from the Howard the Duck Dean school of public relations.

"We're out to get the pickup vote with confederate flags on the back"

[Labyrinthos]

Actually, I have heard some hair stylists won't do certain races' hair because it is different.

Then put up a sign that says "not qualified to cut afro-hair." BTW, this guy is not a "hair stylist," but an experienced barber. How difficult can it be to take a No. 2 clipper and give a guy a cut? Anyone who has trimmed a hedge can probably cut an man's hair -- regardless of his race -- with No. 2 clippers.

[MineralMan]

"There is definitely a difference in hair. If he doesn't want to hire someone confident to cut black hair then I suppose he is obligated to tell these customers he can't cut it. It is awkward ... . I'm not sure what the answer is. If he doesn't want to learn to cut it or hire someone who can ... I guess that's his choice."

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I wonder how many black people have come into his shop in the first place

[evets]

Can't cut this.

This will work.

[WakeUpAndVote]

He says he's not racist, just not qualified.

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Buck up camper! Ever hear of affirmative action?

YOU CAN DO IT!

[Rebelbase]

This isn't a racial or gender issue because underneath the hair we are all bald.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We can't even criticize the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina response of the mayor of New Orleans because he is black, nor can we criticize the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina response of the governor of Lousiana because she is a woman, yet this doofus thinks he can disregard PC with impunity.

Stupid is...

[radiohead]

LOL! Good post to start the day.

I'm mixed with curly, not kinky, hair. I often have better luck with hispanic hairdressers because many of 'your hispanics' are racially mixed and the hairdressers seem to know how to deal with the various hair textures that result. Black hairdressers sometimes don't know what to do if they can't press it or relax it and I've had white hairdressers say that they didn't feel comfortable doing my hair. Personally, I want someone who feels comfortable. The sign was stupid; the motivation behind it was understandable.

[CAWats]

Some blacks are good at extortion. Like Jesse Jackson. Of course, some whites are also good at it.