Posted on 07/06/2019 8:21:56 PM PDT by robowombat
Banning Discrimination Of Hairstyle Will Make California The First State To Do So
by: True Activist Posted on July 6, 2019
The CROWN act, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair”, is expected to be signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom, making the state the first ever to ban discrimination based on hair style. Hair styles included in the bill sent to the governor include Afros, braids, twists, and locks.
“ The history of our nation is riddled with laws and societal norms that equated ‘blackness’ and the associated physical traits, for example, dark skin, kinky and curly hair to a badge of inferiority, sometimes subject to separate and unequal treatment,” the bill specifies. According to a press release, the bill was introduced by Senator Holly J. Mitchell, and co-founded by Dove to make sure that “traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture ad hairstyle, be protected from discrimination from the work place and in our K-12 public and charter schools.”
The bill also addresses the shortcomings of federal law for only protecting people of color from discrimination against afros but not other styles. For quite some time now, beauty standards in the US have been riddled with racial undertones often favoring Eurocentric traits.
Source:https://kvoa.com/ It also states, “ Despite the great strides American society and laws have made to reverse the racist ideology that Black traits are inferior, hair remains a rampant source of racial discrimination with serious economic and health consequences especially for Black individuals.” The bill also addresses the fact that professionalism is unfairly associated with white characteristics. “The idea also permeated societal understanding of professionalism. Professionalism was, and still is, closely linked to European features and mannerisms, which entails that those who do not naturally fall into Eurocentric norms must alter their appearances, sometimes drastically and permanently, in order to be deemed professional.”
Senator Mitchell reported she has received numerous accounts of people who have been discriminated upon for how they wear their hair. “ The sheer volume of women and men and parents of students who have been sent home because someone deems their braids, twists, or locks were inappropriate for workplace settings, the sheer volume of people, suggests this clearly is a law whose time has come,” she stressed.
Source:https://www.nbcnews.com/ “The Good Hair Study,” a study released in 2017 showed an overwhelming bias versus black women who wear their hair natural. It was conducted by the Perception Institute, a group of researchers, strategists, and advocates, who conduct emotional and psychological research to identify and reduce bias. It partnered with a black owned beauty brand, SheaMoisture. It showed over 4,000 participants rapidly-changing pictures of black women with smooth and natural hair, along with word associations for both.
The results were convincing…majority of the participants, regardless of race, showed an implicit bias against black women’s textured hair. Textured hair rated less beautiful and less professional than smooth hair.
New York and New Jersey are following the lead of California…proposing similar legislation. In February New York enacted a policy protecting cornrows, afros, fades, and other hairstyles. New York’s Commission of Human Rights mentioned the black hairstyles are protected racial characteristics under the New York City Human Rights Law.
It is about time. Hopefully other states will follow in California’s footsteps.
Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/banning-discrimination-of-hairstyle-will-make-california-the-first-state-to-do-so-t1/
How do you prove discrimination based on hairstyle?
LOL
WELL YOU SEE...
Who the #$## knows??
CA lost its collective mind a while ago.
Hard to believe 35 years ago they voted for Reagan.
Change like this should take 100 years.
This opens a can of worms. Everyone has a hairstyle, therefore, now everyone is a protected class. Even those without hair.
does this new “law” include florescent green hair?
(between many tax laws, all “gun laws,” and silliness like this....the political hacks have bred a tremendous, widespread disrespect.. of all law....which is not good for our society)
That’s how they get loans. If you don’t give them the loan it’s racism. If you do give them the loan it’s “predatory lending” when they don’t bother paying it back.
So the problem of crap on the city streets must be solved, and the CA state government can now concentrate on Black hairstyles.
These people are nuts.
Just develop a policy that lists a number of hairstyles not approved for work.
Then its not just against any one particular hairstyle.
Problem solved.
Most of these are related to sanitary reasons - ie like long hair not shedding or dropping into food, or for operator safety reasons - like hair not being pulled into gear/wheels of huge machines.
Eventually the Gods of the Copybook Headings will return, it will not be fun.
What if the hairstylist simply doesn’t know how to produce a certain hairstyle?
State is going into the toilet and yet this is priority.
A lot of blacks with these hairstyles simply won't be hired now, especially in jobs such as the fast-food industry or light industrial where hair must be in hair nets or cut short.
It probably doesn’t include my vanilla ice hair cut with the lines on the side of my head and everything.. there is no way they would think of shunned man like me. : [
Well, who doesn’t want drippings from someone’s dreadlocks on their food? It’s racist to ban that.
The latest thing - UN-armed robbery ...
Started with the airline stewardesses...
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