Posted on 04/08/2014 4:31:07 PM PDT by mandaladon
Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Army's new ban on many types of ethnic hairstyles has African-American women who wear their coifs in dreadlocks, braids and cornrows in a twist.
The Army's regulations stipulate such guidance as hair "must be of uniform dimension, small in diameter (approximately ¼ inch), show no more than 1/8 (inch) of the scalp between the braids." Dreadlocks "against the scalp or free-hanging" are banned. "Unkempt" or "matted" braids and cornrows are also considered dreadlocks and "are not authorized," according to the regulations that were updated this month.
It's that type of language, words like "unkempt" and "matted," that read to some African Americans, as code for racial bias.
"These new changes are racially biased and the lack of regard for ethnic hair is apparent," Sgt. Jasmine Jacobs of the Georgia National Guard wrote in a White House petition she started in late March asking the Obama administration to reconsider the policy. Currently, the petition has more than 13,000 signatures. White House petition
"We feel let down," Jacobs told the Army Times. "I think, at the end of the day, a lot of people don't understand the complexities of natural hair. A lot of people, instead of educating themselves, they think dreadlocks and they think Bob Marley, or they see women with really big Afros and they think that's the only thing we can do with our hair."
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Barber, they’ll all have High and tight...and like it.
Right you are! And try washing pepper spray out of long, matted hair...you get burned all over again.
yup. treat them ALL EQUAL. one haircut for ALL.
The NY Yankees get away with the short hair rule.
Why not the army?
God,I’m sick of the whining.
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High and tight for every swinging, uh, soldier.
Hate to say it, but there’s no way I’d recommend anyone go into the military right now. It may take more than a change in presidential leadership before that would change. The damage done is immeasurable. It’s not all during this presidency, but a lot of the crap Clinton put in place lasted through two more presidencies without being fixed. Now, it is a social experiment under this president.
I call them turdlocks.
sick of the whining AND the race card.
I would NEVER join now.
This was it for me.
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Heads completely shaved should be the only style.
Thanks mandaladon.
I recommend every conservative young man go in and tough it out.
Staffing the military with people who will obey the constitution over their command if it comes to that outweighs every negative.
Espcially if they go against Vomiting Agent lol
Aw screw it. Tie dyed jeans and sandals for everyone!
Everybody is so offended these days. What part of uniform do these people not understand?
Then go to jamaica mon, you buffalo soldier
Once when out on field duty in Grafenwoehr a white guy in my unit got fed up with all the brothers walking around with “do rags”. He decided that he could be a cool one too. It went all the way up to the battalion SMG - who ended up banning it from everyone. As he should have.
Use to be a chart outside of the ships barbershop showing acceptable hairstyle/cuts for both white and black sailors. Anything else would not be allowed. Worked great.
“Bet they cant get a proper seal on an NBC mask with one.”
There are some idiots that I would hope will (but likely will not) learn a valuable lesson from that very thing.
Afro’s would be legal under this rule - as long as they are not more than 2” in length.
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