Quote:Afros, braids, dreadlocks: the US House of Representatives on Friday voted to ban discrimination based on hairstyles associated with a particular race or national origin.
The bill, which now moves to the Senate, explicitly aims to protect Black Americans who have been forced to cut their hair or style it in a certain way while at school or work.
“As a Black woman who loves my braids, I know what it’s like to feel isolated because of how I wear my hair,” said Cori Bush, a Black representative from Missouri, just before the vote.
Numerous instances of this kind of discrimination have risen to public attention in the United States.
In late 2019, a Black teen in Texas was suspended from school and threatened with expulsion if she did not cut her dreadlocks, which officials had deemed too long.
Her case provoked a heated national debate over systemic racism in schools.
Another case occurred in December 2018, when a referee forced a Black wrestler to cut his hair or face disqualification, arguing that his hairstyle was against the rules.
Opponents of the bill, like the Republican Jim Jordan, accused Democrats of “avoiding the issues the American people care about,” like inflation and the soaring cost of gasoline.
“I believe we can walk and chew gum at the same time,” shot back Sheila Jackson Lee, a Black representative from Texas.
The White House said President Joe Biden supports the bill, and underlined his belief that “no person should be denied the ability to obtain a job, succeed in school or the workplace, secure housing, or otherwise exercise their rights based on a hair texture or hair style.”
While the Democrat-sponsored bill garnered some Republican votes, most Republicans voted against it, making the bill’s fate in the evenly-divided Senate uncertain.
Several US states have already taken the step to ban hair discrimination, starting with California in the summer of 2019.
And after years of only allowing women in the military to wear a tight bun, the US Army revised its standards in January 2021 to better reflect the diversity in its ranks.
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Now there's a good use of my tax dollars. FJB.
Now any time someone doesn't hire a black person they can sue for discrimination I guess.
There are dress code standards at almost all places of work.... all hair styles that do not fit with those dress standards are usually prohibited.
Its about appearance standards and has nothing to do with race. Just another stupid waste of time.
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(03-18-2022 05:24 PM)maximus Wrote: [ -> ]There are dress code standards at almost all places of work.... all hair styles that do not fit with those dress standards are usually prohibited.
Its about appearance standards and has nothing to do with race. Just another stupid waste of time.
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Agreed.
And what about business freedom of choice? You don't like their standards, you work somewhere else.
What's a race related hair style?
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Why is this being debated?
Because of instances like this-
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/girl-dreadl...tyle-hoax/
They get covered non stop while the retraction and news that it was hoax get barely a mention.
While I can’t find the video, I did see the apology from this young ladies grandparents (with whom she lives I believe) and they seemed like extremely nice, sane people who were mortified that they grand daughter lied, caused all of this hubbub, and were extremely apologetic to the kids who were falsely accused and for how this must have affected them.
The grandparents weren’t on a rant of how this instance may be a hoax, BUT… like I’ve seen many times. Anyway, that’s all just a side note about the grandparents but it was refreshing, so much respect to them.
Baahahahah!
This country is so effed up.
Ima get a Mohawk and sue someone.
(03-18-2022 07:30 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: [ -> ]Baahahahah!
This country is so effed up.
Ima get a Mohawk and sue someone.
Clown world. A country full of idiots governed by idiots.
(03-18-2022 07:52 PM)shere khan Wrote: [ -> ] (03-18-2022 07:30 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: [ -> ]Baahahahah!
This country is so effed up.
Ima get a Mohawk and sue someone.
Clown world. A country full of idiots governed by idiots.
Because countries get the governments they deserve. Ours is still functional because people in the past did the work and we’ve been coasting ever since. Drinking from the well someone else dug for us…
(03-18-2022 07:30 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: [ -> ]Baahahahah!
This country is so effed up.
Ima get a Mohawk and sue someone.
Hell yeah, and I'm going to die my beard red, white and blue.
Title VII, The Civil a rights Act of 1964 already protects people based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. It is extremely hard to fire a black woman over the age of 50, she is considered in a protected class. I guess if she has an Afro or dreds she will be protected four ways now.
It does. But some folks are pandering and others want to have a cause of action whenever they interview and don’t get the job.
I didn’t get hired because of my dreadlocks!
over $100 to barely fill the gas tank, can't get no food at the grocery sto, can't afford the groceries when they do have them, and THIS is the $#!t our government is wasting time on. #DemocratsHatePoorPeople #DemocratsHateBlackPeople. LGBFJB.
They can make whatever law they wish. If you come into my office looking for a job with dreadlocks or long messy hair or other physical characteristics are distracting or workplace inappropriate, I will be nice to you and complete our interview..but..I will most likely not hire you. You better be damn sharp to overcome your poor first impression. No law can force me to hire someone that I feel does not fit our organization or that Im uncomfortable with. I'll do exactly what I have always done and easily work around any such law.
I'm just soooo glad that our inept Congress is tackling really important issues like this instead of wasting time on side issues like inflation, supply chain problems, a southern border controlled by cartels and human smugglers, election integrity issues laws and rules.
(03-20-2022 01:06 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just soooo glad that our inept Congress is tackling really important issues like this instead of wasting time on side issues like inflation, supply chain problems, a southern border controlled by cartels and human smugglers, election integrity issues laws and rules.
And I am still waiting for republicans to make strong stands on inflation, supply chain, energy, immigration, and election integrity. A platform based on those, plus the discipline to keep every candidate reading from the same sheet of music, would be a big winner in the fall. A mealy-mouthed milquetoast campaign like republicans have been running makes them vulnerable to “mean tweets” types of ad hominem attacks and can lose for them.
(03-20-2022 01:59 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-20-2022 01:06 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just soooo glad that our inept Congress is tackling really important issues like this instead of wasting time on side issues like inflation, supply chain problems, a southern border controlled by cartels and human smugglers, election integrity issues laws and rules.
And I am still waiting for republicans to make strong stands on inflation, supply chain, energy, immigration, and election integrity. A platform based on those, plus the discipline to keep every candidate reading from the same sheet of music, would be a big winner in the fall. A mealy-mouthed milquetoast campaign like republicans have been running makes them vulnerable to “mean tweets” types of ad hominem attacks and can lose for them.
It's the "leadership" of the GOP, so to speak that is responsible for the lack of any coherent message and the rank and file just go along. Cocaine Mitch and McCarthy have to go. Replace them with somebody who not only gives a damn but can help articulate a message that resonates. Then, as you said, STICK TO IT!
(03-20-2022 01:59 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-20-2022 01:06 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: [ -> ]I'm just soooo glad that our inept Congress is tackling really important issues like this instead of wasting time on side issues like inflation, supply chain problems, a southern border controlled by cartels and human smugglers, election integrity issues laws and rules.
And I am still waiting for republicans to make strong stands on inflation, supply chain, energy, immigration, and election integrity. A platform based on those, plus the discipline to keep every candidate reading from the same sheet of music, would be a big winner in the fall. A mealy-mouthed milquetoast campaign like republicans have been running makes them vulnerable to “mean tweets” types of ad hominem attacks and can lose for them.
Agreed, this should be front and center and those ideas should be bullhorned to evry corner of the nation....but they are idiots so that wont happen.
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