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Bajan Delta:
I think that you are mixing arguments here.
The goal of Hamptons business school is to groom, direct, and create students who will become professionals at America's leading companies. Students should not be enrolled in such a program if they are there to make a political, cultural, or social statement with their hair or style of dress. I don't believe that the school is forcing any woman to wear a perm or dress or "act white" in any way.
As a salesperson, none of my white male co-workers could wear a mustache. It is seen as unprofessional. I on the other hand wore one (most Black men have them so it does not appear "unprofessional" on us.
Hampton's Business School is interested in the success of its graduates, not whether they can make "statements" and successful. They recognize that we have enough against us, why volunteer more ammunition for people to be discriminatory. It is true that appearence makes up more than 50% of the first impession.
The business of the Business School is "business", social activists are for liberal arts.
I have asked this before, can someone please show me a picture of a Native West African tribesman (Bantu) with braided or dread-locked hair. I have seen East African Cultures such as the Masai, but they are a very effeminate culture (although their warrir prowess is legendary). I have never seen any depictions of male slaves of America, Brazil, or West Indian with braided hair or dreads. Where is it in our culture that men wear their hair like women (as a desirable thing)?
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