I seems you feel strongly about your conformist ideology. Feel free to conform to the societial norms that have been dictated by Anglo-America and I will continue to make my "socio-political statement". I'm glad that I'm the one responsible for recruiting and selection for a fortune 500 company, because based on some of your sentiments I'd be out of luck. Fortunately for people I interview (while rocking my well-coifed afro) I did not attend an institution that forced these types of policies and ideas onto me.
Clearly your training has worked for you and I am happy to see a brother prospering. I feel blessed that I too have prospered in Corporate America with my non-conformist attitude.
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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82
You've made my very point. To you, your hair is a socio-political statement. What the school is trying to inculcate in their students is to BE ABOUT BUSINESS. That is their concentration and focus. To train professionals. Corporate America doesn't care where you think you get your strength from. If I believed that my strength emanated from my branded Omega arms, would I be justified in exposing them on every sales call? Would a proud Son of the Confederacy be justified by wearing a confederate flag lapel pin on his suits?.
There are accepted norms for every profession. Flamboyant defense attorneys can wear ponytails and cowboy suits. District attorneys don't. One of my white collegeaues wanted to wear a Dale Earnhart mustache in honor of his hero. Boss said no, shave it.
My response was directed at men wearing braids and dreadlocks. Its fine for a woman to wear her hair in a natural state. I never said that women should be forced to wear perms Braided hair is a woman's hairstyle and a man should not be wearing such to work .
Biblically, I know of no passages that mention dreads. Samson was a Nazerite, a priestly order that was forbidden to cut their hair. If you assume that he was African, that could connote dreads, but if he were a typical Semite, then it would just be long hair.
John the Bapist by the Bibles own description, was an unkempt wild man. If his hair was anything like dreads, it would be because it was never combed and matted from living like a vagrant.
Using Wikpedias description of "dreadlocks", is that what a company wants representing to the face of the public?
Do you know any Ethiopians or Somalis that wear dreads. None of the thousands that I see runnig the parking lots in Atlanta seem to wear them. But being that we are derived from West Africans, I still don't see the cultral connection to "dreads". Senegalese, Gambian, Akan, Yoruba, Ibo, Angolan. Never seen a depiction of a man of these cultures with braids or dreads.
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