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Originally posted by Bajan_Delta
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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Why the sensitivity? I never said a sister couldn't rock a 'fro. Because I agree with a set of standards & principles Im a conformist. The danger in politicizing any argument is that it narrows one's prism of viewpoint. You hacve ascribed things to me that would not be present if it weren't for your mindset already poised to take the debate negative.
White America doesn't dictate my hairstyle nor my style of dress or speech. Its conservative by nature because I feel no need to attract attention to myself through those means. And because I can articulate an argument, there is no need for my Afrocentristic politics to be broadcast via my hairstyle or choice of clothing.
The root argument is and should be, "How does the School of Business at a private school such as Hampton, best prepare its students for life in Corp[orate America"? It would seem to me that one should use the best practices of the companies in which you hope these students will be employed by.
Because someone disagrees with or challenges your theses doesn't mean you have to take it personal. Your hairstyle says less about your character than how you respond when your principles are challenged