The mom says that Autumn has never dyed her hair; the color of her braids best matches her natural color.
Naturally lighter hair while black: a fireable offense
have they never seen a biracial person on tv? like? poor kid, when I was 16 i got black box braids and I felt great until my boss started calling me the predator and tried to make all of my coworkers call me the predator instead of my name.
have they never seen a biracial person on tv? like?
they don't watch that woke crap
this is why i kept a picture of melanasains my phone as a teen
Showlying to white people was one of my fav things for a bit.
"How many times do I need to tell you? Don't even DREAM of telling white people the truth! Shit. Making white people riot. I'm going to go find a white man and lie to him right now."
Yeah at ex model c all girls high schools in South Africa there were major issues around black girls hair. Even led to full on protests because of how racist these schools were. I remember meeting someone at university detail how they were forced to put chemicals in their hair to straighten it while at one of these schools. But I think the protests led to a change in hair and uniform policy, so at least something happened.
so nice that the girls changed things. sadly hair is extremely politicized everywhere. and just 15 year ago relaxed hair (chemically straighten) was the norm. but than the natural hair movement happened and now its a huge generational divide. I will always be against relaxers because they double your risk of certain types of cancer. My first major act of teen rebellion was cutting off my relaxed hair with kitchen scissors when i was 15. I used to have constant oozing sores on my head from the relaxer. my mother was so pissed she called every family member to tell them i looked homeless. I told her I "was no longer conforming to the eurocentric patriarchy beauty standards" and she said "I dont know what that means, you look ridiculous". I have a 10000 hair stories, people coming up to me and petting me without saying a word, a BLACK boss making me cover my natural hair because i was trying to start locs, so much so that some of my Muslim customers assumed I was Muslim but I never denied it because that was too awkward, like 5 diffrent white toddlers have pointed to my hair and asked "whats that" back in my babysitting for rich people days.
I'm so sorry that you had to experience all that. Hopefully you're in a better situation now
i mean in in America so ya know... but yeah I love my natural hair, it took many years to learn how to take care of especially when I had no money and no coping mechanisms for burnout. but its now down to my collar bone! and best of all I have a partner how has learned to do my hair so im always looking cute! and i now wear lots of mens styles which are way cheaper to get done professionally. life is good. also natural hair is weirdly common with black professors ive had. so thats nice whenever go to grad school. Ive heard south africa is having its own natural hair movement. I wish I lived somewhere like cuba where the government was invested in promoting black natural hair.
Yeah natural hair on the rise. It's becoming much more common, along with braids + extensions. Especially amongst young people, a lot of people don't straighten or relax anymore.
I was even sad when my friend buzzed their's off, but apparently they got tired of all the conditioning and how expensive a hair conditioner that worked for them was. Still supported their choice anyways
yeah ive been there, its so expensive to have natural hair. all products that actually work are expensive as hell. its a shame because if we in a less capitalist hellhole we would all do each others hair for free, i like looking at precolonial black hair styles so and unique and beautiful and varied. good on you for supporting your friend. you know youre my favorite white south african? (the bar is in hell, but youve cleared it lol)
The bar might as well be on the floor lol. How do you know some others, guessing immigrants to the US? In general the worst of us are among the immigrat/expat community.
ive worked a a cafe in a tourist traps so ive met rich assholes from all over the world. scandanavians (i cant tell them apart) are the fucking worst, they keep saying im "too friendly" and trying to touch my hair and flirt with me. than australians than south africans. rich Chinese people dont make small talk with me almost at all but im gonna chalk that up to a cultural thing. australians suck so hard they always come in and say "i would order a flat white but you couldnt make it right" and im like yes i can ive practiced for you fuckers and they go "no you wouldnt make it right ill take a frap" and than i scream. honestly the south african adults are just awkward its the CHILDREN that are little racist freaks, i have never in my life have seen worse behaved more entitled children. Its the most humiliating thing to be berated by a CHILD and forced to make their drink 3 times while the mother encourages them to call me stupid.
The children probably learn from how our society is structured here. It's common for upper/middle class families to have a maid/domestic worker (who is in 99% of cases a black woman) clean their entire house for minimum wage. And pretty much everyone working in low paid service jobs, from cashiers to petrol pump attendants and waiters/waitresses, are black. So the children learn from that blatant racial inequality and act like that and become spoilt racist brats. I just hope they grow out of it when they get older.
would you say most of the adults are still pretty racist? like is it hard to find non racist white people to be friends with?
Among older people yes most people are still very racist, but the situation is better among younger people. Still a lot of racism though, the amount of young people that have felt comfortable using the k word around me is way too high. But the situation is still much better than before among young folks, though I tend to avoid the crazies so yeah.
well i learned a new slur today. I do love hearing your perspective on things, I feel like ive learned so much from having you on here.
I just hope what I'm saying is helpful and accurate, I just talk about what I see here.
well i learned a new slur today
Sorry about that.
no no im never gonna get called that here, dont apologize. its good to know things things too.
straighten or relax
"Relax" is such an ironic way to describe what is required to relax hair.
the pain, burning, cost and increased chances of breast and uterine cancer are soOooOOo relaxing. yeah even the name is fucked up.
also natural hair is weirdly common with black professors ive had
The three most legit genuine comrade professors I've ever known in college were all black and they all had natural hair (to be fair one had quite a receded hairline). One marched with MLK. One even rocked an Angela Davis style afro.
I will never forget when I first learned about what the Protestant Work Ethic was and its ties to American Civic Religion and Calvinism for that matter. It took that long to teach me what I should had known in my teens.
yeah I think natural hair (whether people like it or not) says a lot about you. it usually says your cool! so cool to meet the one who marched with mlk!! angela davis was my nickname in college for a bit, due to my large afro and you know being a communist lol.
angela davis was my nickname in college for a bit, due to my large afro and you know being a communist lol.
oh yeah he sucked. he was the head manager and his dad was the owner. I think he was attracted to me because all my male coworkers kept saying he was, but he was so mean all the time to me in particular so idk. don't worry I no one besides him called me that, but it was super damaging to my young self esteem. I felt better by calling him a virgin and all my coworkers went "ooooooohhh" fun times (problematic to make fun of someone for being a virgin in retrospect I know). would you believe i left that workplace because he wouldn't do anything when a coworker was sexually harassing me?
oh ive been there once. great spring weather. didn't talk to the locals much but everyone felt rude.
Well maybe you shouldn't have been ripping all their spines out and screaming in triumph.
Or maybe you should have started, they sound like they deserved it
That is the most normal hairstyle I've ever seen. In South Africa I see much more elaborate hair styles literally every day, and it's super cool.
Racist ass chick fil a bosses
Their issue wasn't the hairstyle but blonde hair on someone with dark skin. Apparently it's "unnatural". Growing up mixed race black in the US, you run into this with a certain type of person. Evidence of misagination really bothers them.
Yeah that also happens in South Africa, especially towards the coloured community here.(Not a racial slur in South Africa, it's it's own culture/ethnicity and many people self identify with the term). Some really vile stuff gets said towards them.
In the article, it says they invited her to return to work after they realized the rule had been misinterpreted. The absolute gall. Of course she doesn't want to work with those fuckers! They've made it very clear how they see her, but now in their generosity they're going to offer her job back. I'm glad she's exploring her legal options instead.
Their lawyers got their ass but not enough to do literally anything to the chud manager I guess
invited her to return
No thanks, i'll take the settlement instead.
Except in very particular situations (Actors… that’s pretty much it) I don’t think employers should be allowed to have literally any opinion on your appearance past like, “don’t literally be covered in dirt.”
To be honest, interviews should be blind with fake names and voice modulators. On top of the obvious sex and race reasons that you shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate, I don’t think employers should be allowed to ban things like piercings, tattoos, dyed hair, weird hairstyles, etc.
Obviously you shouldn’t be allowed to fire a black girl for having light hair, but I don’t think you should be allowed to fire someone for having a green Mohawk and a septum ring either. Fuck off, it’s none of your business.
Same here, as a scientist no one gives a fuck what you wear day to day as long as you have closed toes shoes and tie your hair back
Sounds like you'd be really cold if they were comfortable, and if you were comfortable they'd be drenched in sweat
green Mohawk and a septum ring either.
literally me
To be honest, interviews should be blind with fake names and voice modulators
We have all the tech to make this the reality but still don’t. Hmmm
Fuck this company and their terrible bland food too. We've had some pop up where I live in the past few years and the place legit causes traffic jams because of all the
suburbanite slobs in their tank sized SUV's lining up for their slop. Then every other week we learn about how yet another manager there is a bigot. I remember when libs were running defense for the company when the ghoul who owns it was revealed to be a homophobe. Their refrain was always "oh his views aren't policy or the views of the people who work there". What kind of people do you think he hired? And what kind of people do you think he encouraged his underlings to hire? You think there might be a connection between who he is and the fact that you can't make it through the drive through there without another news article like this dropping?What kind of people do you think he hired? And what kind of people do you think he encouraged his underlings to hire
and the whole 'closed on sunday' means even normal scumbag capitalists avoid the business, only christfreaks, and the specific kind who want to murder lgbt people are going to be franchisers of a joint like that
also they play christian pop music in their stores. any heathens will be driven to madness.
Christian music and (I don't know what to call it except "bro country") in a death spiral to see who can make the most unimaginative bullshit possible.
i've seen it said here that their franchisee interview process is wildly invasive and thorough to ensure that only the most unhinged christofascists are allowed to use their money printer
There's a christian-ease language, as we call it. A certain way of phrasing and framing things that signals that you're part of the good ol boys club. The root signifiers are essentially signaling that your core ideology is fascism.
Double lane drive through staffed by teens walking up to your suburban assault vehicle
they make those kids stand outside in the florida heat with zero sun protection
it should be an executable offense to expose workers to that level of potential harm (sun, heat, vehicle exhaust, risk of getting run over), let alone children
Shit is pathetic and with inflation prices they all just look like addicts now. Like Chik Fil A drive thru in 2023 is a methadone clinic for food issues.
Nothing more than racism. Sure, it's easy to dismiss that claim because it's "overused", but when it keeps happening and there are no excuses for it, what else could it be?
Fam, this is hexbear turf. You don’t need to prevaricate when calling racism out. Any chud gets in here to froth at us he’s gonna get bullied then promptly banned
Fucking so sick of the unending hatred of old white men in this country. It's in my face every single fucking day of my life and I'm so over it. This girl is incredibly beautiful and it's so obvious it was about her race. FUCK
we dont need to comment on the beauty of a 16 year old on an article about workplace discrimination. its just not neccesarry. it would still be discrimination is she wasn't beautiful or her hairstyle wasnt considered conventionally attractive. not implying your creepy just that we dont need to value women for their looks.
I'm just saying that the issue is about her appearance and the only rational thing they could say is that it's not professional, but she looks fine, so that really only leaves race.
like I said, I dont think your being creepy. I think you could have phrased that much differently friend.
This girl is incredibly beautiful
did not communicate your point.
they are saying that its not unprofessional so the only conclusion is racism.
This is pretty common and goes beyond just the color of your hair, the majority of states still don't have discrimination protections specifically for protective hairstyles like braids, locs, cornrows, afros, etc. And, even in states that do, they obviously just front it as something else; my friend works in NY state (which banned protective hairstyle discrimination in 2019) and has a coworker who was sent home after coming to work with locs with red highlights. Employer claimed they only had issue with the red highlights, but I'm sure they obviously saw the locs on their own as "unprofessional"
A workplace study this year found one-fifth of Black women aged 25-34 have been sent home from work because of their hair. Two-thirds of BW also reported changing their hair for an interview
Fun fact: a female person with that hair colour is a blonde, while a male would be a blond.
I have never seen anyone spell it without the e.
Mind you I'm not from the US so maybe they spell it differently there idk
it's the fiance/fiancee thing, because half of the words in English come from Latin/French. it's for the best if we just pick one and use it because the grammatical gender thing doesn't even exist in English.
i don't understand, wasn't that her hair colour when she interviewed and got the job?
