Hair Discrimination should be Designated as a form of Racism in the UK

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: generik

That also begs the question: Don't black kids ever ask white kids about their hair? Are we getting just one side of the story here?

And Gingers?

2nd

a reply to: JAGStorm

I can see the difficulty where hair styles cross over and have different effects on different ethnicities. Dread, for example, look much neater on African hair texture than they ever will on the Euro hair texture and they're going to be against policy because white dreads usually look sort of ratty. So what do you do? Is it discrimination to say dreads for one group but not the other? I can't see an easy win there.

What are you supposed to do at this school if you have an afro? just shave your head? What if you're a girl?

My school had a fairly strict hair policy (which I found considerably irritating at the time and have had long hair to this day ever since I left) but they allowed afros as far as I can remember.

Everything is getting so crazy anymore I just want to scream
at the top of my lungs...I can't take this anymore,I need some
time OFF this planet!

originally posted by: game over man
Barf another racist ATS thread...white people complaining on the internet about black people standing up against discrimination...over and over again.

The argument, what about white people hair? White people want to be oppressed too, it's sad. That's your answer.

Barf another person using the term racist incorrectly. How is having a discussion about a topic racist?

Black women with blonde, and or, straight hair should be arrested for cultural appropriation.

I agree with the basic precept that for some cultures hair is a religious matter but being culturist I also believe when in Rome so to speak.

My opinion is this if the child's hair is not disrupting there or other children's education then what is the problem.

Yes no teacher or parents for that matter want kids in a class with someone whom is crawling with lice and fleas which affects ALL racial and cultural groups but often more those that do not wash there hair regularly.


Still I can not help but chuckle at the vision of a kid with a giant afro at the front of the class whose hair is blocking the board from view for the kid's behind him or her.

I wonder though who is being paid to switch public attention to a trivial matter like this when there are so many far more pressing social issues in our nation that are obviously extremely more important than a school's hair and dress codes.


And there are issues with hair, one of the worst cases is NOT in the UK but in Japan, most school's think that Brown, Auburn or Red hair is fake and NOT Japanese but in fact all those colours of hair do happen to appear naturally in Japan, the Ainu and many Japanese often also have Curly hair which is also frowned down on by some Japanese as not a Japanese trait though many with Ainu and other ancestry do often have such hair.

In recent years they have tried or started to try to address this problem which was born out of Japanese Nationalism and a stereotypical view of what is Japanese the nationalists held.
www.hopclear.com...

Kid's over there have committed suicide because of being bullied by classmates and teachers over this.

In Africa it is Albino's that get the worst treatment, in some nations witch doctors believe Albino body parts and blood are powerful for magic spell's even paying money for them to those that will procure these from some unfortunate victim and so the albinos can often face terrible consequences and it can be dangerous for them just walking out of there house and even IN there house as some weirdo may raid there home and butcher them.

While this movie is presented as Fiction and indeed is but based on real story's it portrays a very real often daily occurrence in many African nations were albino's are victims of this vile crime.


So compared to this we in the UK are actually very good at NOT discriminating, in fact ANTI discrimination has seen black and Asian British students actually race ahead in there academic achievements of there white English peer's.

That said any child, Black, Asian or White (which is more than one ethnic group as well) can be left traumatised and scarred emotionally by any perceived racism against them so I do not mean to trivialize the issue but I really do believe it is being blown out of proportion.

a reply to: gortex

It's all about the 'product'.

a reply to: gortex

So let me get this straight.

So I'm a Nurse or Paramedic, I come to the scene of a MVA( motor vehicle accident). I need to assess the patient whom is of African decent.

While assessing trauma of the head, I physically have to touch the scalp and feel for deformities.

So by assessing cranial deformation and feeling the patients hair in the process. The First Responders are now committing a crime... YEAYYYYYYY

Just be grateful that we aren't like North Korea.

Imagine if every man, woman and child had to have a whispy blonde pudding bowl cut to emulate Dear Leader Boris.

Or five years hard labour .

a reply to: gortex

I feel we shouldn't need to make laws saying to leave people alone for how their hair is naturally. People should not be bothered for their natural hair. It's sad that people don't leave them alone and the nanny state has to step in.

Let's not forget about Irish hair.

a reply to: JAGStorm

A friend of mine is white and has an enormous natural afro of brown, now graying, hair. It defies gravity. People have always poked it, played with it, feeling the texture, commenting on it. She gets this a lot because she is white and it's an anomaly for the race but people really should learn to keep their hands to themselves. As for black hair, I'm not surprised if kids do this as different is novel, they usually aren't judging.

When she first met me, my mother in law came up behind me and grabbed my boobs because they are big for my frame and my back very narrow. It's quite shocking when people do things like that. She was a nurse so maybe she didn't notice that thanksgiving dinner was out of context but I had only met her a couple times before.

a reply to: gortex

It is just going to keep going. This will be next.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Looks like if anything the rule was in place to keep boys from looking like girls, being that braided hair on boys was outlawed.


"That also was like a double stab in the heart, that a Black man told me that the hairstyle was inappropriate."

Doesn't appear to be racially motivated from your second link.

Wow .
Here in the Southeastern US , there is an old folklore remedy for an earache that really works.
Haven't heard of it being done since I was a kid.
But , I guess it would be racist to tell nowadays .
Back then no one considered it racist , and helped to make real friends .
Thanks for the thread that made me recall the old days .

I get it all the time.
A tall white bald man.
Must be a skinhead racist.

a reply to: gortex

Well I've touched a couple of afros in my time. Guys were proud of them and knew I was jealous because my hair can't grow like that.

Wtf is wrong with the 21st century? We're descending into hell.

a reply to: gortex

Okay Afro textured hair being protected is a bit far. However as far as the touching. If someone asks and the person asked is okay with it okay cool. What needs to stop and happens far to often is people making discouraging comments about black peoples hair. A coworker of my girlfriend once compared her hair to pubic hair. That’s going to far. We’ve been out and people have just reached up and squeezed her hair, which gets shut down immediately if I’m there. She gets ask constantly if her hair is real, or when she wears it natural they ask why she doesn’t comb it. If she wears it in an Afro people call her foxy brown. People just need to leave other peoples hair alone.

originally posted by: game over man
Barf another racist ATS thread...white people complaining on the internet about black people standing up against discrimination...over and over again.

The argument, what about white people hair? White people want to be oppressed too, it's sad. That's your answer.

Obvious troll is obvious

You don’t believe it is racist to ask a black person about their hair

“We should have different rules for different races of people” : those who think that way, are racist