It's the job of colleges to prepare you for the real world. That's what they doing to it you know that kind of hair style don't fly in corporate America.
I for one like it because it removes the shock when new grads find out later in life
Hampton Sells Out: Bans Dreads and Cornrows
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It's the job of colleges to prepare you for the real world. That's what they doing to it you know that kind of hair style don't fly in corporate America.
I for one like it because it removes the shock when new grads find out later in life
Hampton sells out for trying to teach the group that has the highest unemployment rate how to be presentable?!?
Memo to black men: If you want to look unkempt, like common thugs or just plain old ungroomed (and let's face it...alot of y'all don't keep your dreds neat and clean) work for yourselves.
A common thug has no look.
Thugs come in all shape, colors and sizes. I can't help that the white media, over the course of decades, drilled it into the heads of many people(Including your lame ass) what a thug looks like(a black man)
If that's the objective, they can suggest it to the students upon graduation, not ban the styles on campus
Do they ban common 'non-corporate' hairstyles on white campuses?
Its a college job to prepare you for the real world, yet they do this by sending you out into the real word 50,000 dollars in debt, all because they "taught" you shyt you could learn at the local library
If that's the objective, they can suggest it to the students upon graduation, not ban the styles on campus
Do they ban common 'non-corporate' hairstyles on white campuses?
College can do whatever the see fit. None of the students are being forced to go there with a gun over their head. They can walk if they don't like it.
Like I said in my previous post a lot of black men have no idea that hairstyle like that is frowned upon in boardrooms and corporate America.
Obviously a company is not going to tell you the truth as to why you didn't get the job but the dreads are an instant dis-qualifier.
18 year old black male who rocks my natural hair 
I went to the school
If you don't like it don't go and/or leave. They ain't forcing you to go and get yo ass prepared for the real world.
And again dreads and braids is analogous to some white boy with shoulder length hair. It won't fly in corporate America today. It might in the future seeing as how the country is becoming more liberal but as of now, if you want a job, all that's going to do is hinder you. You already got a big enough obstacle being a black man with all the stereotypes. Now you go in there with dreads and the first thing the CEO in Chicago think of is the three kids with dreads he saw on the news last night that got arrested listening to chief keef.
Smarten up son. It's chess not checkers.
Born2BKing
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Any nikka rocking cornrows in 2013 should be expelled off GP.
Why ?
In my hood nikkas with fades get arrested more than nikkas with hair. Im pretty sure thats true for most cities in america besides places like New Orleans and Florida
That's why I said. You getting judged right when the Dude reads your name off the paper. You can keep being a faux revolutionary and look like
when you keep getting denied when you walk in with your pusha T braids or you can smarten up and see how things work in the business world.Why ?
In my hood nikkas with fades get arrested more than nikkas with hair. Im pretty sure thats true for most cities in america besides places like New Orleans and Florida
in my world, the real world, nikkas with fades get more jobs than nikkas with hair
just how it works right now
DerrtySouthpaw
Deport mike bobo
dont affect me
I know it's the only way y'all can have long flowing hair but again it looks 
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
As fukked up as it is, dreads/cornrow hairsytles ARE frowned upon by alot of corporations. It's racist and fukked up, but it's true.
I was in a Six Sigma Green Belt Class a few years ago and there was this brotha in there who honestly didn't know that companies gave nikkaz the side eye who had dreads/cornrows (he has dreads). He was talking about how he was looked over for some promotions at his company (works for Honda) and was wondering why. This other black woman who was in there with us (works for Dupont in senior management) told him the deal with certain black hairstyles. She said when she started in the corporate world, she was kinda loud with her fashion (flashy earrings, dresses, shoes, etc.). Another senior black exec told her she needed to "tone it down" for her benefit/career advancement.
He was like
when she broke it down to him.
We both were like "no one ever told you?
He was like no.
I felt bad for that no one (especially other blacks at the company) never dropped that jewel on him.
These cacs in these companies don't like certain hairstyles. If you are black with dreads/cornows, your opportunity for advancement is. They won't come out and say it, but it's one of those things you need to know. They treat dreads/conrows the same way they treat mullets, mohawks, visible tats. You get the bushes on advancement if you rock those shyts.
Banning the hairstyle while you are paying for an education, especially at an HBCU, is rediculous though and beyond c00nerific. Educate the bruhs and let them know the deal is about it, but let them enjoy their shyt in college. As long as you let students know the "risks" career wise, that's fine with me.
One to grown on bruhs....
Cosign. Unfortunately we live in a cac filled world and if you want them to employ you, you gotta follow their template.
Since you went to the school, you should be able to specify if it's a long hair ban or not. If it's a long hair ban, my stance might change. All I can go by is what I read. The article painted the picture of the school singling hairstyles out.I went to the school
If you don't like it don't go and/or leave. They ain't forcing you to go and get yo ass prepared for the real world.
And again dreads and braids is analogous to some white boy with shoulder length hair. It won't fly in corporate America today. It might in the future seeing as how the country is becoming more liberal but as of now, if you want a job, all that's going to do is hinder you. You already got a big enough obstacle being a black man with all the stereotypes. Now you go in there with dreads and the first thing the CEO in Chicago think of is the three kids with dreads he saw on the news last night that got arrested listening to chief keef.
Smarten up son. It's chess not checkers.
With that said, is shoulder length hair routinely banned on predominantly white campuses?
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
you do know most HBCU's, including Hampton were founded by whites.
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