Hampton Sells Out: Bans Dreads and Cornrows

[Kalik]

never been around someone with dreads that smelled decent

if the hair didnt smell so bad id agree

breh my hair smells like bath and bodyworks. Mist my locks daily

 

[Kenny West]

Put the pipe down bro...how you present yourself does count. Thats the real world

Even zuckerberg is suffering from this...he wore a hoody to his first presentation with investors and its one of the reasons fb is tanking as we speak. His lack of a business plan in addition to how he presented himself was stronly critisized

Unless your on some good will hunting shyt...its best not to show up at work let alone an interview with your pajamas on

Nah nikka.

I'm pretty sure it was mainly the lack of a business plan...once first blood was drawn there they just took what they could get. White folks are sharkish like that. Somebody in the back probably was sayin his bytch p*ssy stink.

 

[alpo]

hampton u is owned by blacks?

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

*shakes dreads*

 

[kash10003]

at first, i thought it was the general university and i was like wtf they thinking, they cant get away with that shyt

and then i saw it was the 5 year mba program



they can honestly do whatever they want in terms of what they think is professional and business appearance. The MBA programs are generally supposed to exist for networking and future generator of endowments and job opportunities so I can see them being picky about it. I know that in the hospital, we have seen attending physicians send back residents for not wearing a white shirt (instead wearing a blue or a striped shirt) in clinic, and I'm absolutely fine with that shyt

 

[BonafideDefacto]

But aren't they just perpetuating the negative views and demonizing the shyt further more themselves that whites have about blacks with corn rows/dreads? They are all but admitting that blacks look down upon other blacks with 'special hair'

 

[1thouwow]

i wonder how many ppl gonna actually cut their hair or withdraw

 

[Will Ross]

But aren't they just perpetuating the negative views and demonizing the shyt further more themselves that whites have about blacks with corn rows/dreads? They are all but admitting that blacks look down upon other blacks with 'special hair'

Long hair on men in is not really accepted In the corporate world. No matter the race white boys are not wearing long surfer hair either. Now black women have it the hardest Because they really can't wear their hair in its natural state. People acting like having a Having a fade or a dark caesar is any less black then having dreads.

 

[SuikodenII]

Hampton University has found itself in a hairy situation,--literally--thanks to a recent report by Virginia's ABC news station shining a spotlight on the historically black institution's ban on cornrows and dreadlocks for male business students.

The mandate, which was put in place in 2001, only applies to a specific group of students enrolled in a leadership course within Hampton's five-year M.B.A. program. Sid Credle, Dean of the Business School, believes that the hairstyles will prevent students from securing corporate jobs.

"All we're trying to do is make sure our students get into the job," Credle told ABC. "What they do after that, that's you know, their business."

It's no surprise that the ruling has been an unpopular one with the student body. Many believe that the braided and twisted 'dos should have no bearing on their education and professional pursuits.

Uriah Bethea, an incoming freshman at Hampton who wears his hair in deadlocks, told ABC-- "I don't think it should matter what the hairstyle. It's my life. I should be able to do whatever I want to do."

This campus controversy is reminiscent of the hair hoopla created a few years ago when a white Glamour magazine editor, who was giving a speech at a New York law firm about the "Dos and Don'ts of Corporate Fashion", told the group that afros were a "no-no" and that it was "shocking" to believe that anyone would think that a "political" hairstyle like dreadlocks were appropriate for the workplace. The gaff got her six weeks on probation and ultimately resulted in her resigning.

Even more recently, there was a situation surrounding a young lady named MarKeese Warner who was denied a job at a Six Flags amusement park in Maryland because of her dreadlocks.

So, does Credle have a point? If Warner couldn't even get a job operating a roller coaster, she'd be hard pressed to find herself in a board room.

Push back from disgruntled Hampton students hasn't wavered Credle's conviction. When confronted by naysayers, Credle draws from his interpretation of historical ideals of professionalism.

"I said when was it that cornrows and dreadlocks were a part of African American history?," said Credle."I mean Charles drew didn't wear it, Muhammad Ali didn't wear it, Martin Luther King didn't wear it."

Hampton University's Cornrows And Dreadlock Ban: Is It Right?



I can see the cornrows cause they can look dusty but dreads? C'mon. Dreads can look very professional.

This is crazy especially coming from a HBCU. I guess we all know who the real HU is

*Is from 757*

That bolded statement makes me sick to my stomach.....

I apologize my people for this, VA just can't get right

 

[The_Sheff]

Long hair on men in is not really accepted In the corporate world. No matter the race white boys are not wearing long surfer hair either. Now black women have it the hardest Because they really can't wear their hair in its natural state. People acting like having a Having a fade or a dark caesar is any less black then having dreads.

So you saying black people shouldn't strive to have our own cultural identities accepted and we should just do what the white people do. I bet you would have been the first nikka to cut his fro back in the day.

 

[Captain Crunch]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing black people that their natural hair was undesirable.

Word, it's so demonic
The second I grow my hair out a bit, some of my family, be like "you need to cut that", that's that shyt I don't like

 

[wire28]

Shut the fukk up


Truth tho from dude earlier. Our power is in the facial hair

 

[wire28]

non religious my ass, they got a fukking church on campus


fukk their curfew

fukk their fakkit ass non co-ed dorm policy

and fukk harkness hall


at all them piss colored house n*ggaz

Harkness was the shyt. fukk James hall and everybody that love it.

 

[Black_Jesus]

Harkness was the shyt. fukk James hall and everybody that love it.

James Hall was the shyt when I was there.... Harkness was cool too but they always had a bunch of hoe ass RA's that took their job way too serious.. It was like a shakedown anytime I step foot in that bytch

 

[Darth Nubian]

Lol man youre on some other shyt

What youre refering to is something sierra mist alluded to earlier in regards to black men owning their own and hiring their own...thats another discussion for another thread

The cold hard reality is that yes those who are superstars have some wiggle room to be obnoxious and careless at times. The rest of us are either average, below average or slighty above it, therefore we have to tow the line and not fukk up. How you present youself is apart of that of getting ahead and there are standards whether we like it or not. So its best for nikkaz to play the game to win. Playing this quasi huey newton act will just keep cats unemployed, broke and complaining

Your Black, you are never going to get ahead in "their" game being "just average". The unemployment office is filled with nikkas with caesars. The brothers going to Hampton's MBA program should be the creme de la creme. Let their work speak for themselves. I mean really, did you choses your financial adviser, realtor, doctor, etc. based on their hairstyle or their skill?