Hampton Sells Out: Bans Dreads and Cornrows

Dzali OG

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If you don't plan on starting your own then you have to follow other peoples rules.
White people will never look at dreads or cornrows as professional.

At one time white people didn't except black people period as being professional or appropriate for Business. We fought to change that, not endorsed it and accepted it.

Why should we not fight this other form of discrimination?
 

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Im not even sure a black business would hire someone with cornrow and dreads to be the face of their company.
It has nothing to conforming to white people's definition of presentable

Well What does it have to do with? Who made these rules?
 

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I have conflicted feelings about this. Hampton is known for having strict, old fashioned rules (the "out by 5" rule - get caught with alcohol or drugs, you're expelled from the university by 5 pm that day :whew:, men can't wear hats in any building, women can't shorts that show their ass, etc) so the dreadlock rule for male business students fits right along with all the other rules.

However, I don't think you should discourage someone from expressing his or her self by wearing dreadlocks.

Sidebar: Checkout the rest of HU's dress code...I forgot about these...:whoo:

Examples of Inappropriate Dress and/or Appearance
  1. Do-rags, stocking caps, skullcaps and bandanas (prohibited at all times on the campus of Hampton University except in the privacy of the student's living quarters).
  2. Head coverings and hoods for men in any building.
  3. Baseball caps and hoods for women in any building. This policy item does not apply to headgear considered as a part of religious or cultural dress.
  4. Bare feet.
  5. Shorts that reveal buttocks.
  6. Shorts, all types of jeans at programs dictating professional or formal attire, such as Musical Arts, Fall Convocation, Founder's Day, and Commencement.
  7. Clothing with derogatory, offensive and/or lewd messages either in words or pictures.
  8. Men's undershirts of any color worn outside of the private living quarters of the residence halls.
  9. Sports jerseys without a conventional tee-shirt underneath.
  10. Men and Women’s pants that show underwear.
 

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The question is, should we be Ok with corporate America being allowed to discriminate.
The question is if it's legally discriminatory. White people can't wear dreads either. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they were discriminated more than black men with dreads. Believe it or not dread heads are not a protected class. Nor should they be.
 

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Hampton has to be one of the worst schools I've ever visited. Seems to be a bunch of power hungry black ******s just making rules because they can. These rules are consistent across the board, curfews for college students, no co-ed dorms, etc.

I had to DJ this concert down there a year and a half ago with an artist I work with who attended Hampton. We were doing sound check in the gym and I stepped out the gym to go to the bathroom. For whatever reason the gym was locked (I guess because famous artists were doing soundcheck too and they didn't want students walking in) Anyways, I knocked loudly on the door so they could hear me because the music was very loud. This lady, I dunno if she was Dean but she ran something at the school scolded me for knocking so loud, wouldn't open the door and proceeded to call the cops on me. I literally had to go hide so the cops wouldn't come question me over some stupid shyt like this.

I went to Wharton and never had to deal with such foolishness.
 

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I'm 2nd generation Ghanaian...even in Ghana you can't even show up with corn rows for work at any professional setting.

I dare any Ghanaian to call me a liar. It has nothing to do with any African hairstyle nonsense.
Drop the gotdamn militancy

No offense intended but I would never, ever take my "Black cues" from the likes of what Ghanaians do.
Or in other words, seeing as how Africans are even bigger shuckers and jivers to Eurocentric thought, ideal, and standards.. you need not bring foolery on yourself by comparing what they do to what we should be doing.
 

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Hampton has to be one of the worst schools I've ever visited. Seems to be a bunch of power hungry black ******s just making rules because they can. These rules are consistent across the board, curfews for college students, no co-ed dorms, etc.

I had to DJ this concert down there a year and a half ago with an artist I work with who attended Hampton. We were doing sound check in the gym and I stepped out the gym to go to the bathroom. For whatever reason the gym was locked (I guess because famous artists were doing soundcheck too and they didn't want students walking in) Anyways, I knocked loudly on the door so they could hear me because the music was very loud. This lady, I dunno if she was Dean but she ran something at the school scolded me for knocking so loud, wouldn't open the door and proceeded to call the cops on me. I literally had to go hide so the cops wouldn't come question me over some stupid shyt like this.

I went to Wharton and never had to deal with such foolishness.

"******s", huh :comeon:

Why did this thread get upped??
 
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