U.S. Court rules not hiring someone for having dreadlocks legal

[staticshock]

Working at a school with black students, black teachers, black admins in the black Mecca Atlanta, I wear my hair any damn way I please

 

[You Win Perfect]

I've always wondered why employers say the bolded

Basically they want someone that doesn't have a history of ambition. They want someone that is just happy to have a job and will be easy to abuse .the "shut up and just work"type. People with qualifications know what is not acceptable and acceptable in the workplace.

 

[At30wecashout]

I've always wondered why employers say the bolded

While its fukked up, be real:

Hiring someone costs money. Training, background checks, etc. Time and money. If you used to working somewhere better and for more pay,
the amount of shyt you are willing to eat is theoretically less, and the moment something better comes, you are out of there.

The idea of keeping "overqualified people" out is to keep the people who don't have anywhere else to go with the company for years. shyt, I remember

how many 30+ year old people were tied to my old retail job, and were locked in for the 10 or so dollars they were getting paid. Its sad shyt, but makes sense.

People like me dip on them at a moments notice cause they offer rock-bottom ass wages and work environments.

 

[Carlton Banks]

I used to want to be a pilot til I found out they had to be clean shaven and can't have a mustache or beard. I only shaved my mustache off once in my life and that was back in high school and it was a rough 2-3 weeks. Didn't even show up to school til it grew back. As for dreads, I can understand if they're out of control like J. Cole's or Gunplay's.... But if they're neat and presentable, shouldn't be any issue.

 

[Bigblackted4]

If a job didn’t want somebody becUse of hair it isn’t the right atmosphere to be in

 

[Carlton Banks]

Exactly why I’m glad I’m blue collar.

The employers in the trucking and refinery scene don’t give af about me having dreads and I can still make good money too.

Yet this also shows why we need more black businesses on the rise

How long you been trucking for breh? Team or solo?

 

[soulfuljah]

Dreads are not a natural style. You choose to put your hair in dreads. If they made afros an unacceptable style, then that would be different. That is how our hair naturally grows from our head. Now when they apply this rule to women is when it's blatent, because long hair is not acceptable for men in corporate environments.

As for my kids, I wouldn't loc their hair unless they were old enough to specifically ask for it. I'm not going to give them a style that is permanent unless cut off, if they don't ask. I'm also not going to make a hairstyle more important than money, and generational wealth.

Again, if we had more of our own corporations, we wouldn't have these problems, and we could make our own corporate dress code. But when folks aren't even getting the experience to soak up, and branch out because of a hairstyle, that's not going to happen.

Outside of washing my hair, I haven't done anything to it in almost 10 years. The result? Waist length dreads. Due to the texture of a black person's hair, locks are more "natural" than a fro, considering you would have to pick you hair out for that style.

If no one wants to hire me due to my hair, that's all fine and well as I will cut them when I decide, but right now, I'm just eating well at a Fortune 500 while planning to start consulting on the side.

 

[The_Truth]

"As long as i get mine" head ass nikka

bald headed bytch

The irony of this statement and smiley combo.

 

[Blackout]

How long you been trucking for breh? Team or solo?

Solo and a bit over a year. Once I get enough experience I’m gonna go back to the refinery and drive the trucks there.

 

[The_Truth]

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According to the case file, Jeannie Wilson, a human resources manager for CMS, commented on Jones’ dreadlocks during a private hiring meeting to discuss scheduling conflicts, telling Jones, “they tend to get messy, although I’m not saying yours are, but you know what I’m talking about.” Wilson told Jones that CMS would not bring Jones on board with dreadlocks, terminating the job offer.

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In their suit, the EEOC claimed that this was a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s Title VII, arguing that dreadlocks are a “racial characteristic” that have been historically used to stereotype African-Americans as “not team players” and as unfit for the workplace. Therefore, claiming that dreadlocks do not fit a grooming policy is based on these stereotypes and inherently discriminatory, as dreadlocks are a hairstyle “physiologically and culturally associated” with African-Americans.

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The court of appeals disagreed, ruling that CMS’s “race–neutral grooming policy” was not discriminatory as hairstyles, while “culturally associated with race,” are not “immutable physical characteristics.” In essence, traits in a person’s appearance that are tied to their culture but are otherwise changeable are not protected and can be used to deny job offers.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act has been routinely interpreted by the courts to only protect against “immutable characteristics” and not cultural practices. In Garcia v. Gloor, the courts ruled against the plaintiff, arguing that being fired for speaking Spanish at work despite their employers English-only policy did not violate Title VII.

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Restrictions against dreadlocks have also been implemented in schools. This past July, Attica Scott, whose daughter is a student at Butler Traditional High School in Louisville, Kentucky, tweeted the dress code distributed by the school, which specifically prohibited “dreadlocks, cornrows, and twists.”

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This is fukkin bullshyt. Cacs know exactly what they're doing. They would never try this shyt on a Hasidic Jew. They write laws that leave them just enough leeway discriminate against nonwhites (especially Black people) indirectly.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Another reason why we need reparations

 

[Bobby Lashleys eyebrows]

They can work for Church's Chicken. We hire no matter the hairstyle

You racist piece of cac shyt, you...
:smithscust:

 

[Hungerpain]

But yet tattoos is good money now that mainstream and most importantly women have embraced them.

 

[truth2you]

This is why we have to get political, and stop thinking its asking for handouts when we want the government to help us. If it wasn't for government, we still would have no options on where to live.

And people who say you need your own business are not seeing the big picture. First everyone can't own a business, there are over 40 million of us, and growing.

Secondly, if they discriminate because of your hair, they can discriminate using other things, and it just isn't your job.

We need to pool our money together, and get into politics

 

[You Win Perfect]

But yet tattoos is good money now that mainstream and most importantly women have embraced them.

WHITE mainstream, WHITE women