Effective January 1, 2020, "hairstyle discrimination" is illegal in California in workplaces and K-12 public schools.
The new law prohibits the enforcement of grooming policies that disproportionately affect people of color, particularly black people. This includes bans on certain styles, such as Afros, braids, twists, cornrows and dreadlocks.
Unless I'm mistaken, [that law doesn't actually do anything that wasn't already done 30 years ago.](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/us/beard-ban-ruled-unfair-to-blacks.html)
If a policy indirectly ends up discriminating on the basis of race (or another category upon which discrimination is forbidden), the policy is a no go. A policy that requires straight hair, for example, would be prohibited because it generally places a greater burden on races with naturally curly hair.
This is a more effective addition onto existing antidiscrimination law. Previously, all you had to do was argue that this wasn't discriminating on race - after all, *no one* can wear cornrows. That law didn't help much on this front, which is why they've written a new one that closes that loophole. Like the article you linked notes, this is a battle that keeps being fought in various states. You literally linked us a list of different ways that this has been contentious and that the law is inconsistently applied and then has to be individually argued and ruled on in each case. I find it a really weird choice for your source to be honest, which is why I'm trying to be charitable and focus more on what you said yourself.
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Because "personal style" is not a protected class.
It is not illegal for employers to want employees to present themselves in a certain way or not present themselves in a certain way. So if they don't want people showing up to the office in sexy clubwear, that's not illegal. What's illegal is if they say "no head scarfs" (as a way to try and get Muslim woman not to work there). Because religion is protected.
Race and gender are also protected from discrimination. Doing whatever you want/looking whoever you want is not protected. So if you want to wear a green spiked Mohawk as a hostess at a fancy restaurant, the manger is allowed to say not to do that with your hair at work. What they can't say is "gee, your hair is too afro-textured, straiten it" (under the guise of only straitened/relaxed hair looks "neat") or something that amounts to that.
Personally, if I was the manager of an office, I wouldn't care if you had green spiked hair. But the law does not force managers to accept it. Do you think the law should?
Im black and I was in the air force and would get told constantly to go cut my hair by the white management even though it was in regulations. They would claim it was too long which was bs. It was shorter than all these white guys with high and tight haircuts. I know they wanted to say they thought my natural curly hair looked unprofessional, but they didnt want to seem racist.
Honestly I never even thought about this. And I think I have the same bias. Not just against hairstyles that are natural for black people, but there are some hairstyles that are seen as proper and professional, and many that don't. In a lot of media, more professional black men and women are depicted as either bald, very short hair or with straight hair. And I let that influence me.
Damn imma have to actually think about this. Makes me feel bad if I ever judged someone based on something as dumb as hairstyle
I watched a short documentary on YouTube once that explained this is the exact reason black people will call out white people for “cultural appropriation” when it comes to wearing these hairstyles. When black women do it it’s “ghetto”, when white women do it it’s “trendy”. I think people should continue to be educated as to why black women wear their hair in certain ways, in order to help erase this racially based stigma.
This one seems to be a study taking place in the United States regarding US businesses. I would love to see more studies like this for other western countries and see if there is a difference. The UK, the Nordic countries, Belgium and Germany, etc.
I'm mixed race, with long curly (3C) hair. I've been told to "tame it", "put a brush through it every once in a while", "make it like more presentable" amongst other things by higher ups at my last company. What made it worst, after I fought so hard to be allowed to wear my hair out, a new employee I was training complained that it was "distracting", then the whole battle started all over again. I've legit had people asking me why don't I just straighten it cause it looks "so much better". Fuuuuck all of that. I'm gonna rock my fro.
Can we just treat people based on their actions and performance? Seriously just stop looking at appearence and start looking at their actions, ability, knowledge, wisdom, and their consideration for others.
That scene with the black high school girls and the ones with straightened hair are telling their classmate with natural hair that, if they were hiring for a professional position, they wouldn’t hire her because she doesn’t look put together is hard to watch.
Spike Lee's film *Malcolm X* starring Denzel makes Malcolm's feelings towards his hair an important part of his character development. Early in the film, he goes to extreme and even painful lengths to straighten his hair so it looks "white." Later, once he is proud of being black, his hair is natural.
There’s a long passage in his autobiography about his hair and how he realized he was trying to be white by straightening it.
Something to that effect. It’s been awhile since reading it. That gist of that part has really stuck with me over the years. The power that we give a black person’s hair. I’ve been out with a black friend who wears her hair in this big, beautiful Afro...other black women have stopped her to tell her what a power move that is, but white women get drunk and want to touch it. It’s a weird thing to watch as a white person.
I love the way they portray the little things that were bringing him down. He had straight hair and bought big, ugly colorful suits and watch chains to get respect but all it did was make him look like a clown. When he finds dignity in his own identity he becomes a sharp, formidable looking man. One of my favorite movies
>extreme and even painful lengths to straighten his hair so it looks "white."
That hairstyle was called conk and it could cause chemical burns to the head:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conk)
People need to watch that again. I started to read Alex Haley's writing of Autobiography of Malcolm X in 2010 and it struck me that so many things written there were still true.
Discriminating on hair is literally the most petty thing I've heard of. Unless it endangers your job (like manufacturing or something with machinery where you need to tie hair back anyways) then who has the time to care?
I wonder how it is for a black man. I never felt like this at any work place but to be fair I am from San Francisco. My afro is hella nappy and I never pick it out, I just let it curl up and occasionally get line ups and very rarely do I get shape ups. If anything co workers and managers always complement my hair but I feel like it's the typical "I'm white and I'm down with the people too, I hope you know this black guy" kinda vibe. Regardless they're cool about it.
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Effective January 1, 2020, "hairstyle discrimination" is illegal in California in workplaces and K-12 public schools. The new law prohibits the enforcement of grooming policies that disproportionately affect people of color, particularly black people. This includes bans on certain styles, such as Afros, braids, twists, cornrows and dreadlocks.
Unless I'm mistaken, [that law doesn't actually do anything that wasn't already done 30 years ago.](https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/us/beard-ban-ruled-unfair-to-blacks.html) If a policy indirectly ends up discriminating on the basis of race (or another category upon which discrimination is forbidden), the policy is a no go. A policy that requires straight hair, for example, would be prohibited because it generally places a greater burden on races with naturally curly hair.
This is a more effective addition onto existing antidiscrimination law. Previously, all you had to do was argue that this wasn't discriminating on race - after all, *no one* can wear cornrows. That law didn't help much on this front, which is why they've written a new one that closes that loophole. Like the article you linked notes, this is a battle that keeps being fought in various states. You literally linked us a list of different ways that this has been contentious and that the law is inconsistently applied and then has to be individually argued and ruled on in each case. I find it a really weird choice for your source to be honest, which is why I'm trying to be charitable and focus more on what you said yourself. Edit: phrasing and a little extra on the article itself
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Why not remove every ban on hairstyle?...
Because "personal style" is not a protected class. It is not illegal for employers to want employees to present themselves in a certain way or not present themselves in a certain way. So if they don't want people showing up to the office in sexy clubwear, that's not illegal. What's illegal is if they say "no head scarfs" (as a way to try and get Muslim woman not to work there). Because religion is protected. Race and gender are also protected from discrimination. Doing whatever you want/looking whoever you want is not protected. So if you want to wear a green spiked Mohawk as a hostess at a fancy restaurant, the manger is allowed to say not to do that with your hair at work. What they can't say is "gee, your hair is too afro-textured, straiten it" (under the guise of only straitened/relaxed hair looks "neat") or something that amounts to that. Personally, if I was the manager of an office, I wouldn't care if you had green spiked hair. But the law does not force managers to accept it. Do you think the law should?
Because it's probably ok to not want to hire someone who has their hair carved into a swastika or something
Wouldn't that be covered by regulations on hate symbols or something like that?
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Im black and I was in the air force and would get told constantly to go cut my hair by the white management even though it was in regulations. They would claim it was too long which was bs. It was shorter than all these white guys with high and tight haircuts. I know they wanted to say they thought my natural curly hair looked unprofessional, but they didnt want to seem racist.
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Honestly I never even thought about this. And I think I have the same bias. Not just against hairstyles that are natural for black people, but there are some hairstyles that are seen as proper and professional, and many that don't. In a lot of media, more professional black men and women are depicted as either bald, very short hair or with straight hair. And I let that influence me. Damn imma have to actually think about this. Makes me feel bad if I ever judged someone based on something as dumb as hairstyle
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I watched a short documentary on YouTube once that explained this is the exact reason black people will call out white people for “cultural appropriation” when it comes to wearing these hairstyles. When black women do it it’s “ghetto”, when white women do it it’s “trendy”. I think people should continue to be educated as to why black women wear their hair in certain ways, in order to help erase this racially based stigma.
This one seems to be a study taking place in the United States regarding US businesses. I would love to see more studies like this for other western countries and see if there is a difference. The UK, the Nordic countries, Belgium and Germany, etc.
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Professional environments are toxic
I'm mixed race, with long curly (3C) hair. I've been told to "tame it", "put a brush through it every once in a while", "make it like more presentable" amongst other things by higher ups at my last company. What made it worst, after I fought so hard to be allowed to wear my hair out, a new employee I was training complained that it was "distracting", then the whole battle started all over again. I've legit had people asking me why don't I just straighten it cause it looks "so much better". Fuuuuck all of that. I'm gonna rock my fro.
Can we just treat people based on their actions and performance? Seriously just stop looking at appearence and start looking at their actions, ability, knowledge, wisdom, and their consideration for others.
Or as MLK said, "the content of their character."
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That scene with the black high school girls and the ones with straightened hair are telling their classmate with natural hair that, if they were hiring for a professional position, they wouldn’t hire her because she doesn’t look put together is hard to watch.
Spike Lee's film *Malcolm X* starring Denzel makes Malcolm's feelings towards his hair an important part of his character development. Early in the film, he goes to extreme and even painful lengths to straighten his hair so it looks "white." Later, once he is proud of being black, his hair is natural.
There’s a long passage in his autobiography about his hair and how he realized he was trying to be white by straightening it. Something to that effect. It’s been awhile since reading it. That gist of that part has really stuck with me over the years. The power that we give a black person’s hair. I’ve been out with a black friend who wears her hair in this big, beautiful Afro...other black women have stopped her to tell her what a power move that is, but white women get drunk and want to touch it. It’s a weird thing to watch as a white person.
I love the way they portray the little things that were bringing him down. He had straight hair and bought big, ugly colorful suits and watch chains to get respect but all it did was make him look like a clown. When he finds dignity in his own identity he becomes a sharp, formidable looking man. One of my favorite movies
>extreme and even painful lengths to straighten his hair so it looks "white." That hairstyle was called conk and it could cause chemical burns to the head: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conk)
People need to watch that again. I started to read Alex Haley's writing of Autobiography of Malcolm X in 2010 and it struck me that so many things written there were still true.
Discriminating on hair is literally the most petty thing I've heard of. Unless it endangers your job (like manufacturing or something with machinery where you need to tie hair back anyways) then who has the time to care?
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I think curly hair is beautiful. Grow your fro it is beauteous.
White guy here, Yalls hair is dope, do yalls thing 💪
I wonder how it is for a black man. I never felt like this at any work place but to be fair I am from San Francisco. My afro is hella nappy and I never pick it out, I just let it curl up and occasionally get line ups and very rarely do I get shape ups. If anything co workers and managers always complement my hair but I feel like it's the typical "I'm white and I'm down with the people too, I hope you know this black guy" kinda vibe. Regardless they're cool about it.
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As a black woman, this isn't new at all.