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This is excellent excellent news.

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I wrote about Black hair discrimination and Chastity Jones’ case almost a year ago to the day! It’s one of my better pieces if I do say so myself which I totally just did. #TeamLegal

Black Hair Discrimination Is Real—But Is It Against the Law? rewirenews.link/2Fgq5br

And I quoted this book which is truly excellent. After reading it,I realized it was written by a woman i went to Girls’ High with. Small world! researchgate.net/publication/23…

Y’all should really read up on Chastity Jones’ case and then get mad.

Chastity Jones filled out an online application for a job at a call center. The white woman who interviewed her told her they couldn’t hire her “with the dreadlocks.”

When Jones asked why, the woman responded “they tend to get messy, although I’m not saying yours are, but you know what I’m talking about.”

The company’s hair policy said that an employee’s “hairstyle should reflect a business/professional image.”

So Black people who sport dreadlocks are automatically not business-like or professional?

The company’s policy also said that “[n]o excessive hairstyles or unusual colors are acceptable.”

So dreadlocks—which is a natural Black hairstyle—are excessive?

Let’s talk about 2007, when a Glamour Magazine editor gave a talk at a law firm and called dreadlocks “truly dreadful,” told lawyers to “just say no to the ‘fro” and that “political hairstyles have to go.”

So our hair they way it grows out of our head is inherently political?

You may have never considered Black hair discrimination to be a civil rights issue, but it is.

I wrote about it. It’s long but worth it. It’s got the ME stamp of approval.

rewire.news/ablc/2017/04/1… #TeamLegal