Thread: Fashion Icon Marc Jacobs blasted for putting dreadlocks on white models

Originally Posted by Valiant Woman

That's because my hair is colored smart guy. And you need your eyes checked. I look quite black.

Your hair looks quite "white" by the standards of my childhood. And that is sort of the point, the "standards" change over time. Black women with yellow hair was unthinkable 40 years ago, that I remember. Now it isn't, whether they are trying to look white or not.

The photo in your profile looks less white.

Originally Posted by Valiant Woman

Actually, I had planned to do it soon, but now that I hear it's not accurate, I'll use that hundred bucks to buy a new pair of Michael Kors shoes I've been eyeing at Dillard's.

You women are vain

Nope, brown is less black than black is. Period.

As the presiding prelate of LFF, I'm closing this discussion

Too much foolishness saints

Is that lock "black" or "white" ? Just kidding.

Needless to say, I couldn't care less if ValW's hair is black or brown and if that qualifies as true black or almost black. Let the white women wear their dreads too. If it comes across as a tribute to "blackness" then why not ?

Employers Can Now Legally Discriminate Against People With Dreadlocks

At the time, CMS had a “race-neutral grooming policy” requesting that employees have hairstyles that “reflect a business/professional image,” per the case file. Jones’ dreadlocks, a common natural hairstyle for black men and women, didn’t fall under that umbrella. The EEOC asserted that CMS violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.”

The court disagreed, maintaining that dreadlocks, though “culturally associated with race,” aren’t an “immutable characteristic of black persons.”

http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/ne...dlocks-w441580

Originally Posted by John

Employers Can Now Legally Discriminate Against People With Dreadlocks

is the phrase "legally discriminitate" an oxymoron?

If you don't want to employ someone 'cause they look stupid them why should you have to?