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Minnesota Considers Bill Against Hair Discrimination

[BREITBART] Minnesota’s state legislature is considering a bill to keep employers from discriminating against people based on their natural hair.

Democrat Rep. Rena Moran, who introduced HF 3103, wants to expand the definition of race in the Minnesota Human Rights Act to include "hair texture and hair styles, such as braid, locks, and twists." The bill in question would ban employers from a particularly insipid form of racism: discriminating against people based not on cleanliness, but on their natural hair types and styles.

"We hope that in the workplace that it would be part of the social norm for employers to look at an individual and be OK with the natural hairstyles that come along with who we are," Moran said in her testimony before the state legislature. "That braids or twists or dreadlocks shouldn’t be a determination about whether or not you are hired."

Moran told news hounds she hopes in the future "people will not see us as different, or your natural hair as inappropriate or ugly ‐ that it would be more acceptable." The Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights, Rebecca Lecrero, has voiced her support of the bill, joining Moran to testify on its behalf.

Minnesota’s bill would join similar legislation recently passed in New York and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. "Policies that limit the ability to wear natural hair or hairstyles associated with black people aren’t about ’neatness’ or ’professionalism,’" NYC Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn P. Malalis told the New York Post in 2019. "They are about limiting the way black people move through workplaces, public spaces and other settings."

Posted by Fred 2020-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Have you noticed that professional mechanics come with two different hair styles: Old and experienced mechanics have "high and tight" hairstyles that are easier to keep clean when oil sprays; and Young mechanics new to the trade often have bald spots where their flowing locks got ripped out of their scalps by rapidly moving parts/fan belts...

Just saying that practicality trumps custom for the wise.

Posted by magpie 2020-02-17 02:37|| 2020-02-17 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Natural Hair, or, Hell Yes, I'm Inflammatory! (w the usual apologies)

A heavyweight champ, undisputed,
At being for labor unsuited,
She drifts ever left
With a tumbleweed's heft,
Does Ms. Angela Davis, uprooted.

Posted by Chamble the Furry5004 2020-02-17 08:07|| 2020-02-17 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I call upon our socialist democrat state government to redistribute the wealth. People with more hair than they can legitimately use should be forced to give it to those of us who have none.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-17 10:04|| 2020-02-17 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Hairway to Steven.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-17 11:31|| 2020-02-17 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 to include "hair texture and hair styles, such as braid, locks, and twists."

What about skin?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-17 11:34|| 2020-02-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 The right to bear hair is the right to be a mammal.
-- The Styling Shops of Isher

Posted by SteveS 2020-02-17 11:47|| 2020-02-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 ^😀

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-17 12:01|| 2020-02-17 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ *Snort!* Old Science Fiction misquote for the win!

Posted by magpie 2020-02-17 13:51|| 2020-02-17 13:51|| Front Page Top

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