Sixteen-year-old Autumn Williams is still trying to understand how the blonde hair color in her braids was deemed unnatural at her Chick-Fil-A job.
Of course it’s a black girl
I (a middle-aged white woman) have dyed my hair black, red, blond for decades and not even one single time has anyone suggested that those aren’t “natural colors” even though they were obviously not MY natural brown hair color.
It’s even worse than it sounds: according to the article, she didn’t have an unnatural hair color, a supervisor said she had ‘blond’ in her braids, but her hair wasn’t even artificially colored and she didn’t have blond in her hair.
sigh This kind of ignorant discrimination goes on a lot in Japan too. A small percentage of ethnically Japanese people do NOT have black hair, but it is very much a standard. Some schools make kids dye it!
There are areas in Asia where people have blond or red hair. I assume those kids have ancestors in those regions.
Of course it’s jealousy because these people tend to look awesome.
I know. I wish I had all red hair. I only have like 2 streaks in my beard.
As someone with 77% Mayan and native blood, I find it really fucking offensive that a Mohawk is deemed inappropriate. It’s literally one of the most accepted hairstyles in my culture.
I could see it being maybe a problem since the company sells food, depending on how large a mohawk we’re talking. Not like it isn’t easy enough to set a height limit just so it still fits in a hairnet.
I know damn well I’m not the only one that would actually be put more at ease if the guy selling me a car or whatever had dark teal liberty spikes and a nose ring. It would make them much more human and personable than “smiling snake in a suit,” and therefore I would be more likely to have a favorable opinion of them and maybe buy something.
I can’t read the article from the uk. Here’s a photo of her hair at the time for anyone interested.
It looks great.
And it’s her natural color! Tons of black Americans have brown and even blonde hair, largely as a result of slavery. Penalizing her for her lighter hair color is just the cherry on the shit sundae of what we’ve put black people through in this country.
Yeah I thought my friend was bullshitting me when she told me she didn’t bleach it or anything. “Come on, my ancestors were slaves. Do the math”
Wow, I was picturing some crazy color (which wouldn’t have anything wrong either), but this is a “normal” hair color!
I have interviewed probably a thousand people, hired and managed many teams, though not retail I have to admit. I have had precisely one conversation about hair in all of that time. I was interviewing a guy who had a very large number of thick braids. I said, “the job sometimes requires wearing a hardhat. Is that a problem?” He said no, that he did it all the time, he just needed to tie them back. I should emphasize this dude had a truly impressive amount of hair so I really did doubt he could get it in a hat, but I hired him and he did.
I’ve also had to have conversations about long nails and body odor. It’s not comfortable, but we should not be afraid of these topics ONLY if they are directly relevant to the job. I see nothing in this story where her hair interfered with the job, unless the job is pleasing bigots. Oh.
The Chick-fil-A near me has people with pink and blue hair, but they are both white, so no one’s complaining.
Lame US only link
I don’t live in the US, so it’s not US-only. Couldn’t tell you why your country can’t access it.
Probably as they want to track people without consent, and that’s not allowed where I live.
It’s always small, local news sites that just block EU traffic because the GDPR is so vague and broad they don’t want to spend the resources to ensure compliance.
Sites have violated GDPR by simply using the wrong fonts
Sure. This is probably why there’s no local news sites in EU. All the small ones had to close when GDPR came into action
Sarcasm, right?
Yes, sarcasm. There are plenty of smaller news sites, but (at least in Sweden) many are struggling due to lack of paid subscribers or ad revenue, not due to explaining whether they have tracking or third party cookies.
Oh right, cause the coders and lawyers are free 🤦♂️
Turns out the most expensive part of a business and one of those pesky facts on your trip to profitability is to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars a years on supporting compliance. Who knew!!?!
Probably… Or perhaps there is no small sites in EU anymore as they’d get closed because of wrong font. Or maybe that part was made up and small networked news channels like to track what you read. It’s really hard to tell sometimes when there’s so many credible reasons for blocking just the countries that disallows tracking without consent.
Money. It cost money and takes time to follow gdpr, so obviously small sites outside of eu won’t do it. But I haven’t seen any site inside the eu that had to close because of gdpr, at least in my country.
I was just using fonts as an example that it is easy to accidentally violate the GDPR. Small sites outside the EU will just decide it’s not worth the hassle. Most of the time, people in the EU won’t have any interest in viewing local news content, so it doesn’t matter anyway
More like “EU countries are a tiny audience of our specific site, we are not spending the resources on it. Just block EU ip addresses and move on”
Why is this news?
Wild how it’s always the folks who never post anything who complain something isn’t news. Try posting something you consider news instead.
Lolol but then it wouldn’t be rage bait and they won’t see it at the top.
