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Virginia black-college business-school dean stands by decade-old ban on cornrows, dreadlocks; They should have included tatoos!
Topic Started: Aug 25 2012, 09:28 PM (292 Views)
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On the basis that men with cornrows and dreadlock are not ‘businesslike,’ the business school dean at Virginia’s Hampton University, a historically black school, has banned the hairstyles in a seminar for M.B. A. students.


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is braided hair ‘unbusinesslike.’ The dean of the business school at Hampden University seems to think so.


A university dean in Virginia is sticking by a school ban on cornrows and dreadlocks on the basis that the strict hair policy helps students land jobs.

The ban at Hampton University, a historically black school, applies only to male business students taking a seminar that’s part of the school’s five-year M.B.A. program, ABC affiliate WVEC reports.

“We’ve been very successful,” Business School Dean Sid Credle told the station. “We’ve placed more than 99 percent of the students who have graduated from this school, this program [in corporate jobs].”

Despite the ban’s longstanding controversy — it’s been in place since 2001 — Credle says the hair policy has nothing to do with black culture.

“When was it that cornrows and dreadlocks were a part of African-American history?” he said. “I mean, Charles Drew didn’t wear it, Muhammad Ali didn’t wear it, Martin Luther King didn’t wear it.”

Credle says business students should look like businessmen.

“If you’re going to play baseball, you wear baseball uniforms,” he told WVEC. “If you’re going to play tennis, you wear [a] tennis uniform. Well, you’re playing that business.”

Credle refused to comment when reached by the Daily News.

Not all students agree with the school’s hair policy — but at least one says there’s an easy fix.

“I would just find another major,” said incoming freshman Uriah Bethea, who has dreadlocks.

“I don’t think it should matter,” Bethea told WVEC. “It’s my life. I should be able to do whatever I want to do.”


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And when a major company does NOT hire his ass, the company will tell this fool, they are able to hire anyone they want to!It's their company!
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Somebody's been on thegrio.com today, i see...lol...as soon as I read it, I knew lackey-bootlickers would be the ones who latched on to this story.
Edited by The SOLE Controller, Aug 25 2012, 09:33 PM.
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cisslybee2012
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I wear braids.
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cisslybee2012
Aug 25 2012, 09:49 PM
I wear braids.
You'd be okay, though. You're a white male. This rule only applies to Hampton's darkie-students
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cisslybee2012
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Aug 25 2012, 10:07 PM
cisslybee2012
Aug 25 2012, 09:49 PM
I wear braids.
You'd be okay, though. You're a white male. This rule only applies to Hampton's darkie-students
I'm a darkie who wears braids. :)
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Great. If people want to wear cornrolls then they can attened another
college.
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cisslybee2012
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Aug 25 2012, 10:10 PM
Great. If people want to wear cornrolls then they can attened another
college.
No problem. :)
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Yep. More canceling out, of Black Heritage, in order to not be excluded from Pop Culture as it seeks to cleanse the society of its Blackest people...yep...it's like that in The Land Of Equal Opportunity


rofl


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