So I was looking at the Onion earlier, and I had to double check that I still wasn't there when I saw this headline:
Vt. Barber Says Not Good at Cutting Blacks' Hair
No, that was in the New York Times, via the AP. [link]
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Jesse - Nov 09, 2010 6:24:47 am PST #4374 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hil R. - Nov 09, 2010 6:26:50 am PST #4375 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
No, that was in the New York Times, via the AP. [link]
There have been a bunch of stories like that, though it's more usually a hairdresser who says she can't style a black woman's hair.
Cass - Nov 09, 2010 6:28:25 am PST #4376 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
BINAO: Fry or Gatiss?
Gattis, all of the way.
BINAO: Cumberbatch or Freeman?
Cumberbatch, even dark. Much more so if natural though.
Amy - Nov 09, 2010 6:33:51 am PST #4377 of 30001
Because books.
I'm firmly stuck with Nina Simone's version (it is the only real one)
Ah! I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2010 6:34:56 am PST #4378 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vt. Barber Says Not Good at Cutting Blacks' Hair
WHY IS THAT NEWS? The last time paid a a white barber to cut my hair, it was a nightmare. Unless it's a straight all-over job with the clippers, I want to see either naps on his head (making an assumption here) or evidence of his previous good work.
I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...
Ha! I've never heard that version all the way through. Didn't learn it existed until uni.
Cass - Nov 09, 2010 6:38:31 am PST #4379 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
WHY IS THAT NEWS?
I was wondering. It sounds less like, "ahhhhhh, racism" and more like, "oh, skillset."
Heck, I get twitchy with fine, wavy hair about who cuts it. News flash: different hair is different.
DavidS - Nov 09, 2010 6:40:53 am PST #4380 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The barber thing is a hot button historical issue in the civil rights movement. There had to be legal rulings that barbers and hairstylists couldn't turn away customers because of their race.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2010 6:42:35 am PST #4381 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, note that the actual story is not that the Vermont barber isn't good at cutting black hair, it's that he lied to a black prospective customer about being the barber, in order to turn him away, and this is how he's defending himself.
Jessica - Nov 09, 2010 6:45:43 am PST #4382 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They buried the lead - this is the real story:
Mike Aldrich, who is white and runs Mike's Barber Shop in Bellows Falls, told the would-be customer when he stopped in last month that the barber wasn't in.
Instead of saying "Sorry man, I have no idea how to cut your hair and wouldn't want to fuck it up" he flat-out lied to get the guy out of his shop. The entirely reasonable-sounding reason he gave for this was after the fact. I'd be pissed too.
[yeah, xpost]
Burrell - Nov 09, 2010 6:47:29 am PST #4383 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yeah, note that the actual story is not that the Vermont barber isn't good at cutting black hair, it's that he lied to a black prospective customer about being the barber, in order to turn him away, and this is how he's defending himself.
Ah thank you. Like ita, I was failing to see the story. So this is more like the urologist who put up a sign in his office saying he won't treat anyone who votes Democratic.