2005.03.14
Hairism in America
…the dream remains the same: a society free of hairism in our lifetimes.
Why does America insist on calling our fellow citizens, who happen to have dark skin likely from their African ancestry, Afro-Americans? Is that like call white Americans, likely with European ancestry, Mullet-Americans? Is America that obsessed with our hair? Do we really distinguish ourselves along lines of what kind of hair we have from birth?
I call on all Americans, regardless of your skin color, to reject this blatant hairism. It is discriminatory and irrelevant in our modern society where hair can be straightened, colored, cut, shaped and shaved. Some people even wear wigs. Blatant hairists would have you think that this is important, that the hair makes the person and some hair styles are better than others. Yet some hairists out there might themselves be in the closet, wearing product or getting hairdos that hide their true origins.
The Founding Brothers all wore wigs. Perhaps they thought it would hide their origins or prevent hairists from their days from raising a stink. Wigs went out of style a long time ago, but I think the dream remains the same: a society free of hairism in our lifetimes.
2 Comments Categorized: fashion rights thoughts
You can follow responses with a RSS 2.0 feed or via email using the checkbox below. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
2 Responses to “Hairism in America”
- Alison Hagan says (April 12th, 2005 at 22:27:28 )
I agree! What about when people are discriminated or labeled due to their hair colour?
DUMB BLONDE
FIREY REDHEAD
I hate being judged by the colour of my hair!- dugh says (April 13th, 2005 at 20:37:33 )
You said it!
Who do these people think they are with their “perfect” hair. It’s blatant discrimination and I won’t stand for it. As much as I hate hippies, when someone aside from myself says, “Get a haircut, hippie!” (because I only say it to bald people) I get riled up. Hopefully the ACLU starts taking up some of these cases.
