Black Woman Fired From Hooters Because Of Blonde Highlights

[OriginalMe]

When will the foolishness and hoopla around black people's hair stop? Over the past year we've had to hear about a little girl being kicked out of school for wearing locs, an Ohio school banning a list of natural hairstyles and let's not forget meteorologist Rhonda Lee who was fired for defending her right to rock her natural hair on TV.

Now comes news out of Baltimore that a black woman has allegedly been fired from her job because of her blonde highlights.

Farryn Johnson told Maryland's CBS News affiliate that she was let go from her job as a waitress at Hooters due to '"improper image" after the 25-year-old refused to remove blonde highlights from her dark brown hair.

"They specifically said, 'Black women don't have blonde in their hair, so you need to take it out,'" Johnson told CBS.

"I didn't see that it would be a big issue just because there were a lot of other employees working at the restaurant of other races with color in their hair. For instance, there were Asian girls with red hair and Caucasian girls with black hair and blond streaks so I didn't think it would be an issue for the little piece of blond highlight in my hair."

Johnson has reportedly filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Maryland Commission on Civil Right.

"The law is clear that employers can't have two separate unequal sets of rules—one for African-Americans employees and one for everybody else, and yet that's exactly what Hooters did here in firing Miss Johnson, an African-American employee solely because she's African-American. They targeted her because of her hair solely because of her race,” Johnson's attorney, Jessica Weber, told CBS.

Hooters has declined to comment, citing pending litigation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/farryn-johnson-fired-hooters-blond-highlights-_n_4142108.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

 

[Stormy]

Wow that is soooo not right. I hope she wins!

 

[LdyKamz]

This has always been a problem in the workplace. I never understood it. I was in the elevator in my office building once with 2 black women and 1 white. The younger black woman with a light brown/blonde highlight weave stepped off with the white girl who had some blonde and black mess all over her head. When they got off, the older black woman shook her head and said to me "how can she come to work looking like that. That color weave is so inappropriate for work" The girl looked nice and presentable so I said "what about the other one. She looked like a skunk" She just shook her head at me and said "it's not the same" Why? Why is it not the same?

Why do white people get to wear every unnatural color under the sun but black women better not dare add a single color to their strands. it's ridiculous.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

Wow, I'm sorry, but isn't Hooters more interested in something other than hair? Somebody correct me, if I'm wrong.