rowe33
2891
As a side note to this, I know a girl that works in the porn industry out of SF. She’s incredibly bright & a great person. Had a really shitty home life growing up and obviously ended up with some major issues from it. But she has a very legitimate, very legal job in the industry which is paying her way through college.
I suppose cross-burning will be making a comeback soon too.
Enidigm
2895
Step 1. Elect me President.
Step 2. I declare Reconstruction a failure, send in the troops, do Reconstruction again.
kerzain
2900
And all my mom ever did was drive my younger brothers and I past my dad’s workplace (post-divorce) when I was 5 or 6 so we could all yell at him out the car windows about what a horrible dad he was, in front of all his co-workers.
We didn’t understand it at the time, we just knew yelling out the car windows was fun, and we said everything our mom told us to. Shit like this sticks with you, and I hope those kids grow up realizing who the real problem is in that equation.
None
2901
Thank goodness the people of Tennessee will be protected from the harm of illegal hair-braiding.
kerzain
2902
Obviously the answer is that illegal braiders need to vote Republican to help reduce and remove oversight and regulation on small business owners negatively affected by anti-business laws.
Timex
2903
Eh, nothing really racist or Nazi-esque in that story. The hairstylist lobby managed to get a law passed that discourages competition in their market – basically SOP.
Nesrie
2905
You realize that most the people who get their hair braided with natural hair is going to be the black population… right?
magnet
2906
You can agree or disagree with requiring a license to braid hair, but it’s neither unique to Tennessee nor particularly right wing. It’s also required in 29 other states, and the states that don’t require licenses aren’t more blue than the others (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Virginia Washington and West Virginia).
…yes?
But the stylists that currently operate in licensed salons are also mostly going to be black (i.e., those that benefit most from the licensing restrictions), and I would imagine that a goodly portion of the owners of those salons are ALSO going to be black. Though if someone later posts an article showing that the secret owners of 90% of natural hair braiding salons in Tennessee are the Koch brothers I guess I wouldn’t be surprised.
If you can show me that in Tennessee the number of unlicensed natural hair stylists that have been fined by the state are disproportionately greater than that the number of unlicensed barber technicians that have been fined, I would be more inclined to agree with you that the issue is race-based. Until then, I think my default assumption is that this is simply the Tennessee Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners trying to protect their monopoly.
Incidentally, looking at the TN licensing links above, it costs more to get and maintain a license to dye hair and paint nails than it does to be a professional hair braider.
Nesrie
2908
There’s really no evidence presented that this started to eliminate competition though. Where do you see anywhere in any of these articles that this rule was created by the lobbying of other hairstylist who performed these services?
I would also assume it would require more training to dye hair… that’s a chemical. You could actually damage someone, severely, with that stuff. It’s toxic, which is why they wear gloves. Is it possible you can braid hair too tight… sure, but it’s not even close to the same thing.
According to the article, Mississippi, which has a similar population, charges a 25 dollar fee, versus a few thousand that has to be paid to get a license.
It sounds fishy to me, and it certainly could be racism.
