The dean of business at Hampton University has since 2001 banned male students in the five-year undergraduate/M.B.A. program from wearing dreadlocks or cornrows, WVEC 13 News reported. Some students at the historically black college have criticized the rule, but Dean Sid Credle said he believes that the ban on some hairstyles has helped students get good jobs. He also rejected the idea that the styles being banned were a part of black culture. "When was it that cornrows and dreadlocks were a part of African American history?" he asked. "I mean Charles Drew didn't wear it, Muhammad Ali didn't wear it. Martin Luther King didn't wear it."
Here are some responses:
(Insert obligitory "We're better than you" comment from a Howard grad...we are, though.)
Seriously, this is sad. Cornrows on women can be office appropriate, as can locs for both genders. This is the same school that was "forward" enough to choose a White woman as Miss Hampton and has publicly acknowledged its desire to be more "diverse," right? But you want to play the 'be a good, clean, respectable Negro, don't you scare no' White folks!' card when it comes to hairstyles that are decidedly Black? Seems to be a lack of cultural pride over there, pretty sad.
Seriously, this is sad. Cornrows on women can be office appropriate, as can locs for both genders. This is the same school that was "forward" enough to choose a White woman as Miss Hampton and has publicly acknowledged its desire to be more "diverse," right? But you want to play the 'be a good, clean, respectable Negro, don't you scare no' White folks!' card when it comes to hairstyles that are decidedly Black? Seems to be a lack of cultural pride over there, pretty sad.
"I'm so glad,
I go to Howard U
(And not a white school)..."
I go to Howard U
(And not a white school)..."
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