The politics of hair?

[Norman Bernstein]

Now for your daily dose of the bizarre:

BLACK HAIR....Erin Aubrey Kaplan writes today about the politics of hair:

The debate about the best choices for "black hair," always charged, is flaring up again. A Louisiana sheriff said last week that anyone on the streets in dreadlocks "can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy" because a murder suspect answering that description remained at large. In April, Susan L. Taylor, the iconic editorial director of Essence magazine, canceled a campus speech when she discovered the college forbids its students to wear "unusual" hairstyles — including braids, which are Taylor's signature look. This was noteworthy because the college was Hampton University, one of the nation's oldest historically black campuses. Then it was discovered that Black Enterprise magazine had a similar ban for student interns.

....What's troubling is that, by being forced to change their hair, black people once again are being forced to shoulder the burden of proof: We're not as fearsome as we look. It's up to us to mitigate our dark skin and ethnic features by framing them with hair that's as neat and unethnic as possible.

The 60s have never left us, have they?

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

The 60s have never left us, have they?

Gee what's next making abortions illegal, force teaching creationism in public schools, & interment camps (Gitmo)

[huisjen]

I've got a neighbor of mixed heritage who has these little spikey ringlets. He often wears a cut off T-shirt sleeve on his head, with the ringlets sticking out the top. I wish I had hair that did something interesting like that.

Dan

[Backfin]

or lack thereof!

[Donn]

I wish I had hair that did something interesting...

I'd say disappearing is a pretty interesting trick!

[TomF]

I've got a neighbor of mixed heritage who has these little spikey ringlets. He often wears a cut off T-shirt sleeve on his head, with the ringlets sticking out the top. I wish I had hair that did something interesting like that.

Dan

Love it, Dan. Maybe you can do something novel with the beard?

[mmd]

There is a fellow here in town - a quite normal and restrained fellow, I might add - who has a beard of similar length & shape as Dan's, but it is dyed a brilliant electric blue.

[jack grebe]

The 60s have never left us, have they?

noooooooooooo I can't handle any more acid

[salty hoosier]

Gee what's next making abortions illegal, force teaching creationism in public schools, & interment camps (Gitmo)

They force teaching evolution in public schools.

[B_B]

I'd say disappearing is a pretty interesting trick!

only if youy can get it to come back!

[TomF]

They force teaching evolution in public schools.

Yup. And any number of other equally unproven (hence subversive) scientific concepts .. gravity, contents of the periodic table of elements, plate tectonics ...

[salty hoosier]

Thanks for the low blow TomF. I accept the examples you've given.
Evolution, that's another matter.

[Meerkat]

Thanks for the low blow TomF. I accept the examples you've given.
Evolution, that's another matter.

Ok, time for a duel: dinosaur bones and fossilized angel feathers at 10 paces!

[salty hoosier]

I think you are mistaken Meerkat. Angels don't have feathers, they are spiritual beings.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

I think you are mistaken Meerkat. Angels don't have feathers, they are spiritual beings.

I keep telling myself ... Don't go there Al, Don't go there...So I won't...I'll rise above (kind of)..

[Meerkat]

Spiritual beans? Ok, if you say so!

[Another One]

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

They force teaching evolution in public schools.

It's called SCIENCE duh

Salty you should go here you might feel more at home
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djubl...rthsociety.htm

They believe the Earth is flat too.

[salty hoosier]

so witty and smug.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

so witty and smug.

No witty and smug was Another One's Garry Trudeau cartoon. Now that was witty

You are simply religiously ordained ignorant

[B_B]

Another One - EXCELLENT!

[salty hoosier]

Enjoy!!

Hair Lyrics


She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of break
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself

They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

[salty hoosier]

Again so witty and smug amonst the like minded.

Is Braam Bear-rub your sidekick or what?

[John Meachen]

Dutch?

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Jack is lurking on the forum today. It could be Dutch, Moonshadow, Jack or someone else we have never dealt with before (or me). Same effect though.

Maybe Salty Hoosier will share his wood boat projects with us.

Hey Salty, post an image of your wooden boat, work shop, plans being considered... show us you not just another damn troll.

[skuthorp]

My SWMBO is a teacher, she has a theory that some are actually de-evolving.
Maybe Salty's cheesed off because it's happened to him/her/it. (depends how far the de-evolution has gone)

[salty hoosier]

Ha!!!!
I knew if I disagreed you would bring out the "t" word. Troll.

I guess I'm not welcome in the club. I don't have the proper lineage.

Oh, well.

By the way I have almost completed a 12ft scow, I have been working on the rig. I have begun Ian Oughtred's Amberjack dory.
I also have plans for a 21ft. Hartley sailboat.
I subsribe to Woodenboat, Small Craft Advisor, a British mag called "Water Craft"--excellent and Boatbuilder magazine.

[bamamick]

liberalism (the pond being this particular forum) with both feet. You knew it going in (there ARE signs, you know) so you have only yourself to blame if you are heavily outnumbered. Keep fighting. Some of these folks consider insult and injury as a way to pass the time, so you'll have plenty to fight over.

As far as the hair issue with people wearing dredlocks, it's part of a physical description. Call it profiling if you like, but I asked a friend of mine, who is black and is a county sheriff here, if this was a legitimate part of the search for a criminal and said 'of course it is. Any and every part of the physical description is used when looking for someone'. If they were looking for fat white guys with gray hair and pulled me over I would be annoyed but not much else.

Heard an interesting report the other day on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (our APR stinks) about young black men spending their whole lives learning to 'blend in'. That the intimidation factor that most whites feel for large, strong -looking black men costs them jobs and secure futures for themselves and their families. I believe that it was Howard University that they said had their students dress in business clothes during their MBA days so that they would get accustomed to 'blending in' with their coworkers later on. I can feel for them somewhat. When I was 20 I had hair halfway down my back and a bushy long beard. I was also someone who would jog to open a door for an elderly person or offer to carry a heavy box for someone at the grocery. I actually had a woman shreik one time when I swooped up behind her to help her with her door. Perhaps it's not the same but it's similiar.

We are all judged in some way by the way that we look. We know that going in. People that are heavily tatoo'd are judged. White guys with shaved heads (maybe not you guys that are 'natural') are judged. Heavy people are considered lazy by many just because they are heavy. Anyway, you get the picture. Everyone judges and everyone is judged. It may piss people off with dreds that they are now a suspect because another person with dreds committed a crime, but it is a legitimate physical attribute of a criminal suspect.

One more thing since I seem to be in a typing mood: many of you guys like to pride yourself on your liberalism yet have zero tolerance for someone who was raised differently than you were or has different values. This red state/ blue state crap is stereotyping of the worst kind. Anyone from the south or the midwest is 'ignorant'? Anyone who would call someone 'ignorant' that they know only through a few opinions on a message board might be termed as ignorant, imo.

As far as Dan's beard goes, I have read where pirates used to tie ribbons and finger bones into their beards. Might be a real eye-catcher since the dredlock thing ain't going to work out.

Mickey Lake

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Ha!!!!
I knew if I disagreed you would bring out the "t" word. Troll.

I guess I'm not welcome in the club. I don't have the proper lineage.

Oh, well.

By the way I have almost completed a 12ft scow, I have been working on the rig. I have begun Ian Oughtred's Amberjack dory.
I also have plans for a 21ft. Hartley sailboat.
I subsribe to Woodenboat, Small Craft Advisor, a British mag called "Water Craft"--excellent and Boatbuilder magazine.

I didn't say you were a troll. I would want to have a more thorough understanding of you before making that statement. My initial look at your past posts didn't show much activity in the "non-bilge" areas. The folks here are interested in wooden boats and are always interested in what people are doing with/to them.

Everyone here is entitled to their opions and should feel free to express them. As you can see from other posts this (the bilge) is somewhat of a "free for all". As long as your posts contibute to the free discussion of issues then you are welcome (far be it from me to say otherwise).

Lets see some pictures of the scow. What design is it? Lets get some activity above the bilge. The bilge is a nice place to visit but not such a nice place to live.

[huisjen]

Finger bones, huh? Hmmm.

Dan

[TomF]

Thanks for the low blow TomF. I accept the examples you've given.
Evolution, that's another matter.

My comment was intentionally pointed, sure. That said, there's more evidence, in a broader spectrum of scientific disciplines for the "contemporary evolutionary synthesis" than for plate tectonics. The current understandings of evolution underlie most of the biological sciences ...

It's still a hypothesis, but frankly is one with far more empirical evidence supporting it than many other scientific theories which few raise eyebrows at when described as "fact."

[George Jung]

I wish I had hair that did something interesting like that.

I wish I had hair..

Quote:
Originally Posted by Donn
I'd say disappearing is a pretty interesting trick!

only if youy can get it to come back!

That's not so hard.... oh, you mean back on your head? That's a bit trickier... but it sure grows great every damn other place!
I advise all my young friends to grow it as long, for as long, as they can. If I had known where mine was headed, you know I would have.
Reminds me of the young guy who shaved his head for 'the look'; then when he decided to let it grow back, he discovered he was bald. hehe
And Dan - the finger bones would be a nice touch, but the piece 'de resistance would be the little bows!

[TomF]

And Dan - the finger bones would be a nice touch, but the piece 'de resistance would be the little bows!

and lit fuses on special occasions, a la Blackbeard. Aaarrrrgh.

[Willin']

Still got my 60's do, unfortunately, I've got a new millenium waistline below it!