The Labour MP Paulette Hamilton and singer Mel B are among leading Black Britons urging parliamentarians to make the UK the first western country to introduce a law to end afro hair discrimination.
Whut?!
The letter has been signed by 100 campaigners and supporters, including the singer Beverley Knight, writer and campaigner Patrick Hutchinson, singer and presenter Fleur East, school leader Evelyn Forde MBE and Prof Patrick Vernon OBE. It warns that the “omission of hair as a protected characteristic from the law has facilitated everyday discrimination and the normalisation of afro hair as inferior in every sphere of life”.
I don't think it's the hair that people see as 'inferior', actually.
Campaigners have long argued that British children are unfairly penalised in school for wearing natural styles and protective methods for the upkeep of their afro hair, while adults in UK offices also face discrimination, harassment and assault.
De Leon said: “Laws are actually there to tell people what is right and what is wrong and to protect minority groups from oppression, discrimination and injustice. We simply do not have the right laws in the UK to stop generations of Afro hair discrimination from continuing.”
Personally, I think we do have the right laws in England, and we certainly don't need any more.
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While thousands of pensioners face a freezing winter; celebrities are sharing vile pics of abused children; and the world is on the brink of WWIII, a shed load of black people are demanding a law concentrating on hair! Perhaps these people feel they are so important that tonsorial styles should take precedence over everything else. They really are showing themselves to be numpties of the highest order. If I may make a suggestion, it would be that black people can only have afro styled hair, with any other style being considered cultural appropriation. Suck on them lemons, dipsticks.
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Could we add old guy white hair to the petition?
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