Tinkerbell19
New Member
Hey lhc ladies,
You all wont believe what a coworker said to me today!!
Ok this morning I said " Wow I wonder how her hair would look stretched out because I bet its real long
( I was talking about one of my students that is biracial and her mom always puts her in cute little curly ponytails). She says "Yeah its probably long because she has NORMAL hair". So of course I say "
Um what do you mean by normal hair". She says "Well you know like GOOD hair because most blacks have that textured hair". Me still being confused I say "Oh so you just mean that the other students hair is thicker??". This idiot says "No because black people have that ROUGH hair!!"
erplexed I then say "Hold on now, are you trying to say that black hair is ABNORMAL and her hair is NOT rough it is just a different grade and its thicker. Then I proceeded to explain to her that she was wrong and offensive and that she is lucky that I explained it to her. I also told her to NEVER make that comment again because she may really get hurt if she says it to the wrong person
. I also told her that all hair is good hair and that HEALTHY hair is the best. I then informed her that it is about preferences for the way that people like their hair and that some people may not like curly hair because they may feel as though it may not hold curls or look as full as someone with thick hair and vice versa but bottom line is to never make rude or insulting comments like that because it really shows true IGNORANCE!! So what do you guys think??
You all wont believe what a coworker said to me today!!
Ok this morning I said " Wow I wonder how her hair would look stretched out because I bet its real long
( I was talking about one of my students that is biracial and her mom always puts her in cute little curly ponytails). She says "Yeah its probably long because she has NORMAL hair". So of course I say " Um what do you mean by normal hair". She says "Well you know like GOOD hair because most blacks have that textured hair". Me still being confused I say "Oh so you just mean that the other students hair is thicker??". This idiot says "No because black people have that ROUGH hair!!"erplexed I then say "Hold on now, are you trying to say that black hair is ABNORMAL and her hair is NOT rough it is just a different grade and its thicker. Then I proceeded to explain to her that she was wrong and offensive and that she is lucky that I explained it to her. I also told her to NEVER make that comment again because she may really get hurt if she says it to the wrong person. I also told her that all hair is good hair and that HEALTHY hair is the best. I then informed her that it is about preferences for the way that people like their hair and that some people may not like curly hair because they may feel as though it may not hold curls or look as full as someone with thick hair and vice versa but bottom line is to never make rude or insulting comments like that because it really shows true IGNORANCE!! So what do you guys think??
), I don't want any part of it. If normal = Euro hair then they can keep it 
Drop the knowledge - they won't say anything else.
This was my initial when I saw the title of this thread, and you're right; she'd better be mighty careful who she spews her ignorance around because might end up getting hurt!
but I didn't say anything because I didn't really understand anything about hair back then. We were really young like 5 or something, so I don't really fault her for it either.
