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Markeese Warner wanted a job with Six Flags in Maryland to make money for the summer. Instead, she got more than she bargained for, when the company refused to hire her because of her dreadlocks. According to TheLoop21, she came to work dressed professionally, but was astonished when she was called into the Human Resources Office for the way she looked.
Most amazingly, the person who told her that she could not work there because of her “extreme hairstyle” was another black woman. She said that the definition of extreme hairstyles included things like Mohawks and dreadlocks. Warner was a perfect fit for the job, but had the door blocked by another black woman.
“I just smiled and I left,” Warner said. “It was mind blowing.”
The family then got together with Kwasi Abahu, a family friend and started a petition on the matter. The issue struck a chord with Abahu, because he himself has been discriminated against for wearing dreadlocks. The practice occurs all across the country and anti-discrimination laws don’t do a very good job of protecting people of color in the same way they might be protected for other forms of discrimination, such as s****l orientation.
“I was kind of p****d off,” he said. “I couldn’t not react and not address it in some way.”
This very same Six Flags has been accused of discrimination in the past for not hiring other African Americans with dreadlocks. Perhaps the petition will make a difference and convince African Americans not to frequent establishments that support and sustain such discriminatory policy. There is nothing wrong with wearing dreadlocks and those who don’t understand them may want to educate themselves on the history of the hairstyle.
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A torn Heart
August 6, 2012 at 3:51 pm
This was flat out racism…..
DC Black Cornrow
July 24, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Markeese Warner and her family whom I have known for about a decade are the kindest and coolest folk one could meet. This Black female beauty possesses spirit,physical attraction and is well educated whilst enrolled in college to ensure she will not have to bow to sinful-racists like Six Flaggin Uncle Toms and Thomettes like that supervisor. Incidents like this should motivate anyone to do better and Markeese’s momma will make sure!!! Now, I know my cornrows are justified,sanctified and purified and I am just 57 yrs young from DC.
Markeese, do not forget to invite me to your wedding cause you are fit.. Love, Peace and Prosperity, Jacques Chevalier
Onesilverbac
July 24, 2012 at 1:28 pm
What a crock of …..!
If your employer sets a standard then you abide by it or quit! Just as the young lady did.
What if she had tattoo’s up and down her neck and arms, is that alright also?
It’s a family place, and most people black or white do not have dreads. Could it be the particular job she applied for requires a different image?
Is it ok to have the young brother with his pants hanging down below his b**t working as a waiter, or even picking up the trash, how about in the office as a manager? Come on be real, is it ok?
All of you just keeping it real people don’t seem to understand what is acceptable deep in our communities is far from being appropriate in all settings.
The language used, the clothes worn, your general appearance counts everywhere.
It’s ok to have a couple of pairs of hard sole shoes and not just air Jordan’s! It’s ok to have a suit and tie and not just jeans, it’s ok not to have a ring in your ear or nose.
Being black is just the color of your skin not a attitude, you don’t have to act like you are from a different plant!
Just my opinion!
Jacques Chevalier, II
July 24, 2012 at 11:53 am
Markeese Warner and her family whom I have known for about a decade are the kindest and coolest folk one could meet. This Black female beauty possesses spirit,physical attraction and is well educated enrolled in college to ensure she will not have to bow to sinful-racists like Six Flaggin Uncle Toms and Thomettes like that supervisor. Incidents like this should motivate anyone to do better and Markeese’s momma will make sure!!! Now, I know my cornrows are justified,sanctified and purified and I am just 57 yrs young from DC.
Markeese, do not forget to invite me to your wedding cause you are fit.
Dreaded Sister
July 23, 2012 at 8:31 am
Don’t get it twisted, I have been wearing dreadlock’s off and on over the past 15 years and I am telling you, black people have more problems with them then white’s. Black people are afraid of being black in America. For good reasons, no doubt. Never been denied a job or ask to leave one because of my dreadlocks, but of course I don’t have a black supervisor. I also leave in an area where only 4% of the population are people of color. The sister is wrong, I would not work for a company that had such a policy. Boycott, please, it’s not going to happen unless someone white suggest it and leads us.
Ebi
July 23, 2012 at 5:17 am
If this is Six Flag’s hiring policy for black people, why not make it known to the public and hand a written copy to the applicant.
meeeyeah
July 23, 2012 at 12:19 am
the us govmt bans locs in va and military. sick negro surgeon general cant see past her overweight and psychosis about perming her hair. ridiculous —comatose, and typical
FACE IT
July 23, 2012 at 12:10 am
WELL IF THE DREADS DO NOT GET IN THE WAY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION,I DONT
SEE WHATS THE PROBLEM,BUT WE AS BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT RESEARCH TO
SAVE OUR LIVES ABOUT WHAT OUT CIVIL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE AND
HOW WE CAN ENFORCE THEM.PEOPLE WE HAVE THE INTERNET AND ALL WE
HAVE TO DO IS LOOK UP” DISCRIMINATION LAWS UNDER THE FEDERAL STATUTE
AND YOUR STATE STATUTES,JUST LOOK UP THE DISCRIMINATION LAWS.
Miss
July 22, 2012 at 11:58 pm
This doesn’t surprise me but why the negative comments aimed at the manager…she didn’t make the policy and I am sure she was just doing her job…and most likely chosen to deliver the news because she to is a woman of color…hoping the policy would not be taken for the racist mess that it is
Willie
July 22, 2012 at 11:21 pm
If that is the company’s dress code, and you wish to work there, why not just follow their dress code? Good grief.
Eric Wright
July 23, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Because, Willie, this is a culturally insensitive Dress Code enacted by people who are either consciously or subconsciously anti-black. Company’s have restrictions as well, and if they are operating in a manner that is disrespectful to someones’s culture, then the company is wrong–bottom line.
Chris Gibbs
July 23, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Waaaahhhhh. You expect a company to bend for your whiny a*s? They have standards that they have invested in and you just expect them to drop those standards so you can be the person you need to be? IF you havent heard, there are millions out of work and most likely willing to shave their head for a job. Guess you dont really want that job.
Chris Gibbs
July 23, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Waaaahhhhh. You expect a company to bend for your whiny a*s? They have standards that they have invested in and you just expect them to drop those standards so you can be the person you need to be? IF you havent heard, there are millions out of work and most likely willing to shave their head for a job. Guess you dont really want that job.
Eric Wright
July 24, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Look you low-life white supremacist inbred piece of sh**. It doesn’t matter what company has what standards if those standards are race-based and motivated by low-brow mentalities like yours. If the standards are based in white supremacy, like Six Flags, then they need to be challenged. The facts are black and white hair texture is different–period. Locks are a style of hair warn centuries before the Caucasoid was even in existence. White people, whether they run the company or not, do not have the right to dictate what’s acceptable when it comes to racially or religiously derived nuances.
Eric Wright
July 24, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Look you low-life white supremacist inbred piece of sh**. It doesn’t matter what company has what standards if those standards are race-based and motivated by low-brow mentalities like yours. If the standards are based in white supremacy, like Six Flags, then they need to be challenged. The facts are black and white hair texture is different–period. Locks are a style of hair warn centuries before the Caucasoid was even in existence. White people, whether they run the company or not, do not have the right to dictate what’s acceptable when it comes to racially or religiously derived nuances.
Chris Gibbs
July 24, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Eric & Derrick as “Mookie & Buggin Out”:
“Yo, 6 Flags, we’re gonna boycott your racist, sorry-a*s park.”
“You’re gonna boycott this park? You haven’t got the b***s to boycott this park. Here, here’s your boycott, up your a*s, you’ve got a boycott”
“Yo, 6 Flags. Why you got no dreads in the park?”
“Go ahead. Boycott. Less thugs and smaller lines”
“Yo, 6 Flags, we gonna burn you down, cuz I gotta get paid, but you wont let my dreads in.”
Derrick
July 25, 2012 at 8:48 am
@p**s gibbs:
Look little t**d, I don’t OVERstand hillbonics, okay?
Speak like you got some sense because that cave boy/girl talk ain’t registering!
OVERstand Me, now?
YOU LITTLE RACIST CRACKER…and close your legs; your breath stinks!
Chris Gibbs
July 25, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Oh I think you understand. I know you understand whats going on…
sawitcoming
July 24, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Dress code?! What if I had a company with a dress code that required people with straight hair to get perms at huge expense and to possible health detriment? Requiring that black people alter their natural appearance – which is only extreme to those with an extreme eurocentric mindset – is bullsh* and NOT a dress code.
As I stated previously F*ck Six Flags.
nbharr9
July 22, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Quiet racism still goes on in so many ways and in so many places still and that sister/mgr should be ashamed of her self!
Elizabeth
July 22, 2012 at 9:44 pm
AFRICAN-AMERICANS WILL NOT BOYCOTT, THEY HAVE LEARNED TO ROLL OVER.
9 Ether Hair
July 22, 2012 at 9:27 pm
They love your money Black People they just don’t love you. Don’t you dare ask for a job working at a place that loves your money. Simple.
sawitcoming
July 24, 2012 at 5:55 pm
I heard that. F*ck Six Flags and that Uncle Tom house negro working there. A Mohawk is extreme nobody’s hair grows in bald on two sides with a shock of hair in the middle. I can understand that. But locks that are well groomed, however long, are not “extreme” particularly on black folks. I’m thinking about locking my hair and I dare anyone to say a MF thing about it. Next thing you know corporate america will be telling you your skin is took dark to work with them or you lips and nose need to be altered. Wait…
AKILAH WATSON
July 22, 2012 at 8:57 pm
What is next with Great America? Does this mean that you can not come to Great America and spend your money if you wear dreadlocks? Does this apply to the Jewish and Amish cultures who wear their hair and facial hair in a manner that Great America would deem as inappropriate. Discrimination in any form is wrong be it race, creed, color or culture. I have worn my hair in dreadlocks for 24 years which allows me to speak on this topic from experience.The true measure of a person is not how they wear their hair on their head,BUT what is in their head beneath the hair.
Joe
July 22, 2012 at 8:02 pm
An anti-black corporate policy. N—er woman in personnel obviously had to do what she was told to do because the higher ups most likely would have gotten rid of her if she didn’t. That or either she was a professional a*s kisser trying to show bossman that she be tough on other Negroes. From what I could see from the photo, the young lady’s hair looked neat and presentable. What kind of job was she was hired for that you’d have to look like ‘all that’ in the first place? It’s a summer job to make some money. And, Hair do’s are expensive. Was she going to earn that much at Six Flags. Let’s get real, some white folks, and negroes may get offended by dredlocks. Some of the same white folks get offended by even see black folks have a job. So, are you going to fire someone for wearing dreds or being black. lol
I remember some years ago, that a white gay supervisor who worked for Amtrak ticket office in Washington, D.C. sent a black ticket agent home because he ‘felt’ that her finger nails were too long. She went to a local T.V. station and that was all she wrote. She was allowed to return to work the next and that supervisor was eventually removed from that position.
PB Short
July 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm
During the early 90′s, I was working for the Ohio DMV as a contractor, and of all people, a Black woman in HR came to me and said “I cannot work there with braids in my hair”…
Many Black people who are employed are power hungry like their white brothers and sisters…they see their jobs as some type of social status until, of course, they get fired…
Nothing has changed within the last 50 years…the white man knows he has several million uncle Tom’s in this country to discriminate for him…the hair was just an excuse, because if she chose to cut her hair, then they would find another reason to discriminate, something like “We chose someone who more closely fit and/or meet our needs…”
NorthsideRasta
July 23, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Tell it like it is PB Short!!!!! Aunt Jemimas & Uncle Toms are in ready supply to do the bidding of repression so caucasoids can say “I’m not a racist”.
Teri
July 22, 2012 at 7:21 pm
1. Time for an organized boycott of six flag parks.
2. It’s a disgrace that another black woman is the one doing the racist bidding of this company against other black people. These people of course often are given the choice of being fired or “doing their jobs”. The only choice is to make examples of these types of companies. Black people have nearly a trillion dollars in buying power. We must be organized to flex that muscle for our benefit.
Derrick
July 23, 2012 at 3:42 am
These negroids ain’t gonna boycott! They’re too scared because they love being treated unfairly by caucasoids!
I mentioned the word boycott to a negro, and they started talking about the economy would be messed up!!!
THEY’RE BRAINWASHED
When you cut your “LOVE LOCKS” off, nothing is ‘dread’ about them, you loose strength and power!
Samson had 7 ‘locks’ and was made to cut them off then, he lost his strength!
Samson was granted supernatural strength by the Black Messiah in order to combat evil. Samson tells Delilah, that he will lose his strength with the loss of his hair, but Delilah calls for a servant to shave Samson’s seven locks.
Judges 16:19 reads: “She made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.
THIS ARTICLE SOUNDS LIKE THIS SCRIPTURE!