I wouldn't call that racist. Prejudice though yea. Cause they are assuming just b/c someone's white they don't know what they are doing. I considered going to school to be a barber and cut black hair. But then I realize it wouldn't be easy for me to get customers. I'm female and I'm white.
I live in chicago and if a white barber is at a black barbershop you can pretty much bet he can cut. Hell my barber is mexican and does his thing.
Ignorance is everything when it comes to "hatin"... When I first read this thread, it reminded me of the scenes played out in the movie Barbershop... The white barber had the toughest time at one point because perception ruled... My take, for what it's worth... you will never know until you've tried it, whatever "it" is.... Forget haircuts for a second and put food on the menu... how many of us experiment with tastes and foods we've never had? If we grew up on it (grits, pigs feet, beef brains...), we have no problem with it... enter sheep guts, or camel's milk and some of us immediately get weak kneed... If any person has skills, it shouldn't matter what color they are... My best barbers have been non-black....
You wanted to go to school just to cut black hair? Who does that? Why would you wanna cut only black hair? Wouldn't you be limiting your scope if you just went to learn how to cut black hair? Unless you had ulterior motives to meet and sample fine black men for purposes other than cutting hair(you are bad lol) then, i don't know why you would want to go to barber school just to cut black hair.
This. Most of the non black barbers & hair stylists that I know around my way who work in shops that service mostly black clientele go above & beyond to know how to cut & style black hair specifically so that no one dare looks at them as incompetent with their skills.
The same scenario happened in Ice Cube's barbershop series. It's racist by definition but not in delivery, some of you guys don't find this offensive. Let's say some of you can speak and understand fluent spanish, a hispanic customer walks into your business and requests someone who can speak spanish. After they see you, they request a hispanic employee despite your ability to communicate with the customer. Would you be offended or not?
The guy who cuts my hair is a serious heavy metal head, piercings, tattoos and the beard to go with it. He is joint best barber to have ever cut my hair and the other is another white guy.
This reminds me of the opposite. My friends and I were new to the DC area, new to the hood When my white friend needed a hair cut, he went to a shop within walking distance of my school... every shop within walking distance had black barbers (and I'd assume with the location, owned by black people as well). Couldn't help but laugh when I saw him hours later, looking freshly lined lol. For me, the one time I went into a salon and took whoever was available, I got a black woman. When coloring my hair, she missed spots. The cut was just... "meh". But that's nothing to do with race really, if she missed spots with the color she just didn't know what she was doing, period.
Or it could be the vast majority of her clients don't their hair colored so she's not use to it. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions to the rule but if you aren't used to serving certain people chances are when you have to for the first few times you're not going to do a great job.
It was the only hair salon place in a popular mall, they were pretty busy (and for the most part, I *think* it was mainly frequented by white people). She was probably just new or something, which could explain the coloring AND the hair cut. If it was just the coloring, I might have assumed the same, that she didn't have experience with the coloring because more people would just come for cuts (From experience there though, if I dart in just to get a hair cut, there seems to always be someone else getting their hair colored, it's pretty common).
I go to this spot downtown, a little white girl, 5'4, looks just like Jessica Biel, a bit more curvy:smt119. She is most men's wet dream, she cuts hair! No, no I mean she cuuutttts hair (& styles sometimes). She has won a couple dozen hair shows in different categories. I would date her as of yesterday, but when I started going to her, she had fiancé and if the relationship ever soured, who can cut my hair that well while looking sexy fuck not to mention.
