White cop can't wear cornrows, black cops can

[harjit]

WTF?

I wonder if his black boss was just being a dickhead for the sake of it.

White cop told cornrows break work rules, while dozens of black officers wear the hairstyle

BY Simone Weichselbaum and Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Tuesday, September 22nd 2009, 9:30 PM

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Philadelphia Police Officer Thomas Strain was taken off the street earlier this month after he showed up to work with his hair braided in cornrows.

A white Philadelphia cop who reported to work with his hair in cornrows was yanked off the street and ordered to get a new 'do.

Officer Thomas Strain was relegated to desk duty by a black superior this month, even though several black cops sport the same hair style, Philadelphia police sources said.

"If other ethnic groups are permitted to wear their hair in that manner, why are they singling out this one officer?" a fellow cop told the Daily News.

"It is ridiculous that we are wasting time and energy on this."

Police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said Strain's boss, identified as Inspector Aaron Horne, told the veteran officer to cut his hair to look more "professional."

Police policy requires officers to have "clean, properly trimmed and combed hair" that doesn't extend to their collar or cover their ears, Vanore said.

The policy prohibits radical hair colors but doesn't ban specific styles, such as cornrows, Mohawks or dreadlocks.

Vanore stressed that Strain, who has since cut his locks, was reprimanded because his hair was unruly - not because it was in cornrows.

But not all Philly cops bought that argument.

It's absolutely discriminatory," a fellow officer told the Philadelphia Daily News. "[Strain's hair] was neat. It was above his collar. It's not like he shaved a Nazi sign or something anti-black or anti-Hispanic on his head.

"It's just cornrows," the cop added. "I don't know what the problem is."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/09/22/2009-09-22_boss_tells_white_cop_corn.html#ixzz0RufPjVTV

[Jake Featherston]

No police officers should be allowed to wear cornrows, dreadlocks, Mohawks, etc. But if Black officers are going to be permitted to wear cornrows, then clearly officers of other races should be permitted to do so as well.

[Apocales]

This country is a joke.

[Ken]

This country is a joke.


And it ain't funny.

[Ken]

WTF?
I wonder if his black boss was just being a dickhead for the sake of it.


Harjit...I don't know you personally but it's become quite apparent to me that you have little to no experience living in the U.S.

If so, you would know that the negro can do no wrong, and when it does(which is quite frequent!), it's somehow YT's fault.

[Gorilla]

I may yet cornrow my pubic hair.

[Crowley]

Is the cop a whigger or is he being sarcastic?

[Felix the Cat]

I may yet cornrow my pubic hair.
Sig material :rofl:

[Empress Cheesatine]

It was ruled in the 1980s that to deny blacks wear cornrows was a civil rights issue. Perhaps this will teach that self-loathing little wigger that he really isn't black and he isn't welcomed no matter how "down" he tries to come off.

He's undoubtedly a victim of racial discrimination. Imagine the uproar from blacks if a white police officer put a black guy who straightened his hair on desk duty. :rofl:

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

I think the whigger cop's superior was in the right. White people should act like white people. Blacks should do the same. I don't see a problem with a black cop with cornrows(aside from that blacks shouldn't be cops) because that seems pretty standard for a nigger. I don't think they should have to get white haircuts or anything. It wouldn't work out.

The whigger cop is the one with the problem. He's the one trying to cross racial lines. It's a shame he had to have a black boss to teach him better. If everyone respected ethnic boundaries and took pride in their own culture, we wouldn't be having any problems.

[Empress Cheesatine]

I think the whigger cop's superior was in the right. White people should act like white people. Blacks should do the same. I don't see a problem with a black cop with cornrows(aside from that blacks shouldn't be cops) because that seems pretty standard for a nigger. I don't think they should have to get white haircuts or anything. It wouldn't work out.

At least half of the department probably made this wigger the butt of jokes, and rightfullly so, but legally they aren't allowed to enforce such a thing.

The whigger cop is the one with the problem. He's the one trying to cross racial lines. It's a shame he had to have a black boss to teach him better. If everyone respected ethnic boundaries and took pride in their own culture, we wouldn't be having any problems.

Of course he has a problem. He suffers from some kind of self-loathing identity confusion. He hasn't been taught to respect his people, and to fill that void all he has is the demonizations of us constantly repeated by media, leftist scholars, angry rappers, and ethnic lobbies.

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

At least half of the department probably made this wigger the butt of jokes, and rightfullly so, but legally they aren't allowed to enforce such a thing.


It's perfectly legal, I'd say. He's in a uniformed organization, and I'm sure the police have regulations. Uniform regulations can be very broad. It's likely there is a rule against having 'eccentric' hairstyles. For a nigger, cornrows are not eccentric(of course, neither is wearing a lime green suit in church). It's good that a whigger is considered eccentric then. It's only sad that this whigger needed a nigger to tell him to act like a white man.

[Starr]

It takes his black boss to remind him what race he is. Sad and pathetic. I hope he was the butt of many jokes. Idiots like this need to be reminded that negroes don't think you are cool nor do they think you are one of them just because you want to be and do stupid things to even try to make yourself look like one of them.

I saw this story a couple of days ago and found it to be too embarassing to post.

[Jake Featherston]

In case there was any confusion stemming from my first post in this thread, yes, there is clearly something wrong with any White man who has cornrows. But since we're supposed to be living in a liberal, multicultural society, its bullshit for them to punish a White guy for doing something they permit Blacks to do. They're not hassling this guy 'cause he's a whigger. They're hassling him because he's White, and they've found a pretext for doing so.

[Saqqara]

[...]They're not hassling this guy 'cause he's a whigger. They're hassling him because he's White, and they've found a pretext for doing so.

That's pretty much it.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Let's not forget that this "colorblindness" nonsense is strictly meant as a one-way street.

[Ahknaton]

Is the cop a whigger or is he being sarcastic?
It might be some kind of ham-handed attempt to "outreach" to "inner city youths" or somesuch by adopting part of their culture.

[Crowley]

In case there was any confusion stemming from my first post in this thread, yes, there is clearly something wrong with any White man who has cornrows. But since we're supposed to be living in a liberal, multicultural society, its bullshit for them to punish a White guy for doing something they permit Blacks to do. They're not hassling this guy 'cause he's a whigger. They're hassling him because he's White, and they've found a pretext for doing so.

The story is amusing because on the one hand he's getting the shaft for being white but on the other hand he's a whigger and who wants to stick up for a whigger?

[Jake Featherston]

The story is amusing because on the one hand he's getting the shaft for being white but on the other hand he's a whigger and who wants to stick up for a whigger?

Yes, he's something of a man without a country in this regard.

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

He's getting the shaft because he's a whigger. If he behaved like a man, he wouldn't be having problems. Instead, he wants to be an ape. Trouble is, the apes don't accept him as their own.

[Julian Curtis Lee]

I think it's an excellent thing to bar a White cop from this. On a white man such a hairstyle is clearly degenerate. It is in no way a part of his culture, and its' both repulsive and disturbing. Degenerate cops should be kicked off the force.

Only Harjit could fail to see how sickening this is.

God bless the stronger cops, i.e. the stronger men, who talibanned this errant showboating piffletweekins and saved their people some embarassment. :thumbsup:

[harjit]

I think it's an excellent thing to bar a White cop from this. On a white man such a hairstyle is clearly degenerate. It is in no way a part of his culture, and its' both repulsive and disturbing. Degenerate cops should be kicked off the force.

Only Harjit could fail to see how sickening this is.

God bless the stronger cops, i.e. the stronger men, who talibanned this errant showboating piffletweekins and saved their people some embarassment. :thumbsup:
The double-standard described by the thread title is disturbing, yes. ('Sickening' may be a stretch, there isn't much about race stuff that I find sickening anymore, after a few years on this board. Honestly.)

In your second paragraph you are complimenting a black man, his boss who talibanned him.

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

In your second paragraph you are complimenting a black man, his boss who talibanned him.

His black boss recognized racial boundaries and acted accordingly. If everyone did the same as this man, then we wouldn't have so many problems.

[Julian Curtis Lee]

The double-standard described by the thread title is disturbing, yes.
Not at all. Different people have different standards. Where's the disturbance. We don't need you One Wombat World.
('Sickening' may be a stretch,...
I referred to the "cornrows" on the White cop as sickening, not the ban on his freak fun.
...there isn't much about race stuff that I find sickening anymore, after a few years on this board. Honestly.)
That's nice. We'll be continue to be sickened by your "hate f--k" fantasies, tho.
In your second paragraph you are complimenting a black man, his boss who talibanned him.
It was the right thing done by the wrong man for the wrong reason, but 'all devolves to good for those who love the Lord.'

[westie]

What? ancient Celts and Greeks also braided their hair in the style of "cornrows". If this police officer has either a greek or celtic ancestry he is well within his cultural ancestral tradition to wear such a hairstyle.
This officers superior is well out of line and should be reprimanded for abusing his authority

[westie]

His black boss recognized racial boundaries and acted accordingly. If everyone did the same as this man, then we wouldn't have so many problems.
His black boss is an idiot.

[Dreadnought]

What? ancient Celts and Greeks also braided their hair in the style of "cornrows". Proof please, and not the "hair like snakes" quote as that was basically just made up. Normal braiding isn't anything like cornrows, as anyone who's braided their hair can tell you.

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

What? ancient Celts and Greeks also braided their hair in the style of "cornrows". If this police officer has either a greek or celtic ancestry he is well within his cultural ancestral tradition to wear such a hairstyle.
This officers superior is well out of line and should be reprimanded for abusing his authority

Yeah, you're not going to wear a modern police uniform according to ancestral tradition. That's stupid. This is pretty cut and dry: a white cop wanted to be black, and his black boss(possessing that rare gift of common sense) put him in his place.

[Julian Curtis Lee]

What? ancient Celts and Greeks also braided their hair in the style of "cornrows".
Proof please...
LOL. Who even cares. That was then. This is now.
Was this guy's father a Cornrow Muppet?

[westie]

Yeah, you're not going to wear a modern police uniform according to ancestral tradition. That's stupid.
He wasnt, nothing to do with his uniform.
This is pretty cut and dry: a white cop wanted to be black, and his black boss(possessing that rare gift of common sense) put him in his place.
Perhaps this is about that white cop adopting a hair style prevalent amongst blacks, but lets see it for what it is. A hair style, totally acceptable within the regulations. Stating that one cant adopt a hair style simply because it is being worn by a large number of people from a particular culture is just plain stupid. What next, a ban on ponytails because only mafia made guys are allowed to wear them?

[westie]

LOL. Who even cares. That was then. This is now.
Was this guy's father a Cornrow Muppet?
So only popular culture is relevant then? You sure this is yoiur stance?

[Julian Curtis Lee]

So only popular culture is relevant then? You sure this is yoiur stance?
Did you mean shared culture? (I don't think men cut their hair the way they do to try to conform to what's "popular." But what's shared and accepted.)

Culture is never irrelevant. The more ancient, the more tried-and-true, and the more it's the product of our forebears -- the more relevant it is.

The very idea of a police force is, in fact, one of the fruits of shared culture. You could hardly find a more visible product of shared culture and values than a police force and the laws it enforces.

Police have always had regulations about hair, beard, and dress. That's all integral to the high level of consistency and discipline a police force requires to be effective and credible. Police forces always innately represent and protect cultural agreements of the people. They are thus most credible when conservative and when representing our cultural agreement themselves. If he wants to be Mr. Cutting-Edge Fashion, he chose the wrong profession.

[Apocales]

So only popular culture is relevant then? You sure this is yoiur stance?

The only reason he is wearing cornrows is because he is a whigger, nothing more or less.

[annoying bitch]

No cops should wear cornrows, but white cops especially. Black people in professional settings don't wear their hair like that, because it is considered low-class. Cornrows are the black equivalent to a hillbilly's mullet.

He probably did this to get respect from the young black men he deals with regularly as a police officer. Black people do not respect whites (particularly white men) who take on their African hair and clothing styles. Just the opposite is true, wiggers are nothing but a joke to them (and rightfully so!). Wearing his hair like that keeps him from being able to do his job properly. It is hard to question suspects when they can't stop laughing at you.

[westie]

The only reason he is wearing cornrows is because he is a whigger, nothing more or less.
who cares? let him be laughed at, its a hairstyle well within regulations. His superior is out of line.

[Commander]

Cornrows on whites, especially cops are one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard of.

I can just picture other whites (criminals) laughing at them so hard they would not be able to answer any questions. :tard:

Cornrows on blacks are stupid too, mostly feral black ghetto dwellers have this.

[Apocales]

Next we will have pierced out blue haired cops demanding appreciation.

[Flying Drumhead Court-Martial]

who cares? let him be laughed at, its a hairstyle well within regulations. His superior is out of line.

How do you figure it's within their regulations? It's pretty eccentric.

[Jake Featherston]

Black people do not respect whites (particularly white men) who take on their African hair and clothing styles. Just the opposite is true, wiggers are nothing but a joke to them (and rightfully so!).

I remember on "The Daily Show," they were asking this pretend Black sociologist about whiggers, and he said "they are a disgrace to their race." So the interviewer asks him, "Do you mean the White race, or the Black race?," to which he responds "The human race."

[Jake Featherston]

The only reason he is wearing cornrows is because he is a whigger, nothing more or less.

Probably, but its not like you really know that. Its is the most likely option, I'll grant.

[gooddeath]

NO white person should wear corn-rows, cop or not. White people look absolutely ridiculous in corn-rows. But I agree with the poster who said that all cops should have conservative haircuts: no dyed hair, no mohawks, dreadlocks, corn rows, emo haircuts, whatever.

[Ken]

NO white person should wear corn-rows, cop or not. White people look absolutely ridiculous in corn-rows. But I agree with the poster who said that all cops should have conservative haircuts: no dyed hair, no mohawks, dreadlocks, corn rows, emo haircuts, whatever.

They should all look like me.

[Julian Curtis Lee]

Harjit wanted to win points with Caucasian traditionalists by championing their right to wear cornrows.

[Farah]

I'm not American, or black/white for that matter, but this case is real interesting :-)

I generally understand that are many White people in the USA who act like African Americans, and they can be looked down upon as "wiggers":p (I just feel weird saying that coz it's not my culture) , and this police cop might be a wigger -- But it still doesn't give the right to suppress his desire to do something just because he's from a different race

I mean if this cop is impressed by this hairstyle, or is trying to be something he's not, that's his free will and choice, even if it's not racially right, but who has the right to impose anything on him? :-)

[westie]

How do you figure it's within their regulations? It's pretty eccentric.
from the article
Police policy requires officers to have "clean, properly trimmed and combed hair" that doesn't extend to their collar or cover their ears, Vanore said.

The policy prohibits radical hair colors but doesn't ban specific styles, such as cornrows, Mohawks or dreadlocks.

[<flame deleted>]

Whigger cops? That's why crime is rampant.

[Dreadnought]

from the article "Properly trimmed and combed" sort of excludes cornrows by definition.

[Gorilla]

"Properly trimmed and combed" sort of excludes cornrows by definition.

Frizzy curls look best when trimmed, though I'm not sure about 'combed'.

[President Camacho]

This 4th of July in Philly on the Ben Franklin Parkway (there was a festival of sorts) I saw several hood rats and ghetto-looking brillo heads dressed as police providing security. Not just "black" cops; you could tell these nigs came from the gutter.

But one pig in particular that stood out was a white dude with tats all down both arms to his wrists, to the point where you could barely see skin on his arms even in short sleeves. He looked like some biker or Aryan Brotherhood guy yet was apparently a police. I bet that shit wouldn't fly even as recent as 5 or 10 years ago.

It seems the quality of police around here is declining almost as rapidly as their numbers are increasing...

[calvin]

But one pig in particular that stood out was a white dude with tats all down both arms to his wrists, to the point where you could barely see skin on his arms even in short sleeves. He looked like some biker or Aryan Brotherhood guy yet was apparently a police. I bet that shit wouldn't fly even as recent as 5 or 10 years ago

Good observation. The new look police are explained by the fact that now that the corporations fund both ends of the political spectrum and democracy is dead in the water, the role of the police has changed from protectors of the public, to enforcers of the establishment. The police are now just state revenue collectors, most of their work involves collecting and levying fines and intimidating the public, that's why they look like hired muscle. Funnily enough in the UK it's the opposite, our pigs are women and wimps, they never go anywhere near dangerous criminals, because of this they don't need physical presence, they concentrate on fucking over decent people who are naive enough to think the police are "here to help", just to get the stats up. Learn your rights and never speak to the Police.

[redknight]

This case reminds me of a similar instance, involving a British schoolgirl.http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/151/151512_school_bans_wrong_race_hairstyle.html I think that whats good for the goose is good for the gander. There shouldn't be a double standard. Blacks shouldn't be allowed to be excused from regular regulations.

[Dreadnought]

This case reminds me of a similar instance, involving a British schoolgirl.http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/151/151512_school_bans_wrong_race_hairstyle.html I think that whats good for the goose is good for the gander. There shouldn't be a double standard. Blacks shouldn't be allowed to be excused from regular regulations. Would you also say that, for example, men should be allowed wear skirts in the workplace? Can't have a double standard!

[President Camacho]

Good observation. The new look police are explained by the fact that now that the corporations fund both ends of the political spectrum and democracy is dead in the water, the role of the police has changed from protectors of the public, to enforcers of the establishment. The police are now just state revenue collectors, most of their work involves collecting and levying fines and intimidating the public, that's why they look like hired muscle. Funnily enough in the UK it's the opposite, our pigs are women and wimps, they never go anywhere near dangerous criminals, because of this they don't need physical presence, they concentrate on fucking over decent people who are naive enough to think the police are "here to help", just to get the stats up. Learn your rights and never speak to the Police.City police now really have no responsibilities except harassing ordinary people for misdemeanors. Reminds me of an old Mencken article--Mencken, who was no fan of government agents, nevertheless was able to reminisce about how different the cops of his childhood and newspaper days were to what they became even by 1942. From "Newspaper Days":

Recollections of Notable Cops

I knew cops who were matches for the most learned and unscrupulous lawyers at the Baltimore bar, and others who had made monkeys of the oldest and crabbedest judges on the bench, and were generally respected for it. Moreover, I knew cops who were really first-rate policemen, and loved their trade as tenderly as many art artists and movie actors. They were badly paid, but they carried on their dismal work with unflagging diligence, and loved a long, hard chase almost as much as they loved a quick, brisk clubbing. Their one salient failing, taking them as a class, was their belief that any person who had been arrested, even on mere suspicion, was unquestionably and ipso facto guilty. But that theory, though occasionally colored their testimony in a garish manner, was grounded, after all, on nothing worse than professional pride and esprit de corps, and I am certainly not one to hoot at it, for my own belief in the mission of journalism has no better support than the same partiality, and all the logic I am aware of stands against it.

In those days that pestilence of Service which torments the American people today was just getting under way, and many of the multifarious duties now carried out by social workers, statisticians, truant officers, visiting nurses, psychologists, and the vast rabble of inspectors, smellers, spies and bogus experts of a hundred different faculties either fell to the police or were not discharged at all An ordinary flatfoot in a quiet residential section had his hands full. In a single day he might have to put out a couple of kitchen fires arrange for the removal of a dead mule, guard a poor epileptic having a fit on the sidewalk, catch a runaway horse, settle a combat with table knives between husband and wife, shoot a cat for killing pigeons, rescue a dog or a baby from a sewer, bawl out a white-wings for spilling garbage, keep order on the sidewalk at two or three funerals, and flog half a dozen bad boys for throwing horse-apples at a blind man. The cops downtown, especially along the wharves and in the red-light districts, had even more curious and complicated jobs, and some of them attained to a high degree of virtuosity.Nowadays, of course, there are a whole army of separate bureaucrats to carry out these tasks-- not to mention the duties now covered by private security guards. At least back then you could say they earned their pay.

Mencken then goes on to describe the Baltimore PD method for refurbishing their jail: Along about May i the warden would telephone to police headquarters that he needed, say, ten head of painters, five plumbers, two blacksmiths, a tile-setter, a roofer, a bricklayer, a carpenter and a locksmith, and it was Charlie's duty to go out and find them. So far as I can recall, he never failed, and usually he produced two or three times as many craftsmen of each category as were needed, so that the warden had some chance to pick out good ones.

His plan was simply to make a tour of the saloons and stews in the Marsh Market section of Baltimore, and look over the drunks in congress assembled. He had a trained eye and could detect a plumber or a painter through two weeks accumulation of beard and dirt. As he gathered in his candidates he searched them on the spot, rejecting those who had no union cards, for he was a firm believer in organized labor. Those who passed were put into storage at a police station, and there kept (less the unfortunates who developed delirium tremens and had to be handed over to the resurrection-men) until the whole convoy was ready. The next morning Gene Grannan, the police magistrate, gave them two weeks each for vagrancy, loitering, trespass, committing a nuisance, or some other plausible misdemeanor, the warden had his staff of master-workmen, and the jail presently bloomed out in all its vernal finery. :D Some things never change I suppose.

[redknight]

Would you also say that, for example, men should be allowed wear skirts in the workplace? Can't have a double standard! Usually there are seperate uniforms based upon what is gender appropiate. But yes, if a man wanted to wear a kilt for example, as long as it does not interfere with performing his duties, it should be permitted.

[Dreadnought]

Usually there are seperate uniforms based upon what is gender appropiate.…and this cannot extend to hairstyles and physical race differences because…? How is it different from basing rules on physical sex differences?

[Dead Eye]

Cornrows would look very unprofessional anyway but there is clearly some double standards here that if it were the other way around........well......god forbid what would outcome of it.