Salon Accused of 'Black Hair' Surcharge [charge black people more than whites]

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, May 29, 2005

[Asphalt]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Alabama woman is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against a Dillard's Inc. hair salon for allegedly charging black women more than white women.

Debbie Deavers Sturvisant alleges that a hair salon in a Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dillard's department store charged $35 to wash and set her hair, while white women paid $20 for the same service.

Sturvisant's lawsuit could bring a whole new level of attention to the general practice across the country of charging differently for hair care based on ethnicity.

Officials in Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland and Massachusetts have already addressed race- and sex-based pricing differences at hair salons.

"The stereotype is that all black hair is the same. But that's erroneous...

[Asphalt]

Um. I'm not all that into music. I never inherited the genes I guess.

[beezdotcom]

I'm just glad I didn't dream about James Carville :o)

Yeah, lots of people had bad dreams about Carville after his role in the 1984 movie "Dreamscape" (action figurine of James shown below)

[Sister_T]

I have never let a white person do my hair. ever.... I have let my husband wash my hair in the shower and thats as close as it gets. But to have a white stylist relax and style my hair...... ummm no... I know it sounds awful but its true.

Same here. I had a white stylist do my hair once. Never again.

It seems to me that allot more Black stylist are able to do white hair than the other way around.

I believe you have a point there.