There is still no information about the “Ordinance Amendment” on the Greensboro City Council agenda for the Tuesday, Jan. 19 meeting.
However, councilmembers received a copy of the proposed resolution and ordinance amendment on Saturday, Jan. 16.
Councilmember Justin Outling said, “All of this has been done completely out of the view of the public.”
He added, “It is remarkable to me that you don’t have a work session on this.”
The ordinance being amended according to the title is on discrimination “to add “sex” to certain provisions, to define sex to include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, and to add natrual (sic) hair to certain provisions.”
What is on the agenda as “Ordinance Amendment” is actually reinstating amendments to three ordinances on discrimination that were passed by the City Council on Jan. 6, 2015, but then nullified by the North Carolina legislature when it passed House Bill 2, better known as HB2, in March 2016. A year later the NC legislature passed House Bill 142, which established a sunset for the prohibition against local ordinances such as the ones passed by Greensboro in 2015. The sunset was Dec. 1, 2020.
Those amendments passed in 2015 have never been revoked by the City Council, which means that although they were in the code of ordinances they were not enforceable because of the state law.
This amendment will reinstate those ordinances that prohibit “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in addition to the already protected categories of race, sex, gender, color, ethnicity, religion disability (sic), familial status, or political affiliation.”
The amendment adds protection for hairstyles. The resolution states, “routinely people of African descent are deprived of educational and employment opportunities because they are adorned with natural or protective hairstyles in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, or worn in locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, or Afros.”
The resolution states, “discrimination on the basis of natural or protective hairstyles that people of African descent are commonly adorned with violates existing federal law.”
The resolution also states that the amendment to Chapter 12 of Greensboro’s code of ordinances deals with housing and will have to be approved by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development before it goes into effect.
Why would our Mandate Mayor and her cabal need a work session? They are deliberate and want zero discussion. The public has been disenfranchised from any real ability to address council for almost a year now and city leaders continue to act behind closed doors to push their exteme political and virtue signaling. I’m sure the city will end up paying a bunch of legal fees while our city is crumbling from closed business and sky high violence all while our leaders refuse to properly recruit and train police but will spend hours and much time and resources on shutting down competition for their boondoggle PAC thru onerous security ordinances (city owned venues naturally exempt) and weekly Mandates on who can be open and when.
Sounds like another bucket of liberal horse pickets to me. I think it’s time for the non working council members to get a real job they have too much free time on their hands.
The color of your skin is something you have no control over, so it is not fair to discriminate on that basis. You do have control over how you wear your hair.
It’s sort of like how Black Lives Matter makes sense because you don’t have control of your skin color. But Blue Lives Matter is nonsense because you have choice over your profession. Great point!
Welcome to the Socialist Peoples Republic of Greensboro. Our motto, “You didn’t build it so it’s not yours”
Seriously – I am accused of discriminating because a black person has dreadlocks? Just because an elaborate hairdo full of colorful braids and beads flops all over the plates being served in a restaurant is no cause whatsoever for me to tell a black waiter he must wear a head covering, net, or control his braids. I stand summarily admonished! Or I can go ahead and close up shop, putting said waiter out of job, since the city is pushing me into bankruptcy anyway! Gee, what’s next for these airheads?
Of course!! Feelings are far more important than restaurant health guidelines.
That being the case, these lockdowns and mask mandates hurt my feelings, so they don’t apply to me.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the double standard allowed for the left. I’m screwed.
This is just another horrible waste of time that is already protected. Don’t these people have anything better to do? How ’bout we stop all discrimination of people who have differing political beliefs than these gender- and race-baiting councilmembers, as well as those at the state and federal levels. Warning … if you stand up yourself or you’ll be cancelled!
Where do we even begin with this steaming pile of ideas? Let’s see….since the beginning of the human race there have been 2 physical genders. That is what you are born with and determined by your anatomy, deal with it. You don’t get to identify as something different, and anyone who allows you to do so is just as confused, if not more so. No one cares about your hair, or mine, wear it how you want unless your in the military or other organization that has certain written standards. If you choose to join one of those, you agree to their rules, they have no obligation to kiss your rump. What we do care about is the fact that our City Council is wasting time on this mess instead of something meaningful.
So, let me be clear, you have to be of “African descent” to be covered under federal law. Seems the council is unaware of blacks from other areas of the world. Of course the “routinely” says it all.
But wasn’t there a surge in black employment the last four years? So why is this important to the council?
The Mayor and council and all liberals can do what they please. They are part of the cancel culture that is now running the country.
And as aside. I believe that the Covid numbers will come down now that we have a criminal in the White House. Because the new administration just like Cuomo of New York will start reportiong the numbers differently to look good. It’s just the beginning.
Sounds to me like they have too much time on their hands. Maybe if the wore dreadlocks they could get a job!
‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.’ George Orwell 1984.
Maybe it is out there somewhere, but I have never heard of a lawsuit against a company or individual because a person was discriminated over their hair style. I have never seen published complaints, either. So why is the Greensboro City Council spending time discussing and passing such an ordinance, or city law.
I see agenda items that seem to be miniscule when compared to the increasing murder rate in Greensboro. Much larger cities in the USA have much lower murder rates, simply because their police departments are given the budget to implement programs to combat crime. Yet we have council members who want to defund the police, and Council leaders who want to make up excuses for the murder rate, and their causes, when it is clearly not accurate on any level. We’ve had one actual murder at a bar, so lets penalize all bars. Check the books. We have had a murder at a car dealership parking lot. Lets penalize all car dealers. There have been murders in churches. Do we close all churches, or require that they have metal detectors and armed guards at their doors. Someone needs to get real. Maybe after the next election, someone will.
The simple reason that the city council doesn’t want an open forum that allows citizens to speak their mind, is that they don’t want another Mark Robinson political career launched. The council’s stoopiditty will be exposed by a viral video. The council hides behind a virus.
Bloomberg’s zillions had a reverse effect; in NC, and nationwide. Another twist is that if The Coop runs for the Senate, then NC gets Mr. Robinson as Gov. Suck on that.
There are many professions or jobs that for pure safety or health reasons cannot allow certain types of “African” hairstyles. In some cases, the entire head must be covered and the long braids simply cannot be tucked under a hair net. In construction and machinery jobs, having long braids is a safety hazard for the person wearing them. If you are applying for a job at my company, I will tell you whether for safety reasons you will need to have a certain limitation on how you wear your hair. If you choose not to abide, then I will not hire you and you can go scream to the courts all day long that I am discriminating against you. I will provide plenty of backup on how this requirement is for your protection as well as the company. If I allow you to have a hairstyle that puts you at a safety risk and you become injured on the job, then I am responsible. Some of you liberal idiots need to live in the real world for a change.
Ask Nancy P about appropriate hair style regulations.
Years ago, my hippie son wore his hair at mid-waist. Eventually he discovered that he couldn’t get a decent job because of that. So, he altered his appearance, and got employment.
It follows that if you annoy an employer, you won’t get a job, or keep it.
The solution to this problem is that we all need to accept personal responsibility for our own actions. You cannot legislate human nature, or P.C.
I’m glad to hear more people speaking up about city ordinances. They are professionals and are right in what they say