'We Don't Do Black Hair': Discrimination?  We're having a hard
time getting worked up over this one.    (The Root) -- In a
piece for Jezebel last week, Rebecca Carroll lamented the
difficulties she faced trying to find a local New York City
hairdresser who could give her "black hair" a decent trim:  But
perhaps the most perplexing response I got was from a salon that
told me they could cut my hair, but only if I'd had it processed
first. When I asked if they cut black hair, the receptionist
answered: "Actually, not unless it's straightened." So,
basically, go somewhere else to make your hair the texture of
white hair and then we'll be good to go. Huh.  It seems insane
to have to spend time not just researching a basic haircut, but
feeling inclined to check the black hair references of
hairstylists.  It was a frustrating experience that the author
correctly assessed would be even worse in other parts of America
than it was in Williamsburg, the "hipster capital of Brooklyn."
But the dynamics that Carroll under