Had dreads when I got my degree. Had dreads when I got my honors. Had dreads when I got my masters. Had dreads when I hired white people to work in my company.
Okay so you’re an exception, good for you. Idk what’s the degrees have anything to do anything he said… same with starting your own business. Low key flex ig, congrats on debt. He was talking More about corporate ladders. Not start your own barber shop day.
Anyone that knows what it takes to learn, set up and run a business understands MOST people will NEVER be successful in business. Even MOST people that do set up a business fail within the first few years. Kevin Samuels understands this, hence why he promotes getting work in the corporate world over screaming entrepreneurship
@@MrRamazanLale2 well it’s not because there’s multiple men in the industry of business who have never cut their hair. For whatever reason, men see long hair on men as Finneman, when in actuality in the Bible, it states that men with long hair have a great power and when you cut that hair, you lose it all that power. Why cut your hair to someone else is the men’s when you can start your own business and I have to cut your hair at all as what he saying. So it’s not the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard it’s only the dumbest shit you ever heard because you’re used to doing something someone else is telling you to do your used to being ruled you used to being told how to work and do work. That’s why it’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard.
@@OffixialGem True but u gotta cut ur hair to get hired its just the way it is clean cut race always plays apart u gotta represent the company who they want. Or go be self employed strat ur new business or Get with the Program thats how the Western Job & Business Structure us u Sell Out & Buy in to Feed urself and Family & Pay ur Bills.
It is but listen to what he's saying in context. When working FOR companies and representing those companies, you have to assimilate and yes SELL OUT/BUY IN. My father told me these things and as a young black man who now has locs down to my stomach, I could care less what ppl think of my hair. But, I don't work in corporate America either.
Had dreads when a tv station hired me as an intern. Had dreads when our local CBS hired me. Had dreads when the White House and state department invited me me to cover the inaugural ball. Im using my second degree and still have dreads working as a Psychotherapist.
It all depends on the type of dreads you have if your dressing like these goofy hip hop artists or raised by single mother thugs out here then yea I can see the stereotypes
KS is mainly referring to corporate america. With career paths such as Manager, Directer, VP, C-Suite Yes, you can be very successful with dreads or any hairstyle but if you take a look at the C-suite for the top fortune 1000 companies, you likely won’t see a single person with dreads.
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
As a black man with dreads, he is 100% correct. This is why I choose to be self-employed. Whoever signs your paychecks, makes the rules. Just how it is.
True enough, but his message was for the masses.. because not everyone gonna get that pass just based in their knowledge/skill without the clean cut image he speaks of.. he basically shedding light on how easier it can be for us black men by applying what he speaking on..🤷🏾♂️
Currently working in tech sales they really aren't discriminatory in my experience thus far ( Japanese company) I can wear whatever, piercings, tattoos, unconventional business attire. But if I have a meeting with a client you be damn sure I'm in a suit and tie clean cut.
Black woman with locs here. This is the easiest and cheapest way for my hair to grow. A wig should not be required, a weave should not be required, a perm should not be required, a flat iron should not be required
It's completely different for women. Why do you guys think the same rules apply to you as well. Women with long hair is acceptable in any arena, men with long hair is not acceptable in corporate America.
@@matthewtrauger3683 that is not true at all. Women in the military have hair standards. Where I currently work the length and thickness of my hair is called into question due to policies. I'm sure women in police service have standards as well. SOME things are universal regardless of gender.
This is one of the main reasons I got a trade. Because when something goes wrong with someone's electricity they don't care what you look like they only want to know if you can fix it or not.
@@montyjay7621I mean trades could damn well open up a lot of doors and pay good anywhere in the country and than take those skills within 5 to 10 years and turn it into your own 🤷🏽♂️
22 years ago my ex-husband's job told him if he didn't cut his hair they would have to let him go. It was construction and he was only 18! He needed the job so he asked me to cut his locs off for him. His locs were majestic! He looked like he had a lion's mane. It devastated him but he wanted to provide for the family. 3 months later they still laid him off. He started a new set but they just didn't have the power of the first set.
That's because it wasn't his hair they had a problem with, it was his skin. They were banking on him saying, "No! I won't cut my hair." Since he did they had to muster up courage to do what they wanted to do all along--Racist Cowards!
That's what makes me angry. Hair doesn't prove your professional. And these brothers wanna say they're not sell outs, they are. No businessman can confidently and firmly tell me that they'd choose the doctor with no experience and cut hair over the doctor with long hair with experience to save their life. This is outrageous.
Sad, but that was the whole point of why he should have kept his locs because it was only a matter of time before they found another reason to let him go. I played the game, with short wavy hair in a majority ⚪️ school district, and out the blue they decided to suspend me because I looked like a threat on the school campus, knowing I've been with the school for six months already. I turned around and asked the staff what did I do that made me a threat, and they said I walked into the building with a hood on my head, and the Texas temperature that day was 38 degrees. I walked away and never looked back. It was never about the hair. It was always about the skin color.
As a woman with locs I am in a “high ranking” career and I still get the respect that my yt counterparts receive. I refuse to put some silky straight hair hat on my head for some “respect”.
Kevin is not talking to women, yall not even in this discussion. Rules are different for women because women are allowed to have long hair. Nice try sis
@@jesus4lyfe00 That's weird though. Hair in the bible indicated power didn't it? Nothings wrong with have long hair, it's hair. Literally means nothing to your skills.
@@jesus4lyfe00 100% well said black american women have a Wiggle room and Little more Space with Hair for Certain jobs cuz their still women so that buys them the room and Space to Grow and have Differnt Hair Styles but for a Black Man in Corporate America The Rules are Clear Clean Cut u get Better Looks May get Promotion Ease Tentions when ur White Boss walks buy and See Ur Dressed and Gor a Clean Short Cut Race Always Plays Apart in Hiring Their is No Window for Identity we are All One Under The Corporate Structure As For Male While their are Brothers with Dreads in All Western Feilds they Too Play the Game
@@dboi4952 you can it fitting in. But in reality it’s called doing what needs to be done to get where you want to be. Good job taking a stand and good luck moving up the corporate ladder if that’s something you want to do. They’re not gonna give the job to a white man with a Mohawk either.
Usually kev is right but he's incorrect on this one. I was the first man to have locks at my job (a place where locks were seen as unprofessional). I started my job with a fro and demonstrated my value to the company. As I progressed, my hair got longer and I locked it. You know whats crazy? The person at my job who supported me having locks the most was a boomer white lady. She told me "the only reason it's considered unprofessional is because nobody has the balls to just wear locks in a professional environment, until you showed up 😊" My Mom said the same thing kevin saying, but after i got my locks and she saw how it had no effect on my career progression, she has locks longer than mine now lol! This is one of those topics that if you haven't had locks in corporate world, you really cant speak on it what is possible. I encourage everyone to not be neutered by societal norms when it comes to looks and appearances. Appearance doesn't even matter guys, your actions matter.
Man I listened to a guy telling me this shit and cut my hair. Got in the program to find almost everyone had long hair. Pissed me off so bad. I just thought I'd add that this happened over 20yrs ago. Dont want folks to get to carried away about it, I learned a few lessons from it indeed so thank you all for the insight.
It’s outdated. Just like how they used to say you won’t get hired with tattoos. As younger people take over it becomes less of an issue. Also black people (women in particular) are wearing their hair in more natural styles. Hell even the military has changed the rules on hair
@@igotthejuicesucka7939 I know it's outdated indeed. For example women used to have issues with having natural hair getting into corporate world or getting into any office job in general. Nowadays black women can have all kinds of natural hair and have no problems with a lot of companies nowadays. This is very outdated and people who listen to this is just limiting themselves. Depending on how clean your dreads look, you should be fine. Plenty of dudes with nice looking dreads doing just fine. It's weird that men complain that women don't have natural hair when women had to do weaves and wigs to get into employment and girls had issues at school for having natural hair and if it's afro it's considered "unkept'. But tell men to cut their dreads so they can be proper. Weird weird weird. Nowadays this is erasing and I'm proud of the black community for doing so much things to changing the other communities mindsets and accepting our natural selves.
@@iamgiocasino It didn't turn into a man vs women thing. Yes I did add that in there because it is the facts. I find it very weird that men continue to want to say they want women to be natural but at the same time can't embrace their own culture of hair because coporate but forget that women also had the same issue and rule out to that nope that had nothing to do with it at all that never happens yall just reaching argument.
This applies to everyone. No one in upper management looks sloppy regardless of ethnicity. I don’t see any white guys with cavemen hair and bears in my company
@@tyali84how many yt some have you seen with many black hairstyles black women love 🙄 y’all are so coon out and full of self hate and doing massas bidding.
As a mexican and white man that's had dreads before. Don't let anyone tell you how to dress or style yourself.. if you want dreads, rock them.. you wanna be clean cut, rock it. Be your own man and don't let another dictate the way you present yourself Kings. 😎
My dad used to say the same thing. I proved it wrong I got into my industry and worked my way all the way to the top first with an curly fro, then braids, ponytail all the way to dreads. I have sat in board rooms in some of the top corporations in my industry. I have hired and fired white, black and brown people with these dreads. If you're good at what you do and you know your stuff you can accomplish anything with your dreads.
Publicly traded companies have to stop being labeled as white. We give these troglodytes more power than they have. But yes there’s nothing wrong with fitting the image for the brand you represent. But only if it absolutely benefits you and yours
As a young man, I learned that money isn't everything. I was sitting in for a group interview/training for UPS. The person leading the interview said that employees need to be clean shaven and cut their beards. She said if you have a problem with that, we were free to get up and leave. That's exactly what I did. I'm a registered nurse today making almost $200k a year. Alhamdulilah!
Very true. I wouldn’t do it for a job. If you want to play the corporate business role that may apply. It just depends on the kind of locs honestly. Free forming probably isn’t going to be accepted. It what is it. Wanna change it. Get your own damn company.
No, it means you're willing to adjust. We all have to do it at some point. If there's a dress code at your job/ career, you're saying you wont comply? Because it's "conditioning?" I don't understand why our community has issues understanding this concept. We hold on to the most ridiculous aspects of "blackness." Try going to the military with that kind of thinking.
Im 25 and make 6 figures with braids. You dont have to cut your hair but you MUST stay sharp and wear your hair in styles that dont cover your face. Make sure you are getting your hair retwisted/braided about every 2-4 weeks as well as a shape up. I would also suggest making sure you get a small fade on your hairline as well (makes your hairstyle look more professional imo).
@@anti-hiphop1933 I know it sucks because it’s our natural but hair I would just braid it or dread it in a style where it’s tied up. The main goal is to stay as sharp as possible.
When black men don't know who they are, they just want to be accepted by the oppressor. Why deity a recessive being who's offended by the expression of your dominate genetics and it makes him insecure. We got to raise strong confident black men. Not metro sexuals, who hate their masculinity and bend over for white men. His time is up anyway. See past the illusion. How can you be happy making 6 figures, when you hate yourself. You a 6 figure slave. Kevin Samuel's didn't exude masculinity. No confident and secure black woman would ever want him. She'd have to be comfortable being a doormat.
You buy into slavery one way or another if not corporate, your own customers if you choose the entrepreneur route. You may start the business but your customers are in control of you keeping your business afloat
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
@@healingtaco1207Being poor and content is better than being a worker living their lives through other peoples expectations. A much richer and fufilling life.
@Loc Chaney So, they wouldn't fire you, bc they need you and fear you would leave with their clients. Plus ppl use corporate jobs as a launching pad for their own projects/ start-ups
They’re not dreads….. they’re locks! And no other group of people are forced to change their natural appearance in order to get employment. That’s called systematic discrimination!
Most men, if they go unshaven, will grow facial hair. Look at world leaders, high ranking political leaders & professionals, lot of low hairstyles and clean shaven. "Systemic racism?" Those fields/jobs where locks are discouraged, are white men wearing long hair styles or man buns? If beards are discouraged on black men are they acceptable for whites? Many places are moving away from this. But for some it's an unwritten rule.
yall mfs are delusional talkin ab eurocentric 😭 i’m white and i cut my long hair and it’s def made an improvement in my life and how people treat me especially profession wise . besides long hair don’t belong on a grown ass man
That's right, my brother... blessings be on to u, mind makes matter, matter never makes the mind...meaning anything outside of the mind is made by man, and hair on your head can never make or create only the mind has this power...this is just b.s to a low self esteem have not...to judge on appearance and not creativity. Shout out to all professionals locs whose moving up.
If you have to change yourself to fit into someone else's image, especially for financial gain, that's the very definition of selling out. No matter how you want to phrase it
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Cut my hair for a job 5 years ago. Realized that no job should determine the length of my hair. I quit two years ago and now I work for myself and I have employees all while maintaining my in cornrows or plaits. The best choice I ever made.
Wow! Que lo que mi loco? Nunca pensé que estarías aquí jajaja Que estranho! Hace poco tiempo 'staba hablando de ti con compañeros de trabajo colombianos...
I’ve moved up in company’s and leading teams and everything, never had to cut my dreads to move up…it’s about your work ethic, your ability to lead and be competent at your job
Fuck that. Dreads are a fashion statement. My best apprentices are black and have dreads. When you allow people to be themselves, they yield better results, and outdo their competitors.
look how combative and unsubmissive y’all are to his reason and advice when by your logic, it’s unfair or stupid. but his word becomes infallible and undisagreeable with, when it’s about women? black women especially? lol. no high value man outside of rappers and entertainers have dreads.
Selling out, or “conforming”, is exactly what it is. Regardless, it took me years to realize that I’m not cut out to work for anyone. I’ve always had inconsistent performance at work. But I noticed that I became more productive, more reliable, and that my performance became more consistent when I started working for myself.
@@erroneouse1929 video editing, mostly freelance. I’m also a part-time consulting partner for a business consulting firm. Good thing about the firm is that it’s black-owned, so no one is pressed about my locs.
I went to a bank interview years ago, with my nose, tongue, & lip ring in. If I recall correctly, I believe my hair was in natural form also but if it wasn’t the piercings still speak volumes. The manager was an old white military man who I had an amazing conversation with. After the interview, he told me he’d connect me with the manger for a location near my home. When that manager contacted me, he told me I was highly recommended. I didn’t take the job but I got it. I didn’t care about my appearance because when I open my mouth my character speaks volumes. Anyone or any job that judges based off appearance isn’t the job for you. Nobody should be subjected to discrimination in the name of “success.”
This is why black men should have never stop building even when they burn us out of home flooded us I wish would have keep going and help another man build his richest
Two things can be true. Kevin can be well respected by black men, and hell no, I ain't cutting my locs. I let the military tell me how I should present myself long enough. That's part of why I got out.
Yep……I bought in……and then got SOLD!!! I later decided to never cut my Locs, studied Rastafari culture and I am now a College Professor as well as an Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker!
He specifically said if they want to move up the corporate ladder. You work in academia, not corporate America, so your situation is not relevant to his advice.
@staywoke3074 It seems as though you had nothing to offer this gentleman Other than your opinion, which was not positive in the least. He stated what happened in his life and how he overcame. just accept it and leave it at that. No need to belittle anybody or berate them. Because you feel like you have some form of knowledge That that individual doesn't
@@karlinharris1827Thank you, it was a VERY positive comment, and to see someone be like "Well actually let me point out that your circumstances dont apply bc you didn't follow word for word so what you say doesnt belong here, sorry im the comment police 🚨" when in all actuality he provided a great personal example to add nuance to this conversation. So to say who this does and does not apply to is unnecessary, especially when the comment is negative and provides NOTHING to the conversation but exclusive thoughts.. Either say something worthwhile or keep it moving 🤦♂️
Honestly, I believe this is a universal standard in the corporate world. I can't recall any C-level execs with long hair period. The model is clean cut.
I agree with him, I once had dreads and noticed I wasn’t getting hired by anyone until I cut them then I got a job. I busted my ass and moved up to project manager. Once i became a manager I started growing my hair back and now they’re past my shoulders. I hittem with the okie doke. I hate it has to be this way but it is what it is.
Yooo .. I never had dreads or long hair, but I always thought the same way.. I would have done the same thing bro.. I think people have to much pride in certain areas.. Congrats 👏 to your success 🙌
Only if your mind is not mature enough to comprehend all three phases of what he was saying🤔 Majority that don't get it are more into their feelings and Emotions that Intellect🤨 and Beta Males can't understand this..at all😎☝️
Can't tell white men how to act or dress in THEIR establishments. You gotta play by their rules. This wouldn't be a problem if black men worked on making their OWN businesses and brands where they can make their own rules and wear what they want. If it ain't yours, don't be mad when the rules don't benefit you!!
😭😭😭😭 my entire life I’ve have to cut my dreads from my family so my friends & I whom also have dreads started our own corporation. We just made the business journal last week, no white bosses needed just talanted black men with dreads lol 💯
The truth is you will rarely see any man with long hair in those corporate setting. Whether it’s a white man with a mullet, black man with dreads, or a native man with long braids.
Love how corporate sellouts think they figured it out. Think everybody wants to be them. There are few things less important than climbing the corporate ladder.
I’m white and I’m offended by this lol. As a man don’t let anyone… ANYONE… tell you what to do with yourself. Edit: “it’s not selling, out it’s buying in” sounds exactly what a soulless suit would say
as a man? look how combative and unsubmissive y’all are to his reason and advice when by your logic, it’s unfair or stupid. but his word becomes infallible and undisagreeable with, when it’s about women? suddenly taking advice and heeding what another man says is unmanly? the manual gymnastics to defend not following what you preach, and not listening to the figure you uplift when they start talking about you too lol. what does kat williams say, racism always funny until it’s your turn. that’s how all you manosphere bozos act when anyone asks you to do anything after watching 30 hours of straight women belittling and advice giving content
@@angel1202003 man what the hell are you talking about? I love Kevin Samuels and his logic but it’s ok to disagree with him on a topic. This one in particular men shouldn’t have to cut their hair if they have the credentials. Now if it’s unkept he’ll yeah.
It is bullshit. Just start your own business. You will likely never reach upper management anyway. Do these boomers really think cutting your dreads will actually help you? It tells everyone that you are weak and are compliant. They will be less willing to give you a promotion and they will keep pushing your boundaries and putting roadblock after roadblock in your way. This is how the corporate system works. The only thing that really helps you get promoted is networking and making sure you keep track of your work so that you have evidence to back up your claims when you ask to be promoted.
I went to my moms graduation from Capella University Online in Dallas Texas back in September and there were at least 12 black men with dreads walking across that stage with their doctorates 🖤🤎 There were sooooo many blacks getting masters and doctorate degrees, literally hundreds of our people. I was soooo proud. Dallas, TX disproves everything this man said. In life in Chicago and you’d be surprised how some of these branch managers and CFO’s look. Everybody here have locs including my childrens & I🤷🏾♀️
I haven’t cut my hair in 4yrs. I have dreads but somehow I’m steady moving up…… naw I disagree here my boy! Keep them neat, nice looking, lined up, but most importantly be smart and knowledgeable. That’s what them ppl care about. Only 1 color and thing matters to them and that’s GREEN!!
@@geraldmasiu8505Because they're hypocrites who want you to conform to their preferences. Because hairstyles are just that. Preferences. Everybody always preaches not to indulge in falling into stereotypes but that's exactly what they're doing. People like that only follow the rules they make when it benefits them.
@@seriouscyrus6982 Yeah ,and the rabbit hole goes very deep where most people cannot make that judgement They ”make” the rules so I'm sure they feel entitled to break them to suit a certain agenda Society will forever be held back by this superficial thinking
I dont stand with Kevin on this one , we shall grow our hair till the coming of the lord , not for the upper class white man . No man shall ever bow to his neighbour .
I’m a lead software engineer at a financial fortune 100 and own 2 consultant businesses, one oversees and one in the states, that both generate significant revenue and yield great profits. My locs are too high mid back. This shit needs to stop. But I keep mine clean though
I don’t give a F about none of that.. If I had dreads.. I’m not cutting them for anybody! Nothing to do with selling out.. It’s the principle. Stop making other people rich anyway and start your own business.
Oh another “I don’t give a F” dude. Nobody gives a F that you don’t give a F. You guys with this mentality are a dime a dozen and 5 for a nickel. Keep on being who you want to be and eat the crumbs I throw away. Real kings know image matters.
This is one thing he said that I can't agree on. Now I agree if the locs are unkempt,free-form, etc... you can still look very professional with locs. I think they're laws that prevent discrimination based on hair.
I agree %1,000,000. He did state If you want to work and move up, that Corpt Ladder. For me you can learn Under the Umbrella, take that Knowledge and business attitude and take that leap of faith to start your Own business. Yes it will be hard but if your Physical identity and belief is that strong, then go ahead and change the narrative by becoming a succes for others to follow. Everyone will Not succeed but that Doesn't mean we should all Conform and settle for the Norm.
I work for the world’s largest accounting and marketing firm, and they don’t give a damn about my hair, they want to know if I’m competent. Every person I’ve worked with LOVES my locs, The CEO’s, management and clients.
It’s 2024..as long as your clean it doesn’t matter it’s what you can provide for the company.. I been had dreads .. and I went from 15 an hour to 28 in 3years
“Be your own boss” is the common rebuttal to this situation, but the reality is this: everyone is not meant to be a boss, everyone will not be a successful boss.
@@birdieagszero6570 Didn’t have to listen soon as I saw him I knew he was a snake oil salesman. I’m not easily influenced n I dance to the beat of my own drum 🤷🏽♂️
Thank you!! They need to stop with the self hatred and embrace their black people. All of this over some hair🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️,no wonder we can’t move forward,always tryna please the upper white people
@@josephandreuccetti7270 I understand that too. For most people,you do have to start somewhere and that will mostly be working for a company ,but you shouldn’t stop at that point and get comfortable
Where do you see upper management with dreads? Where do you see single men in upper management? Only 20% of the population is going to be business owners.
The problem I have with his statement is Most my homies with locs have PHD and bringing in 150k plus. Ain’t no anomaly it’s several . Also whenever Black men do fit the corporate image and climb the ladder they don’t DO ANYTHING to change the narrative and most don’t put others on or start a business and employ others to change anything. I been a telecom engineer for almost 10 years and I got locs. Working corporate now with a company whose revenue is 38 Billion and has they hands in several industries from avionics, Aerospace, to Automation
I see why his time here was short. Even the lord got siccuh him and said "it's time to go & give everybody on earth a break" 😂 And no. I'm not reading replies
@@katvogue2871 jigga hair wasn’t always like that bro. He rocked the face for quite a while. He played the game got F you money then he did that to his hair. The journey is not the destination
Its not a colour issue. If a whiteman had dreads, he wouldnt get a roll high up in the corporate world either. Neither would a white guy with a mullet or long rocker style hair cuts.
Nah. Most of these black men with dreads are baby momma raised men. They typically have long hair and wear two earrings like a woman that they were raised to be. They are trying to be pretty, cool, or hip instead utilitarian which a man is supposed to be. They would know this if they grew up with a father in the house. Also, everybody talking about starting your own business when they don’t have capital. Sounds like more irrational baby momma raised fantasy talk. Y’all sound like the delusional women that raised you. Kevin was talking specifically about working in the corporate world, but let’s play the delusional game that everyone can start their own business. How are you going to get capital to start your business? It’s going to be hard to get banks or investors to take you serious when you are a grown ass man with dreads hanging down your back. Good luck on your essence and oil business.
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
Kevin was giving white talking points, but he made disparaging remarks about black women that appealed black men. Why not learn the white man's company and build your own. Maintain your culture and build an empire.
Had dreads when I got my degree. Had dreads when I got my honors. Had dreads when I got my masters. Had dreads when I hired white people to work in my company.
Now that's the flex
Okay so you’re an exception, good for you. Idk what’s the degrees have anything to do anything he said… same with starting your own business. Low key flex ig, congrats on debt. He was talking More about corporate ladders. Not start your own barber shop day.
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@@ZukMyZikzero exception here
@@SamsonTheWyrm expectation*
On the other hand if you don't want to cut your dreads, you could start your own company. That way NO one can tell you what to do.
Bruh black people say the dumbest shit. Everyone can’t start their own company. If that’s the case there would be no employees, just CEOs
@@327Jhigh It's only a mindset issue!!
Anyone that knows what it takes to learn, set up and run a business understands MOST people will NEVER be successful in business. Even MOST people that do set up a business fail within the first few years. Kevin Samuels understands this, hence why he promotes getting work in the corporate world over screaming entrepreneurship
@@m8ndayj766 If you are going to venture out on something and you know your going to fail, you might as well stay in bed, and do nothing.
Starting your own company doesn’t excuse you from having a brand image.
I'll never cut my hair to build someone else's dream
The dumbest sh*t I've read 😂
@MrRamazanLale2 .... so right after you commented, you realized how dumb your comment was??? Bravo for your self-awareness!!👏🏾
💯💯💯💪✊💪 Facts bro!!!
@@MrRamazanLale2So are you a yt or just an Uncle Ruckus? Either way eat a bowl of BBC's😅
@@MrRamazanLale2 well it’s not because there’s multiple men in the industry of business who have never cut their hair. For whatever reason, men see long hair on men as Finneman, when in actuality in the Bible, it states that men with long hair have a great power and when you cut that hair, you lose it all that power. Why cut your hair to someone else is the men’s when you can start your own business and I have to cut your hair at all as what he saying. So it’s not the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard it’s only the dumbest shit you ever heard because you’re used to doing something someone else is telling you to do your used to being ruled you used to being told how to work and do work. That’s why it’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard.
imagine you cut your dreads and still don’t get the fucking job
Exactly and would most likely happen. Companies don't give af ab us like that
@@OffixialGem True but u gotta cut ur hair to get hired its just the way it is clean cut race always plays apart u gotta represent the company who they want. Or go be self employed strat ur new business or Get with the Program thats how the Western Job & Business Structure us u Sell Out & Buy in to Feed urself and Family & Pay ur Bills.
Then you wouldn't have a central air filter on your head catching particals from the air.
😂
Buying into them and their dream don’t promise they gone care about you
Cutting your hair for money and the approval and acceptance of others sounds like everything a true man stands against.
FACTS
It is but listen to what he's saying in context. When working FOR companies and representing those companies, you have to assimilate and yes SELL OUT/BUY IN. My father told me these things and as a young black man who now has locs down to my stomach, I could care less what ppl think of my hair. But, I don't work in corporate America either.
Slave
Exactly
Because hair is more important than money 😂😂😂
“Whenever you depend on your enemy for a job , you are in bad shape“ Malcolm X
🎯
Who is the enemy?
Bro white and black people are not enemies I promise u that 😂😂
This!! They don't own SHXT.... don't want to build but complain about other's rules established
@@peterthethird7132 yeah if only the Buffalo shooter saw it that way
Had dreads when a tv station hired me as an intern. Had dreads when our local CBS hired me. Had dreads when the White House and state department invited me me to cover the inaugural ball. Im using my second degree and still have dreads working as a Psychotherapist.
It all depends on the type of dreads you have if your dressing like these goofy hip hop artists or raised by single mother thugs out here then yea I can see the stereotypes
Preach champ!!!
KS is mainly referring to corporate america. With career paths such as Manager, Directer, VP, C-Suite
Yes, you can be very successful with dreads or any hairstyle but if you take a look at the C-suite for the top fortune 1000 companies, you likely won’t see a single person with dreads.
🤝🏾
I knew this guy was talking shit
Now we are seeing black men with locs as Doctors, Lawyers, CEOs! Stop playing. Our hair is coming through and opening doors!!
Name an appointed ceo with dreadlocks
Stop dreaming, we know who he is talking about and it ain’t doctors, lawyers, ceos
I'm living proof.
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
@@kaveenchandra8009bro you dont move up and become CEO are you dumb thats not how that works fam😂😂😂
As a black man with dreads, he is 100% correct. This is why I choose to be self-employed. Whoever signs your paychecks, makes the rules. Just how it is.
Within the corporate arena I’ve worked with a plethora of black males that have dreads and most have a salary range from 60-80,000.
@Critical Thinking right ppl act like it's impossible to make good income with hair. It all depends who companies you working for & who allow it
Can’t be that way if they accept and use public/govt money.
True enough, but his message was for the masses.. because not everyone gonna get that pass just based in their knowledge/skill without the clean cut image he speaks of.. he basically shedding light on how easier it can be for us black men by applying what he speaking on..🤷🏾♂️
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Go into tech fellow black men. Most forward companies don't give a shit if your hair is purple. It's your mind that they need, not a look or brand.
Currently working in tech sales they really aren't discriminatory in my experience thus far ( Japanese company) I can wear whatever, piercings, tattoos, unconventional business attire. But if I have a meeting with a client you be damn sure I'm in a suit and tie clean cut.
💯💯💯 plus it’s not really a customer interaction unless it’s sales
most life is sales, you just don’t realize it yet
Standard tech job uniform is a cartoon t shirt skateboard shoes on with a hairstyle for YOUR personality 🤣
True bro😊
“If you want to move up, you gotta bend over and…” is basically what he’s saying.
Never in a million years,not today ,not tomorrow not ever..slavery mentality
Black woman with locs here. This is the easiest and cheapest way for my hair to grow. A wig should not be required, a weave should not be required, a perm should not be required, a flat iron should not be required
Im sure neat dreads aren’t a problem but you can’t show up to work lookin like Hov and get the management job.
@@eyeinsee no arguments here!
It's completely different for women. Why do you guys think the same rules apply to you as well. Women with long hair is acceptable in any arena, men with long hair is not acceptable in corporate America.
@@matthewtrauger3683 that is not true at all. Women in the military have hair standards. Where I currently work the length and thickness of my hair is called into question due to policies. I'm sure women in police service have standards as well.
SOME things are universal regardless of gender.
"This stream is for BLACK MEN..." Did you miss that part or was it too tedious a task to allow black men a moment??
" they made us hate ourselves and love there wealth"
I haven't done anything to you. Who TF are you?
@drewski2001 u one of them why u even on here this 4 black brothers
@@earlyjet6338 This came up while I was watching other godfather videos.
Speak for yourself.
- Kanye West - All Falls Down ft. Syleena Johnson
This is one of the main reasons I got a trade. Because when something goes wrong with someone's electricity they don't care what you look like they only want to know if you can fix it or not.
Right
No they actually do care. You just don't know what job you missed out on because of your hair and you'll never know.😮
@@montyjay7621
I'm only speaking for my experience. I never entered a person house or got called for a job and was told that they changed their mind.
@@montyjay7621 so true
@@montyjay7621I mean trades could damn well open up a lot of doors and pay good anywhere in the country and than take those skills within 5 to 10 years and turn it into your own 🤷🏽♂️
22 years ago my ex-husband's job told him if he didn't cut his hair they would have to let him go. It was construction and he was only 18! He needed the job so he asked me to cut his locs off for him. His locs were majestic! He looked like he had a lion's mane. It devastated him but he wanted to provide for the family. 3 months later they still laid him off. He started a new set but they just didn't have the power of the first set.
That's because it wasn't his hair they had a problem with, it was his skin. They were banking on him saying, "No! I won't cut my hair." Since he did they had to muster up courage to do what they wanted to do all along--Racist Cowards!
Woah.. sorry to hear that happened but thankyou for sharing your story it’s a valuable lesson
That's what makes me angry. Hair doesn't prove your professional. And these brothers wanna say they're not sell outs, they are.
No businessman can confidently and firmly tell me that they'd choose the doctor with no experience and cut hair over the doctor with long hair with experience to save their life. This is outrageous.
😢
Sad, but that was the whole point of why he should have kept his locs because it was only a matter of time before they found another reason to let him go. I played the game, with short wavy hair in a majority ⚪️ school district, and out the blue they decided to suspend me because I looked like a threat on the school campus, knowing I've been with the school for six months already. I turned around and asked the staff what did I do that made me a threat, and they said I walked into the building with a hood on my head, and the Texas temperature that day was 38 degrees. I walked away and never looked back. It was never about the hair. It was always about the skin color.
As a woman with locs I am in a “high ranking” career and I still get the respect that my yt counterparts receive. I refuse to put some silky straight hair hat on my head for some “respect”.
Exactly
Kevin is not talking to women, yall not even in this discussion. Rules are different for women because women are allowed to have long hair. Nice try sis
Sit this one out madame.
@@jesus4lyfe00
That's weird though. Hair in the bible indicated power didn't it?
Nothings wrong with have long hair, it's hair. Literally means nothing to your skills.
@@jesus4lyfe00 100% well said black american women have a Wiggle room and Little more Space with Hair for Certain jobs cuz their still women so that buys them the room and Space to Grow and have Differnt Hair Styles but for a Black Man in Corporate America The Rules are Clear Clean Cut u get Better Looks May get Promotion Ease Tentions when ur White Boss walks buy and See Ur Dressed and Gor a Clean Short Cut Race Always Plays Apart in Hiring Their is No Window for Identity we are All One Under The Corporate Structure As For Male While their are Brothers with Dreads in All Western Feilds they Too Play the Game
I got 7 years of growth and patience 😂 I ain’t cutting shit.
Me too, I'm not a man but I had my locs for 7 years too. I'm not cutting my hair, or going back to the creamy crack or wigs/weave.
More power to y'all, never compromise just to fit in.
@@Anime_no_joō yeah I’m never cutting mines either especially for something I probably won’t be doing for a year
@@dboi4952 you can it fitting in. But in reality it’s called doing what needs to be done to get where you want to be. Good job taking a stand and good luck moving up the corporate ladder if that’s something you want to do. They’re not gonna give the job to a white man with a Mohawk either.
word I'll work it my way fk em
I’m not cutting my hair to build up another man’s brand. I know my worth.
He said if...
Indeed
You hair ain't worth ish
😂😂😂
“When in Rome…”
Make your own and do as you wish.
Got dreads 9 months ago. It has greatly contributed to self confidence and overall happiness. Im not cutting them for a goddamn thing
Read (1 st. Corinthians 11 verse 14,15).
@@karlsmith2451 read this message: mind your own business
@@karlsmith2451Read Ephesians 5:3
If your hair makes you confident you are weak minded
@@karlsmith2451it says it’s bad?
Usually kev is right but he's incorrect on this one. I was the first man to have locks at my job (a place where locks were seen as unprofessional). I started my job with a fro and demonstrated my value to the company. As I progressed, my hair got longer and I locked it. You know whats crazy? The person at my job who supported me having locks the most was a boomer white lady. She told me "the only reason it's considered unprofessional is because nobody has the balls to just wear locks in a professional environment, until you showed up 😊"
My Mom said the same thing kevin saying, but after i got my locks and she saw how it had no effect on my career progression, she has locks longer than mine now lol! This is one of those topics that if you haven't had locks in corporate world, you really cant speak on it what is possible.
I encourage everyone to not be neutered by societal norms when it comes to looks and appearances. Appearance doesn't even matter guys, your actions matter.
Man I listened to a guy telling me this shit and cut my hair. Got in the program to find almost everyone had long hair. Pissed me off so bad. I just thought I'd add that this happened over 20yrs ago. Dont want folks to get to carried away about it, I learned a few lessons from it indeed so thank you all for the insight.
You don’t have to cut your hair but at least make sure it’s washed, smelling good, and recently touched up
It’s outdated. Just like how they used to say you won’t get hired with tattoos. As younger people take over it becomes less of an issue. Also black people (women in particular) are wearing their hair in more natural styles. Hell even the military has changed the rules on hair
@@igotthejuicesucka7939 I know it's outdated indeed. For example women used to have issues with having natural hair getting into corporate world or getting into any office job in general. Nowadays black women can have all kinds of natural hair and have no problems with a lot of companies nowadays. This is very outdated and people who listen to this is just limiting themselves. Depending on how clean your dreads look, you should be fine. Plenty of dudes with nice looking dreads doing just fine.
It's weird that men complain that women don't have natural hair when women had to do weaves and wigs to get into employment and girls had issues at school for having natural hair and if it's afro it's considered "unkept'. But tell men to cut their dreads so they can be proper. Weird weird weird. Nowadays this is erasing and I'm proud of the black community for doing so much things to changing the other communities mindsets and accepting our natural selves.
@@loopymomy2532 the first paragraph was on point, but then somehow you made this a man vs woman thing.. y’all just love division huh lol
@@iamgiocasino It didn't turn into a man vs women thing. Yes I did add that in there because it is the facts. I find it very weird that men continue to want to say they want women to be natural but at the same time can't embrace their own culture of hair because coporate but forget that women also had the same issue and rule out to that nope that had nothing to do with it at all that never happens yall just reaching argument.
White men have the right to have whatever requirements for THEIR business. Black men start your OWN business.
Be honest. How many White men with long hair have you seen in corporate? White men with long hair are in rock bands or dollar general.
This applies to everyone. No one in upper management looks sloppy regardless of ethnicity. I don’t see any white guys with cavemen hair and bears in my company
@@tyali84 exactly 💯
@@tyali84 it doesn’t matter bunch of foolishness. Slave mentality
@@tyali84how many yt some have you seen with many black hairstyles black women love 🙄 y’all are so coon out and full of self hate and doing massas bidding.
As a mexican and white man that's had dreads before. Don't let anyone tell you how to dress or style yourself.. if you want dreads, rock them.. you wanna be clean cut, rock it. Be your own man and don't let another dictate the way you present yourself Kings. 😎
My dad used to say the same thing. I proved it wrong I got into my industry and worked my way all the way to the top first with an curly fro, then braids, ponytail all the way to dreads. I have sat in board rooms in some of the top corporations in my industry. I have hired and fired white, black and brown people with these dreads. If you're good at what you do and you know your stuff you can accomplish anything with your dreads.
I do not wish to be a slave to money
I wear my Locs 👑
Proudly
🏴☠️
It was about maturity, not money in general📕🔍🤔🤨😎👍
😂😂😂
cut my dreads to work for white ppl and "move up"? lmao. yeah, im straight.
The start you own business! other wise humble yourself to become greater
@@savagehyphen01 i have my own business already and i have a job. Now go play in traffic and find you somebody to play with, clown.
@@savagehyphen01 you....cant....spell. lmaoo you.....seem...slow
Publicly traded companies have to stop being labeled as white. We give these troglodytes more power than they have. But yes there’s nothing wrong with fitting the image for the brand you represent. But only if it absolutely benefits you and yours
Tell that to Barack......
He walked in the next day and those white guys hes talking about are all like "wonder why he cut his hair, I liked it"
As a young man, I learned that money isn't everything. I was sitting in for a group interview/training for UPS. The person leading the interview said that employees need to be clean shaven and cut their beards. She said if you have a problem with that, we were free to get up and leave. That's exactly what I did. I'm a registered nurse today making almost $200k a year. Alhamdulilah!
are you a travel nurse?
@@jemiinou I work for a local agency but the pay is actually better than a travel nurse. Locked in an excellent rate at the perfect time.
@@hajj623 i hope for the same one day. ty for replying
@@jemiinou Keep looking. Whatever is meant for you will be yours. Blessings 🙌🏾
That's why I work for myself! long hair don't care!!💪🏾💯💪🏾💯
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Ezekiel 44:20
“Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
King James Version (KJV)
Not long hair don't care 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dierremoore1997 🧔🏾♀️…😂
@@lionheartisrael249I have read this like 5 times and I still don’t understand am I retarded or something?😂
Cutting your hair is a sign that you are willing to be conditioned 🤷🏾♀️
Very true. I wouldn’t do it for a job.
If you want to play the corporate business role that may apply. It just depends on the kind of locs honestly. Free forming probably isn’t going to be accepted. It what is it.
Wanna change it.
Get your own damn company.
We’ve all been conditioned since the day we were dropped out. This is more like learning and adapting
You're a woman
he is talking about men here,we cut our hair often.
No, it means you're willing to adjust. We all have to do it at some point. If there's a dress code at your job/ career, you're saying you wont comply? Because it's "conditioning?" I don't understand why our community has issues understanding this concept. We hold on to the most ridiculous aspects of "blackness." Try going to the military with that kind of thinking.
Im 25 and make 6 figures with braids. You dont have to cut your hair but you MUST stay sharp and wear your hair in styles that dont cover your face. Make sure you are getting your hair retwisted/braided about every 2-4 weeks as well as a shape up. I would also suggest making sure you get a small fade on your hairline as well (makes your hairstyle look more professional imo).
What about an Afro?
@@anti-hiphop1933 I know it sucks because it’s our natural but hair I would just braid it or dread it in a style where it’s tied up. The main goal is to stay as sharp as possible.
@@Way2Raw Dreading or braiding would require men to spend hours in a salon to get their hair right. It’s not really a manly thing to do tbh.
@@anti-hiphop1933ard then big dog rock the fro then all power to you🙏🏽
@@anti-hiphop1933your speaking out your ass. Have a seat. Men have been wearing long hair since the beginning of time. Quit being stoopid on purpose.
🧢 I got locs and I work an office job with nothing but white millionaires. It’s all about your vibe!!!
I'll never cut my hair just to please other people
Then build your own, or shut up
He never said you have to. You can do what you like but you'll just have to accept that you'll never be in higher cooperate positions making over 100k
When black men don't know who they are, they just want to be accepted by the oppressor. Why deity a recessive being who's offended by the expression of your dominate genetics and it makes him insecure. We got to raise strong confident black men. Not metro sexuals, who hate their masculinity and bend over for white men. His time is up anyway. See past the illusion. How can you be happy making 6 figures, when you hate yourself. You a 6 figure slave. Kevin Samuel's didn't exude masculinity. No confident and secure black woman would ever want him. She'd have to be comfortable being a doormat.
He said if
@@paulcastillo9292That's why Black men need to open their own businesses. We can then employ others and not look down on brothers for their locs.
Buying In...."Into corporate slavery"
You buy into slavery one way or another if not corporate, your own customers if you choose the entrepreneur route. You may start the business but your customers are in control of you keeping your business afloat
This is why you're poor.
@@healingtaco1207and you are too?
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
@@healingtaco1207Being poor and content is better than being a worker living their lives through other peoples expectations. A much richer and fufilling life.
I love this comment section!! I'm so proud to see this...🙌🏾 keep your hair and create your own wealth black men! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾♥️
That buying-in line tho😂
Support black businessese and keep your hair locs! ✊🏽
We're talking about the corporate ladder
@@garygnu8775tell him again
No
Black corporations?
Blacks are not supporting our black own businesses, stop the cap. It only sounds good
Yeah cut my dreads to climb up they're corporate ladder just to later get fired because I'm exceeding expectations and someone feels threatened.
Sure bud...
If you are soaring up the corporate ladder making a name for your self, wouldn't that be the right time to start your own business?
@@tonimartin8547 true
@Loc Chaney So, they wouldn't fire you, bc they need you and fear you would leave with their clients. Plus ppl use corporate jobs as a launching pad for their own projects/ start-ups
@Toni Martin not going off whatbi have seen, and to mention I'm speaking from the deep South . Might be different in other sides in the states
Work for a company that cares about diversity & doesn’t create a toxic culture
I will not change my hair for the man no way
They’re not dreads….. they’re locks! And no other group of people are forced to change their natural appearance in order to get employment. That’s called systematic discrimination!
Thank you so much for correcting these people OMG I’m so offended from my people even calling LOCKS DREADS we have to do better
@@seairadavis8629
Yea a lot of people are full fledge eurocentric!
Exactly. Also, by calling them “dreads” , it puts a negative connotation on the hair style.
Most men, if they go unshaven, will grow facial hair. Look at world leaders, high ranking political leaders & professionals, lot of low hairstyles and clean shaven. "Systemic racism?" Those fields/jobs where locks are discouraged, are white men wearing long hair styles or man buns? If beards are discouraged on black men are they acceptable for whites?
Many places are moving away from this. But for some it's an unwritten rule.
yall mfs are delusional talkin ab eurocentric 😭 i’m white and i cut my long hair and it’s def made an improvement in my life and how people treat me especially profession wise . besides long hair don’t belong on a grown ass man
This is why I am a senior level engineer in IT at 30. None of that bs well into the 6 figures with my locs.
That's right, my brother... blessings be on to u, mind makes matter, matter never makes the mind...meaning anything outside of the mind is made by man, and hair on your head can never make or create only the mind has this power...this is just b.s to a low self esteem have not...to judge on appearance and not creativity. Shout out to all professionals locs whose moving up.
Me too. But it's more of a creative space so, it's a bit different.
Hell yeah.
Ive learned in life instead of complaining about rules n regulations, just improvise
Do you think they judge black men with dreads when break into the IT field?
@callme_fakez no, you will be just fine with your locs in IT
If you have to change yourself to fit into someone else's image, especially for financial gain, that's the very definition of selling out. No matter how you want to phrase it
He died with less than 2k in his bank account. He wasn't a high value man 😂
And never worked in corporate America and he literally has all these dudes brainwashed
F00l he had like 5 mil .. which is more money than u will see in your life
@@Animeop-1519 I read an article that said that he had less than 2k in his personal bank account at the time of his death.
@Animeop-1519 he had assets, but what was in his bank account was under 2k
Who cares what he had when he died… what’s important is where his soul will rest 🙄
“It’s not selling out its buying in.” A distinction without a difference.”
I mean, wouldn't you be "buying in" if you bend over (figuratively and literally) for hollywood?
BOULÈ BABBLE !
Right
Boom!
Why are my comments getting deleted? I get notified about yall responding but mine isn't here.
Cut my hair for a job 5 years ago. Realized that no job should determine the length of my hair. I quit two years ago and now I work for myself and I have employees all while maintaining my in cornrows or plaits.
The best choice I ever made.
Wow! Que lo que mi loco? Nunca pensé que estarías aquí jajaja Que estranho! Hace poco tiempo 'staba hablando de ti con compañeros de trabajo colombianos...
Cut your damn hair. Enough is enough with the dreadlocks and the damn cornrows
The better question is, what am I buying into?
I’ve moved up in company’s and leading teams and everything, never had to cut my dreads to move up…it’s about your work ethic, your ability to lead and be competent at your job
Fuck that. Dreads are a fashion statement. My best apprentices are black and have dreads. When you allow people to be themselves, they yield better results, and outdo their competitors.
Dreads are fashion statement? You sound like a woman. God help our black men.
@@pr4275 you can't judge people by the way they look. You can't read a person like you read a comic book. God, the ignorance!!!
Best response!!
look how combative and unsubmissive y’all are to his reason and advice when by your logic, it’s unfair or stupid. but his word becomes infallible and undisagreeable with, when it’s about women? black women especially? lol. no high value man outside of rappers and entertainers have dreads.
That shit is DEFINITELY NOT a fashion statement lmao. Dudes out here looking like females
Or do a job where it doesn't matter. BUT I am not in the business of begging others to accept me.
Yep 💪🏿
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Awww, im disappointed the guys on here are not willing to take this advice. I guess his content is only OK when he's criticizing blk women.
@@ceecee4049 It's valuable for who It's for.
I mean you don’t see investment bankers walking around tall spiked mohawks or hair lookin like goku’s it’s not a race issue
@Cee Cee awww it's sad guys here dnt want to kiss yt men ass to make a living
Never cuttin my locs off ur buggin.. it gave me more wisdom 100-%
You’re
Mr Wisdom
and broke💸😎👍
@@Justaguywithtruthcause you know me right?.. bless ur soul anyways man.. stay positive
Lol. Locs gave you wisdom? Bottom-barrel thinking.
Selling out, or “conforming”, is exactly what it is. Regardless, it took me years to realize that I’m not cut out to work for anyone. I’ve always had inconsistent performance at work. But I noticed that I became more productive, more reliable, and that my performance became more consistent when I started working for myself.
agreed
What do you do?
@@erroneouse1929 video editing, mostly freelance. I’m also a part-time consulting partner for a business consulting firm. Good thing about the firm is that it’s black-owned, so no one is pressed about my locs.
That part💯
I went to a bank interview years ago, with my nose, tongue, & lip ring in. If I recall correctly, I believe my hair was in natural form also but if it wasn’t the piercings still speak volumes. The manager was an old white military man who I had an amazing conversation with. After the interview, he told me he’d connect me with the manger for a location near my home. When that manager contacted me, he told me I was highly recommended. I didn’t take the job but I got it. I didn’t care about my appearance because when I open my mouth my character speaks volumes. Anyone or any job that judges based off appearance isn’t the job for you. Nobody should be subjected to discrimination in the name of “success.”
That is a entry level position. That's not what hes talking about. We're they hiring you to be district manager or a teller? Big difference
Thank you!
Great response 👍 👏
This is why black men should have never stop building even when they burn us out of home flooded us I wish would have keep going and help another man build his richest
Two things can be true. Kevin can be well respected by black men, and hell no, I ain't cutting my locs. I let the military tell me how I should present myself long enough. That's part of why I got out.
I’m so glad that there are Black men that have their own company and businesses. ❤
Yes with actual employees and my pleasures
Yep……I bought in……and then got SOLD!!! I later decided to never cut my Locs, studied Rastafari culture and I am now a College Professor as well as an Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker!
He specifically said if they want to move up the corporate ladder. You work in academia, not corporate America, so your situation is not relevant to his advice.
@staywoke3074 It seems as though you had nothing to offer this gentleman Other than your opinion, which was not positive in the least.
He stated what happened in his life and how he overcame. just accept it and leave it at that. No need to belittle anybody or berate them. Because you feel like you have some form of knowledge That that individual doesn't
@@karlinharris1827Thank you, it was a VERY positive comment, and to see someone be like "Well actually let me point out that your circumstances dont apply bc you didn't follow word for word so what you say doesnt belong here, sorry im the comment police 🚨" when in all actuality he provided a great personal example to add nuance to this conversation. So to say who this does and does not apply to is unnecessary, especially when the comment is negative and provides NOTHING to the conversation but exclusive thoughts.. Either say something worthwhile or keep it moving 🤦♂️
I have a degree in mass communications and. I never had to cut my Dreads.and I still have him today.
Honestly, I believe this is a universal standard in the corporate world. I can't recall any C-level execs with long hair period. The model is clean cut.
I agree with him, I once had dreads and noticed I wasn’t getting hired by anyone until I cut them then I got a job. I busted my ass and moved up to project manager. Once i became a manager I started growing my hair back and now they’re past my shoulders. I hittem with the okie doke. I hate it has to be this way but it is what it is.
It doesn't "have" to be that way. But you made a decision that was in your best interest. It's understandable 👏🏼
Yooo .. I never had dreads or long hair, but I always thought the same way.. I would have done the same thing bro.. I think people have to much pride in certain areas.. Congrats 👏 to your success 🙌
good job bro
EXACTLY. Too many of our people are so obstinate to their detriment. You have to work the system. Don't let it work you.
Remain sheep then @@TheBlackSheepReport
Buying in sounds like the same thing as selling out in this context. 😂
I love, love, love this comment. That is exactly what it is.
Only if your mind is not mature enough to comprehend all three phases of what he was saying🤔 Majority that don't get it are more into their feelings and Emotions that Intellect🤨 and Beta Males can't understand this..at all😎☝️
Exactly lol
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He knew most ppl cant decipher doublespeak
Guess Jay Z didn't get the memo 😂
Funny, I’ve had dreads collectively for 9 years and I now own a chain of barbershops and never had an issue moving up because of my hair
Can't tell white men how to act or dress in THEIR establishments. You gotta play by their rules. This wouldn't be a problem if black men worked on making their OWN businesses and brands where they can make their own rules and wear what they want. If it ain't yours, don't be mad when the rules don't benefit you!!
If it ultimately lines your pockets and takes you to that level you’re looking for? Then the rules do benefit you.
White men also have to cut their hair what are you talking about
White men also need to cut their hair. Ots not a race thing.
I don't see no white dudes with long hair in corporate America either ..🤷🏽♂️
@@iatealready5544 you need to have a goal to make some money
😭😭😭😭 my entire life I’ve have to cut my dreads from my family so my friends & I whom also have dreads started our own corporation. We just made the business journal last week, no white bosses needed just talanted black men with dreads lol 💯
Real.
Beautiful 🌹
Nothing like being your own boss.
Congratulations and good luck fellas
The truth is you will rarely see any man with long hair in those corporate setting. Whether it’s a white man with a mullet, black man with dreads, or a native man with long braids.
Man I wish I cut my hair to work for a company sees me as expendable, I be done cut my hair and fired next month bald headed looking crazy.
Love how corporate sellouts think they figured it out. Think everybody wants to be them. There are few things less important than climbing the corporate ladder.
Exactly
Agreed
Not cutting my BLACK hair for anyone and I get paid thank you
I’m white and I’m offended by this lol. As a man don’t let anyone… ANYONE… tell you what to do with yourself.
Edit: “it’s not selling, out it’s buying in” sounds exactly what a soulless suit would say
💯 I won't be cutting my dreads anytime soon. I understand what he's saying but I won't be complaining because my hair just means that much to me
as a man? look how combative and unsubmissive y’all are to his reason and advice when by your logic, it’s unfair or stupid. but his word becomes infallible and undisagreeable with, when it’s about women?
suddenly taking advice and heeding what another man says is unmanly? the manual gymnastics to defend not following what you preach, and not listening to the figure you uplift when they start talking about you too lol.
what does kat williams say, racism always funny until it’s your turn. that’s how all you manosphere bozos act when anyone asks you to do anything after watching 30 hours of straight women belittling and advice giving content
Your white case closed 😂 you don't get gentrified and profiled by your hair
@@angel1202003 man what the hell are you talking about? I love Kevin Samuels and his logic but it’s ok to disagree with him on a topic. This one in particular men shouldn’t have to cut their hair if they have the credentials. Now if it’s unkept he’ll yeah.
Every corporate job has a dress code especially the management. Society is run by rules, wtf are you talking about?
F@#k the corporate ladder!! I've owned my on business going on 16yrs. I do what I please but I keep it professional
But that's the point brotha!
That's it✊🏿
It is bullshit. Just start your own business. You will likely never reach upper management anyway. Do these boomers really think cutting your dreads will actually help you? It tells everyone that you are weak and are compliant.
They will be less willing to give you a promotion and they will keep pushing your boundaries and putting roadblock after roadblock in your way. This is how the corporate system works. The only thing that really helps you get promoted is networking and making sure you keep track of your work so that you have evidence to back up your claims when you ask to be promoted.
I went to my moms graduation from Capella University Online in Dallas Texas back in September and there were at least 12 black men with dreads walking across that stage with their doctorates 🖤🤎 There were sooooo many blacks getting masters and doctorate degrees, literally hundreds of our people. I was soooo proud. Dallas, TX disproves everything this man said. In life in Chicago and you’d be surprised how some of these branch managers and CFO’s look. Everybody here have locs including my childrens & I🤷🏾♀️
Im not cutting my hair for anyone. Thats why I plan on building a business myself.
I haven’t cut my hair in 4yrs. I have dreads but somehow I’m steady moving up…… naw I disagree here my boy! Keep them neat, nice looking, lined up, but most importantly be smart and knowledgeable. That’s what them ppl care about. Only 1 color and thing matters to them and that’s GREEN!!
Facts !!! I never get why they always preach diversity but fail dismally to implement it
@@geraldmasiu8505Because they're hypocrites who want you to conform to their preferences. Because hairstyles are just that. Preferences. Everybody always preaches not to indulge in falling into stereotypes but that's exactly what they're doing. People like that only follow the rules they make when it benefits them.
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@@seriouscyrus6982 Yeah ,and the rabbit hole goes very deep where most people cannot make that judgement
They ”make” the rules so I'm sure they feel entitled to break them to suit a certain agenda
Society will forever be held back by this superficial thinking
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Never change yourself for a company, we are not a property anymore, even if we sign contract😮
I dont stand with Kevin on this one , we shall grow our hair till the coming of the lord , not for the upper class white man . No man shall ever bow to his neighbour .
I’m a lead software engineer at a financial fortune 100 and own 2 consultant businesses, one oversees and one in the states, that both generate significant revenue and yield great profits. My locs are too high mid back. This shit needs to stop. But I keep mine clean though
I don’t give a F about none of that.. If I had dreads.. I’m not cutting them for anybody! Nothing to do with selling out.. It’s the principle. Stop making other people rich anyway and start your own business.
Oh another “I don’t give a F” dude. Nobody gives a F that you don’t give a F. You guys with this mentality are a dime a dozen and 5 for a nickel. Keep on being who you want to be and eat the crumbs I throw away. Real kings know image matters.
everybody can't have a business, the economy don't work like that..thats common sense
@@ashbarbz4220 Maybe you should have used common sense before making your comment.
@@ashbarbz4220 Not everybody has dreads either do they.. Now use some common sense…
Enjoy working in the service industry
This is one thing he said that I can't agree on. Now I agree if the locs are unkempt,free-form, etc... you can still look very professional with locs. I think they're laws that prevent discrimination based on hair.
I agree %1,000,000. He did state If you want to work and move up, that Corpt Ladder. For me you can learn Under the Umbrella, take that Knowledge and business attitude and take that leap of faith to start your Own business. Yes it will be hard but if your Physical identity and belief is that strong, then go ahead and change the narrative by becoming a succes for others to follow. Everyone will Not succeed but that Doesn't mean we should all Conform and settle for the Norm.
I work for the world’s largest accounting and marketing firm, and they don’t give a damn about my hair, they want to know if I’m competent. Every person I’ve worked with LOVES my locs, The CEO’s, management and clients.
It’s 2024..as long as your clean it doesn’t matter it’s what you can provide for the company.. I been had dreads .. and I went from 15 an hour to 28 in 3years
“Be your own boss” is the common rebuttal to this situation, but the reality is this: everyone is not meant to be a boss, everyone will not be a successful boss.
Luckily I never cut my hair .. this ain’t the plantation or Burger King .. can’t have it your way
This man had the whole black community listening.
Speak for yourself 🤦🏽♂️
@Powermoves1080 you may not have agreed, but you definitely listened your presence is evidence.🤦♂️
@@birdieagszero6570 Didn’t have to listen soon as I saw him I knew he was a snake oil salesman. I’m not easily influenced n I dance to the beat of my own drum 🤷🏽♂️
“Do what you HAVE too do, till your able to do what you WANNA do”
They are just beautiful locks, there is nothing DREADFUL about our hair.
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I like this
So just ignore the black men with hair locs who have high value profession and are bussiness owner . Don’t listen to the ignorance
Thank you!! They need to stop with the self hatred and embrace their black people. All of this over some hair🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️,no wonder we can’t move forward,always tryna please the upper white people
He said unless you own a business
He’s talking about working for a company
@@josephandreuccetti7270 I understand that too. For most people,you do have to start somewhere and that will mostly be working for a company ,but you shouldn’t stop at that point and get comfortable
Where do you see upper management with dreads? Where do you see single men in upper management? Only 20% of the population is going to be business owners.
@@Waltjoh100 I’m from the south,Louisiana there’s plenty of men with dreads in upper management,where you’re might be different
The problem I have with his statement is Most my homies with locs have PHD and bringing in 150k plus. Ain’t no anomaly it’s several . Also whenever Black men do fit the corporate image and climb the ladder they don’t DO ANYTHING to change the narrative and most don’t put others on or start a business and employ others to change anything. I been a telecom engineer for almost 10 years and I got locs. Working corporate now with a company whose revenue is 38 Billion and has they hands in several industries from avionics, Aerospace, to Automation
Anti black message. You can still look “clean cut” with LOCS.
I see why his time here was short. Even the lord got siccuh him and said "it's time to go & give everybody on earth a break" 😂
And no. I'm not reading replies
I work for oracle as a consultant I ain’t cut shit 😂😂
Well if they are concerned about my hair then it's not for me. You're there for the looks not the brains.
LMAO….man, folks like you miss the whole point.
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perfectly said bro
My hair is power ..cut them and lose your power..Kevin found that out the hard way.. rip Happy Black History month 💪🏾
The first thing he said was if you wanna work for white people 🤷🏾♂️
Unless you are in The NFL Kevin Samuels has a Point, if you are going to Business Kevin is 100% right
Can’t think of any nba/nfl coaches or GMs with dreads either.
Unless you are an asset, then you have to conform. Nothing more or less
Unless you are a investor, trader, or shareholder.
Until you see jay z and other successful black men who own their own companies and work at high level profession who have hair loc
@@katvogue2871 jigga hair wasn’t always like that bro. He rocked the face for quite a while. He played the game got F you money then he did that to his hair. The journey is not the destination
I think thats why we grow our hair. We aren’t trying to submit to the white man.
Its not a colour issue.
If a whiteman had dreads, he wouldnt get a roll high up in the corporate world either.
Neither would a white guy with a mullet or long rocker style hair cuts.
You already have 😂
Nah. Most of these black men with dreads are baby momma raised men. They typically have long hair and wear two earrings like a woman that they were raised to be. They are trying to be pretty, cool, or hip instead utilitarian which a man is supposed to be. They would know this if they grew up with a father in the house. Also, everybody talking about starting your own business when they don’t have capital. Sounds like more irrational baby momma raised fantasy talk. Y’all sound like the delusional women that raised you. Kevin was talking specifically about working in the corporate world, but let’s play the delusional game that everyone can start their own business. How are you going to get capital to start your business? It’s going to be hard to get banks or investors to take you serious when you are a grown ass man with dreads hanging down your back. Good luck on your essence and oil business.
But it’s his company and rules
Weird. I’m a white man and I dont give af about your hair
No. And the corporate ladder is a trap.
Yeah ok, a six figure trap 😂. It’s 1000x better than driving a forklift or running a small business. I did all three.
@@Pa19110Not arguing the pay. It’s not for everyone though.
Manager
Director
CEO
VP
Etc…etc
I finally earn over $120k a year, all my bosses are white, I'm the only black man in those morning manager meetings and I could care less. My goal is my family, our home and our survival, if a man won't cut his hair for the greater good of his family and financial stability, he's a fool. Black men having long locs and dreads (braids etc) is feminine by nature, it comes from little black boys being raise by women with no men in the home. All these boys saw was their moma's with long hair, aunties, grandmas and other babymamas and then they started emulating them. I grew up in the 90s, you NEVER saw boys with dreads, braids etc..everyone was clean cut, why? Because their were fathers in the home, thats why.
Kevin was giving white talking points, but he made disparaging remarks about black women that appealed black men.
Why not learn the white man's company and build your own. Maintain your culture and build an empire.
I work in corporate, and there are black men with dreads. as long as they are clean cut and neat. also whatever God has for you. No one can stop
Yup. He’s just reinforcing white supremacist ideology
I wanted to go up the corporate leader about 25 years ago as a teenager. I saw fast that I didn't for in. I built my own ladder
And we can tell how well that worked out for you, by the way your comment reads.
@@mattmcgrath3959 spell check… it happens….
@@mattmcgrath3959 pointing out typos make you feel like a Harvard graduate huh?
@@DomMarquess Nah, but when you're talking about you "couldn't climb the corporate ladder..." then it makes it pretty obvious.
@@mattmcgrath3959 fair point lol
Get a corporate job with the black man so you won't have to worry about this problem.