Hotel Shampoo Is “Disenfranchisement” for People of Color (POC) – IOTW Report

Hotel Shampoo Is “Disenfranchisement” for People of Color (POC)

A singer named Halsey (even I’ve never heard of this individual) shared her mental breakdown last week on Twitter when she accused the complementary hair care products provided by hotels of only working for “white people.” According to Halsey it’s a “mass production” example of “a greater problem of disenfranchisement.” More

39 Comments on Hotel Shampoo Is “Disenfranchisement” for People of Color (POC)

  1. Every woman knows to pack her own shampoo and conditioner, etc.
    She’s just being a whiner. And that cheap shampoo isn’t good enough for the ‘white people hair’ she’s complaining about. It’s water, glycerine and dish soap. Ain’t nobody tryna steal that!

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  2. When do the riots start? When do the boycotts start? When will the tv news pundits start having special town hall events to exlose this start?

    Somehow, I dont think the average black person is worried about this.

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  3. Say goodbye to any fooking shampoo in the room now,
    No Robotussen, Skittles, and Iced Tea in the vending machine? Racism
    No free hot sauce in room? Racism
    Hotel does not have a Church’s Chicken within 500 ft? Racism
    Hotel staff counts the towels after your stay? Racism
    TV Fastened to the table? Racism

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  4. Hotel in Birmingham a couple of nights last week, all the shower stuff was pump bottles in a rack up on the stall. First time I’d seen that. The shampoo was Tea Tree Oil based.

    Last time I used that was to treat a skin condition on a dog.

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  5. Just when I think the grievance crowd has finally jumped the shark, someone comes out with something even more ridiculous. I don’t even know why this stuff is even newsworthy. (I get why it’s on THIS site, i’m talking about it being all over the news.)

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  6. I bring my own shampoo and soap whenever we travel. I stuff the little bottles of toiletries from the hotel in my luggage. When I accumulate a bag full of the stuff I donate it to the local homeless shelter. I betcha if a black person got some of the donation, they wouldn’t complain.

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  7. For Pete’s sake, blacks are only 14% of the population (could’ve been more without all those abortions) and they’re totally over represented in commercials, billboards, government contracts, state jobs. Enough already!

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  8. Lowell, I’ve had the wall-mounted shampoo dispenser experience before. It’s like hitting Rock bottom, and realizing you really need to stay in a decent hotel. I used to stay in the cheapest places I could find, as a road rep back in the early 1990’s. I found a receipt for a $16 motel I stayed in, in Bemidji, MN. I’m still cheap, but I find some great rooms for little money sometimes.

    Notice the name brands on the super low end hotel toiletries. One dive I stayed in had a brand of toilet paper called ‘Surpass’.

    Here’s a hint that you’re staying in a dive. There will be a notice posted somewhere, explaining their policy on what happens if you take the towels. Or the replacement cost of various room items.

    Hotel Room Espresso recipe:
    – Call the front desk and ask for three coffee filter/grounds packs
    – Add them to the two packs in your room, and place all of them in the coffee maker
    – Add only 1.25 full cups of water
    – Start coffee maker

    You learn some things living out of a suitcase

    £|;-/)-/-<

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  9. Since 1950 everything has been RACIST! Why not shampoo?

    Ike was a racist 66 years ago; y’all probably to young to recall -but I was a white supremacist!

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  10. Wtf am I going to do with hair relaxer found in a hotel room?

    I have 3 small vials. One has the shampoo I’ve used for the past 30 odd years, another has the same brand conditioner. The smaller vial contains facial type soap, same brand I’ve used for 30 odd years, but unfortunately not the same formula. I use and reuse the hotel bar soap and steal the rest. I give the kids all the shampoo, conditioner, body wash, etc. and use the small soap bars around the utility sink.

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  11. Is this the first time she’s been in a Motel/Hotel?
    Now that Halsey (whoever that is) has had her 15 minutes of fame she may now bring her own shampoo.
    Some people are slow learners.

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  12. I went with a girl once who had, in her possession, a towel with the words “Holiday Inn” across it, in big letters, obviously a stolen item. She habitually took it to the beach whenever we would go there and dry herself off with it, in full view of everybody. I would get extremely embarrassed when that happened, but never had the heart to explain it to her.

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  13. Speaking of towels, how about people who are discriminated against because towels are too small. Yeah, half the population can’t use hotel towels! Time to boycott, demonstrate, and pass towel-size regulations.

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  14. From Boehnerdict Ryan:
    “Lowell, I’ve had the wall-mounted shampoo dispenser experience before. It’s like hitting Rock bottom, and realizing you really need to stay in a decent hotel.”

    This was a Courtyard by Marriot. Not exactly a bottom scale establishment.

    I did pay 19$ for a night in a motel in northern New Mexico in ~1982. You had to light the wall mounted gas heater yourself, but they did supply the wooden matches!

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