We don’t feel competent to handle your hair

If the hairstyling salon is turning away the business because the would-be client has ethnically distinctive hair, is that a civil rights violation? Camera-seeking attorney Gloria Allred will be getting some publicity from Brenda McElmore’s complaint against a J.C. Penney salon in Downey, California (Jezebel, Oct. 30).

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