If you think that sounds bad, when I was in IT working around mostly Whites, I had older Black men working there telling me to do things like wear a white dress shirt. Mind you this was when we were allowed to dress down, plus I had been wearing nothing but white dress shirts for the first five years on the job. I was also told to strike up conversations with White male co-workers about race-car driving, and not to drive a nice car to work, etc... Although this went on from the mid 90's up to the mid 2000's, when I was finally forced out, it wasn't really that long ago. So this was still plantation advice to the ears of most Blacks. I was also working under this new older White women after seven years on the job, who liked me and also didn't like me...don't have to explain how that goes. She was several years past her prime, but at least you could still tell she was a has been, however nothing a younger brother would want to touch. I actually had one of those old timer brothers on the job tell me I should apologies to her, when neither one of us knew exactly why. She really wanted some Black dyck, and everybody knew it, but you just couldn't say it...I guess I explained it anyway.
I'm not going to explain how I wounded up on top of all of them in the long-run, even that White female piece of trash who was riding me, because this post would be a lot longer than I'm already about to make it. Of course all this happened before we knew we were the Most Highs chosen people. This was even before the 2008 collapse, but not long before, when as I said, I was finally ran off that job, which would have happened even if I had done all those things those older brothers told me to do. The hate was so real that if I had done just one of those things to win them over, those racist probably would have ran me off even before they did. Anyway, while I was working there, it became more and more clear to me that at some point the Most High had stopped talking to a lot of older people in my generation, as well as the younger people in my generation, and not much to anybody who went along to get along to get the bag.
What most of those older brother failed to realize was the Most High had brought me through some things in the past just in the nick of time, I mean like with one day left. As a matter of fact, I got this very IT job with them right when I was about to run out of my very last unemployment check. And the first day I got paid on this new IT job fell right on the day I would have received my next unemployment check, which I wasn't going to get because my benefits had just run out. So I never missed one week of pay.
So my point is, no I don't agree with getting a hair-cut to move up on no job. I couldn't even listen to the first few minutes of that video. You'll find that many of those brothers who got those haircuts to fit in, wounded up getting a real haircut from the Most High, along with those White people, especially when they did wrong to move up, or remained silent and acted cowardly when strong brothers got blackballed. Those older brothers who always liked to warn us with fear, but could never tell us exactly what we were supposed to be doing (without telling us to kiss ass), were better off remaining silent. I'm not talking as much about the ones who thought they were telling you how to get ahead, but the ones who were indirectly spreading fear, as though you didn't feel it enough getting up every morning, not sure what these devils were going to try next. Why tell a brother he's in a burning house, when you know he already knows it, but you never really wanted to bring him a fire extinguisher...not even a water pistol. Instead they were starting half the fires.