Pomona Bias-Related Incident: No Redhead Need Apply!

I'm here to report a bias-related incident on the Pomona campus today. Today, at around four o'clock, I discovered this hate crime at Pomona College. I'm calling for Rose Haag, a junior class presidential candidate to step down. Not only did she not have the official seal for her poster, but she put down an entire group of people -- 2% of the world to be exact -- in her craven quest for political power.

I am beyond upset about it. I don't know if I can attend school tomorrow and tragically there are no support groups for the kind of alienation this type of incident breeds.

All of my life I've grown up with negative stereotypes of redheads. These stereotypes include bad temper, sexual fire (maybe that one is true), untrustworthy, being smart and eccentric. I cannot even begin to tell you how much it hurts to be called "fire crotch," "carrot top," "ginger," or worse, "redheaded stepchild."

My girlfriend faces much harassment and discrimination at work for dating outside of her kind and is breaking down at the countless, and frankly insulting inquiries, as to "whether the drapes match the rugs."

Like most persecuted minorities, the media's depiction only worsens the situation. I had few positive role models as a child. Chucky from the Rug Rats, Anne of Green Gables, Carrot Top, Erik the Red, (okay maybe that one is positive..)

(I'm still waiting on my invitation to join the criminal, "Redheaded League" from Sherlock Holmes.)


Hatred like this flier makes me remember all the persecution my people have endured.

• In 2007 a British 20-year old man was stabbed after someone called him a ginger.
• On two separate occasions, another family of redheads had to move after their property had been vandalized by hateful anti-redhead mobs.
• In the ancient of times, we were burned at the stake.
• The Ancient Egyptians regarded the colour as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint.

What's more, many of us suffer very light skin and are thus subject to solar discrimination from the sun.

Like the Jezebel stereotype mentioned on this blog by Candace(thanks for educating us!), redhead women are often over sexualized by a hyper sexualized media. In fact, this study reports that redheaded women have the most sex. The sexual habits of redheaded women are none of anyone's business.

Not only that, but my people are also an endangered species that might be extinct by 2060. We might need new civil rights legislation that addresses our dual status as both endangered species and persecuted minority group.

I demand an apology and will have a discussion about disgusting stereotyping of hair minorities this weekend at the Motley.

A retreat for redheads only is planned for next weekend where we will be drafting a proposal to build hair sensitivity. We must work to dismantle hair privilege in our society. (Good looking blond girls are welcome to attend, but not those pesky brunettes.)

I also demand that Pomona College work harder to increase its numbers of redhead students and that they receive at least 2% of the spots each year so as to be proportional with their real numbers.

I also want Claremont McKenna College to have a month long celebration for our great redhead leaders. These include: Thomas Jefferson, Calvin Coolidge, Prince Harry, Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth I, Emily Dickinson, Judas Iscariot, Svetlana Stalin, Margaret Sanger, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, and Mark Twain.

It is high time that Claremont McKenna commitment itself to having a diverse faculty. There are so few redheaded professors and they need to have at least one Redheaded studies professor.

I know many of you will call for a day of solidarity, but I'm not prepared to have President Gann cancel classes. We know she only does that for very rare occasions. You know, like with Kerri Dunn.

Charles Johnson is a blogger for The Claremont Conservative who when he isn't being feisty fights hate and bigotry on the Claremont Colleges. Here he is with his family. His father is not a redhead and is therefore shunned for the purposes of this joke.

Update 12:00 AM

Tina sent me this video. Wow. That's disturbing.