One resident would later remark that the neighborhood wasn’t “terribly beautiful, but those were good sturdy businesses.” There was a school, insurance agencies, restaurants, clothing and drug stores, a barber shop, a fish market, a tailor, and a popular jazz nightclub, among many other venues. It was, according to the documentary on the neighborhood, That World is Gone, a hub for Charlottesville’s black social life. During Jim Crow years, the neighborhood burgeoned into a bustling community of black business owners serving black clients.
Former slaves began settling there after the Civil War, hopeful that home ownership would guarantee progress for them and their families. Some suggest that it originated from the time when a vinegar keg fell off a horse cart, leaving behind a pungent odor. Stories differ on how Vinegar Hill got its name. This “urban renewal project” would be done in the name of “progress.”īut as Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a research psychiatrist studying the effect of so-called urban renewal projects on black communities, would later ask, “Progress for whom?” It certainly wasn’t for residents of Charlottesville’s largest black neighborhood, or any of the other more than 800 black communities that had already been displaced by 1962. But the house was slated to be bulldozed by the city of Charlottesville, as were 139 other black families’ homes, 30 black-owned businesses, and a church in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. They didn’t want to leave their modest, two-story clapboard home, which often smelled of Elsie’s famous dinner rolls. Kathy Johnson and her three-year-old sister listened at the breakfast table, as their mother, Elsie, gave the movers instructions. On a Saturday morning in 1965, movers came to the Johnson home. (Rip Payne Collection/Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society) Now, Lambda Legal is considering taking action in court against Hernandez for turning down Oliver.Children playing in Vinegar Hill before demolition. “Anyway, there are plenty of barbershops out there willing to give you a haircut.”
“While I do believe it’s right to refuse service to anyone, I do think his reasoning wasn’t very sound,” another said. “Rip his off in court, the transphobic piece of trash,” one follower wrote. Oliver posted about the incident online, causing a variety of reactions. “We’re definitely not targeting the LGBT movement,” Hernandez also told The Guardian. “I don’t want to be one who is taking away from glory.” “ it’s a shame for a man to have long hair, but if a woman has long hair, it’s her glory,” he said. Owner Richard Hernandez told television station KNBC that he has “religious convictions that prevent from cutting women’s hair” and that the issue has nothing to do with discriminating against transgenders as he doesn’t believe in haircuts for women at all.
“I called back to try to talk to him and explain that I identify more male than female,” Oliver explained.
She left, but then called the shop to try again a second time. “He said, ‘We only do men’s haircuts,’” Oliver recalled to the Washington Post. The woman was turned away as The Barbershop said that they only cut men’s hair.īut Oliver thought that it might not be an issue for her since she doesn’t identify as a woman and has short hair like a man. Here’s what happened, from the Christian News:Įarlier this month, visited “The Barbershop” in Rancho Cucamonga to obtain a haircut and observed a woman asking for a trim.
0 kommentar(er)
