The Image Dilemma

Are we, America, a so called progressive society breeding social injustice? Why is it that we condemn those whose appearance is unconventional as being deviant, an being useless to society? Why do we not look to who a person is, their experience, and their what they can contribute to society, as opposed to how they dress, do their hair; or whether or not they have piercings or tattoos? Does a tattoo indicate an inability to work in a business setting? Can an individual with a pierced nose or eyebrow not wait a table? Does colored hair indicate stupidity and ignorance? Of course not, so why then does society label these individuals as delinquents? Why do they shove them in a stock room instead of offering them a customer service position for which they have experience with and their personality is best suited for? Why is it so difficult for those who fashion themselves alternatively to find a job and acceptance within society? Is society not conditioning an entire group of people into those which can only associate with their "kind." Is society not encouraging the exact antisocial and disconnected behavior that they proclaim is the cause of criminal attitudes and acts? Criminologists of the social process persuasion argue that disconnection with society and community causes delinquency, yet society pushes these individuals into positions in which they have no connection to outside society. Is this not a terrible contradiction and travesty?