The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code.
Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, received an in-school suspension after he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes. George, 17, wears his hair in thick twisted dreadlocks, tied on top of his head, said his mother, Darresha George.
George served the suspension last week. His mother said he plans to return to the Houston-area school Monday, wearing his dreadlocks in a ponytail, even if he is required to attend an alternative school as a result.
I cannot for the life of me understand such nonsense. Why do we care about a hairstyle? Im sure this is all just used as a racist cudgel but what even is the flimsy defense for it? Just teach the fucking kids math and history, ect. I’d like to fire the morons wasting everyone’s time with this nonsense.
Racists are zero sum conservatives. If a student looks “too black” they aren’t “being a student” they are “being black”.
It’s a narrow view of identity and culture, bred by ignorance, cultivated by cheap entertainment media, and polished by having zero moral or intellectual standards.
If a student looks “too black” they aren’t “being a student” they are “being black”.
Ohmygod well said. You perfectly described something I see all the time but haven’t put into words until now.
Are you seriously looking for logic in racism?
Look, there IS logic in racism
It just happens to be retard logic, ever notice the people who are racist tend to be genetically the worst examples of their race? Those genes likely affect their brains as well.
The interesting thing with these type of news stories is for me, that any time I look up the haircut the school banned, it’s mostly a really good looking cut.
It always cements for me that it is never about what the hair actually looks like esthetically, but that it is a predominantly “black” haircut, like an Afro or tight curls.
But even if it was garbage, who cares. It’s just so below what anyone should be spending time caring about.
The interesting thing with these type of news stories is for me, that any time I look up the haircut the school banned, it’s mostly a really good looking cut.
Some schoolteachers become that to feel themselves important. Or powerful. After all, they are in charge of a whole group of little people. Almost like an army officer (I got a really indignated and hateful look from one such teacher after politely pointing out that teachers are not, in fact, similar to army officers, they do not command and do not bear power and responsibility).
That is, they come for obedience and feeling of self-importance (“I’m teaching them, I must be very smart, yeah, or at least they fear me”), and even bad wages do not make them try and find another trade.
So they just envy kids who have a differing look from other kids, especially if it’s a good one. It makes them feel that those kids are less obedient.
(Sorry for that tone of disgust and contempt in my comment, Russian schools and all that.)
Is there a definition of what’s “legal” and what’s “illegal” in terms of hairstyle?
Well in Texas there is something in the books about the legality of hairstyles.
The incident recalls debates over hair discrimination in schools and the workplace and is already testing the state’s newly enacted CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1.
The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots. Texas is one of 24 states that have enacted a version of the CROWN Act
So the school suspending the student because of his hairstyle would be considered illegal under this law.
I feel like I’m missing something in what you’re saying and that law actually makes the school’s actions illegal. The whole point of CROWN acts is that natural hairstyles have been discriminated against.
The school’s dress code / attitude is the ‘old’ version.
“When you are asked to conform … and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,” Poole said. “We need more teaching (of) sacrifice.”
How does this dude not realize that also applies to his school district and their stupid outdated rules about hair length?
Nice haircut actually.
I personally just wore a messy Hagrid-like heap of hair being 14-15, some teachers didn’t like it, but I didn’t care. They did take offense, though.
To be fair they did investigate themselves and found they did nothing wrong…
Very commendable actually. I approve raises all around!
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I used to work at a company that practically refused to hire black people because their dress code precluded basically every common black hairstyle.
It pisses me off that dreads and braids are some sort of white-collar taboo.
This isn’t an accident.
It’s to give plausible deniability to racists who don’t want to deal with EEOC violations as often.
“He has to sit on a stool for eight hours in a cubicle. That’s very uncomfortable. Every day he’d come home, he’d say his back hurts because he has to sit on a stool,”
What the fuck is this? What is the school trying to teach this kid? Certainly not to hate authority or resent the adults that are responsible for his high school success.
This is mental and physical abuse. Fuck this school. Fuck this school district. God I hate high school even to this day as a mom.
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This may be unconstitutional based on Bostock v. Clayton County. AFAIK this is a public High School, and they cannot have different hair rules for male students as they do female. This would be a school accepting a condition (hair that fell below his eyebrows and ear lobs) if the student were female, but not male. Also this same thing happened in 2020 at the same school. The SCOTUS case was from 2020, will be interesting if this is brought up.
Can we like… dissolve Texas as a state? They suck.
Give them back to Mexico.
Looney Toons their ass and saw the state off of the country
Have Yosemite Sam perforate the state off the country with bullets. You know he’d do it.
As a Texan, please feel free to ask your representatives to affirm our right of secession.
I really would prefer the US not split into chunks but Texit is surprisingly popular here.
… he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes.
Unless they have the exact same standards for hair length for all students, regardless of gender, that’s plainly discriminatory.
Of course, in reality, hairstyle rules are stupid. As long as it doesn’t cause a disruption (think smelly, or formed into the shape of a helicopter), whatever you wanna do with your hair is fine.
I don’t think you could get away with smelly, and I don’t see a problem with any non-dangerous haircut really.
Smelly is subjective too, as someone using the proper oils for their hair could be called smelly.
Smelly has been used for properly maintained dreadlocks that are far less noticeable than Axe body spray.
I meant “smelly” in a personal hygiene kind of way, and school administration can most certainly take action to remedy a situation where a student is not hygenic.
In a very specific personal hygiene way, sure. But there are situations where you’d end up with similar complaints if a white administrator approached a non-white student.
Wait, what makes “shape of a helicopter” disruptive?
If the answer is something like “outrageous style that would get too much attention”, then that sounds like the argument for a ton of these kinds of rules. The main difference would just be subjectively where the line is drawn.
I can certainly imagine a hairstyle which would block the view of other students. I know that’s not what I was originally implying with the word “disruptive,” but it’s something.
Hair shaped like a helicopter probably makes if difficult for people behind them to see.
So did beehives but those were perfectly fine for women when they were in style.
Plus it would likely blow all the papers off the desks of students around them.
The crown act needs to be federal
To conservatives, a real American is a white person with white eyes and blond hair. Anyone else is inferior.
This is why I hate the term “African-American”. We don’t call white people “European-Americans” while we call black people “African-Americans” as if they’re not American enough.
It’s sad.
Purely in terms of the African American term, that one has a bit more nuance than an othering word.
There was a good intentioned effort to stop referring to people by their physical characteristics as a group. So you started to see asian/Korean/Japanese/Chinese-american, native/indigenous-american, and African-American. It fell apart with white people because the privileged group is more aware that they’re not Caucasian or European, they’re “whatever they are”, so you still see Italian/Irish/german-american, but not European American.
African-American also has a specific demographic usage as roughly “the descendants of African slaves in America”, as distinct from “people from Africa”.There’s been a reversal, and now it’s more expected that people are black or white (but only for those two demographics, never use color for Asian or indigenous people, but maybe brown for middle eastern or the Indian subcontinent, but it’s iffy)
Clear cut violation of Freedom of Expression. This is an ACLU payday just waiting to happen.
Not really, kids don’t get the same rights as adults and schools get to act like parents, so this isn’t a magical payday. Maybe if you can prove some racial discrimination, but the wording of the dress code is basically no long hair, which blocks many common styles across races.
violated the district’s dress code
hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes
I’m sorry, but WTF? Are they mandating everyone dress like skinheads or what?
I assume just the boys. Girls can probably have longer hair… as long as it’s not in a “harlotous style” or some nonsense like that.
Don’t allow light colored or blonde straight hair and watch the conservatives squirm.
