Texas student suspended over his loc hairstyle days after state's Crown Act takes effect | CNN
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A Black Texas high school student has been suspended for more than a week because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code, his mother said. It could become a test of a new state law that bans discrimination based on hairstyles.

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Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, received multiple disciplinary action notes and was placed on in-school suspension for wearing his locs hairstyle in a ponytail, his mother, Darresha George, told CNN.

She said Darryl was suspended the same week the state’s CROWN Act, a law prohibiting discrimination based on one’s hair texture or protective hairstyle such as locs and braids, went into effect.

  • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    According to the article, the school district has a current lawsuit against them for doing the same thing to two other black students in 2020.

    The superintendent at the time said, “people want to call us racist, but we’re following the rules, the law of the land." Like, yes, that’s one form of racism, setting up and using systems and institutions which disproportionally affect people based on membership of certain races or ethnic groups. I’m pretty sure he knows that but is just covering his ass.