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.
Conservatives don’t want schools that teach how to think. They want schools that teach kids to obey.
The rules don’t really matter, if anything they want the rules to be as stupid and arbitrary as possible, that way they get adult workers willing to take “because I said so” as rationale for fucking anything.
Like how in boot camp they focus on the most inconsequential details. They don’t care how exact you can make a bed, theyre just teaching you how to follow orders
Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.
“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.”
It’s explicitly said by the superintendent.
Follow up question Mr Superintendent: in what way does prohibiting this particular hairstyle “benefit the whole?”
There is another quote from him saying it’s a rule that’s been on the books for 30 years. As if that’s a good enough reason to keep it rather than actually being a reason to reexamine it’s worth in today’s society.
Anyone who uses the excuse that “this is how it’s been done for x number of years so we’re going to keep doing it that way” should be punched in the face repeatedly until their teeth turn to fuckin dust because they should be able to speak anymore.
He named his ego “the whole”
And not understood by any conservatives that constantly whine about selfish bullshit.
This sounds like a toxic Chinese mentality to me.
I mean, have you seen how they design schools these days? I’ve seen jails that looked less secure, and more comfy. They’re conditioning the kids knowing that 1/4 will end up in jail or on probation at some point in their lives. They don’t see them as children, they see them as potential “criminals” to wring every dollar they can out of.
Looks like the superintendent is all about following the rules to a T - that is unless it’s his kid - in which case he’ll gladly obstruct an investigation a likely DUI.
Barbers Hill High School
The irony is stunning.
The barbers have chosen their hill.
The classic idea that someone’s hairstyle can be more disruptive than harassing a student and suspending them. This comes down to racism plain and simple.
Seems like Iran is the role model for many Americans. Land of the free is nothing but a sad joke. 🤥
Remember the country was started by a bunch of religious crazies that were being perse- I mean, properly called out for their insanity back in Europe. So they decided to come here and commit theft, rape, and genocide, so they could abuse their families without those pesky others telling them it was wrong.
commit theft, rape, and genocide, so they could abuse their families without those pesky others telling them it was wrong.
I’m pretty sure Europe did the same thing on an even larger scale. Napoleon, Dutch East India Company, the English, Conquistadors, the rape of Africa etc.
Doing it because religion is somehow worse than doing it because of greed?
Yes. Greed is at least real. Edit: Also, doing it for religion is cowardice: you’re just shifting the responsibility away from you & onto god. The greedy are at least sane & lucid for their atrocities.
I think there was a hunger situation too, but yes there were a good deal religious fanatics from the start.
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Absolutely, here (Denmark) we don’t have guns, and even knives are illegal. But IMO we have more freedom than Americans.
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That I can understand, all the people who deny you and your children that, I simply cannot.
American conservatives have always been jealous of Iran for living the life they want: a crushing theocratic regime who punishes everyone except for an elite clique.
Yes they love authoritarian bullshit, that’s why so many of them are also borderline if not full fledged fascists.
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.
To be fair they did investigate themselves and found they did nothing wrong…
Policies like this this only exist to force others to conform to social norms and punish individuality. No reason why individual expression should be condemned. You really see things like this in all walks of life schools, work places etc. Society will actively punish you for diverting from the norm in if its completely harmless.
… he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes.
But… the picture from the article says that’s how he wore his hair to school, and it is clearly not obstructing his eyebrows or earlobes. What gives? I feel it’s a hard argument to say that this is not racial discrimination.
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.
It seems pretty unacceptable for a public school disctict to require this. If you are legally required to be there (unless you can afford to pay ridiculous amounts for private school) then they are basically saying it is illegal for minors in that district to have long hair if they are male.
Also, that guy’s hair looks pretty firmly styled in a way that does keep it well above his ears and eyebrows.
The crown act needs to be federal
it’s genuinely insane to think people still care about haircuts. haircuts! don’t we have better things to focus on. the school officials should be put in therapy
His hair looks awesome tho, man even in Socialist Republic of Canuckistan are we that bad.
It’s not like it’s even shitty or something. That was done skillfully and it’s kind of sad they take issue with it.
Ok I’m a old white dude and this hairstyle is pretty badass, damn near art. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Y’all are more than welcome up here in the north, lord knows these hateful people will start migrating when the global warming starts setting in.
Lots of fresh water and land up here : )
North is just a different kind of racism
Not where I’m at. Didn’t let anger and corrupt politicians spoil or attitudes towards our fellow man and destroy what natural resources we had.
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.
