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This stupid black asshole doesn't care one second in 24 hours about
his "ancestors" and couldn't even tell you their names.
A Black Texas high school student has been facing an in-school
suspension (ISS) for weeks because school officials said that his
dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code.
Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu,
has been sitting on a small stool at school every school day since
Aug. 31, back aching, as he receives his schoolwork online or
through a classmate, according to his mother Darresha George.
"Every day my son comes home with tears in his eyes. He's
frustrated; he's outraged, aggravated, and it's breaking him down
mentally, physically and emotionally," Darresha George told ABC
News. "I have to see him taking ibuprofen because his back hurts."
Darryl George's schoolwork and grades are being affected because he
is not getting the benefit of complete instructions from his
teachers to complete his assignments, according to his mother.
"He's not in a class setting to where he's sitting in front of the
teacher explaining it to him like the other kids," his mother said.
"So, now he has to figure it out for himself."
Texas enacted the CROWN Act on Sept. 1, making it unlawful to
discriminate against "protective hairstyles" in schools, Allie
Booker, Darresha George's attorney, told ABC News.
"Any student dress or grooming policy adopted by a school district,
including a student dress or grooming policy for any extracurricular
activity, may not discriminate against a hair texture or protective
hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race," according
to the CROWN Act. "'Protective hairstyle' includes braids, locks and
twists.'"
The CROWN Act, which stands for "Creating a Respectful and Open
World for Natural Hair," was passed with a bipartisan vote in the
Texas legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in May.
"Barbers Hill [High School] is showing their racism once again,
showing their complete defiance of Texas law," Dr. Candice Matthews,
the Statewide Vice Chair of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats
and a supporter of the George family, told ABC News. "You don't have
to like the law, but you have to follow it because, one, we do not
tell white people how to wear their hair. So, you're not going to disenfranchise our people and tell us how to wear our hair."
The Barbers Hill Independent School District told ABC News that
their dress and grooming code does not conflict with the CROWN Act.
"The Barbers Hill ISD Dress and Grooming Code permits protective
hairstyles, but any hairstyle must be in conformity with the
requirement that male students' hair will not extend, at any time,
below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes," the school district told
ABC News in a statement. "Further, male students' hair must not
extend below the top of a t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a
style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt
collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down."
The school district is making an example out of Darryl George within
a day of the CROWN Act's being implemented simply to prove a point
and express their disapproval of the law, Booker told ABC News.
"People do stuff like that, you know, whenever there's a new law in
place," Booker said. "They try to thumb their nose at the law by
breaking it and then arguing that a law doesn't cover it. So that's
all they're doing."
Booker added that the family plans to file a discrimination lawsuit
and an injunction to get him out of ISS if the school continues to
punish him.
A federal version of the CROWN Act passed the House but was blocked
by the Senate in 2022. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12),
the lead sponsor of the bill, told ABC News that it is time to pass
the federal CROWN Act to stop this type of discrimination from
happening again.
"It's sad to see that some people still believe protective Black
hairstyles are 'unprofessional,'" Coleman told ABC News in a
statement. "It's infuriating that school officials would impose
those beliefs on the children in their charge, negatively impacting
their learning. Texas has passed their version of the CROWN Act to
end this practice and I hope to see Mr. George quickly return to
regular classes."
Darresha George told ABC News that the school district is
trivializing her son's dreadlocks by labeling them as a violation of
the district's dress code. His locks are a representation of his
culture and spirituality, Darresha George said.
"It's part of his roots, part of his ancestors," his mother said.
"At the ends of his hair, we have his dad's hair, his stepdad's
hair, and his brother's hair actually sewn into his locks. So,
cutting that off is cutting them off from him."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-high-school-student-suspended- texas-dreadlocks/story?id=103306266
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