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    Farb

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    I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

    This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

    All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

    Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

    https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html
     
    Do you even hear yourself?


    As someone who spent quite a few years teaching in a diverse school, and who is now an administrator, you're just not living in reality, man. Admin has so many bigger fish to fry than a kid who has a loc in his face.

    That seems like the stupidest hill to die on when we've got way more important things to do than be the hair police.
    Do you ever hear yourself? It isn't about A kid with A loc in his face and it isn't about being the hair police. And if as an administrator you can't walk and chew gum at the same time, get another job.
     
    Do you ever hear yourself? It isn't about A kid with A loc in his face.
    Right. It's about "knowing who is in my 9th grade class" and "4 or 5 strands of hair" somehow prevents you from doing that.

    So yea, turn up your hearing aid.
     
    Diversity

    And I literally don't need a hearing aid.

    Diversity and not one is sucking on hair hanging down in front of their face:


    The bar was not "sucking on hair hanging down in front of their face." The bar was "4 or 5 strands."

    From your video:
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    Nonsense.

    You can't see the difference between

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    Again, not the bar you set.

    You said that 4 or 5 strands prevents you from knowing who your students are. Are you having difficulty identifying either of those two young men?
     
    Blacks have been ridiculed because of their hair for a long time in America. I won't use some of the names but I can understand their sensitivity. You have to have some kind of a dress/appearance code though. I certainly have no objection to corn rolls and the like but hair that covers the face shouldn't be allowed for either whites or blacks IMO.

    Example of what I might object to:

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    Sorry to continue the "weird".

    Similar kind of haircut but not covering the face. I'd have no problem with students coming to school like this.

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    More hair drama

    To the superintendent's point about doctors, lawyers and professionals

    That answer is different today than it was 20-30-40 years ago

    There was a time when 'professional' meant wearing a 3 piece suit, today some CEOs are wearing hoodies to board meetings

    Things change

    Also, does the dress code say 'this only applies to black students'?

    No, it doesn't. But that's where disproportionately affects/enforced comes into play.

    this kid says that that are white students with hair longer than the code allows who weren't hassled about it, and I believe those claims 100%
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    Treyvion Gray, 18, isn’t allowed to participate in his high school graduation ceremony because his dread locs are too long, reported Forth Worth Star-Telegram. Gray is suing Texas’ Needville Independent School District as well a number of school faculty and staff for racial discrimination.

    The district dress code prohibits boys from growing their hair past their ears and eyebrows. Gray said the code is racially and sexually discriminating because his locs are an expression of his Blackness. The suit claims he had been disproportionately targeted and penalized by the dress code which not only affects him but also other Black students who wear their natural hair.

    More on the suit from Star-Telegram:

    “The length of locs have no bearing on NISD Black students’ capacity to learn, yet the wholly arbitrary Dress and Hair Policy restricts the mobility of Black students in public and private spaces, deny them equal educational opportunities, and strike at the freedom and dignity of the NISD Black student population,” the lawsuit says.
    In a video interview with KPRC, Gray is seen with locs that have grown past his ears, eyebrows and shirt collar. The district dress policy, which “is established to teach hygiene, instill discipline, prevent disruption, avoid safety hazards, and assert authority,” says boys cannot have hair that long.
    Locs? A safety hazard?!

    Gray said in an interview with KPRC he’d been growing his locs out since sophomore year to embrace his heritage and his culture. Since the beginning of the year, he was repeatedly confronted by the assistant principal about his hair while other white students with long hair went unbothered, the suit claims. Gray was placed on in-school suspension by March and was to remain on punishment until he cut his locs.

    The superintendent, Curtis Rhodes, enforced the code saying students have always been “conservatively dressed” and “conservatively disciplined” and asked how many doctors, lawyers, and other professionals have long hair, per Star-Telegram.

    However, the idea professionalism and dressing “appropriately” wasn’t made to accommodate Blackness.

    But, alas..............

     

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