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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.

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[–] _number8_ 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They don't need therapy, since racism isn't a mental health problem.
What they need is anti-racism, and conscious and unconscious bias training (which also doesn't actually solve anything since racism is and will continue to be a systemic issue)

[–] JustZ 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to travel, attend university, and spend time in cities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No.
Racism is a systemic issue that affects every wealth bracket and living area.
Pretending as if racism only exists in backwater towns among "uneducated" people, and not in big cities or higher education (both within the institution and among those graduating from it), is being wilfully ignorant at best.

[–] JustZ 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you're not wrong. Maybe my suggestions are not enough. What is missing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is missing?

Aiming at the systems and people that created, sow, and benefit from racism, instead of at their end products, like white supremacy and capitalism which relies on it.