House passes CROWN Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles
Source: NBC News
The House on Friday passed the CROWN Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination.
The measure, H.R. 2116, passed in a vote of 235-189 along party lines. It was introduced by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., CROWN stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. It prohibits "discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair." The bill will now go to the Senate for consideration.
The legislation states that “routinely, people of African descent are deprived of educational and employment opportunities” for wearing their hair in natural or protective hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, or Afros.
"Here we are today, standing on behalf of those individuals, whether my colleagues on the other side recognize it or not, are discriminated against as children in school, as adults who are trying to get jobs, individuals who are trying to get housing, individuals who simply want access to public accommodations and to be beneficiaries of federally-funded programs," Watson said in remarks on the House floor Friday morning. "And why are they denied these opportunities? Because there are folks in this society who get to make those decisions who think because you're hair is kinky, it is braided, it is in knots or it is not straight and blonde and light brown, that you somehow are not worthy of access to those issues."
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Massive, braided beards? Hair in 5 different colors and shaved on one side? Employers need to be able to have some rules left in place. Should an employer be forced to hire this guy in a place that deals with customers?
It's not "limiting to" anyone. In your excerpt it has this (see bolded part) -
The key term "including" gives examples but there is nothing there limiting it to just that. One of the issues that the attempt was to do was to emphasize "texture" and specific types of "named" hair styles that are "popularly known about".
So as an example, one of my sister's neighbors are Sikhs and their young son is about a year or two older than my nephew (so I think he is about 9 or 10) and he wears his long hair on top of his head in a tightly coiled bun, usually with a rumāl as a covering over the top knot.
I.e., something like these -
"Braids" are used by a number of other ethnicities including Indigenous peoples and South Asians.
You have racist fuck teachers who enjoy cutting off the hair of POC when it suits them.
This kind of bullshit "hair" obsession has been going on for well over a century -
By Rebecca Onion
Aug 20, 2013 12:15 PM
Commissioner of Indian Affairs William Atkinson Jones sent this letter to superintendents of all federal reservations and agencies in January 1902. The notorious missive soon became known as the “haircut order.” Jones observed that many Native Americans continued to wear their hair long, to “paint,” and to participate in tribal dances. The commissioner objected to these traditions on a number of grounds, arguing that dancing and feasting were “simply subterfuges to cover degrading acts and to disguise immoral purposes,” that painting caused people to go blind, and that long hair simply was not “in keeping with the advancement they are making … in civilization.”
Jones suggested that superintendents could induce compliance by holding back rations and required a report on the progress of these efforts by June 30, 1902. News of the letter and its contents made national news, with many observers outraged at the order. In the Harper’s Weekly’s edition of Feb. 8, 1902, the anonymous editors wrote a paragraph that was supportive of the Native Americans’ practices, if grossly condescending:
The red man has neither newspapers, letters, books, nor games to break the monotony of his life. He loves company. He gets all his news, all his pleasures, in daily contact with his fellows. He has always lived in a village.
Rather than being forced to submit to “government shears,” the editors argued, the young Native American should be “educated along the line of his natural aptitudes, teach him to adapt to new conditions step by step.”This type of outcry, coupled with even worse publicity after a few supervisors used harsh methods to enforce Jones’ order, caused the Bureau of Indian Affairs to back down. New directives advised agents that they should use persuasion and example, rather than force, to get Native Americans to dress like “citizens.” The bureau tried for decades to eliminate ceremonial dances. By the 1920s, however, more and more tribes held annual gatherings based on these traditions, which survived despite the BIA’s disapproval.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/haircut-order-commissioner-jones-letter-demanding-that-supervisors-force-native-americans-to-cut-their-hair.html
Sorry to rant in a reply to you but it is so far past time for this kind of nonsense to be addressed and I would have doubts that the Senate would even bother as something like this would require cloture and you have 50 GOP racist asses there
(unless someone can "sneak it in" for a "unanimous consent" ).I should proof read better. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. 
