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McKim

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5. I Can't Believe This!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:47 PM

Aug 2020

I can’t believe this! It was 1979 when I taught second grade a black boy came to school with cornrows and was told: “James, your hair looks like a Girl’s!” I caught that and we read a story called “Cornrows” so the white kids would know about the tradition of Black Hair in Africa and in the US. Why are we still having conflicts over Black Hair? Bo Derek’s hair was in cornrows and beads, come on folks!!!!!

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A Texas school system can't make a Black teen cut his dreadlocks, court rules [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP

Time for Texas to come out of the Stone Age. iemitsu Aug 2020 #1

What is with the obssession with black peoples' hair? Why is there always an attempt... brush Aug 2020 #2

Exactly, how is someone's hairstyle or length even an issue in this day and age? Hiawatha Pete Aug 2020 #6

'Course this guy dropped out in fourth grade. marble falls Aug 2020 #8

True that! Hiawatha Pete Aug 2020 #10

The school code is in the OP rpannier Aug 2020 #17

Don't see any reference to it in the OP. Hiawatha Pete Aug 2020 #19

BARBERS HILL??? The Daily Irishman Aug 2020 #3

That's nasty cut. They're going to appeal, sort of a hairdo over. marble falls Aug 2020 #9

Seriously, BARBERS HILL?! Archetypist Aug 2020 #4

I Can't Believe This! McKim Aug 2020 #5

So another school board spends thousands reinforcing what other school boards spent ... marble falls Aug 2020 #7

Texas school boards VA_Jill Aug 2020 #11

"hasn't cut it since then because the locs would unravel." Anyone want to explain that part please? cstanleytech Aug 2020 #12

Beautiful dreads on the young man. Disgraceful that the school district made him cut them off. onetexan Aug 2020 #13

Wanna bet this same school system not fooled Aug 2020 #14

The United States is now officially more tolerant of dreadlocks than Jamaica Jose Garcia Aug 2020 #15

Wait, what? Is this a public school district? TomSlick Aug 2020 #16

Good god! I wanted a mullet bad in 1983. GulfCoast66 Aug 2020 #18