Current Events > This 17 y/o Black Girl was told to STRAIGHTEN her AFRO or be KICKED OUT!!

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Being black does not give you privilege to break dress code. Fair next.

Looks plenty neat to me
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Medz1986 posted...

Being black does not give you privilege to break dress code. Fair next.

A dress code made by white people.
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Kineth posted...

Medz1986 posted...

Being black does not give you privilege to break dress code. Fair next.

A dress code made by white people.

What makes you think only white people are calling the shots?

Medz1986 posted...

Kineth posted...

Medz1986 posted...

Being black does not give you privilege to break dress code. Fair next.

A dress code made by white people.

What makes you think only white people are calling the shots?

If you're gonna speak on a subject, you should have some education next time.
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http://www.nflschool.org/girls-basketball.html

Plenty of black girls who follow the dress code

Kineth posted...

Medz1986 posted...

Kineth posted...

Medz1986 posted...

Being black does not give you privilege to break dress code. Fair next.

A dress code made by white people.

What makes you think only white people are calling the shots?

If you're gonna speak on a subject, you should have some education next time.

Subject girls hair. Subject is breaking dress code.

Subject, years of dress codes being designed to not allow long black hair, but long white hair has been fine.

Subject, look beyond your bias.
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literally triggered by afros
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I mean

If I went to work with my hair looking "natural" I would be expected to groom it too.

I don't get regular haircuts and brush it every day for my own.self-fulfilment.
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Who the fuck would care how someone's hair is? If someone wants to rock an afro let em, it's natural.
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Kineth posted...

Subject, years of dress codes being designed to not allow long black hair, but long white hair has been fine.

Subject, look beyond your bias.

White people can have black hair

Her afro looks extremely well-groomed. Her hair is just wavy and big. You guys don't understand natural hair at all it seems.

And? I still couldn't show up to work with my hair down to my waist.
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How about you just admit that you're out of your league here and stfu.
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DevsBro posted...

Her afro looks extremely well-groomed. Her hair is just wavy and big. You guys don't understand natural hair at all it seems.

And? I still couldn't show up to work with my hair down to my waist.

If it were down to your shoulders you could.
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Can not have a natural beard at work? Play the race card

I'd agree the 'well that's the dress code!' posts have some validity if they didn't largely ignore that this appears to be a targeted, individual addendum given she supposedly wore it that way "daily for the past 7 months"
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Medz1986 posted...

Can not have a natural beard at work? Play the race card

just stfu
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If it were down to your shoulders you could.

Honestly kind of doubtful at my workplace but I'll give it to you. In lots of places you could. I don't see the relevence though. What I'm saying is I can't just let it grow as much as I want even if I properly brush and wash it, which you appear to be agreeing with when you say that I could show up to work having cut my hair.
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Giving her 7 months is to much leeway. There is a point where enough is enough.

Medz1986 posted...

Giving her 7 months is to much leeway. There is a point where enough is enough.

where is the point where enough of a nonissue becomes the enough of allowance?
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DevsBro posted...

If it were down to your shoulders you could.

Honestly kind of doubtful at my workplace but I'll give it to you. In lots of places you could. I don't see the relevence though. What I'm saying is I can't just let it grow as much as I want even if I properly brush and wash it, which you appear to be agreeing with when you say that I could show up to work having cut my hair.

the point is that, there's a clear bias when it comes to different hair types.

everyone else, to a point, can grow out their hair. but because this girl's hair has a different texture, she can't.

and what are her options - to straighten her hair, which can damage her hair, or no longer attend her school.
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Private school? Fair, next.
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if she ran a 4.5 they probably wouldn't have cared.
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boxington posted...

DevsBro posted...

If it were down to your shoulders you could.

Honestly kind of doubtful at my workplace but I'll give it to you. In lots of places you could. I don't see the relevence though. What I'm saying is I can't just let it grow as much as I want even if I properly brush and wash it, which you appear to be agreeing with when you say that I could show up to work having cut my hair.

the point is that, there's a clear bias when it comes to different hair types.

everyone else, to a point, can grow out their hair. but because this girl's hair has a different texture, she can't.

and what are her options - to straighten her hair, which can damage her hair, or no longer attend her school.

She can do what normal people do. Get a haircut at least once a decade.
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Davjat posted...

boxington posted...

DevsBro posted...

If it were down to your shoulders you could.

Honestly kind of doubtful at my workplace but I'll give it to you. In lots of places you could. I don't see the relevence though. What I'm saying is I can't just let it grow as much as I want even if I properly brush and wash it, which you appear to be agreeing with when you say that I could show up to work having cut my hair.

the point is that, there's a clear bias when it comes to different hair types.

everyone else, to a point, can grow out their hair. but because this girl's hair has a different texture, she can't.

and what are her options - to straighten her hair, which can damage her hair, or no longer attend her school.

She can do what normal people do. Get a haircut at least once a decade.

At what length should she trim her hair?
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Just cut it. Doesn't damage the hair.
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also lol Private schools, most of the people I meet who graduated from one were the types who generally were uppity motherfuckers who were half scared to death of Black folks from my personal experiences
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coolboy11 posted...

also lol Private schools, most of the people I meet who graduated from one were the types who generally were uppity motherfuckers who were half scared to death of Black folks from my personal experiences

Same with the black kids from private school?

principal after he told her to fix her Natural Afro

Its her natural hair, not hair style. Principal is an idiot. Yeah, that hair is messy looking, and it needs to be fine tuned, but even if she doesn't get it fixed, its still her right imo.
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too much leeway of no negative consequence to wearing it
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Sami1000 posted...

principal after he told her to fix her Natural Afro

Its her natural hair, not hair style. Principal is an idiot. Yeah, that hair is messy looking, and it needs to be fine tuned, but even if she doesn't get it fixed, its still her right imo.

her hair isn't even messy looking lol
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kewldude475 posted...

"Hey we know we let you have this hair style for literally 7 months until a teacher randomly started harassing you about it, but now we're making you get it cut. Could be a major distraction, after all we have a whopping like, 7 days of school left this year. We would let you keep it but man, 7 days is a really long time you know? Almost as long as that 7 months we let you keep it. Or am I drunk?"

Yeah, either there's something missing from this story or something crawled up the prinicipal's ass all of a sudden.
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I love TC's clickbaits. They are very interesting.
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Ving_Rhames posted...

She's better off just leaving that backwards, trashy ass school.

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boxington posted...

it's not a matter of trimming; if the article is anything to go by, they want her to straighten her hair.

What article? This is a duckbear topic, he makes shit up that's never in the actual stories and doesn't provide links for that reason. Here is the source he's plagiarizing, and it says nothing about "straightening" it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4530532/School-principal-tells-teen-Afro-distraction.html

The issue is also not her afro, it's how messy it is. This is from the school's guide to hair styles:

The extensive handbook later specifies, for 'Young Men' in particular, that 'No fad haircuts are allowed. This includes but is not limited to Mohawks, designs cut into hair, colored tips, or Afros that if stretched would reach beyond the eyebrows or the collar.'

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I think that ruling existing in the section for young men moreso speaks to the gender differentiation in hair length ruling than the hairstyle itself, and of course there is a catch-all for administration determination at a private school, as nobody denied they have the right of ruling, but neither speaks to the justification of the sudden and individual attention after months of her wearing it uncontested

to me, it seems most likely that the discussion her teacher raised in class led either them or a student to raise a complaint out of personal distaste for it and the administration followed up on that at their behest/ruling
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kewldude475 posted...

The Admiral posted...

boxington posted...

it's not a matter of trimming; if the article is anything to go by, they want her to straighten her hair.

What article? This is a duckbear topic, he makes shit up that's never in the actual stories and doesn't provide links for that reason. Here is the source he's plagiarizing, and it says nothing about "straightening" it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4530532/School-principal-tells-teen-Afro-distraction.html

The issue is also not her afro, it's how messy it is. This is from the school's guide to hair styles:

The extensive handbook later specifies, for 'Young Men' in particular, that 'No fad haircuts are allowed. This includes but is not limited to Mohawks, designs cut into hair, colored tips, or Afros that if stretched would reach beyond the eyebrows or the collar.'

Irrelevant now either way, based on people ITT's reaction to this type of situation.

we have told these dorks at least a million times that her hair isn't even messily groomed lol, of course who knows better about black hair than non blacks lol
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fuzzylittlbunny posted...

boxington posted...

fuzzylittlbunny posted...

It sort of does look un-neat. Compared to say, her mom's(?) hair in that last picture.

her mom doesn't have an afro, though

But her mom is black. Doesn't that mean that she has "black" hair? And so if the mom has "black" hair like that, why can't the daughter?

The mom is older and probably lost a lot of her hair so it doesnt grow long like that anymore. Not to mention they dont necessarily have the same hairstyles.



She should just trim her hair a little bit but it doesnt look that crazy to me

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spudger posted...

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Ugh, don't you dare. This story interests me for other reasons.

Shoe fits
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