Judge says Texas school district can punish Black student for length of his hairstyle
Judge says Texas school district can punish Black student for length of his hairstyle
After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination.
After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination.
A Texas judge on Thursday said the Barbers Hill Independent School District can punish a Black student who wears his hair in long locs without violating Texas’ new CROWN Act, which is meant to prevent hairstyle discrimination in schools and workplaces.
The decision came after a monthslong dispute between the district and Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School who has been sent to in-school suspension since August for wearing his hair in long locs. Legislators last year passed a law called the Texas CROWN Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of hair texture or protective styles associated with race. Protective styles include locs, braids and twists.
But the Barbers Hill school district successfully argued it can still enforce its policy that prohibits males from wearing hair that extends beyond eyebrows, earlobes or collars even if it’s gathered on top of the student’s head.
What the fuck is the point of the law then? Locs are a protected hairstyle mentioned in the bill and they traditionally extend beyond the eyebrows. What a weak-dicked limp-wristed shit stain of a judge. Uphold the law you fucking coward.
91Fascist judges rule along ideological lines. Justice is a joke when the criminals run the system.
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Racist judge rules in favor of racists.
86Standard judge in favour of racists (et al.)
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Get bent, you bunch of backward hill billy dumbasses.
51Don't insult the hill billies. These are white-collarish, oh so fancy suburbanites.
14Beverly Hill Hillbillies, you might say.
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That’s part of the problem.
They’re too stupid to alleviate the boredom, so they keep bending each other. Breed like neked mole rats. In more than one way.
-4I mean that's fine, rail each other all day behind the bench. Just stop feeling shame enough from doing so to take it out in the rest of us.
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“The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that affirmative action is a violation of the 14th Amendment, and we believe the same reasoning will eventually be applied to the CROWN Act,” Poole said.
It’s unclear how the debate about the CROWN Act is analogous to that SCOTUS ruling.
The Texas Tribune reached out to Poole to clarify his comments, but he did not immediately respond.
That's because his comments are nonsensical for a lawyer in this case unless he meant that the supreme Court is giving him a full press pass to discriminate against black folk. That's literally the only way to interpret what he said.
Edit: Ah, that explains it, Poole is the superintendent of the schools not a lawyer. That's why he can't help but let his racist flag fly.
29The only way it makes sense is if it's reading between the lines that the Supreme Court is signaling racism is now ok. These people have simple minds, affirmative action and the CROWN Act are just both wokeness, so if one wokeness is torn down, then the rest should be soon to follow.
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I don't think someone who wears a robe to work can say anything about dress code. Put on some regular clothes, then we'll talk.
24Or at least go the other way with it and make the big powdered wigs mandatory again.
7Seriously, they might as well be wearing pajamas.
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Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination
headlines just write themselves.
21Texas. You can't live with it, you can't... uh, live with it.
17How is this not a 14th amendment violation on the basis of sex?
13Oh. It's Texas.
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