Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle

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Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle | CNN
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A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.

Darryl George has been suspended for more than two weeks because his loc hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, according to his family.

The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.

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The actual dress code written in the article is:

Male students’ hair must not extend below the top of a t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.

It’s basically “no long hair, regardless of how it is styled.”

Land of the free, home of the "long hair is only for girls".

This view is rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:14-15 "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering".

I have no point to make beyond pointing that out as trivia.

Modern depictions of Jesus in shambles.

Paul said a lot of things in his letters that only could have possibly made sense in the time and place of the person/city he was writing to. Yet almost 2000 years later, people are still taking it as an absolute truth.

Paul flat out contradicts the Bible at points. Doesn't he say to refuse food to people in your commune if they aren't working?

His sexism doesn't make sense either. There is a very heavy implication in having the women who followed Jesus maintain their faith and belief when even the disciples did not. Maybe it's unintentional, but it very clearly suggests that the women are far more pious and holy. Paul has no business saying they have no dominion over him.

More like Racist School District is Racist As Fuck. Texas passed a law making this shit illegal, primarily because of this exact School District!

Not quite. He is not really wearing a style that would allow the hair to extend below the collar, brows, or lobes because he can't just take out his hair style. Its not a pony tail to be removed and distract all the boys like in the movies, its been documented to be in place for at least 8 days. And even if he did his hair could stick straight out or stright up. Seems like the dress code was written for white people hair and instead of using any sort of common sense to not enforce or even just change the code the school is doubling down on murky rules in the national eye. If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, and deprives black people of an education because of their hair its probably a racist.

We need to start living by the "see a racist/Nazi, punch a racist/Nazi" standard.

So, no male Sihk students are allowed, unless there's a religious exemption.

You think this backwater bunch of racists gives a fuck about religions that aren't their particular flavor of Christian?

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below the ear lobes when let down.

You know, I was coming in here to make a joke about how when the article says

male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes

they would say that "any time" also applies when he takes a shower at home, but the code literally says that. Yikes.

That's such fucking bullshit. Might as well demand a buzzcut and be done with it.

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