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A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law.

Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular classroom in Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu since Aug. 31. Instead, he has either been serving in-school suspension or spending time in an off-site disciplinary program.

His Houston-area school district, Barbers Hill, has said George’s long hair, which he wears in neatly tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys. The district has said other students with locs comply with the length policy.

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In the ad, Poole defended his district’s policy and wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and had higher academic performance and that “being an American requires conformity.”

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 9 months ago (5 children)

districts with a traditional dress code are safer

Trying to wrap my head around the concept of “dangerous hair.”

[–] [email protected] 124 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"traditional dress code" seems like code for white people in this case.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Clearly it's the hair that's the problem with their culture, and not the generational lack of wealth.

Show me how many black people inherit a house vs whites. Show me how crime rates drop in areas where more homes are owned outright, with no rent or mortgage.

Nah, it's probably the hair.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the generational lack of wealth

Technically correct, but (inadvertently) misleading because some who don't click the link might assume it's their own fault for failing to save.

To be clear, what we're really talking about here is generational theft of wealth by institutional racism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The concept of "just save your money and you'll be rich" is so fucking stupid.

You can't save what you don't have, so you have to be comfortable enough to have disposable income and to have enough disposable income that you're not completely giving up on any daily or weekly pleasures to make your poverty-stricken life any less of a pain.

God forbid you want to grab a coffee from somewhere because you work 12 hours a day 6 days a week just to pay your bills. "YoU ShOuLd Be SaViNg ThAt MoNey!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Which leads into how we're fucking up with wealth disparity and tax structure and capital gains.

It wouldn't take them ten generations to catch up if payroll taxes were less than capital gains. It wouldn't take ten generations to catch up if the top 0.3% paid for our public healthcare instead of us getting fucked by funding our own private healthcare where we're getting gouged left and right. We'd be a lot closer to those ten generations if we hadn't stomped on Tulsa, and didn't take every other opportunity to take advantage of the poor. Enjoy this $35 overdraft fee.

And they'll never catch up because we've dropped the estate taxes to absurdly low levels. 15 generations from now, in 375 years, Jeff Bezos descendents will still be much better off than any middle class family. (Assuming nothing changes.) That's absurd. It's one thing to provide for your children and grandchildren, but at some point your family should have to provide something back to society again, even if your great, great, great, x5 grandfather did invent the wheel.

We're all getting fucked, they're just getting it worse. Their fight is our fight, even if it's just for selfish reasons. You think the cops can't get away with shooting your kid just because he's white?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

it's a code word for racism

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Countries with gun control laws are safer.
Schools have no business whatsoever in their students' hair.