A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
He’s got a point. America is a nation built on strict conformity and following the rules. Without that stuff we could end up like some crazy third world country.
When every child at school doesn’t have that Hitler Youth look 😤😤😤
The ad was paid for by the Barbers Hill Education Foundation, which has contact information on their website. I sure hope nobody decides to tell them how they feel about this.
So the Barbers are making someone cut their hair
Being republican requires assholery.
Such a strange thing to make a stand against, especially from the punk scene haircuts I remember back in the 80s, 90s. This isn’t even super noticeable, comparatively.
Gee, wonder what the real issue is here…
Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity
Tell that to the Texas power grid.
Anti discrimination laws need to be updated nationally to forbid discrimination based on hair style. Civilization hasn’t melted here in Minnesota, it’s not going to melt in Texas either.
They did pass a law prohibiting race based hair discrimination in Texas. The school is arguing that the law does not apply to them because it does not specifically mention hair length, and they’re suspending him on the basis that his hair would be too long if he didn’t have it styled.
Which is sexist since it only applies to boys.
This dude thinks his school district is West Point.
They need to get rid of him right the fuck now. It’s wannabes like this that always apply the wrong policies for the wrong reasons.
I thought being American was about freedom? Right? Isn’t that what these folks usually croon about?
I thought America was already past this in-your-face type of racism and was more into the less obvious types of racism.
Maybe I’m right and Texas is special. While the rest of the US is more subtle about it but still have it.
Not trying to shit specifically on America. Racism is a worldwide problem. I just thought America was beyond that type of super obvious discrimination.
Four years of Trump did so much damage to our nation. We were already not doing great.
Yeah, the racists aren’t afraid anymore. For a while, people (mostly) weren’t in your face with the racism. Racism definitely still happened, but it usually wasn’t overt. It was the slow, quiet, insidious type of racism. The manager who takes over a department, and slowly makes all the black people quit one at a time. The HOA president that only cites houses owned by BIPOC. The police getting called because a black person went for a jog, and that’s somehow “suspicious”. The loan officer increasing interest rates for black families looking to buy a home. 12 year old kids being treated as adults by the legal system, and grown adults being talked down to like children.
It’s all still very damaging, but it’s hard for any one person to prove, so the racist is allowed to continue doing it. It’s the type of stuff that requires months or even years of paperwork in order to establish a pattern of behavior. The type of stuff that is so spread out that no single person has enough evidence to prove, even when they’ve all been harmed by it.
All of those covert forms of racism still happen, but it also includes all of the overt racism now. We have legislators who have incorporated racism directly into their campaign promises. We have nazis holding rallies and recruitment drives. America is not okay right now, and it’s going to take a lot more than one or two election cycles to fix things.
Here’s a complete list of all the times someone else’s hair had any impact of any nature whatsoever on my life:
Counterpoint; dreadlocks more often than not smell like fucking shit. That affects others. Groom your hair people.
How many Black folks with locs have you been around? Because they still regularly wash and oil their hair. Locs are actually considered a protective style for Black hair.
That’s unfortunately the problem with people you’re hanging out with. If their locks smell like shit it will not be better without them, they are just unhygienic.
Every image of this kid has had his dread locks clean and neat. This isn’t some hippy dude that’s not bathing. If he had a BO problem, the school would just cite him on that.
Texans are all about conformaty!
As a Texan I agree. Why don’t they have a gun and a cowboy hat like the rest of us?
Being an american requires conformity
Says the guy with the confederate flag in his living room
Land of the Free, where if you’re even slightly different you get thrown the fuck out.
I hate to see this kid go through all of this, but I love to see so many piss-baby snowflakes get their underwear bunched all the way up in their throats. I hope they fucking choke.
Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity
Man, these people always out here saying the quiet part out loud these days.
“If you little fuckers would just CONFORM to how we want you to be, this country would be filled with UNITY.”
Yeah, because the only “unity” they want is forcing their conformity on everyone else.
Laaaand of the free …
♫ Proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m
freeconforming for unity. ♫… and home of the most prisoners in the wooooooooooorld.
I’m increasingly convinced they think Gilead is portrayed as a reasonable goal.
Yes.
