anukii:fuckyeahfeminists:rhrealitycheck:A 7-year-old girl named Tiana Parker was recently sent home
anukii:fuckyeahfeminists:rhrealitycheck:A 7-year-old girl named Tiana Parker was recently sent home from Deborah Brown Community School, the charter school she attends in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because of her hair. Tiana has dreadlocks and dress code states that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”Natural hair is not a fad.Tell the school’s sponsor, Langston University, that the Deborah Brown Community School must apologize and change their dress code.This is ridiculousness. Please sign my petition! This racist dress code is just another reminder of the long history of making black political. There is nothing unacceptable with natural hair. I wear my afro out 90% of the time. Guess what? My classmates still learn. The sad part is that Langston U, its sponsor, is an HBCU. It’s terrible how black people internalize racist beliefs about our own bodies and end up making rules like this. A hairstyle that is to be maintained in its state permanently unless cut or miraculously detangled is a “fad.” GWEH FROM MY FACE!! *Signs*This is JUST SHY of it’s goal, fucking sign it, this is ridiculous and disgusting. -- source link
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