Don’t get me started on this nut job (the white guy). When I first saw the case here in Houston, I thought when I saw the picture of Darryl on Crown Day, Wove, this kid is a brilliant creative artist. I’ve got a had time running a comb through my hair and this young creative talent intricately creates braids and then puts those braids into bigger ones, then puts it all up into the shape of crown to honor his ancestral triumph of having a law to finally recognize the victory over the continual abuse of black Americans hair. Then I read the rest of the article and thought, What? Instead of honoring this championing and complimenting this young genius they kick him out of school. Well, it could only have been an angry white man. Sure enough it was and I saw the video of his mom and him with that man.
BTW— Darryl was not only “conforming” to the Crown Act, honoring his heritage, but he was also “obeying” the school’s hair code. I read it and it saiid a student has to have his (male) hair above his ears on the side and not touching the shoulders as I recall. I look back and forth at the picture and said outloud, But it is over his ear. It is not below his ear or on his shoulder. What are you stupid or blind? You made the rules and you don’t even know them or care about them?! Then I realized this was a white male Texas conservative and realize, Duh, they are HIS rules and he can enforce them as he wants. This white racist principle was clearly making a political point. I did not see the full page ad, thank goodness, because it would get me to fired up. But that quote says it all: You will conform to us!
On a positive note, I am in very diverse community and see many black Americans wearing their hair more in dreads and various styles. So that gives me courage and hope to see such statements they are making: “I’m doing what I’m doing to represent.”