This is YOUR House of Representatives. THIS is what they think deserves their attention...
The House passed a bill Friday that would ban race-based hair discrimination at work, federal programs and public accommodations.
The CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, passed along party lines with a vote of 235-189. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote.
The CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, passed along party lines with a vote of 235-189. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote.
This is the bill's sponsor, Ayanna Pressley.
"For too long, Black girls have been discriminated against and criminalized for the hair that grows on our heads and the way we move through and show up in this world," Rep. Ayanna Pressley said on the House floor Friday.
Congressional action on race-based hair discrimination comes after years of advocates pushing for policy change at the national level.
Several states have already implemented their own versions of the CROWN Act. On Thursday, Massachusetts became the latest state to pass a local ban on hair discrimination.
"Hair discrimination is rooted in systemic racism, and its purpose is to preserve white spaces," the NAACP says. "Policies that prohibit natural hairstyles, like afros, braids, bantu knots, and locs, have been used to justify the removal of Black children from classrooms, and Black adults from their employment."
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Name one, just one black person who has been removed from a classroom, or denied employment because of hair. I'll wait.....
ReplyDeleteFuck all of this bullshit....people have been catered to and coddled so much that equal treatment is now equated as discrimination....
ReplyDeleteShould be named "Lawyers Employment Act" as the number of lawsuits will increase, as claims of discriminations will increase.
ReplyDeleteIt's just another excuse for what will soon be more poor behavior. Like the gays did to the Boy Scouts, turned it into PedoTown, the hair thing will morph into the hygiene thing and soon they'll all stop bathing. Because, you know, soap is white. And then all you dumb YTs will have to put up with the stench. You can't ever win if you never fight back. And we never fight back.
ReplyDeletepissley de POS!
ReplyDeleteCrazy shit, right guys?
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