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Ruby Bridges: Racism Is A Grown-up Disease. Let’s Stop Using Our Kids To Spread It.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
23 Jan 2024 #ö

Author, civil rights activist and icon of American history Ruby Bridges shares personal details about her incredible act of bravery as a six year-old, and reminds us that children aren’t born with prejudice and hatred, they learn it from adults. Ruby's new book, "Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts," is available now

Why can’t white America leave Black children’s hair alone?
A Texas school is punishing a teenager for wearing his hair in neat locs. How is this still happening in 2024?

Tayo Bero
Tue 30 Jan 2024 12.01 CET

A Texas court is set to decide next month if one of its school districts can continue to punish a Black teenager for refusing to cut his locs.

Since last August, 18-year-old Darryl George has been kept out of his regular classroom at Barbers Hill high school in Mont Belvieu while he served in-school suspension and faced other disciplinary action because of his hair.

According to CNN, the Barbers Hill independent school district forbids male students from wearing their hair in a style “that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down”. George’s long dreadlocks, which he keeps woven together in a protective style on top of his head, supposedly violates that dress code.



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Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:54 pm The issue is that in their narrow worldview girls wear long hair (and maybe braids) but boys only wear short hair.

To paraphrase G.B. Shaw- They are barbarians and think that the customs of their tribe are the laws of nature.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:54 pm The Crown Act? Never heard of it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the- ... -in-texas/

In Texas, the CROWN Act left loopholes allowing bans on hair longer than two inches, which explicitly singles out and prohibits natural Black hairstyles like afros and dreadlocks on male students. By failing to bar restrictive policies on length and color, Texas’ version of the CROWN Act falls short of fully preventing race-based hair discrimination.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:07 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:54 pm The Crown Act? Never heard of it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the- ... -in-texas/

Great article, totally forgot about that. Looks like it may slip through this loophole though:

In Texas, the CROWN Act left loopholes allowing bans on hair longer than two inches, which explicitly singles out and prohibits natural Black hairstyles like afros and dreadlocks on male students. By failing to bar restrictive policies on length and color, Texas’ version of the CROWN Act falls short of fully preventing race-based hair discrimination.

Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl wrote:

1/

#FanniWillis went to Emory School of Law, where the average LSAT this year was 168.

In her graduation year, approximately 14 African American women in the entire country scored over 170 on the LSAT. [emphasis in original]

And you can be sure they all went to Harvard and Yale, not Emory.

2/

Fanni Willis is what happens when affirmative action mediocrities are promoted far above their abilities.

Corruption and incompetence reign.

3/

As I documented (and @TuckerCarlson cited), of the first 97 Federal Judges confirmed by Biden, we had 22 black women and only five white men.

If you don't like DA Fanni Willis, wait until you see the Fanni Willis federal judiciary.

Acyn @Acyn wrote: Tucker: Out of 97 federal judges confirmed under Joe Biden, total number of white men.. five. Twenty two are Black women.

4/ I write about Biden's racist judicial appointments and the long-term consequences of them, in my forthcoming book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart- out in April and available now for pre-order.

UPDATE: Bigot Sentenced 8 Years For Harassing Black Neighbor

Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Riche
12 Dec 2023

Edward C. Matthews, 47, was sentenced to eight years in prison after unleashing a racist rant against his Black neighbor in New Jersey. Dr. Rashad Richey and Rickey Smiley discuss on Indisputable.

Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzkeDE wrote: A United Boeing 737 MAX suffers gear collapse after landing in Houston, Texas.

This is the THIRD plane this WEEK.

In 2020, Boeing announced that they would make hiring non-Whites the forefront of their company, even going to the extent of onboarding a “racial equality” committee board.

Airports are hiring / contracting diversity workers to run and manage safety inspections, and in one week they’ve had 3 inspection failures that could have resulted in hundreds of deaths.

These cases of neglect and laziness should be criminally charged as attempted manslaughter.

The Daily Show @TheDailyShow wrote: America is not sending its best to Eagle Pass, Texas.
@michaelkosta

‘Our now-weary bodies have held on’: 109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court
Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher are asking the state supreme court to allow their historic lawsuit to proceed

Ed Pilkington in Oklahoma City
Wed 3 Apr 2024 14.02 CEST

The two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, thought to be the worst single act of white supremacist violence against African Americans in US history, attended a momentous hearing on Tuesday. The supreme court of Oklahoma considered an appeal in what is almost certainly the women’s final shot at reparative justice.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, dressed all in black, and Viola Fletcher, huddled under a mauve woollen blanket, listened intently as lawyers engaged in technical legal arguments for almost two hours. It was no small feat, given that both women are 109.

Mother Randle and Mother Fletcher, as they are known, were just children on 31 May 1921, when over a period of 24 hours, about 300 Black Tulsans were murdered by a rampaging white mob.

Forty blocks of the Greenwood neighborhood – so thriving at the time that it was dubbed Black Wall Street – were bombed from the air and razed to the ground.

More than 100 lawsuits have been filed over the years since then, seeking redress for the terrible events, which left 9,000 Black residents homeless and drove an entire community into destitution. But not one survivor has ever had their day in court until now.

In a joint statement before the proceedings began, Randle and Fletcher said that they were grateful that their “now-weary bodies have held on long enough to witness an America, and an Oklahoma, that provides race massacre survivors with the opportunity to access the legal system”.

They added: “Many have come before us who have knocked and banged on the courthouse doors, only to be turned around.”

The case, which was launched almost four years ago, calls for land and property that was destroyed or stolen to be returned to survivors and their descendants. It has been drawn out for so long that it has come too late for its third plaintiff, Fletcher’s younger brother Hughes Van Ellis, who died last October, aged 102.



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