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Black Hair: In the workplace and school
A few weeks ago CNN-Talkback Live did a segment on a veteran city or county worker who had "twists". Her boss said that she had to remove the twists or she would be dismissed. Her boss, who on previous accounts commented positively about her new hairstyle. Yet, later insisted that she do away with the style or loose her job. The boss contends that the hair is not neat..yada yada. Whatever, that ladies hair was VERY neat.
This week locally, a student at a private school was asked to remove her cornrows from her hair. The school official said that students attending the school have to have styles where you are able to "comb through" the hair. They have tried to justify this by noting that a local black private (all boys) school does not allow braids or 'fros.
What's really going on? Aren't there bigger issues in the schools than if you can 'comb through' a person's hair?
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