Is it racist when the restaurants require that hair like this be netted?
Restaurants require ALL hair to be netted. Even facial hair on men.
No, they don't. I've worked at several where it was not a requirement unless you worked in the back prepping the food.
Private schools can not violate the law.
They can be petty but they can not violate the law.
As I said private schools can not violate the law.
Certainly so. Racial discrimination is certainly illegal.It's not a violation of the law.
Certainly so. Racial discrimination is certainly illegal.
Certainly so. Racial discrimination is certainly illegal.
Sarcasm!
And it's wrong in the process.
yes I realise that private schools have this kind of policy and some government schools as well. From the comment in the OP I assumed we were ignoring that bit and discussing if it is right or wrong for a school to do this.How students wear their hair is the business of a private school. How they dress, as well. The 1st amendment does not apply to private schools, only government institutions.
That same school explicitly prohibits mohawks, shaved designs, and rat tails, for instance.
I did have a go at a principle who made a rule that kids could not dye their hair yet her hair was coloured. Teachers should have to follow all rules students have to follow that do not restrict their ability to do their job.
yes I realise that private schools have this kind of policy and some government schools as well. From the comment in the OP I assumed we were ignoring that bit and discussing if it is right or wrong for a school to do this.
I did have a go at a principle who made a rule that kids could not dye their hair yet her hair was coloured. Teachers should have to follow all rules students have to follow that do not restrict their ability to do their job.
The first problem here is establishing the facts.
The school did not approach the girl about her hair. That is the only fact we have. The fact that the school did not take a first action against her belies a claim of racism.
All we have beyond that is possible clumsiness. "Blame the victim" is a lousy reaction, but it's not racist. I suspect that if a white girl complained of being sexually harassed by another student, something similar would have happened to her.
All the reporting about he-said/she-said is questionable. Proving that a white school admitted a black student because they are racists would be difficult.
Not really. Very often private schools gain federal credits for opening to minorities. Your argument here is therefore flawed because you don't have anything to support the later part of it.
Secondly, just because they permitted a black girl to enter in doesn't mean there isn't racism involved in this harassment of this young girl.
A lawsuit would determine the racial population in the school, and provide opportunity to find out how many others have been disciplined for violating the distraction rule.
This young girls hair is styled naturally. What is being demanded by these authorities through implication in how they word their rebuke is that she make her hair to appear as a white person.
That is racism.