Dusky Mouse
Cats Are In Charge ~ Accept It!
- Sep 25, 2013
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I have no idea why you would think your life story has any relevance whatsoever to this young woman.Having spent practically all my life as "the first" and "the only" black person in school and work environments from the 60s until really very recently, that's basically my life story. She is nowhere I haven't been.
Again, the only fact we have is that the school had said nothing about her hair until harassment by the other students became an issue.
Harassment by other students is actually the issue here. I totally agree that the school appears not to have handled harassment by other students in the best manner possible.
We glean how the rebuke was worded from her reports about it.In terms of what we don't know, we don't know "how they worded their rebuke."
The only thing reported is what a 14-year-old claimed she was told, and I know by too much experience that a 14-year-old--even an honest one--is not necessarily a reliable reporter of what was actually nuanced when what he or she has been told had "no" as the bottom line.
I'm not one to call her a liar.
We know nothing at all about "she make her hair to appear as a white person"--absolutely nothing. It's necessary to make sure our presumptions are kept distinct from our facts.
When her hair presently styled as pictured is decreed a distraction we do know that a black girls natural hair is declared a distraction for appearing as is.
It's not presumptuous. It's a fact the school made public.
It's important not to make excuses for a school that targets a child and her natural hair.
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