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Montgomery County becomes first US county to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles
WTOP ^ | 11 08 2019 | Neal Augenstein

Posted on 11/08/2019 6:54:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Montgomery County becomes first US county to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles

Maryland’s Montgomery County is the first county in the United States to pass legislation banning discrimination based upon a person’s natural hairstyle.

The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously for the bill that prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, taxi service and other public accommodations. A person who is discriminated against can seek a civil penalty of up to $5,000 through the county’s Office of Human Rights.

“It will expand the definition of race to include natural hairstyles, like Afros, twists, Bantu knots, and protective hair styles like braids, that people of African descent wear,” said Montgomery County Council member Will Jawando, who spearheaded the effort with Council President Nancy Navarro.

“We have over 200,000 black and Latina women in Montgomery County, many of whom get up every day and make decisions about how they are going to present themselves to the world,” said Jawando.

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The bill, entitled the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act is similar to legislation passed in July in New York and California. Similar legislation has been introduced in Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, Michigan and Illinois.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: afros; bantuknots; fashion; freakstate; hair; montgomerycounty; racism
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The CROWN Act.

Because Afros, twists, Bantu knots, braids, and hairstyles people of African descent wear, matter.

1 posted on 11/08/2019 6:54:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Extremely important issue. That and releasing illegal alien rapists from custody.


2 posted on 11/08/2019 6:57:29 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Balding people with permanent hat- or bed- hair rejoice, too.


3 posted on 11/08/2019 6:57:33 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: yesthatjallen

how do they prove it?


4 posted on 11/08/2019 6:57:55 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: yesthatjallen
It will expand the definition of race to include natural hairstyles

Words mean nothing, I suppose.

5 posted on 11/08/2019 6:58:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is what you get when you have the nanny state involved. Bureaucrats needs to do bureaucracy, and mentally ill leftists need to take all their dysfunctions out on everybody. As Michael Savage says..liberalism is a mental disorder. These people are DSM worthy mentally ill, seriously.


6 posted on 11/08/2019 6:59:21 AM PST by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: yesthatjallen
twists, Bantu knots, and protective hair styles like braids

None of those is natural.

7 posted on 11/08/2019 6:59:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tomado de la mano, yo voy con Cristo a donde El va!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Banning our way to Utopia!


8 posted on 11/08/2019 7:02:05 AM PST by relictele
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To: Tax-chick

Don’t rain on their silly acronym!


9 posted on 11/08/2019 7:02:30 AM PST by relictele
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To: Tax-chick

Komondors and Pulis can now apply for jobs at Walmart.

Yay!


10 posted on 11/08/2019 7:02:37 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: yesthatjallen

I will discriminate. It is my right. The county can piss up a rope. Montgomery County liberals are always way out of bounds. Speed cameras everywhere. This is the county that banned Santa Claus. Militant liberals!


11 posted on 11/08/2019 7:07:28 AM PST by Rapscallion (A President must govern through policy and have self control at all times.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not to defend the new current source and reason for this at all, but I have to admit, my own introduction and beginnings of political activism was over mandatory hair length codes in high school during the 70s.


12 posted on 11/08/2019 7:08:41 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: yesthatjallen
Thank goodness. A recent picture of me is below. And now I can visit Montgomery County without fear of ridicule or persecution.


13 posted on 11/08/2019 7:08:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: yesthatjallen

No mention of American Indian hairstyles?


14 posted on 11/08/2019 7:13:45 AM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Whoopi Goldberg’s hair ain’t natural.
https://tinyurl.com/yykxss35


15 posted on 11/08/2019 7:14:56 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Salamander

If they show up on time, sober, and don’t steal, they’d be an improvement over many retail hires.


16 posted on 11/08/2019 7:17:24 AM PST by Tax-chick (Tomado de la mano, yo voy con Cristo a donde El va!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Already the law in the once- great state of Californication


17 posted on 11/08/2019 7:17:55 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: minnesota_bound
I "lived" in monkey county for 30+ years before escaping to saner climes. maryland is THE Freak state. It is hopeless there. Escape while you are still allowed to do so.
18 posted on 11/08/2019 7:19:51 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: yesthatjallen

We didn’t hire you because of your hairstyle but because you’re an idiot!


19 posted on 11/08/2019 7:22:05 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: yesthatjallen

As the decadence of Western Civilization consumes America, liberty—the freedom to do whatever you want—is held in contempt, more and more.


20 posted on 11/08/2019 7:25:01 AM PST by Savage Beast (HATE is the ultimate EVIL, and EVIL the ultimate STUPIDITY. Pity those consumed by HATE.)
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