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Mom advocates for change after 11-year-old son suspended from school for braided hairstyle
KXXV-TV ^ | 04/20/2021

Posted on 04/22/2021 6:56:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Maddox Cozart, a Native and African American student, has spent the past 10 days in in-school suspension after officials at Troy ISD said his braided hairstyle violates dress code.

...The 11-year-old braided his hair to learn more about his African heritage, but Cozart believes the suspension is teaching her son that he can’t express himself....

...Supporters of the school policy say Cozart is just trying to turn the situation into something it’s not. They believe her son should comply with the rule like everyone else.

“It’s not a race issue until they made it one. It’s a rule issue,” said one supporter.

Cozart says her daughter also faced backlash from the district when she dyed her hair red earlier this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxxv.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: education; media; race
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Fake news says the 11 YEAR OLD BRAIDED HIS HAIR to "learn more about his African heritage". Bull.

They have ZERO PROOF of ANY of what is asserted.

1 posted on 04/22/2021 6:56:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Blacks do NOT HZVE TO FOLLOW ANY RULES.


2 posted on 04/22/2021 6:58:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“a Native and African American student”

I can’t keep up with it. Native was promoted to replace Indian, and now it seems to be more towards American-born. It’s so hard to keep up with the leftist terms.


3 posted on 04/22/2021 7:02:11 AM PDT by Shadylake
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To: Shadylake
It’s so hard to keep up with the leftist terms.

They constantly change them as each attempt to exploit the "latest crisis" falls apart.

4 posted on 04/22/2021 7:05:34 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SoFloFreeper
Maddox Cozart

Maddox is not a very common name for anyone. I wonder if the mom named her mixed race son after Bill Clinton's favorite bigot: Lester Maddox. Likely though she does not even know who he was.

5 posted on 04/22/2021 7:06:34 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is how we destroy young lives and turn them into career criminals

The Rules don’t matter, all that matters is how you feel.

ps. just curious, what does his Father think about this??


6 posted on 04/22/2021 7:06:43 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Shadylake
So, does that mean IF my heritage is Scandinavian I can braid my hair and pillage because my ancestors were Vikings 700 years ago?
7 posted on 04/22/2021 7:07:28 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: SoFloFreeper

The local Miami media, always eager to create a “racist” story line, covered this story from Texas today.

Pathetic.


8 posted on 04/22/2021 7:07:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wouldnt think the way you comb your hair is going to teach you about another country...

Why didnt he just read a book...

or go there himself...


9 posted on 04/22/2021 7:07:49 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m all for a reasonable dress code. But I’m not understanding why braided hair should be prohibited.


10 posted on 04/22/2021 7:08:14 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

oh and red headed NA and AA...yes they all are arent they...

:)


11 posted on 04/22/2021 7:08:52 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Michael.SF.
I wonder if the mom named her mixed race son after Bill Clinton's favorite bigot: Lester Maddox. Likely though she does not even know who he was.

Must not be a Randy Newman fan:

Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart a** New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too

Well he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song

12 posted on 04/22/2021 7:08:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Shadylake

I thought BIPOC covered this. Black Indigenous People of Color.


13 posted on 04/22/2021 7:09:14 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

I thought BIPOC covered black people who went both ways (like Richard Pryor, and Will Smith).


14 posted on 04/22/2021 7:12:48 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Tennessee Nana

Could be because he can’t read, And the people of Africa don’t want him there.


15 posted on 04/22/2021 7:13:26 AM PDT by sport
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To: Leaning Right

I can remember a time, when boys had to keep hair above the collar, and girls wore dresses to school. We are a long way from those days.


16 posted on 04/22/2021 7:13:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Leaning Right

Me either... Apparently the Constitution dictates that all school children dress in the same uniform, shave their heads, never question authority, and salute their superiors.”

No “individualism” allowed at all.

Oh wait... That is NOT what it dictates...


17 posted on 04/22/2021 7:17:00 AM PDT 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: Michael.SF.

Angelina Jolie named her oldest kid Maddox so maybe that’s where she heard it.


18 posted on 04/22/2021 7:27:26 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hillary wants to be Governor of New York!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If the mom is serious about her sons ejamuction she would pull him from school ASAP and do it her self.

Stop your bitching, bitch! Make it happen !!


19 posted on 04/22/2021 7:29:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: dfwgator
LOL. I had forgotten that one!

I use to like Randy Newman a lot before the shmaltzy Toy Story stuff.

20 posted on 04/22/2021 7:30:08 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
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