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Gov. Shapiro signs bill at Philly salon prohibiting hair discrimination
NBC ^ | 11/25/2025 | Hayden Mitman

Posted on 11/26/2025 4:39:31 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

Pennsylvania has joined 27 other states across the country in officially prohibiting discrimination based on a person's hair type, texture or style.

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joined fellow lawmakers at Island Design Natural Hair Studio in West Philadelphia to sign House Bill 439 -- or, Pennsylvania's version of The CROWN Act -- which is legislation intended to ban discrimination in schools and the workplace based on hairstyles.

The bill, Shapiro said, would help address an issue that disproportionately impacts Black Pennsylvanians who wear their hair in "protected styles like locks, natural braids or twists

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: crownact; cuetheracists; democrats; shapiro

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"The CROWN Act, which stands for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,"

I am very confused because it looks like almost all the attendees have their hair processed in an Eurocentric style.
1 posted on 11/26/2025 4:39:31 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Can someone translate that article into English? I can’t even tell what they are on about.


2 posted on 11/26/2025 4:40:54 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: lightman
*** PA PING ***

Happy Thanksgiving to all my PA FRiends !!!
3 posted on 11/26/2025 4:41:10 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Probably aimed at some of the ridiculous things black women do with their hair.


4 posted on 11/26/2025 4:44:26 AM PST by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

Next up: no prejudice against people who don’t bathe, and people who prefer to come to work naked.


5 posted on 11/26/2025 4:46:43 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Link to a page with a tab to the three page text...

https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb439

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

If people are appeased by this, they are morons.


6 posted on 11/26/2025 4:47:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Freedom4US

All hairstylists must know how to do black hair.

I think this is a mistake, because black hair is not an easy thing to learn.


7 posted on 11/26/2025 4:51:48 AM PST by Jonty30 (I've been diagnosed as being polemic and there is no cure. )
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To: albie

A Black woman with lice cut hair should be profiled as problamatic


8 posted on 11/26/2025 4:52:57 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Institutionalizing ‘I will never be a productive member of society’ grooming behavior.
Mooch says uga uga waa wa


9 posted on 11/26/2025 4:54:20 AM PST by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

What excellent priorities!


10 posted on 11/26/2025 4:54:41 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Protected styles?”

Are blacks totally incompatible with civilization? Let a few Shanikas get their hair did by someone not trained in cutting black’s hair and listen for the shrieks of outrage.


11 posted on 11/26/2025 4:57:29 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Can they swim now?


12 posted on 11/26/2025 5:00:41 AM PST by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I know how to do black hair, give me those sheep shears.


13 posted on 11/26/2025 5:03:48 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
"I'm here to interview for the customer service position"
14 posted on 11/26/2025 5:04:51 AM PST by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sorry, still discriminating against any shades of shades of blue or purple.


15 posted on 11/26/2025 5:06:10 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: Kid Shelleen

“DEI for hair.”

See? It’s still there, just waiting for the next dem admin to rear its ugly head in force.

This is just a taste to keep their supporters in the game...


16 posted on 11/26/2025 5:06:20 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: jacknhoo

I remember the 1970s when you could buy
a device for cutting ✂️ hair and you
hooked it up to a vacuum cleaner 😜😜😄


17 posted on 11/26/2025 5:06:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: FatherofFive

So carrying this LIB/racist lunacy further... If I go in o a meat market and demand to be able to purchase ice skates made out of petrified wood, I can then sue them for discrimination if they don’t stock those???

What typical LIB-lunacy.


18 posted on 11/26/2025 5:07:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Then stop telling some women that they can’t wear braids! Sheesh!


19 posted on 11/26/2025 5:09:32 AM PST by Shady (#EnoughIsEnough, and we have HAD ENOUGH!)
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To: V_TWIN

Nice

And yet people don’t think that we have some in society
that will get a 666 tattoo / QR Code on their Forehead

Or their Right Hand


20 posted on 11/26/2025 5:09:41 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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