Posted on 03/07/2020 7:42:19 AM PST by luv2ski
DENVER -- Colorado has joined four other states in banning natural hair discrimination after Gov. Jared Polis signed the CROWN Act into law Friday evening.
The governor signed House Bill 1048 at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, a studio and performing arts school based in African-American traditions.
California was the first pass a law banning this type of discrimination as part of the CROWN — Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair — movement, a coalition co-founded by Dove and other organizations to end this type of discrimination.Rep. Leslie Herod and her co-sponsors brought forward the bill because of examples of children getting bullied and suspended from school as well as workplace discrimination and harassment.
The bill references protection from discrimination against natural hair, commonly experienced by people who are black, Jewish, Latinx or of Native American descent. It would apply to public education, employment practices, housing, public accommodations and advertising.
I’m so glad that our state lawmakers everywhere are looking at such important matters as this hair thing...
Why waste time on frivolous matters such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and crime???
Has ugliness been similarly protected?
I haven’t been following closely enough.
I agree with you. The article specifically says kids have been bullied b/c of their hair. So this legislation is going to change that?
So...no more remarks about red headed stepchildren.
Who is to say what is natural?
What if you see something moving in their unique hair?
Next we will banning “discrimination” based on neck tattoos and earlobe piercings.
Liberalism is all about defining freedom by million of laws.
Doesn’t it just make you want to scratch your scalp when you see people with dreads? I honestly don’t get it. Never washing your hair cannot be a good thing for the head underneath it all. Plus it’s just disgusting.
Good article.
They are on to of the big issues, aren’t they?
Ugh! I horrible!! Also, that’s great that you kept up with your skiing. Too many Coloradans I know, like me, have given it I up in our twenties. I miss it!
I grew up in Wyoming in the 1970s. There was a lot of conflict between the locals and the “hippies” who moved in. More than a few “hippies” got their hair cut off with sheep shears by a gang of drunk locals. The good old days /s. (I did not participate in this endeavor.)
Who is to say what is natural?
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I think they are saying you can only hire people who have never cut, washed, or combed their hair.
I remember when teasing hair was a good thing.
AKA, the Dippity Doo law.
It's not going to change that, at least I hope not. For the record, there are more than one type of bullying. One form works towards assimilation and shared American values. I grew up in an era that immigrate minorities were bullied at school into being American. I'm not talking about wet backs, but Italians, Pols, eastern Europeans. You know what, they learned how to get rid of their accents, speak American and be American. Did they give up their cultural identity? Nope, but they were American first.
Then there is the bad kind of bullying - Just to be mean or to impose one's will on another only because someone is stronger than another. That needs to be dealt with appropriately. Bullying is a part of life. Kids need to get used too it and know how to deal with it. It continues to happen in college, and then in the workplace, and believe it or not, you find that church lady bullying people too. Isn't that special.
The problem today, kids are forbidden in dealing with bullies themselves. If a kid beats the crap out of a bully, he is arrested for assault. How F'n pathetic. We are raising a nation of pussies, that can't deal with human nature and in the process we are throwing away our culture.
Really? Who discriminates against Jewish or Native American people over hair? Has anyone here heard of this?
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