Do you find it hard to express yourself through your culture? African Americans express themselves through their hair. A hairstyle can explain more than words. It shows strength, power and self expression. Have you heard of the Crown Act? The Crown Act was made in 2019 it was created by the CROWN Coalition and Dove and its was originally found in California.
The purpose was to Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, prohibits racial discrimination based on hair texture and protective hairstyles. And did you know that all the republicans voted against the crown act because the Republicans largely opposed the CROWN Act, which aims to prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and styles like locs and braids, by calling it unnecessary and a distraction from more pressing national issues. Another thing is to prevent discrimination against Black and Brown individuals, particularly in hiring, promotion, and educational opportunities, where subjective “professionalism” standards often penalize natural hair.
Black people can style their hair anyways they want. Back in the 80s and 90s black hair styles were so popular they had them in everybody’s salon and black celebrities were use them a lot like this celebrity name moesha back in the 90s and 00s she use to style her braids in any type of way from your hair down to ponytails to buns to even heart shape hair style to this day these hairstyles are still popular with more braiding hair style some of these are called knotless braids cornrows passion twists braids and box braids my purpose is that hair is just not a styled it is a inherited in black students and black people in general to connect to their ancestors history and their traditions in manifestation of DNA and also you should be able to express your hair style without any racist comments.
Created in 2019, The CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair, aimed to “prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair.” (Library of Congress) Under this law,
“race-based hairstyles” are protected from discrimination. This includes protection to “hair texture” and styles like twisted braids, cornrows,box braids and dreadheads in a person’s workplace or public school.
In 2018, a NJ high school wrestler was put in the position of having to either cut his braids before a match, or forfeit the win to the other team. In December of 2018 a 16 year old NJ high school wrestler name andrew johnson was forced to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match by referee Alan maloney this lead outrage to his family and the black community this also left the incident was widely condemned with many calling it a “humiliating” act of discrimination despite the trauma Johnson went on to win his match this went viral and prompted intense scrutiny over racial bias and discrimination in sports and this sparked national conversation leading to investigations by the new jersey division on civil rights and the NJ State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
