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African American

pnwmom

(108,978 posts) Mon Nov 9, 2015, 09:00 PM Nov 2015

So maybe I'm totally off the wall here and/or this is a relatively trivial issue, but [View all]

what do you think?

With regard to cheerleader teams of 11 year olds, is it wrong and racially discriminatory to impose a straight hair standard on everyone? Or should this girl be happy with the option to put her non-straight hair in a tight bun and hang a straight pony tail extension off of it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027329871#post30

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So maybe I'm totally off the wall here and/or this is a relatively trivial issue, but [View all] pnwmom Nov 2015 OP

I don't know JustAnotherGen Nov 2015 #1

A tight bun is one thing. These girls were required to have straight pony tails pnwmom Nov 2015 #2

Couldn't they do hair pieces? JustAnotherGen Nov 2015 #4

Why straight hair pieces? How many African American girls have naturally straight hair? pnwmom Nov 2015 #6

It's ridiculous. betsuni Nov 2015 #3

This times 10 JustAnotherGen Nov 2015 #5