Posted on 11/08/2019 6:54:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Montgomery County becomes first US county to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles
Maryland’s Montgomery County is the first county in the United States to pass legislation banning discrimination based upon a person’s natural hairstyle.
The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously for the bill that prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, taxi service and other public accommodations. A person who is discriminated against can seek a civil penalty of up to $5,000 through the county’s Office of Human Rights.
“It will expand the definition of race to include natural hairstyles, like Afros, twists, Bantu knots, and protective hair styles like braids, that people of African descent wear,” said Montgomery County Council member Will Jawando, who spearheaded the effort with Council President Nancy Navarro.
“We have over 200,000 black and Latina women in Montgomery County, many of whom get up every day and make decisions about how they are going to present themselves to the world,” said Jawando.
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The bill, entitled the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act is similar to legislation passed in July in New York and California. Similar legislation has been introduced in Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, Michigan and Illinois.”
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Because Afros, twists, Bantu knots, braids, and hairstyles people of African descent wear, matter.
Extremely important issue. That and releasing illegal alien rapists from custody.
Balding people with permanent hat- or bed- hair rejoice, too.
how do they prove it?
Words mean nothing, I suppose.
This is what you get when you have the nanny state involved. Bureaucrats needs to do bureaucracy, and mentally ill leftists need to take all their dysfunctions out on everybody. As Michael Savage says..liberalism is a mental disorder. These people are DSM worthy mentally ill, seriously.
None of those is natural.
Banning our way to Utopia!
Don’t rain on their silly acronym!
Komondors and Pulis can now apply for jobs at Walmart.
Yay!
I will discriminate. It is my right. The county can piss up a rope. Montgomery County liberals are always way out of bounds. Speed cameras everywhere. This is the county that banned Santa Claus. Militant liberals!
Not to defend the new current source and reason for this at all, but I have to admit, my own introduction and beginnings of political activism was over mandatory hair length codes in high school during the 70s.
No mention of American Indian hairstyles?
Whoopi Goldberg’s hair ain’t natural.
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If they show up on time, sober, and don’t steal, they’d be an improvement over many retail hires.
Already the law in the once- great state of Californication
We didn’t hire you because of your hairstyle but because you’re an idiot!
As the decadence of Western Civilization consumes America, liberty—the freedom to do whatever you want—is held in contempt, more and more.
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