The Crown Act, a bill to ‘end hair discrimination,’ awaits action in US Senate

A 16 year old powerlifter at Bruce High School in Mississippi was almost disqualified from the state championship powerlifting competition for nothing more than her unique hairstyle.

On April 1st earlier this year, Diamond Campbell had just completed a lift in her competition when a judge informed her coach that she would be disqualified if the beads in her hair were not removed. Her team mates and even her competitors all gathered around to help remove the beads so that she could continue the competition. A heartwarming photo of the event was shared 35,000 times on Facebook.

“I had to finish the lift in a way where my hair wasn’t the way that I wanted it to be. It made me feel less confident,” she said, according to NBC News. “And it stripped, like, a little bit of myself away at that point.”

 

While it’s nice to see a display of sportsmanship amongst high school students it’s understandable to have rules that prohibit excessive hairstyles in a powerlifting competition, one might question the abrupt enforcement of a seemingly frivolous rule.

“I tried to forget about it because it did make me feel bad,” Diamond said. “It made me feel low, like humiliated in a way.”

“I’m just a teenage girl,” she added.

Diamond Campbell is not the only child who has been singled out for her hairstyle and it has been happening in schools across the country with strict dress codes that prohibit alternative hairstyles such as braids or excessive length. The obvious elephant in the room is the fact that most of these alternative hairstyles are more prominent in black children and critics say rules like this open the door for discrimination — the Mississippi High School Activities Association has since repealed their rule on beads and will allow powerlifters to compete with beads in their hair from now on.

For this reason, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Crown Act in March on a 235-189 vote, which bans discrimination based on hair style or texture in schools and work places. The bill has yet to pass the U.S. Senate but a large minority of states have already passed their own version of the bill — the “crown” in Crown Act stands for: “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair”.

Another more consequential example of where the Crown Act would protect an individual is when Desiree Bullock moved her son from Cincinnati to East Bernard, Texas. When Desiree attempted to enroll her son in East Bernard High School, a guidance counselor told her that her son’s hair violated the school district’s male dress code. The dress code for East Bernard High prohibits any braided or twisted hair and states that boys hair may not extend below the eyebrows or tops of the ears. Desiree Bullock is now homeschooling her son due to the school system’s strict hair policy.

Supporters of the Crown Act argue that this would allow black people to wear their hair anyway they want without fear of discrimination. Desiree said that she plans to remain in Texas and expects the legislation to pass on a federal level which would allow her to enroll her son in public school without having to make any alterations to his hairstyle.

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31 thoughts on “The Crown Act, a bill to ‘end hair discrimination,’ awaits action in US Senate

  1. This insanity that Blacks own or have a copyright on anything, and only they can wear their hair a certain way-is ridiculous. What is next – all the white kids who like to act black by wearing their pants hanging down to their knees, talking like blacks, or listening to rap music will be banned, or cause for disciplinary action by the “Black Culture Police” LOL. Eminem better look out!

  2. This is such a classic situation that the Federal Government stay out of. There has to be some degree of normalization in dress and appearance codes. If they have to be so stupidly radical then suffer the consequences. But the feds should stay out of it totally. Sorry but each community should be able to decide what is acceptable.

  3. Sometimes hair can be a HEALTH HAZARD! Ever see a person who got their hair caught in a machine and had their scalp RIPPED OFF? It happens! Wonder why guys with long beards have to bind them if they work around moving equipment?? Hair gets wrapped in a machine and the HEAD follows! And why CAN’T schools have DRESS CODES?? Now I could understand a parent not being able to aFFord a Fancy outFit For each day, but keeping one’s hair cut? We had a dress code – no shirt tails hanging out! OOOHHHH and no long hair for the boys. Girls had limits on the distance between their KNEES and the HEM on their shirts/dresses!! My goodness – what HORROR – we should SUE!!

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  4. In what way do beads impact weight lifting? This rule would impact sikh as much as black people or someone wearing their hair norse style. Where hair can be an issue of safety, hair nets, turbans, etc have been used. So here, bizpac has failed to tell readers why there was such a rule and implied that then only people impacted by ” hair rules” are black, which is totally untrue.

  5. Worked as a machinist long ago. One of my co-workers refused to follow the rules regarding hair. On this particular shift the industrial drill press he was operating grabbed his hair and pulled most of it out leaving a bloody mess at his work station and him getting an emergency ride to the hospital. All because he felt no one should tell him how to wear his hair at work.

    1. Hair nets. Turbans. If he didn’t want to do that much, he should have been fired to avoid the accident that happened. But there you had a clear safety issue. No explanation here as to how beaded hair is a problem in weightlifting

      1. He was fired as it was company policy along with safety glasses. The article said there were rules against jewelry. Not sure how beaded hair is an issue but, rules are rules. Somewhere along the line an incident happened either at that school or another that lead to the rule. It became a liability issue. Blame lawyers.

  6. I wasn’t aware that natural hair had beads. There are rules. Follow them. Yhe judges could have had better timing, but the rules apply to you, no matter who you are.

  7. Why should anyone have the right to have foreign objects in their hair during a sports competition? Ridiculous.

  8. Just when did something like this become a national, or even state, issue?
    We have idiots in charge…..

  9. If she is that dependent on hair beads for confidence she should quit now. At some point in life she will lose most of her hair anyway. Where will she get confidence then?
    Real confidence comes from belief in self, not some tribal juju.

  10. Sports need to have codes – dress, conduct, etc. for that is all part of sports. If rules are ignored, then what’s to stop players from doing what they want on the court and parents doing the same… oh, WAIT!!! That’s already happening… go check out the incidents of poor sportsmanship & parenting examples even in these last few months!

  11. I think all School’s needs to go back to Normal, This Crap different color’s of hair needs to go, all the Piercing’;s needs to go cover the Damn sick Tatooes. Kid’s needs to go back to being Kid’s not Thing’s from another Planet. The Parent’s needs to buckle up be a Parent and have a Normal looking Kid instead of going along with all the Crap. I put most of the blame on the Parent’s, they want to be thier Kid’s Friend well you can’t be a Damn Friend and then try to be a Parent they don’t mix.

  12. All schools should have dress codes, and if not followed the student should be sent home until he/she can comply.

  13. Dress codes and grooming codes are a very important factor in improving the quality of education for ALL students. Schools are for learning, not fashion shows.

  14. The “hair” has gotten completely ridiculous. And the offensive “hair trend” needs to be reversed. If I were still in school or had to work in close proximity to someone wearing a filthy “hair helmet” I would protest. Look at any crowd . . . all the women wearing the same, long, unkempt hair . . . then the braids, etc.

  15. Thank God our government is tackling the important issues facing our country. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Unfortunately, that’s not a “feeling” in the liberals toolbox.

  16. The United States is coming apart at the seems and these detrimental a-hole are discussing hair discrimination.

  17. I misread the title of the bill…..I thought it said Clown Act lol

  18. By what justification should this be a matter for the federal government?

  19. Just shave their heads then they won’t have to worry about their hair.

  20. Yep, the minorities want to make all the rules. And not just about hair.

    1. Oh,yes! Hairdos are so important~~ much more important than food shortages, runaway inflation, wide-open border, CRT, and the list goes on and on.

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