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🗓️ 30 January 2020
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Karen explores the mystery, history and miseducation around black hair.
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0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So another black teenager was suspended and told he could not return to class |
0:17.7 | until he cut his locks in Texas. This is the Barbers Hill High School in Mount Bellevue in Southeast Texas. |
0:27.0 | I think that's near Houston. Crazy, right? In America in 2020, we have a dress code that targets hair. This latest kid |
0:36.8 | Caden Bradford 16 years old is a sophomore. He had been on a home suspension for a week because they changed |
0:47.2 | arbitrarily the dress code. Now, Caden actually is the cousin of De André |
0:51.8 | Arnold, |
0:52.7 | who's a senior at the school, who wears his hair in locks |
0:55.5 | as well. |
0:55.9 | They're Trinidadian. |
0:57.2 | They said it's part of their culture. |
0:59.8 | And Deandro was told he could not walk. |
1:03.0 | He could not go to his graduation until he cut his hair. |
1:06.9 | So I was thinking about this because on my radio show |
1:09.7 | on Serious XM Urban View, Channel 126. |
1:14.0 | Larie favors and I, Afro State of Mind, |
1:16.4 | we constantly get into these conversations. |
1:18.2 | And one of the first times she was on the show, |
1:20.3 | she talked about, you know, growing up a little bit in Germany. |
1:23.7 | Her father was in the military. |
1:26.1 | And we talked about, I brought on as a legal expert, |
1:30.0 | but clearly we were going to talk about a whole lot more. |
1:35.0 | And she started talking about how, you know, if you look at Germany, first of all, where |
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