{"id":19425,"date":"2013-09-06T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=19425"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:07:51","slug":"is-it-racist-kid-send-home-for-having-dreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/is-it-racist-kid-send-home-for-having-dreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Racist? Kid Sent Home For Having Dreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little lunchtime nausea-fest for you! According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ellievhall\/7-year-old-tulsa-girl-sent-home-from-school-because-of-her-d\" target=_blank>BuzzFeed<\/a>, 7-year-old Tiana Parker from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sent home from her elementary school because she wore dreads in her hair &#8211; which broke the school&#8217;s dress code banning &#8220;faddish hairstyles,&#8221; including afros, dreadlocks, and mohawks. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the story from KOKI News:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?aspect_ratio=3x2&#038;auto_next=1&#038;auto_start=0&#038;page_count=5&#038;pf_id=9204&#038;pl_id=19942&#038;rel=3&#038;show_title=0&#038;tags=5709&#038;va_id=4286896&#038;volume=8&#038;windows=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, as always we ask you &#8211; <i><b>is it racist?<\/b><\/i> On one hand, some commenters have said that they believe &#8220;rules are rules,&#8221; and Tiana needed to follow the dress code just like everyone else. On the other hand, though, are the rules themselves racist? Afros and dreadlocks are often the only hairstyles that work on black children&#8217;s hair without having expensive and harmful chemical treatments or weaves. So is Deborah Brown Community School effectively calling African-American hair &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; in and of itself? <\/p>\n<p><i><b>What do you think? Let us know in the comments!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-19425\" data-postid=\"19425\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-19425 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little lunchtime nausea-fest for you! According to BuzzFeed, 7-year-old Tiana Parker from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sent home from her elementary school because she wore dreads in her hair &#8211; which broke the school&#8217;s dress code banning &#8220;faddish hairstyles,&#8221; including afros, dreadlocks, and mohawks. Check out the story from KOKI News: So, as always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3995],"tags":[10720,10721,4896,1024,4826,10719],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf-dating-news","tag-deborah-brown-community-school","tag-girl-sent-home-for-having-dreadlocks","tag-is-it-racist","tag-news","tag-racism","tag-tiana-parker","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19458,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions\/19458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}