The thesis of this author was school dress and grooming codes as agents of racial discrimination against Blacks. The article dwells on the issue of racism that affects Black people in the white setups of educational sectors. Despite the ban of slavery in 1865, the Black people in the English, also known as the white continents, have continuously undergone discrimination due to color, race, and even hair textures. The article indicates a scenario that excludes blacks from the freedom of movement and expression. This exclusion is notable in the time of clock-in to their houses and voting rights (Perry, par.1). The article outlines the dress and grooming codes as the identification factor of a white and a black student. The author expresses these themes’ effects on participation in various co-curricular activities such as sports and freedom of association.
The author provides different cases and scenarios that support the ongoing hidden racism that discriminates the blacks yet favors the whites. Black hair being almost rough in texture and an enormous volume, Perry gives a case of a suggested suspension of DeAndre, a superintendent of the Barber’s Hill. The school links the dreadlocks on black students as a cause of poor performance, which is unrelated. Another case was when a 14-year-old male child got seclusion from associating with his fellow students during lunch on matters haircut. The last point mentioned (Perry, Par 9) was that of a woman whom the court failed to listen to her appeal on a hairstyle being the reason behind her job rescission.
Perry states that despite the transfer of DeAndre, the repercussions were on his cousin, who faced suspension for wearing locks on. He ends his article by noting that having a primitive rule on male hair lengths is wicked enough, but the rule’s target on the Black race is even worse. The question that emerges from this reading is, Supporting the claims, do you agree with Perry’s view on discrimination against the Blacks?
Works Cited
Perry, Andre M. “School Dress and Grooming Codes Are the New ‘Whites Only’ Signs.” Brookings, Brookings, 2022.