Hodgetwins - Houston High School Does The Unthinkable.
Aired: 2023-09-26
Duration: 11:21


=== Racial Discrimination in Schools (10:33) ===

[00:00:00]  Yeah, I've got a new show for y'all.
[00:00:02]  Got a damn good show.
[00:00:04]  All right, so this black kid and his mom is screaming racism.
[00:00:09]  Think he goes to some suspect.
[00:00:11]  Like the bull cry of wolf.
[00:00:12]  Wolf, wolf, that's wolf.
[00:00:13]  There's no wolf.
[00:00:13]  You know that old fable?
[00:00:15]  Wolf, wolf, there's no wolf.
[00:00:16]  Lied to you.
[00:00:18]  You know what happened in Ian?
[00:00:19]  Wolf came.
[00:00:20]  Wolf came, nobody blamed him.
[00:00:21]  Wolf tore his ass up.
[00:00:24]  So now when black people scream racing, oh, I heard this before.
[00:00:28]  But then when something actually, something that might be racist or suspect, nobody's gonna believe him.
[00:00:34]  So check out this story.
[00:00:35]  It's about this kid.
[00:00:38]  You can't wear your hair but a certain length.
[00:00:40]  Yeah.
[00:00:40]  Sound like a dress code.
[00:00:42]  It's like a grooming code for your hair.
[00:00:44]  Grooming code.
[00:00:45]  Right?
[00:00:45]  Yeah.
[00:00:47]  You know what?
[00:00:47]  They're instilling discipline in you.
[00:00:49]  How to groom yourself.
[00:00:51]  That's why teachers have them dress codes.
[00:00:52]  Look, we come here.
[00:00:54]  You're going to be shaving.
[00:00:55]  Nice, clean haircut.
[00:00:57]  Ring core.
[00:00:57]  We had to shave.
[00:00:58]  Let's do that.
[00:01:00]  They instilling, they're conditioning you to be disciplined.
[00:01:04]  To be well-groomed, manicured, presentable, business professional.
[00:01:10]  That's what they're instilling in them.
[00:01:12]  Yeah.
[00:01:12]  You know that, right?
[00:01:13]  Yeah.
[00:01:13]  Nothing wrong with that.
[00:01:14]  Have a dress code.
[00:01:15]  So check out this story.
[00:01:17]  Let me know what you think.
[00:01:19]  I can understand both sides of this show on this, but we'll see.
[00:01:22]  Yeah.
[00:01:23]  Yeah.
[00:01:24]  Let's check it out.
[00:01:24]  Now be the judge of that.
[00:01:26]  You be the judge.
[00:01:27]  I'll be the judge.
[00:01:28]  Let's go to the video.
[00:01:29]  We're developing a story out of Texas, a Houston Edmonton High School suspending a black student for the second time this year because of his hairstyle.
[00:01:37]  Now, as Antonia Hilton reports, the family is calling on the district to change its policy.
[00:01:44]  Daryl George, a high school junior, has been out of class for more than two weeks.
[00:01:48]  The Barbers Hill Independent School District in Texas has suspended him twice since the start of the school year over his hairstyle.
[00:01:55]  His grades are failing.
[00:01:58]  Like they're going down drastically.
[00:02:00]  He's not getting a proper education.
[00:02:02]  All Daryl wants is the chance to join the rest of his classmates.
[00:02:06]  Go back to class.
[00:02:07]  Do what I need to do to get my education.
[00:02:09]  The district says his hairstyle, called locks, violates their grooming code, which states that male students' hair will not extend at any time below the eyebrows or below the earlobes.
[00:02:20]  But Daryl's mom says her son always wears his hair like this, pulled back above his ears and eyebrows.
[00:02:26]  Now, the family is considering legal action.
[00:02:29]  I want them to really educate themselves on our cultures, on our hairstyles.
[00:02:36]  And then they will see it is covered.
[00:02:39]  It is a part of who we are.
[00:02:41]  It all happened the same week the Crown Act went into effect in Texas, banning acts of discrimination against certain hairstyles and textures in schools and workplaces.
[00:02:50]  22 other states have passed similar bills, the legislation gaining momentum after incidents like the 2018 scandal over a black wrestler forced to cut his hair to compete.
[00:03:01]  The school says this is really about the length of his hair.
[00:03:04]  It's not about race.
[00:03:05]  Do you see that distinction?
[00:03:07]  We're dealing with the policing of a hairstyle like locks, brace, and twist that African descendants historically and commonly wear and are associated with our racial and cultural identities.
[00:03:17]  It is a form of racial discrimination.
[00:03:20]  Today, the district filed a lawsuit seeking court clarification on the Crown Act.
[00:03:25]  They maintain they're not in violation of the new law, which they argue doesn't govern hair length.
[00:03:30]  Meanwhile, Daryl has no plans to change his hair.
[00:03:34]  I'm saying straight to Barbara's Hill.
[00:03:36]  We're not backing down at all.
[00:03:39]  We're going to fight.
[00:03:40]  Antonia Hilton, NBC News, New York.
[00:03:43]  Thanks for watching.
[00:03:44]  Shut up, Lester.
[00:03:45]  Hey, his hair is grown and he keeps it pinned up.
[00:03:50]  It's not below his eyebrows.
[00:03:52]  I think they're leaving out some facts out of this story because clearly when his hair is wrapped up like he's a damn predator or something, it's not hanging below his eyebrows.
[00:04:00]  Well, he's got locks.
[00:04:02]  Yeah, he's got it all twisted up.
[00:04:04]  So I don't think they suspended him for that.
[00:04:07]  I think he come to school and he coming out looking like a predator.
[00:04:11]  And he's like, hey, boy, you speculate.
[00:04:14]  You a white supremacist.
[00:04:17]  The boy's hair is not below his eyebrows.
[00:04:20]  It's not below his shoulders.
[00:04:21]  They're leaving out some key facts.
[00:04:24]  I saw the pictures.
[00:04:24]  Saw the pictures.
[00:04:25]  Yeah, but I think they're groomed.
[00:04:27]  He's neat, handsome young man.
[00:04:30]  He's not breaking the laws.
[00:04:32]  I have a little experience with this.
[00:04:34]  When I was in the Marine Corps, I remember my sergeant.
[00:04:36]  He was a total asshole.
[00:04:38]  You know, I got curly hair.
[00:04:39]  See?
[00:04:41]  Snappy hair, you nappy nigga.
[00:04:43]  I got curly hair.
[00:04:46]  I got curly hair.
[00:04:47]  I remember he was such an asshole.
[00:04:48]  He would go up to my hair, bring out a ruler, and he would pull my hair and see how long it was.
[00:04:55]  Yeah, that was racist.
[00:04:57]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:58]  I don't want to say it's racist.
[00:04:59]  He's a jerk.
[00:04:59]  No, no, no, no, he's racist.
[00:05:00]  He probably is racist.
[00:05:01]  Was he white?
[00:05:02]  Because he didn't do it nothing.
[00:05:02]  Was he white?
[00:05:03]  No, he's Mexican.
[00:05:06]  Morales.
[00:05:08]  Morales, huh?
[00:05:09]  Yep, he's a Mexican.
[00:05:10]  What's the white dude?
[00:05:10]  He's Mexican.
[00:05:12]  He didn't like me.
[00:05:13]  You know why?
[00:05:13]  Why?
[00:05:14]  Because I'm good looking.
[00:05:16]  You can't tall and handsome.
[00:05:20]  But that happened to me, and they're doing the exact same thing to him.
[00:05:24]  He's following the code.
[00:05:25]  It's just he has long hair, so he pins it up.
[00:05:27]  And it is discriminatory because they want to treat all kids the same.
[00:05:31]  All kids are not the same.
[00:05:32]  We have different cultures, different backgrounds.
[00:05:34]  You can't treat everybody the same because we're not.
[00:05:38]  Is it racist?
[00:05:39]  No, but it is discriminatory towards certain cultures.
[00:05:44]  Shut up.
[00:05:50]  Personally, I don't see a problem if he keeps it buttoned up.
[00:05:53]  Thank you.
[00:05:54]  Boss of reason over here.
[00:05:56]  Boss of reason.
[00:05:57]  Because it's not going past the eyebrows and his earlobes.
[00:06:02]  It should be fine.
[00:06:03]  If they suspended him because it's all braided up like that, then I have an issue with that because you can't...
[00:06:10]  You're telling us.
[00:06:10]  He's not racist, but it is discriminatory.
[00:06:13]  Yeah.
[00:06:13]  It's not freedom either.
[00:06:15]  It's America.
[00:06:16]  And it's un-American, if you ask me.
[00:06:21]  They're letting boys go in the girls' restrooms.
[00:06:23]  Why can't they let a Negro walk around with his hair up?
[00:06:27]  Well, that's an African cultural hairstyle.
[00:06:31]  Right, right.
[00:06:32]  I mean, white people don't walk around like that because it looks crazy.
[00:06:34]  It looks messy.
[00:06:35]  You ever seen a white dude with breads?
[00:06:37]  It looks horrible.
[00:06:38]  It looks horrible for me.
[00:06:40]  Oh, black people, oh, no.
[00:06:41]  White guy looks crazy.
[00:06:45]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:06:46]  So that's why white people don't wear their hair like that.
[00:06:49]  They got the...
[00:06:49]  But black people.
[00:06:50]  They got all that flowing hair, like, got all them golden locks.
[00:06:53]  All of them golden locks.
[00:06:55]  Like they should be on a damn romance now.
[00:06:57]  All that damn white long hair blowing in there.
[00:07:00]  Yeah, black people have a different texture of hair, so they wear their hair differently.
[00:07:04]  Yeah.
[00:07:04]  Do you see where I'm coming from?
[00:07:05]  They're forcing someone to be something that's not them.
[00:07:10]  They can't express their true identity.
[00:07:13]  I mean, I understand.
[00:07:14]  I understand dress colour.
[00:07:14]  Well, white boys can't express their true identity if they want to wear their hair long.
[00:07:18]  Yeah.
[00:07:19]  Whether they have a dress code.
[00:07:21]  It can't be.
[00:07:23]  No, the dress code is this.
[00:07:25]  The dress code is this.
[00:07:26]  Can't be below the eyebrows.
[00:07:27]  Yeah.
[00:07:27]  Or to the shoulders, right?
[00:07:29]  If a white dude.
[00:07:30]  Shut up.
[00:07:30]  Earlope.
[00:07:31]  If a white boy grows his hair long, he can put it in a bun.
[00:07:34]  Yeah.
[00:07:35]  Yeah.
[00:07:36]  And vice versa.
[00:07:37]  I mean, women, they wear their hair long.
[00:07:41]  It's gender discrimination against males.
[00:07:43]  Yeah, it's discrimination against males, man.
[00:07:45]  Yeah, I follow you on that.
[00:07:46]  Yeah, they keep saying we live in a patriarchy.
[00:07:48]  But this world ran by women.
[00:07:54]  I'm just joking.
[00:07:55]  Kid talking about, what the mom said, oh, I'm failing now.
[00:07:59]  Nigga, you was probably failing since you went there.
[00:08:02]  I'm failing now.
[00:08:03]  They won't let me come to school.
[00:08:06]  I'm black.
[00:08:08]  This white man treats me.
[00:08:09]  Like, I'm a Negro.
[00:08:15]  But this, this is, I think this, this dress code, I understand it's.
[00:08:20]  It's a grooming code.
[00:08:21]  I understand the dress code, the grooming code.
[00:08:23]  But if you pin it up and you make it nice and neat, it shouldn't.
[00:08:27]  Yeah.
[00:08:28]  Yeah.
[00:08:29]  That is discriminatory to whites and blacks if you can't wear your hair long.
[00:08:32]  So if, like, what for white boys and a damn Viking, right?
[00:08:36]  Comes in with their braids.
[00:08:38]  Vikings used to wear braids.
[00:08:39]  They're white.
[00:08:40]  So they could have put it up.
[00:08:42]  So long it's not below the eyebrows.
[00:08:43]  Yeah.
[00:08:44]  It's discriminatory.
[00:08:45]  And then you're going to make that kid cut his hair just for a wrestling match?
[00:08:50]  That is crazy.
[00:08:51]  Well, Dane, you got to think about you wrestling.
[00:08:53]  You wrestling.
[00:08:54]  He got all that damn hair whooping you all in the damn face, some damn hard-ass nappy braids.
[00:08:59]  Beating you all in the face.
[00:09:01]  Man, come on now.
[00:09:03]  Well, you think that'll give a Negro an advantage?
[00:09:05]  Like when you boxing, you can't have a beard.
[00:09:07]  That's why you don't see boxes with beards.
[00:09:08]  You can't have a beard?
[00:09:09]  Uh-uh.
[00:09:10]  Because you, that damn big...
[00:09:12]  I could grow my beard like somebody punched me in the face.
[00:09:14]  I don't even feel it.
[00:09:15]  Yeah, bam, bam.
[00:09:16]  I do the rope and don't like Muhammad.
[00:09:18]  He just beat the hell out of this beard.
[00:09:19]  Did you all turn down?
[00:09:21]  Bam!
[00:09:23]  That is stupid.
[00:09:24]  A bird is not going to keep you from getting knocked out.
[00:09:28]  I'm just saying.
[00:09:29]  That's stupid, too.
[00:09:30]  You can't wear a beard and you box.
[00:09:33]  If anybody should better wear a beard, it's a damn boxer.
[00:09:36]  That shit look cool as hell.
[00:09:37]  You walk in there.
[00:09:38]  Tyson walking in with a beard.
[00:09:44]  Yeah, people's got their head.
[00:09:46]  People's got the head up their arts, man.
[00:09:47]  These dress codes, some of them are just stupid and archaic.
[00:09:50]  I mean, they don't want kids coming out looking like Millie Vanilli.
[00:09:56]  Coming out looking like this.
[00:09:57]  Here's a picture of Millie Vanilli.
[00:09:58]  They don't want your kids looking like this.
[00:10:00]  I understand why.
[00:10:00]  And then once the black kids do it, the white kids like, if they can do it, I can too.
[00:10:06]  But if it's neat and you put it up and it's, I personally, I don't care.
[00:10:10]  Yeah.
[00:10:11]  I mean, for y'all to suspend a kid over his hair, he's not.
[00:10:14]  I'm telling you, they didn't suspend.
[00:10:16]  I'm speculating, Keith.
[00:10:18]  He's not a behavioral.
[00:10:19]  He doesn't have behavioral issues.
[00:10:20]  He hasn't demonstrated that.
[00:10:22]  I'm telling you, he's letting it down.
[00:10:23]  It's all over his hat.
[00:10:24]  He's sitting around like Dwayne Wade's son.
[00:10:27]  I'm telling us what happened.
[00:10:29]  You think I may be wrong, but I'm done talking about this Negro.

=== Suspending a Kid Over Hair (00:47) ===

[00:10:33]  Damn good show.
[00:10:36]  Y'all know about failing now.
[00:10:38]  You probably got D's and F's the whole time.
[00:10:41]  You're trying to bang all the white chicks in there.
[00:10:46]  Shut up, man.
[00:10:47]  He sounds like a well-spoken educated man.
[00:10:50]  He don't come off like no thug to me, man.
[00:10:51]  Hey, man.
[00:10:52]  He just joking, man.
[00:10:53]  Hey, we gotta.
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