Pressley: Texas court ruling on Black student's locs 'anti-Black'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "She added that Congress must pass the CROWN Act, legislation first introduced in California in 2019 to ban discrimination against race-based hairstyles such as braids, locs and other protective hairstyles.
57% : Those with agendas wish to make the CROWN Act a blanket allowance of student expression.
57% : I cannot be around other peers and enjoy my junior year, because of my hair?'" Matthews said.
51% : "Darryl made this statement, and told me this straight up with tears in his eyes, 'All because of my hair?
41% : "This is a pathetic, wilful and anti-Black misinterpretation of the CROWN Act," Pressley posted on X on Thursday.
39% : Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) is calling on Congress to pass federal legislation protecting Black hairstyles after a Texas judge ruled teachers did not violate legal protections when they punished a student for wearing dreadlocks.

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