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Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC & @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC. Host of @TheBreakdown Podcast. Voice of Social Justice @TJMShow. Husband. Father of 5.

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    1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 13 Mar 2017
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      My Latest. Louisiana high school targets & suspends Black students for their hairstyles. Federal complaint filed.http://nydn.us/2mkbmiq 

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      Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 13 Mar 2017
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      Meet Heaven Wiggins - an AP Honors Student. This is the actual hairstyle she was suspended for having. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-black-student-la-forced-class-hair-style-article-1.2996742 …pic.twitter.com/EJKIyg5w3p

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        1. Warren Coughlin‏ @WarrenCoughlin 13 Mar 2017
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          WTH From the hippie days to mullets, to white people getting "perms", when has hair interfered with education?

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        1. Allison‏ @allisons 13 Mar 2017
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          Her hair looks adorable. This make me so angry.

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        1. Oorlagh 💥‏ @oorlagh 13 Mar 2017
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          wtf? This is what energy & school resources are focused on?

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        1. LindsayWesker‏ @LindsayWesker 13 Mar 2017
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          Racists will look for any tiny excuse to hold black people down. Petty but effective. Maybe it's time to be petty and play dirty?

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        1. Jerry Walker‏ @JayWalker8012 13 Mar 2017
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          They didn't have a problem with her hair color or style. She was disciplined for wearing the wrong skin.

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        1. SchlubComandante Marcos‏ @MuchoMaas 13 Mar 2017
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          She got suspended for having a hairstyle that everyone's mom tried at some point?

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        1. Anita De Vries‏ @aniettwiet 13 Mar 2017
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          I don't even know how to react to this. It is so unimaginable stupid. 🙈

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        1. Hek'shor‏ @hek_shor 13 Mar 2017
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          similar the the instances that that young native boys face who are told by schools to cut their traditionally long hair

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        1. PumpCait Spice  🎃 ☕‏ @95percentcoffee 13 Mar 2017
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          @sschinke I work for a government office and that was literally my hair. What is her school thinking? (I mean we know, but still)

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        1. QueenLibby‏ @LibraQueenLibby 13 Mar 2017
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          gorgeous! Outrageous whats happening!!!!!

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        1. wesinjapan‏ @wesinjapan 13 Mar 2017
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          We had this issue in Japan. Brazilian-Japanese kids were forced to dye their hair black.

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        1. phantom pain‏ @Monties33Taino 13 Mar 2017
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          your gorgeous... just living in the wrong state.

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        1. _‏ @1schneids 13 Mar 2017
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          where I grew-up & went to plublic H.S., we weren't allowed "extreme hairstyles" but this is just absurd

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        1. george heibel‏ @GeorgeEHeibel 13 Mar 2017
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          - unbelievable

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        1. Joshua‏ @joshyouwaah 13 Mar 2017
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          WTF! Some bullshit right there.

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        1. John Kaster‏ @JohnKaster 13 Mar 2017
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          this is *at least* harrassment. How malevolent.

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        1. Keith Franklin‏ @Franklin808 13 Mar 2017
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          WTF what is the issue?

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        1. SA_DA_TAY‏ @1clarez 13 Mar 2017
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          Louisiana, yep

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