The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code.
Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, received an in-school suspension after he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes. George, 17, wears his hair in thick twisted dreadlocks, tied on top of his head, said his mother, Darresha George.
George served the suspension last week. His mother said he plans to return to the Houston-area school Monday, wearing his dreadlocks in a ponytail, even if he is required to attend an alternative school as a result.
Some crips in California wear them, IIRC. It could be regional, too.
Smaller gangs will sometimes use a colour that’s unused in their area, even if it might already be known to represent something else in another place.
My school has so many problems with that that they banned any non-black shoelaces and also implemented an expensive uniform that was ugly.