Head of charity backed by NFL and Jay-Z's Roc Nation apologizes for dreadlock cutting.
Sally Hazelgrove, founder and executive director of the Crushers Club, a Chicago-based nonprofit, said the two photos that were widely circulated online this week were taken in October 2016 and that the two teens had requested she shear their dreads.
Hazelgrove, who is white, said she posted both of the tweets, including one on Oct. 25, 2016, that said: “Another Crusher let me cut his dreads off! It’s symbolic of change and their desire for a better life!”The Crushers Club tweets were dug up by Twitter user Resist Programming. Hazelgrove contends the haircuts were not about conforming to white standards as some of her critics have suggested.
"It was not meant to be insensitive," said Hazelgrove, who also noted that her children are biracial.Black people, such as braids and dreadlocks. Now, due to the growing popularity of wearing hair natural, more blacks are coming up against rules banning such hairstyles in schools and in the workplace.
Let’s replace those images of a Trump supporter gleefully cutting a young black man’s locs to give him a “better life”... with the beauty and majesty of life with locs. If you adorn yourself with natural locs, share your pictures with the hashtag
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