Ref who told wrestler to cut dreadlocks barred for 2 seasons

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Referee who told a high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a match last year is suspended for two seasons.

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or forfeit a match last year was suspended by the state for two seasons Wednesday, and officials also announced mandatory bias training for all referees and coaches involved in high school athletics.

The state Division on Civil Rights investigation found that Maloney determined that Johnson required a hair covering and gave Johnson the choice of cutting his hair or forfeiting after no covering could be located that satisfied rules governing long hair. The agreement between the civil rights office and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association announced Wednesday seeks to eliminate interpretations of the rule “that allowed wrestling officials to determine that traditionally Black hairstyles were ‘unnatural’ or to subject wrestlers with traditionally Black hairstyles to differential treatment as to when a hair cover was required.”

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Should B permanently

That’s it? How awful!

Should be barred for life

What happened to all the dumbass adults who were there

markgeragos When I wrestled in high school I was forced to cut my hair or forfeit a match what’s the big deal?

2 years is a joke. 2 years is meaningless. If I’m a coach and he’s the referee, my team is forfeiting.

Good. How ridiculous. How were his dreads a problem?

So, student doesn't follow rules, ref upholds rules, but student is black so ref is suspended?

I hope there is a lawsuit against the school & the coach.

chicagomargaret That’s all? You know the psychological damage he did! He should also take some sensitive training

What a F’n joke. CancelCulture warriors want a man dead for following the rules instead of bitching about the rule. He did his job and someone got their feelers hurt. RaceBaiting attempt right here by the AP

That’s not right. You can’t have nasty hair like that if you wrestle.

PaulZeise So the referee followed the rules and got suspended? So no one cares that he was only protecting this young man from getting hurt? This happens all the time.

You can’t tell me there aren’t other people who could use the side income that don’t want this gig. Fire this asshole once and for all.

That's it?

Outrageous. The wrestler did not have the proper headgear. The Only mistake the ref made was not catching that during weigh in because he was late. Had nothing to do with being biracial. It was the length of the hair. Hope ref sues.

Completely inadequate discipline for an overly racist and dehumanizing act.

This is totally on the coaches not enforcing rules, not the ref. There are standards for hair length, fingernail length, and facial hair. Ref should have disqualified the kid, and coaches should be shit on for allowing this to happen.

He's the man!

Not fired?

Wow ... you couldn’t make this up ...

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PaulZeise Or how about forever

Wrong call! You need to be a licensed hairdresser to do something like that

He is dangerous even to his own life

Seems pretty harsh for doing something that kid will thank him for later.

The responses here are sad. The lynch mentality in this country is out of control largely in part to social media.

Good.

I hope his parents sue

He should be fired I’m sure he’s traumatized by it

Why not three seasons

simpostings The significance of hair in Native American Culture --Native Voice TV

دول محترمه بس لما يجي للعربي يبقوا ظالمين و اولاد كلب

Were other kids with long hair told to cut it short?

justice

My heart breaks for him. Humiliating him, degrading him, trying to make him feel inferior. When the only you can win is to do that you know you are very inferior.

Good.

They should of Fired his ass...

Suspended? How about not allowed to officiate ever again.

I know nothing about wrestling, but I would think long hair can get ripped out easier.

Sounds about yt

Sad. But true that in the year 2019 some folks still need training on how not to be discriminatory towards other folks.

Such a jerk thing to do? Coach, did it make you fell more like a man to disrespect someone younger than you?

Not canceled, just suspended What is happening?!

I can tell there’s a lot of comments from people not familiar with wrestling at all. Cutting hair is a no brainer. They made it an issue of identity politics. If the ref was black it would have been just fine right?

Bye Felicia. I don’t care if she was just following the rules, if there was some crazy rule that told me I had to cut an athlete or one of my students hair, you would just have to discipline me because who in their right mind would do that?

STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!

Fire that ignoramus

This was not even a year ago? Honestly feels like this happened a lifetime ago. Jesus.

Kick him the f-ck out forever!

Let the kid wrestle, get his hair ripped out, then see if he would have preferred a trim.

Yeah, how dare he ask someone to follow the rules.

What about the girl who actually cut his hair? And the other people standing around watching this happen and not saying shit

Victim of the media mob. He was following the rules as written, as proven by the fact they changed the rules a few days later after the media jumped in.

Should be suspended forever!!!

Smh... How about changing the damn rule?

He should remain suspended until the kid's hair reaches the length it was before the ref forced him to cut it for no good reason.

I would talk shit about this being too lenient a response... But the truth is this response is harsher than the reaction most police departments have when faced with evidence of their cops being racist, or killing unarmed people. So, there's that...

Whomever demanded this should be fired.

Permit Patty, meet Haircut Hannah 💇‍♂️

He shouldn’t be allowed to ref again. Anywhere!

He should’ve been barred for life.

Only 2? Should be a lifetime ban. Who does that to a kid?

Hygea, you know...

Should have been permanent.

Or just fired? How about that?

Don't pressure the faberge eggs please

I hope without pay!

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