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Wait Until You Hear What Ilhan Omar Wants to Ban

When she’s not joining her daughter on college campuses in harassing Jewish students, she’s playing the race game. 

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was roasted for introducing a new act that would ban “race-based hair discrimination.” 

The CROWN Act, or “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is a law that would ban discrimination based on “hair texture and protective hairstyles” usually associated with race, including “braids, locs, twists, and knots in the workplace and public schools.”

While progress has been made, race-based hair discrimination remains a systemic problem in the workplace – from hiring practices to daily workplace interactions – disproportionately impacting Black women’s employment opportunities and professional advancement. Black women are 1.5 times more likely to be sent home from the workplace because of their hair. Black women are 80% more likely than white women to agree with this statement. Via the CROWN Act. 

Omar faced a mountain of criticism for focusing on another race issue while the United States faces real problems.