The Johnsons are not a family who walks around looking jacked up. Their hairstyles vary, but they always stay crisply edged and trimmed. Sharidon and his three sons get their hair cut once a week. The barber surveyed the damage and looked at Drew’s father, Charles Johnson III, who goes by his middle name of Sharidon. Maybe those kitchen scissors were meant to let in some air. The shy, quiet teen was trapped in a suffocating bubble. Another local contingent believed that even if Maloney was wrong, Drew should have just shaken it off and moved on.
But others, including some of Drew’s schoolmates and other residents of his mostly white town, defended Maloney as simply enforcing the rules.
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Wrestling officials also will be trained about hair discrimination.Īfter Drew’s dreadlocks were cut, support for Drew poured in from celebrities, pro athletes and the governor of New Jersey. 18, the state attorney general’s office announced that Maloney would be suspended from officiating for two years, and that all referees, coaches and athletic administrators in all high school sports across the state must undergo implicit bias training. It became a shared and painful experience for many who see how issues of identity, subjugation, power and freedom are intertwined in African American hair. What resulted was far more than a humiliating haircut for one high school student. Maloney already had a racist incident in his past before telling Drew that his hair was “unnatural” and giving him 90 seconds to cut it. But others, including some of his schoolmates and other residents of his mostly white town, defended referee Alan Maloney as simply enforcing the rules.Īndrew Mills/NJ Advance Media/Barcroft Media 5, has poured in from celebrities, pro athletes and the governor of New Jersey. Since the incident last December, support for Andrew Johnson, seen here during a bout on Jan. Tired of looking in the mirror and seeing the referee, Alan Maloney, looking back. Tired of being treated differently and made into something he was not. Drew loved his hair but was tired of it causing so much trouble. The night before, he had grabbed a pair of scissors from the kitchen and hacked at what remained of his dreads, then asked his little sister to finish the job. After a video of Drew’s shearing attracted a massive social media audience last December, he had reshaped Drew’s hair into shorter dreadlocks that radiated from his head.īut now Drew had a new problem. Perez has tended Drew’s hair since middle school.
Yo, that’s that kid who got his locs chopped by the white ref.Īndrew, who goes by Drew, sat down in Chris Perez’s chair.
Watching and whispering about things beyond his control. Since that awful day in December when a referee had forced the 16-year-old Buena Regional High School wrestler to either cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match, he felt as if the world was constantly watching him, especially in his small New Jersey town. When Andrew Johnson walked into The Line Up barbershop last April, all eyes focused on him.
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