School complains about braids
5:23A school principal calls a mother to say her daughter's braids give off a "ghetto" look and asks her to straighten her hair, causing the mother to threaten him.
Transcript
83 linesAnd uh, you know, Caleb's doing very good in school from what I understand, and very nice with all the rest of the kids.
He's getting along.
That's not the problem.
Well, we're what we're trying to get is um the grooming of Caitlin.
You know, Caelin has these braids, and what we were trying to do is is give, you know, we had a meeting about it.
Did you just say her grooming?
Something's wrong with her grooming.
Well, it's not necessarily her clothing, of course.
You know, the kids wear the uniform, but the the braids, you know, we we want to represent ourselves with a lot of dignity, the way we carry ourselves.
We want to be um, you know, pretty much nice and clean, spit and polished.
We would really prefer if her hair was straight and opposed to being braided up.
You know?
I mean, that kind of gives off a a ghetto type of look to it.
And that's what we're trying to avoid.
Are you are you crazy?
Is something wrong with you?
You don't have first of all, how the hell you get my name?
If you couldn't call me for the meeting, why are you calling me that?
Well, like I said, ma'am, the meeting was to get The general consensus on where all the parents feel in the same way about your daughter and her braids.
You know, we're just trying to keep everything classy when it comes to the blacks that attend the school.
There's only ten of us, you know, ten children attending.
I tell you what you can attend.
You could what you can attend to is this phone hanging up in your d face.
You tell the parents, all of them for me.
Y'all can go straight and hit rock bottom out of hell talking about my child and her braids.
Her braids are ethnic, they are nice, she's well groomed.
And I don't know how in the hell you got my d telephone number, but tell all the parents for me to kiss the crack of my you know what?
Listen, first of all, I don't like the way that you're talking to me.
Okay, I carry myself with class with dignity.
I'm spitting polished, ma'am.
You have to call a parent who's the two adults subject of it, uh
you not even call me.
You acting just as ghetto as her hairstyle.
Let me say something real ghetto to your okay.
You and all the parents can hit rocks out of hell.
Don't call me no more with no like this.
This is ignorant.
I'm far beyond this.
My child is well groomed.
She is gonna go to that school.
As a matter of fact, as much money as it costs to go there too, y'all should have been meeting on how we can get together and pay the tuition.
How about that?
Uh are you trying to sit here and tell me that you got a problem taking her braids down and wearing her hair straight so she can look a lot more classy than what she looks right now?
It's a pathetic look that she's having right now.
You know what?
I don't what's your hair look like?
Take a picture of your daughter and send it to me.
Text it to me.
Since you just folks phone numbers and give it to you.
Take a picture of your daughter and text it to me.
I bet you you look like who with a party.
My daughter's braids are gonna stay up for the rest of the d year.
As a matter of fact, we ain't gonna re braid it.
It's gonna stay that way so it can be matted and represent.
That's what we're gonna do.
Francis, listen, I don't I don't want to argue.
I just wanted to call and see if we could actually you know, come to a medium on this.
Do you think that there's a possibility that I mean, when I'm I'm picking up DJ.
tomorrow after school.
Would it would would it be all right if I picked up um little Caitlin and brought her home and let my wife do her hair?
Yeah please I wish the he would pick my daughter up and see what the hell I do.
I'ma call my husband and tell him to come over your house and whoop your after he braids your ass I wish you would pick up my daughter I'll call the police on as a matter of fact you're gonna have to call the police on me and my husband do it and see what happens.
I'm just trying to get some class here that's all we're wanted we're not wanting to fight with you.
It's just the blacks here at we think that we want a little bit more classy look of the way we are groomed.
That's the only thing we're looking for only person we're gonna be taking the class is when we get to whoop you gonna be taking the class how about that
I can't stand up
like you y'all get five dollars and one penny in your pocket that think you're better than everybody else you forget where you came from as a matter of fact what your what's your f name because I'm calling the princess on your ass a day give me your f name and Mr Who what's your name
that's that's that's that's that's not that's not really what my name is but that's what told me when you first called me what is your real name my name is my name my real name is Tommy.
Tommy No my last name either well what the hell is your name do you know?
My name is Tommy nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Your husband Keith got me the prank phone call you
I'd be
oh my God he put to this
you got me ready to click your ass the C T the L
school and everything out here I tell you what keep out for the rest of the week for putting this me
told me he said man he said it don't Take but about two and a half minutes for my wife to go off.
He said, it don't take but two and a half.
He said, and I promise you.
You all right?
Oh, baby.
Calm down, baby.
Well, I got one more thing to ask you.
What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.