Presidential Smurf Hopeful, South Bend, IN Mayor, Pete Buttigieg has taken to Twitter to demand passage of the CROWN Act. It may make his followers and detractors wonder. What is the CROWN Act?

The CROWN Act is the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act. The CROWN Act ensures protection against discrimination based on hairstyles by extending statutory protection to hair texture and protective styles in the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and state Education Codes.

This is one of the more ridiculous acts that the US Government is wasting its time on these days. It is also ridiculous enough to get the attention of attention starved Democratic Presidential Candidates.

Hair discrimination is racial discrimination, plain and simple. We need to pass the CROWN Act.https://t.co/LNVEcm0MLk — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) January 26, 2020

The CROWN Act,which stands for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is a law that prohibits discrimination based on hair style and hair texture. First introduced in California in January 2019 by Senator Holly Mitchell (District 30), the CROWN Act expanded the definition of race in the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and Education Code, to ensure protection in workplaces and in K-12 public and charter schools. The inaugural CROWN Act was signed into law by Governor Newsom in California on July 3rd and went into effect January 1, 2020.

New York was the second state to introduce the CROWN Act under the leadership of Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights) and

Senator Jamaal Bailey (D-Bronx, Westchester), and Governor Cuomo signed the CROWN Act

into law on July 12th, deeming the legislation effective immediately.

New Jersey became the third state to the enact the CROWN Act. State Senator Sandra Cunningham (District 31) and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (District 31) championed the legislation and Governor Phil Murphy signed the CROWN Act into law on December 19th, the one-year anniversary of the wrestling match where New Jersey high school wrestler Andrew Johnson’s locs were forcibly cut off. The city of Cincinnati, Ohio and Montgomery County, MD have also passed

The CROWN Act in those local and county municipalities. On December 5th, Senator Cory Booker

(D-NJ) and Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) introduced The CROWN Act of 2019 in both chambers of U.S. Congress paving the way for federal protections.

Thirteen (13) additional states are considering the CROWN Act and have either pre-filed, filed or formally stated an intent to introduce their own anti-hair discrimination bills, including Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania,

South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The city of Cincinnati, OH and Montgomery County, MD have also passed The CROWN Act in

those local and county municipalities.

Isn’t it good to know that in these clowny world times, this is what people are concentrating on?