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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,957 posts)
Sat May 15, 2021, 07:39 AM May 2021

Umps tell Black NC softball player to cut her hair during a game. 'It was humiliating'

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Umps tell Black NC softball player to cut her hair during a game. ‘It was humiliating’

BY STEVE WISEMAN
MAY 12, 2021 07:01 PM,

DURHAM

On April 19, Nicole Pyles faced a choice of removing her hair beads or abandoning her Hillside High School softball teammates in the middle of their game against Durham rival Jordan High.

The demand came from the game’s two umpires, who were following a strict interpretation of a National Federation of State High School Associations rule that allows players to use bobby pins, barrettes and hair clips but prohibits plastic visors, bandannas and hair beads.

In a Facebook live video of the game, a plea can be heard from the Hillside dugout: “Does anyone have scissors?”

Pyles, who is Black, opted to let her teammates cut her hair to remove the beads so she could continue playing in her team’s senior night game. But she wasn’t happy about it and still isn’t.

“It was humiliating,” Nicole Pyles said in a Zoom interview with The News & Observer on Wednesday. “Why do I have to take away from myself just to play this game where we are actually doing well? I’m embarrassed because you pick on me in front of all these people for no reason.”

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Umps tell Black NC softball player to cut her hair during a game. 'It was humiliating' (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2021 OP
Black while playing softball. HUAJIAO May 2021 #1
The whole team should have put beads in their hair. woodsprite May 2021 #2
She should have taken her phone Livluvgrow May 2021 #3
My hair has always been waist level. No sports team ever told me to cut it. catrose May 2021 #4

woodsprite

(12,201 posts)
2. The whole team should have put beads in their hair.
Sat May 15, 2021, 08:00 AM
May 2021

Beads braided into hair would be a heck of a lot more secure than bobby-pins or barrettes.

Livluvgrow

(379 posts)
3. She should have taken her phone
Sat May 15, 2021, 08:10 AM
May 2021

Went on to the field and recorded them while she was narrating what they wanted her to do and ended by telling them "Hope you like being famous, because this is about to go viral"

catrose

(5,236 posts)
4. My hair has always been waist level. No sports team ever told me to cut it.
Sat May 15, 2021, 04:10 PM
May 2021

Could that be because I’m white?

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