Ellen DeGeneres and Alicia Keys are lending support to a Texas teenager who was told that he won't get to walk at graduation if he doesn't cut his dreadlocks.
The singer presented DeAndre Arnold with a check for $20,000 to go toward his college education when he appeared on"The Ellen Show" Wednesday."I'm super proud of you for doing what you know is right," Keys said."I know the school needs to do the right thing."Arnold, 18, is a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, east of Houston, but he hasn't been to school for several days.
"Please change your mind," DeGeneres pleaded with the school district at the end of the segment.Cutting his hair to comply with dress code is not an option, Arnold's family has said. Arnold's father is from Trinidad, and growing dreadlocks is a common part of the culture. But Sandy Arnold said that shouldn't matter."He should get to choose who he identifies himself as, and he shouldn't be discriminated against," she said.
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