A teacher and her friend have shaved their head to show “black lives matter”. Read why they did this and hear professors analyze the meaning behind shaving your hair in this article by the College Fix.

Shaving your head shows that ‘black lives matter,’ or something

Here is what happens when you have the “correct” ideals which neatly fit the prevailing media narrative: You get a lengthy article by a major city’s leading newspaper dedicated to your … “protest.”

Lou Ann Merkle, a 61 year-old teacher among other things, is shaving her head with friend Sylvia Metzler as “a symbol of grievance and mourning that stretches through societies and cultures back to the Old Testament.” For what, you ask?

Because “they are weary of seeing black and brown people die in the nation’s streets.”

And you’ve probably guessed why already: They’re “upset … reading story after story of black men being killed [by police] in the street with no one being prosecuted.”

Here’s a photo of the duo, complete with a “Black Lives Matter” wall sign.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Philly.com) reports:

A month ago, news broke of the Senate report on CIA torture, which found that detainees were subjected to far worse treatment than had been known. To Metzler, the findings seemed like one more affront, piled upon the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y.

Metzler tossed and turned all night, then awoke at 5 a.m. with one thought: “I’m going to shave my head.”

“It went right to my heart,” Merkle said. “I thought, I have to do this. I’m upset with sitting here and reading story after story of black men being killed in the street with no one being prosecuted. And I was deeply troubled by the information in the Senate report.”

Shaving her head, she thought, would force her to surrender something beautiful and comforting, in its place creating a visual signal of distress and disagreement.