Parent Says Treatment Over Hair Beads Racially Motivated

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The parent of an Alabama youth soccer player says her daughter was discriminated against when she was warned by her coach that if she did not remove her hair beads she was at risk of being excluded from recreational soccer activities. 

Alecia Clay told WHNT that her 8-year-old daughter Anslie was enjoying playing soccer in Madison County's chapter of American Youth Soccer Organization. But she believes a coach's guidance on her daughter's hair beads, which were done for her birthday, was racially motivated. 

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