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Chicago Kids Group Ripped for Insensitive Pic, Teen Defends Org as NFL Donates

One of the groups getting $200k from the NFL and Roc Nation is getting blasted for a 2016 photo of its founder cutting a young man's locks -- but the kid himself says it's much ado about nothing.

The pic was tweeted by Crushers Club -- a Chicago youth empowerment group -- almost 3 years ago, and shows Sally Hazelgrove cutting the locks of a teen named Kobe. Someone on the Internet dug up the tweet after TMZ broke the story ... the NFL's Inspire Change program, in association with Roc Nation, would be donating money to Crushers Club.