As the world turns We keep making a ‘three-sixty’ instead of a ‘one-eighty!’ So we get excited ‘bout taking three steps forward... No sooner, we take a whole ten backwards. In this day and Age of Enlightenment and levity And inna dis time of Emancipendence and festivity We still being denigrated and oppressed ‘Bout we natural beauty and dread locked tress🥴
The systemic biases, prejudices, and post colonial intractability a nyam we out! Some say di ruling is not what the Justice mean Dem only want the lawyer dem fi get them case clean. But when the Education Minister say “school’s grooming rules must be ‘rights’ based....[and]...where the wearing of that hairstyle by the student is based on religion or health reasons.” Unno see wha dat mean? Dem still a marginalize di rest a we!
Jamaicans will never be free to be their uniquely natural, beautiful selves, if they are to be accepted by the classist, stuck-up, aristocracy with their imperialist ideologies. #SilenceIsNotAnOption #NubianQueen #NaturalBeauty #NappyAndNice
