Interesting observation ........... stolen from elsewhere:

C&P

Kenyans and their beaten down self esteem and cultural
confusion...No one had a problem with schoolgirls being put
through blow dry torture to "straighten their hair like
mzungu"....No one has a problem with women (even teachers
in that very school) walking around with horsehair weaves and
wigs to cover up their African hair....British colonial disdain for
our tough woolly hair (that curls naturally by the way) has
been hammered into our heads so much that when someone
sports natural hair proudly, people shudder.....Now having
dreadlocks is disguised and discussed as a matter of morality
and Christianity....What has long natural hair got to do with
morality or Christianity...The school can make up all its crazy
rules but it should never associate Morality or Christianity
with its disdain for dreadlocks....that is from its British
colonial heritage and their efforts to make Africans fit mzungu
standards....Boys cut off your hair, girls straighten yours or
cover it up with this smelly thing from a horse......Jesus
himself, the founder of Christianity was a long
hair! !!!!......Rubbish ni hypocrisy ya wakenya

So in that school the caucasians are free to grow their hair long, but they are lucky their hair happens to be naturally straight and thus the authorities are happy with it. But when some black kid also grows his hair long like his classmates, but due to his genetic makeup the hair becomes kinky and dready, which is a natural phenomenon, the school complains. And this is a school that purports to embrace diversity and multiculturalism? Sad! They shouldn't persecute that kid. A black man's long hair shouldn't be treated differently from a white man's long hair. We are all humans.The alternative would be to have all pupils, whether black or white, have their hair short. Otherwise it would be discriminatory (and against universal human rights) to allow a white kid to have long hair but demand that a kid who happens to be black to cut his long hair. This kid should only cut his hair only after all his classmates,white and black, cut theirs. We are all equal, though created differently.

Let the mother take the kid where hair is more important than anything else. Kuharibu watoto with frivolous nonsense like this is inexcusable. It will do this boy a world of good to have him chop off those locks and look like a pupil, not like some ganja-smoking rasta vagabond. In this mother I see the type of parents who think their kids are special. The types who can sue you just because your kid beat up theirs while playing. 6 year old with dreadlocks? Silly!

"We are all equal though created differently." Wrong. Very wrong. Insulting even.

The assumption that someone's creation is different from another's implies inherent and insurmountable inequality. As if the creator had different strokes for different folk. The slavedriver's mentality and justification. That an African can use that argument is saddening.

We are different though created equally. That, in contrast, is more appropriate and theologically sound and is as it should be.

Hence, the black African reasoning ati "Because the white man has long hair, I should also have in order to be equal." is dealt a death blow. Just because someone has long hair does not necessarily mean to be equal to him I too must have long hair. With my short hair I am equal to him with long hair.

We are different though created equally!


Glad to note most members saw the folly in the accuser's arguments and chose to be on the side of sound reason.