Donna Mattis
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Harmony. Understand, Sympathy. Trust. Mind's true liberation. Zip code...tomorrow. Live and let live.
Stories (3/0)
Why The Court Ruled The Way It Did In the Dreadlock Hair Case
ZV, a minor and her parents wear dreadlocks. They do so outside of any adherence to religion. Her school has an unwritten policy of ‘no braids, no beads, no locking of hair’. Placement at the school is dependent on adherence to this policy. Reason: parents do not wash their dreadlocked children’s hair, “in a timely manner, and the hair gets junjo” (mildew) and has created serious lice infestation issues in the past prompting administrative intervention.
By Donna Mattis4 years ago in The Swamp
The Death Of Chadwick Boseman
I watched the movie, Black Panther, once and swore that was the only time I would. I was not taken in by the hype. For me, it was no different from the usual Hollywood propaganda films about Black people with its Black on Black violence, dismissal of Pan-Africanism, Trumpesque nationalism and white fragility, white saviour undertone. It was more a film to satisfy white fragility...special effects a huge distraction...that was just my opinion.
By Donna Mattis4 years ago in Geeks
Artistic Representation Of State Propaganda And Oppression
The removal of colonial statues is not new —- it has been a function of activists across the decolonized world, predominantly on the African continent, from as early as the 1960s. Much of it has particularly found expression in newly Independent nations wanting a reversion to pre-colonial societal fabric devoid of these repugnant reminders of the colonial epoch. The sentiment anchoring this action was that statues honouring “heroes” of colonialism was a contradiction to the new spirit of nationhood. Generations later have seen the growth of radicalism that has led to demands for the toppling of more racist relics. Colonial names didn’t escape notice either: after Independence colonial states Northern and South Rhodesia named for colonizer Cecil Rhodes of #RhodesMustFall and #RhodesScholar reverted to Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively.
By Donna Mattis4 years ago in The Swamp
