After reading the daily newspaper today we were struck by what many of us already know. In fact we have expressed our feelings on this matter as recent as February 26, 2008 when we blogged on the topic, The Hair Debate In Los Barbados. The pictures on the top row represent three out of four young men charged with terrorizing Barbados in recent weeks with a slew of robberies. Of interest is the charge of robbing groups of tourist, and the much publicized daylight robbery in Warrens last week. The two pictures to the right at the bottom show Jason Norville released on bail for causing bodily harm to persons while driving a car and Anthony Charles facing a gun charge.
So why have we highlighted the five gentlemen? It comes down to hair. The recent appointment of Senator Damien Griffith to the Senate of Barbados was hailed by everyone as a good selection. He has always been known as a young articulate gentleman. When he walked into the Upper Chamber with his hair plaited in the cornrow style it absolutely created a furor in Barbados. In our opinion the current debate has overtaken that time when Rihanna walked into Chefette wearing a swim suit top. We understand from Mr. Mathew Farley, who has triggered the debate by expressing his disgust in the press that Senator Griffith should not be allowed to enter the Senate of Barbados with a plaited hairstyle. Many feel that for him to wear a hairstyle which has been made famous by the opposite sex maybe sending mixed signals to our young men. Many conservative Barbadians already suggest that our young men are already confused about their sexuality. Senator Griffith has indicated that he will wear the cornrow hairstyle because the people he represent are inclined to look like him, we think that is what he said.
We said it last week and we will say it again. Senator Griffith you are talking hogwash! The reality of the situation is you are wearing a hairstyle which is the preferred style of many of our young men who make up the criminal minds in our country. That negative perception does not mean that your are not a good person. However as a leader who has been given the honour to represent your country in the highest lawmaking chamber in the country, you need to send a message to the youth, loud and clear. Look at the pictures above and reflect before it is too late.
BU, you gone again?
Dave, I jus wake-up and u frighten me with those pictures!!!! U could b a little more considerate of my heart-condition, man!!!!
Dave, u know I caan say much more on this subject ’cause u know how they love to say, ‘Bimbro dis and Bimbro dat’, when it come to duh jamaican sweethearts and duh Bajee dreadlocks etc, so I gun have to lef it to wunna!!!!
Anyway, u know my views from the earlier, discussion!!!!
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The pictures on the top row represent three out of four young men charged with terrorizing Barbados in recent weeks
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Dave, I said at BFP, that I give Bim a maximum of another 10-20 years before life there will become untenable. The BFP posters, with their tender feelings, can’t bear to hear such warnings!! However, I repeat it again, here!! Ignore my warnings, AT YOUR PERIL!!!!
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Dave, I know what u mean, but, they’re certainly NOT, gentlemen!!!! Anything, except!!!!
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We said it last week and we will say it again. Senator Griffith you are talking hogwash! The reality of the situation is you are wearing a hairstyle which is the preferred style of many of our young men who make up the criminal minds in our country.
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I absolutely, agree with u here, BU and don’t really wish to waste any more time with this young, idiot!!!!
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BU, you’re so right!! Viewed from across the water, Bim today, seems to be all about falling standards!! Left unchallanged there’ll be nothing left of Bim, worth mentioning in a few years time!!
Deplore these fools, stand-up for high standards in Bim, or we’re finished!!!!
The people who applaud their kind of behaviour are probably not too, dissimilar in nature, themselves!!!! i.e. in one way or another, DEGENERATE!!!!
IN MY OPINION, PEOPLE SHOUD N’T BE ALLOWED TO DEPORT THEMSELVES IN THEIR MANNER IN BIM, AT ALL, WHETHER IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, OR ANYWHERE ELSE!!!!
IT’S ALL ABOUT STANDARDS AND THE MESSAGES WHICH THEY CONVEY!!!!
HOWEVER, I WOULD N’T EXPECT THOMPSON OR ANY BARBADIAN POLITICIAN TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO TACKLE THIS PROBLEM. THE RISK OF LOSING VOTES MIGHT BE TOO SIGNIFICANT!!
HOWEVER, WITH SUFFICIENT BACKING OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, THEIR MIGHT JUST BE A CHANCE OF THE GOVT. FINDING THE STRENGTH!!!!
Now David …can you also post the pictures of men like Ruel Ward and his three accomplices, who are out on bail for the theft of nearly $1.5 Million.
David I must say that I am always impressed with your answers.
You are fair and balanced.Even though I disagree with your views sometimes, you still have a way of making me think long and hard. Others could take a page or two from your book.
Technician we anticipated your comment. What percentage of people look like Ward et as oppose to those wearing natties, dreads, locks, hair plaited etc? We think the percentages have it!:-)
and thanks for the compliment.
Worked on many construction sites around the island.
Was truly shocked to hear young men with similar hairstyles talking about moisturizing and oiling their hair as well as spending hours having their sisters/girlfriends “do” their hair.
Am now fully convinced for myself (especially after many of my former teachers from many years ago warned me ) all of this co-education has in fact really bred a generation of feminized men.
Many of these young men are also brilliant guys as well – extremely bright I found.
But very sadly in many instances, the long hair also equates to a laid back, non-progressive, “boys-on-the-block” mentality.
Well, I guess there will always be good and bad on both sides ….although I accept the fact that the % of those with locks, plaits etc clearly out number the clean cut ones .
I still have a problem with people judging others by hairstyle and will always continue to do so.
Maybe it is from my own personal experience, as I too have dreadlocks. This still did not stop me from having morals. Does my hairstyle make me indecent ….NO. I have a good job and a small business. I am in close contact with people from all corners of society every day and the only comments I get is how neatly dressed, well spoken and professional I am.
I think the problem with our youth today goes way beyond the hairstyle but as usual we look for a scapegoat and bet the life out of it without really looking for the true problems.
The hair does not make the man.
Should be beat.
DAVID
Enlighten my darkness.
Why is it that men with cornrows are criminals or criminal sympathizers and not women?
Why were only men with locks expelled from the Polytechnic and women?
Just asking.
BU, BU BU. The prejudice here is phenomenal. It creates a stink on this board. It’s sad.
But I like pictures, so I want to see some more pictures of men and their hair. Put up some
pictures of the white collar criminals who terrorize people by stealing their money without having to wave a weapon at them, tourists who bring drugs into Barbados with them, people who steal from the taxpayers while they are holding government office, and bosses who steal from workers by failing to make their NIS contributions. Let us see the hair of the men whose social connections help them sweep their wrong-doings under the rug.
BU,
As the poster of the pictures, let us see some pictures of the hair of the men who terrorize their wives, partners, and children behind closed doors, who molest their young relatives, who harrass young girls and boys at their work places, and who demand wuk fuh wuk from their employees. Yes, yes. Let us see their hair.
Let us see the hair of the men who steal money and property from the infirm elders in our communities, who fail to support their children financially or emotionally, who abandon their mothers and father at the district hospitals or QEH, and who get into accidents and leave the scene of the crime. Let us see the hair of those who park in the parking spaces set aside for the disabled.
And let us see the hair of our entertainers – the same ones to whose music many of us jump and prance. Let us see the hair of our playwrights, poets, and artists, whose work (I hope) we have enjoyed. Let us see the hair of our sanitation workers, cleaners, teachers, engineers, doctors, bus drivers, conductors, salespersons, construction workers, and entrepreneurs. Let us see the hair our our tax-paying citizens whose contributions helps our children to go to school and get free care at polyclinics. Let us see the hair of our athletes, debaters, and now our senators.
Last but not least, BU,
Let us also see the hair of those whose prejudices stink to the high heavens. Let us see the hair of those who have never taken in the lesson of judging a book by what is inside rather than by its cover. I would love the see the hair of those who have never read: “it is what comes from within that makes a man unclean” (my paraphrase).
When you can tell me how hair is a cause of the human tendencies to do wrong or right, or even how it is correlated with those tendencies, come back and explain it to me. When you can present a picture, absent of all other information, and have someone make an accurate list of the sins of that heart and the actions of that person, let me know.
Waiting Patiently,
Radiance
Most of your comments are puerile.
The majority of hard core criminals in this island are not “clean cut”.
We talk about globablization. How far do you think these “hairstyles” would get an employee seeking employment in a “world class” company?
It’s time Bajans wake up and smell the coffee instead of trying to defend the indefensible.
BU, you are back with this foolishness again? Are you saying that the Senator is a criminal because of his hairstyle? If not, then what is your point? Your hairstyle cannot make you into what you are not. So there are dreadlocked crooks, baldheaded crooks, cornrowed crooks, neatly coiffed crooks…you get my drift?
Let me see if I understand. You say in principle hair maketh the man. Criminals pictured have corn rows. Senator has corn rows. Therefore people will think senator is a criminal. No need to check. We lock (bad pun) him up to be safe.
Now let’s look carefully at other criminals as Radiance says. See how they comport themselves, especially their hair. We may find that (say) most of the white collar criminals are a particular colour. OK. No need to check. Lock them up too. Reminds me of “suss” in the UK and as it still is in many parts of the US. As most people in jail are black, if you see a black person he’s likely to be a criminal. Little need to check. Lock him up.
Assuming black Bajans travel outside the limited waters of Barbados, to places like the US where there is a history of racism and colour bars, or to places where few black people are seen, please give them a clear warning. Beware! You may be prejudged by how you look. Don’t try to justify your innocence by saying that “Just because I’m black you arrest me?” It makes running a country much easier this way. Only problem is, if everone looks the same or similar how will youknow who are the real criminals? Good grief! You may actually have to pay attention to who and what someone is. That is really hard, so don’t bother.
If I had a certain kind of mind or opinion I would also be worried by what I see in “Who’s Who in Barbados 2008, a copy of which I just picked up this morning. A startlingly large number of the women (black and white) at the height of the corporate world are sporting very short hairstyles, that make them look like (standard) men. Now, I can’t deal with that gender confusion so I am going to write to all those companies (there are only a few hundred it seems) and tell them that I want all their executive women to grow their hair and look like real women. That way we can be sure that the companies and organizations that are making this economy and country prosper can function properly. I hope all the readers and commentators will join in this very worthwhile crusade. And starting tonight, let’s get all those women to grow their hair like proper and decent women.
BU idiot.
They are all men so they must certainly be criminals.
Lock up all the men in Barbados and we will be safe, you insufferable idiot.
Just to help us all in our quests, I have found a fool proof way to find white collar criminals, as developed by Isabel Mercedes Cummings (MBA and legal expert):
“It’s the last person in the world you would suspect,” Cumming says. “It’s the beloved, trusted employee who never took a vacation. They never miss a day of work because they’re trying to keep the fraud going.”
So, if you see or know any people like this report them to the police and get them locked up too. I’m gald we’re getting a good handle on these bad elements in society.
…I’m glad…
Folks, you can’t see the woods for the trees.
Are we ostriches???
I no some body is going to say “jc the same chorus again.” WELL YES, I am a proud black woman, with natural hair (locks) . I have a mind of my own (thank God). Therefore, nobody can pogram me to do what I dont want to do. Because I have locks or that some of my mail friends have their hair plaited, doesnot signify that I am a bad individual or have the tendencies to do inhumane things to my fellow man.
I think that it is time that persons realise that BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSCIOUS are wearing their OWN hair for a change (thank GOD) and we do not apologise for it; and we are not going to be looked at as criminals.
Why dont u make the indians take all that cloth of. Then u will hear talk about religion. Ya all make me laff.
I AM A PROUD BLACK WOMAN and i will be damned if any body tells me how to wear my blasted hair
dave you said it all, i agree 100% nuff said
I cannot believe how extremely backward our island Barbados has become. What the hell is this that I am seeing? How can you judge someone’s natural hairstyle as a link to the criminal mind? Without fear of repetition of an earlier comment, you need to go and look at the offenders that never reach the headlines, the white collar offenders whose damages are felt more at the individual and societal level. This is absolute hogwash coming from a supposedly developed country. I have travelled extensively and have seen policemen with their hair in cornrows and I smiled to myself and said that could never happen in BACKWARD Barbados. We need to take our head out of the sand and stop judging people by their hair. Most of the men who are featured in the newspapers commit street crime, but they are definitely not a representation of the entire criminal population. Get a grip, go and read and widen your knowlege, you bunch of hypocritical bastards!
Peopl as usual are missing the point.
IN an Ideal PC world:
1.As black people we should be able to wear our hair as we like.
2.No one should prejudge us based on our presentation
3. White collar criminals should be open to villification as much as the ‘poor people’
Reality:
1. The vast majority of young men causing trouble in BIM wear their hair in cornrows or locs or generally untidy.
2. Cornrows ON MEN does not fit in witrh the CURRENT corporate image in BIM or anywhare for that matter. There is nothing regal nor serious about corn rows in men. As far as most bajans in corpoarte barbados is concerned Cornrosw suggest rebellion!
3.We all judge a book by its cover to some degree in reality.
Facetiously is Senator griffith repping the thugs or the good boys
BU, you really enjoying this neh!
Radiance, you are not going to win. You have called it right, but you are not going to win. I gave up a good few comments ago on the first thread. Just keep the peace.
All change must start with the person /persons seen in the mirror but it is easier to criticise the neighbour than to inspect ourselves.
Amazingly the point of blogging on this topic seems to have been ignored by most commenters. The simple point we continue to make is to show how a rising deviant element in our SMALL society more often than not sport a hairstyle which is portrayed above for your easy reference. This is the irrefutable reality.
Our blog is not against anyone right to demonstrate freedom of expression. We have come to the view, however, that leaders in our society who want to send positive signals to our youth should think long and hard about wearing a hairstyle like the good Senator before entering the highest law making body in the land.
David, you just like trouble…. I tell you that this debate have no winners – except we count the popularity of BU…
It is real difficult to convince anyone that their adopted religion (way of life and beliefs) is wrong or evil.
I have absolutely no doubt that the ‘defenders of the dread locks ‘ genuinely feel that we are unfairly attacking their chosen style. Indeed they are probably just as revolted by our ‘baldhead’ styles.
However, to my mind, it has nothing to do with black, white, men or women or style. It has everything to do with self pride and national duty.
The problem I have with these pictures, and with increasing numbers of our young people is that they look SHABBY.
Black, white, rich and poor….most of them look UNKEMPT as though they do not care about themselves -and therefore probably do not care ’bout another boy’ either.
The various STYLES are GREAT, especially among our bright young people, this is how societies are challenged and how change comes.
But there is no defense for SHABBY, DIRTY UNKEMPT behaviors and attitudes. How is that uplifting or reflective of Pride and progress?
The situation with the Senator is a different one altogether. He is intelligent, articulate, clean cut and neat. I can see why he would be seen as a ‘youth leader’, and trend setter…but…
What ‘trend’ is he trying to set (or follow) by adopting a traditionally feminine hairstyle? Is this the model that we want for our educated youth?
As a newly appointed role model for our youth it is necessary for the Senator to rise above his PERSONAL taste and to reflect the image that his new appointment REQUIRES…or RESIGN and continue his PERSONAL agenda.
Even if I join the police force and become a representative of Law and Order in the society then I need to reflect the appropriate image and rise above my personal taste….how much more for a Senator?
JC
I think that the argument that David and Bush Tea are making is best summarized in I Corinthians 6:12
All things are LAWFUL unto me, but all things are not EXPEDIENT; all things are LAWFUL for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
In other words we can not do most anything that is not prohibited by the law, but not everything we choose to do is the best for us or the country.
BU
Correction, the young man did not create a furor when he walk into parliament with his hairstyle. Matthew Farley created the furor when he give his opinion on the man’s hairstyle in a full page article in the nation.
I thought as a people we had evolved to the point of progression. Why are we stereotyping young black males via their hair styles. Across North America and Europe they are harassed on a daily basis yet in their motherland of the Caribbean they are seen as vagabonds and murderers.
Spend some time posting the pictures of those pedophiles who dress in their shirt and tie and walk the streets of Barbados with their hair nicely cut preying on innocent young men and women. Moreover, the guys in the corporate culture there who steal large sums of money from the banks and the private businesses. Yet we never seem to focus on them.
The dread culture is appropriated by the white culture, the Middle Eastern culture yet you have engaged in infantile and regressive debate over the past weeks. I find its mainly the over 45’s who are still linked to colonization and refuse to
relinquish the chains of bondage both mentally and emotionally that continue to harp about their old sense of style.eg. shirt jac for those Barbadian men in Canada and floral rayons for the bajan yankees.
Its time that we strategize on how to help those people living in squalor conditions instead of creating non-issues because so many of us still suffer from internalize racism and try so hard to mimic Europeans who scoff at our ignorance and self hate. Get with the program.
It is always regressive when some members in our society suggest that we need to take some action to counter the deviant acts being perpetrated in our society with wanton disregard? People like us in the BU household should sit back and watch our society go down the toilet? Why are you attacking us? Simply because we say to Senator Griffith you are smart and articulate but there is an element who will look at your hair style and use that as a validation if our highest law making body in the land ignores your hair style. Instead of meeting our argument halfway many commenters choose to counter with cop out positions?
Come on we can do better. Should we be concern that Senator Griffith’s hairstyle can be used by many young and lawless black youth to validate the unkempt appearance as seen in the pictures above.
We sat back and watch the ZR culture emerged and did nothing. We sat back and watch our schools become terrorized by hoodlums when we relaxed the authority of our teachers and we could go on. We love to sit and do nothing while it is painfully obvious that we are loosing the battle on managing deviant behaviour in this country.
I do get your argument David and respect it. However we have come thus far fighting for an identity therefore guide our youth in celebrating their heritage through hair, dance and all the great things about the black culture.
How can you compare criminal minds with your young and progressive Senator. Hairstyles does not signify commonalities in values and mores. Historically some of our great mentors have worn hairstyles that may be seen as alternative or as you have describe it “deviant”.
Even when our youth are deviant we need to stand by them and support them. Other cultures cherish their youth yet we banish ours to the land of condemnation.
I do understand when countries have a brain drain, our youth leave and is welcomed by other progressive countries who are willing to celebrate their intelligence.
Karia // March 8, 2008 at 12:13 am
I do get your argument David and respect it. However we have come thus far fighting for an identity therefore guide our youth in celebrating their heritage through hair, dance and all the great things about the black culture.
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Dave, inspite of all u say, u get this cretin submitting responses like this!!!!
Is it any wonder that I’ve, given-up, with Bajans!!!!
Corn rows say nothing positive about black culture since the style is appropriated from the American rap culture and Jamaican dancehall culture which for the most part is not positive. I assure you if Senator Griffith had worn a dashiki or formal african robe with his corn rows they would be much less of an up roar. Why did he wear a suit????
Cornrows on men suggest rebellion as shown by these photos! Unless mr Griffith is staging an uprising ( a revolution) I dont see his point at all. Prey tell what is he rebelling against.
Is he rebelling agaisnt
1. The free education
2. Free medical care
3. Stable political system
4. The sea and sun
what???
His decision to wear that hairstyle in effct promotes the ‘bad boy ‘ attitud that we are seeing increasingly among the young men in our society. And lets talk about here and now. Those photos above is what we as the over 45 ( im only 40) have to deal with TODAY . And today more often than not guys with that type presntaion of self are up to no good!
Women with locs and cornrows are not the perpetrators of violent crimes in Barbados!
Idiot Bimbro says……Is it any wonder that I’ve, given-up, with Bajans!!!!
Then please explain to us, why you continue to be such a nuisance on Bajan blogs.
Karia do not continue to ignore the point which we have made. We are not comparing the Senator to those charged in the pictures above. That is a simple interpretation with all due respect. If the Senator elects to wear a hair style which is associated with a negative sub culture he has a responsibility to thread very carefully because of the symbolic issues which maybe interpreted.
As a society we live by rules which reflect the perspective of the way our society prefer to live. There will be challenges to those rules over time because of the dynamism of the situation. This means the process which we are in engaged right now is part of the deal.
Technician // March 8, 2008 at 5:51 am
Idiot Bimbro says……Is it any wonder that I’ve, given-up, with Bajans!!!!
Then please explain to us, why you continue to be such a nuisance on Bajan blogs.
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Don’t worry Tech. That was intended as my swansong, except for any awaitng moderating!! You’ll hear much less from me in the future, if at all. I agree with you that you’re not worth my worrying myself, about!!!!
Sam Gamgee,
That’s a true statement about winning the argument. Thankfully, I am losing the taste for useless arguing, so I don’t care too much about that part. If even ONE person reads some of these comments and starts to question their prejudices about hair, that’s good enough for me.
Oh praises be to the Father……please Bimbro, live up to your word!!
ME
“Corn rows say nothing positive about black culture since the style is appropriated from the American rap culture ”
You must be very young indeed. Cornrows predate the rap and dancehall cultures by a few decades.
LOL …Is that where the senator getting his reference? Are you saying that the current fad by bajan young men is based on corn rows orn by Africans or Black people the 60’s and 70’s e.g Stevie Wonder!
That would be news to me!
Bimbro: Goodbye, goodbye, gooooodbyeee!
Lol Pat.
We must have a cyber drink on this one, don’t you think?
Pat, Technician,
If you all really think that BIMBRO gone I sorry for you… at the very least he will resurrect under a new name…. and soon.
He can’t resist. I think that he means well – he is just from the old school – and it takes all types to make our world (and Blog) what it is.
I would miss him (and also miss you two cussing him -LOL)
Trust me Bush Tea…..I dont think Bimbro is going anywhere soon unless the Father has other plans. Like most of us, he is too addicted to the blogs and I doubt he will even change his name.
Can you really picture Bimbro letting me or Pat have the last laugh…..I can’t.
Ok I know I will get alot of licks for saying this, but the young senator looks very much like he is about to make a court appearance. (Strictly base on the hairstyle)
Juke, I in sayin nutten!!!! 🙂
It’s me again!!!! 🙂
Don’t worry, I’m not staying!! Just popped-in to leave my parting present.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1308549,00.html
Enjoy their company!!!!
Technician,
..my best respects to you sir…
You know your people.
We read with great consternation, we must tell you, an explanation offered by someone who claims to be Rob Leyshon is coordinator, Literatures in English and director, Cave Hill Theatre Workshop, UWI Cave Hill Campus. If this is true we cannot deny why our nation is plummeting into the pits of mediocrity. Imagine the country decides to perform a national tribute sponsored by the State which according to reports cost taxpayers $300,000,00 and this person can excuse KB Kleans crass behaviour, a behaviour for which he has already apologized.
Save us!!!
Common sense is not common and what I find with KB and the young senator is a lack of good old common sense.
Jesus said to render unto to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, they both acted under the premise of “I can do what I like bout hey”.
That is precisely the attitude that got the BLP body slammed out of Government. If Mr. Thompson is wise he would have eyes to see all around and brain to help him act wisely.
As a society we have come to point of accepting all kinds of trash, in behaviour, norms, culture, etc, and because we want to show to everyone else that we are not still stuck in our British ways, we are throwing out the baby along with the bath water casting off all of our moral restraint and have become so blinded that we call what is evil good and what is good evil.
Can you imagine that!? The young senator strongly reminds me of another politico, who was meteoric in their rise to fame, respresenting the good the bad and the ugly and then bringing the same thought pattern as a Minister to cause our young children to flock to the Gymnasium during a school day to watch Edwin Yearwood – I believe.
To me that signaled the beginning of the end, who knows with people like KB and the Senator this might be the final toll of the bell .
David,
I read that this morning and was about to offer a response when I realized that this person is a UWI lecturer.
I never heard about him before – apparently he has no public comments on any of the pressing issues that need academic analysis – or may be I am just uninformed…
I did not bother because I could not find an angle that did not sound like Bush tea was bragging that his UWI analysis was bang on…
When those that are highly paid to instill learning, values and vision into our youth can seek to justify behavior that EVEN KEVIN concede was inappropriate – then we know that we are DOOMED….
…well they did say that those who can do and those who can’t teach…
….Do you think that Sir Hilary will come out and over rule him?!?
What overrule what?!?
He is probably somewhere ‘hobnobing’ with his oligarchical friends that he warned us about in the 1980’s….
In keeping with the standards up there on the hill I feel they should fire Justin Robinson and Prof Howard and bring back Peter Wickham – have all the jokers in one place.
…seems that these people are hell bent on proving BIMBRO right….
Hear ye, hear ye! We are doomed. DOOMED, I tell you! Oh! Woe is me! For a man with his hair in cornrows ascended the steps of the House of Assembly. This is the final chapter of life as we know it, for the darkness and evil of The Hair have covered our fair land. The end is nigh! Flee! Save yourselves! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
Warrior says….Jesus said to render unto to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, they both acted under the premise of “I can do what I like bout hey”.
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He also said render your soul and not your garments also.
Come on folks, get a grip, ok? Bim is not going to fall into the sea, never to be seen again, because of a few plaits of hair. (Maybe for other reasons, but not for that). LOL.
So, relax. I hope your Sunday dinner was good. Do not give yourselves indigestion by thinking about hair-induced catastrophes. Think pleasant thoughts for the rest of your Sunday. And, if you want, I can come and show you how to plait your hair in nice cornrows 🙂
It would interesting if you would publish photos of the guys from the SJPP who recently suffered discrimination for their choice of hair style. Where would your pointless argument be then? It would also be interesting if you published photos of persons such as Adonijah, Arturo Tappin and see then where it puts your argument.
Do you realise your argument is simply saying something like; since most criminals drive white cars, therefore white cars are bad?
Linknoir your comment shows that you have simply not taken the time to understand ours. At no point in our blog have we stated that Senator Griffith is a criminal because of his hair.
Radiance,
You hit the nail squarely on the head. The lead article for this thread sounds like it was taken verbatim from KKK.com
Look, I trying tuh get way from dis blog n wunna keep provoking me!!!!
Radiance, if d almighty did want our hair to grow into cain-row he would allow that to happen, NATURALLY!!!! It does n’t!!!!
It’s as preposterous a proposition as the person who suggested that left to its own devises our hair would grow into dreadlocks, naturally!!!!
They’re both insane, notions!!!
Believe me, dear. Duh Good Lord knows best!! Jes follow his example!!!! I know he had long hair!!!! 🙂
Laaaaaaaaadddddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!! 🙂
Now, please, jus let me go in peace!!!! 🙂
Bimbro you could really just shut up and stay because we all know you aint going anywhere!!
But since you are here ….let me rip your nonsense to shreds!!
Radiance, if d almighty did want our hair to grow into cain-row he would allow that to happen, NATURALLY!!!! It does n’t!!!!
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If the almighty didn’t want us to shave…we would not have had beards…idiot!
If you never got a hair cut from birth, your hair would be long enough, by now, to hang yourself with (now there is a thought) and that would be a NATURAL process…..bigger idiot!!
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It’s as preposterous a proposition as the person who suggested that left to its own devises our hair would grow into dreadlocks, naturally!!!!
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Well, this takes the cake….just ask Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer etc how they grew their locks.They never went to any salon or had theirs interlock or palm rolled.
You must be pure Indian or white Bimbro for you surely cant be a black man and not know this.
Anyway please dont leave this blog. At work, we log on just to read your comments so we can start the hard day with a laugh. You are a source of amusement now…dont stop.
We have even put your name in our vocabulary…..now, instead of using bad words like calling the boss a c#*#….we just say ok Bimbro. So you see …you are good for something after all.
Cornrows come from our African heritage. What message are you sending our youth.
This is an interesting take on the whole matter of cornrows on the young man that could put this ignorance to rest once and for all.
Did Senator Griffith apply to be a Senator?
Did Senator Griffith ask anyone be a Senator?
If the answer to these first two (2) questions are NO, then the next question would be:
Did the ones appointing him know of his hairstyle?
The way I see it , the ones who should be taking the stick should be the ones who appointed him, knowing full well of his hairstyle.
Instead we are here pulling him down because he was chosen, AS IS, to be a Senator. I am sure it was not the young and deviant youth who appointed him to this position.
What this discussion has exposed though, is the level of hypocrisy that exists here in this country, by people who one would never have suspected otherwise.
If the almighty didn’t want us to shave…we would not have had beards…idiot!
If you never got a hair cut from birth, your hair would be long enough, by now, to hang yourself with (now there is a thought) and that would be a NATURAL process…..bigger idiot!!
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I in got nuh beard!! Wugh he getting suh excited about!!!! 🙂
I in want nuh honours from u, Tech, I just wants my natural, afro!!!! N, by de way, u should b getting on wid your werk rather than looking at de internet!!!!
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Karia // March 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Cornrows come from our African heritage. What message are you sending our youth.
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You tell him Kadri!! I hate to think what they look like in Bim, these days!!
I wonder if they think it would also, be ok, for the PM to wear cornrows and dreadlocks!!!!
For once, Technician, I’m in agreement with u!!!! He should never have been appointed wiv dat kind of hair!!!! 🙂
Now, let me go, please!!!! 🙂
Bimbro says…..’You tell him Kadri!! I hate to think what they look like in Bim, these days!!
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But I thought you were here for a short visit recently??????
Ahem…..your pants is on fire.
You dont really want to go do you?
The way I see it , the ones who should be taking the stick should be the ones who appointed him, knowing full well of his hairstyle.
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I had no intention of entering any discussions with this hair talk, yuh hear. But Technician, your statement regarding the Senator is what all the bloggers have been overlooking. I also agree with you that the focus is directed at the Senator only and not his employer. If his employer except his intelligence in his knowingly present form, why lament on the person. It would be better to shift to the employer, and ask the employer what was his motives. As far as I see Hair can’t talk, hair can’t act, hair can’t make decisions, hair is nutten, yuh hear. So stop the castigation of the man, because of his hair, yuh hear!
wunna people who do not like to be discriminated against because of skin color or religion, and casting stones at someone because they do not manage their hair to your liking or like yours, are total hypocrites. i wonder if this topic would have been an issue if the senator was a white man with hair to his shoulders? what a stupid society this is that judges another by his hairstyle. reminds me of the earring issue, people say earrings for women, stuuuuuppse
I guess the yutes know best…. why dont we the old people just step aside and let them do what they want and how they want…( is that how they do it in Africa? or anywhere else in the world?)
If Senator Griffith was my son I dont think he would wear that ish on his head to parliament. He would know better! But thats me…
Of course the yutes know best… No doubt our friend Mr Kadri has been an outstanding success in life and has enough experience and wisdom to understand these things.
Surely the defenders of the ‘everyman to his own standards’ attitude are all employers who have reaped great success from their staff who are largely characterized by such hairstyles…. or parents with model children…
The truth is, ME, that your son or mine could easily adopt such a hairstyle. There are some sons of good upbringing that have done a lot worse….
As I said from the outset – this is NOT a winnable argument. It is just one of the signs of the times.
Referring to the low standards to which his people had fallen, the prophet said “as for my people , children are their oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths.”
What I find most amazing is that so many persons continue to suggest that this discussion is about ‘hair’. That is so simplistic an assessment that it is frightening.
This is about minimum standards for society. It is about collectively building a structured, civilized, community. It is about respect for self, for others, for our traditions, and for our institutions.
The only real difference between so called ‘developed’ communities and ‘banana republics’ is a universal respect and adherence to agreed community standards.
This is why communities in ‘developed’ societies are CLEAN and litter free. This is why Laws are respected and observed in ‘developed’ communities…
The idea of ‘everyone does as they please’ is a simplistic jungle mentality that is unbecoming of intelligent people.
This should all begin with LEADERSHIP, who should set high standards and lead by example.
When we have literal children who ‘hardly see a star pitch’ and who have no history of achievement or sacrifice, setting the standards -we know where we stand and what the likely end will be….
… so take it easy ME, I can assure you that VERY shortly the errors of our ways will become very obvious, and even the most adamant among us will see the point… unfortunately it will be too late.
But at least we can say “…I told you so!”
Me says……’If Senator Griffith was my son I dont think he would wear that ish on his head to parliament. He would know better! But thats me….
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Dont you think that Hillary Beckles have said the same thing many times over?
People like ME always make me laugh …..I went to school with ‘sons like yours’ and believe me , they were saints at home but devils at school. What they had going for them was parents who would cover for them to hide the shame or ship them out to a foreign country for a while.
While bringing down the youth Me….why not take time to deal with the parents who have no time to see what their kids are doing and think that giving them every material thing under the son is love. The child does not make the parent.
I spoke to my mother couple days ago about this issue, and she rang into my ears that we in barbados still kinda backwards, what de hell hairstyles gotta do wid standards. this woman was the same woman who was totally against men with corn rows and locks, but the years she spent in the usa like it opened her eyes to a lot. you measure a man by the content of his character and not the color of his skin, neither his hair, both are body parts, well for some
i too went to school with fellas who had decent hair cuts, even as we grew older we all maintained our hair low, and its kinda hard to know today one of my former best friends currently in jail for possession of a firearm and serious bodily harm, as for me, i was never even arrested for a fly. thing is that this fella and his mom had a great relationship, you would have sworn that was a perfect family, he was even well behaved at school, but something went wrong at some point.
if we as parents wanna talk about setting and teaching our kids standards, the first standard we must set is one called acceptance of another appearance. the nazarites were never said to be heathens bcos their hair was long, the nazarites were known to be holy men. i know me saying this may cause someone to mention about what paul said about man’s hair in corinthians, but paul was making comparisons to nature but i guess he forgot male lions also grow long hair as some call it.
if you question a man about cornrows, also question the women. why? because there is no laws, legislation or anything except for the ideology that was fixed into our brains that cornrows and locks on men are wrong.
hair is hair, times are changing and people are becoming more aware of human rights.
my question i asked long time is still unanswered.
DOES A HAIRSTYLE ONE WEAR, MAKES HIM/HER LESSER THAN WHO HE/SHE IS?
some of the greatest men who ever lived wore their hair long, some like they never heard of a comb, and they were white. i always wonder why we black people always have problems when we see another black moving forward in a unique way, but give the white man praises when he is doing the same.
Kadri
How can we argue with someone who runs to his mommy?
I concede….
as far as i know there is a difference between running to mommy and having a discussion with mommy, stick wid de issues n don’t be a wuss
You dont really want to go do you?
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Technician, I do, I do!!!!
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If his employer except his intelligence in his knowingly present form,
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‘Tell Me Why’, wha intelligence?!!!!
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Kadri said: i wonder if this topic would have been an issue if the senator was a white man with hair to his shoulders? what a stupid society this is that judges another by his hairstyle. reminds me of the earring issue, people say earrings for women, stuuuuuppse
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But Kadri, who k wha white people do wid duh hair, or any other part ugh duh body, as long as duh don’t do it in public!!!! We are black people!!!! We are interested in what BLACK people do, or should n’t do, not white!!!!
Yuh mean yuh want to wear earrings, too!!!! OMG!!!! So, what aspect of you do you normally, plan to use to indicate that you’re a man, and not a woman?!!!! Nex, you’ll be wanting to wear makeup!!!!
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This is about minimum standards for society. It is about collectively building a structured, civilized, community. It is about respect for self, for others, for our traditions, and for our institutions.
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Extremely, well said, Bush Tea!! I just hope that Mr Techie, is listening to you!!!! My own intelligence is too, great for him to comprehend, apparently!!!!
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This should all begin with LEADERSHIP, who should set high standards and lead by example.
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Again, well said, BT. Clincher argument: I asked Technician or anybody else, if they’d be happy for our PM, to wear dreadlocks or cornrows!! Not a single reply, yet, or one in the affirmative. That says it all!! All the rest is woffle (spurious chat) because, in truth, none of you would wish to see our PM dress in that way, so if not the PM, then why any of you!!!!
Argument done!! Game, set n match win to Bimbro!! I gine home, now!!!!
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Kadri asks: DOES A HAIRSTYLE ONE WEAR, MAKES HIM/HER LESSER THAN WHO HE/SHE IS?
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Kadri, I’m sorry that u even needed to ask this question because the answer is staring at you in the photos at the start of this story and is a resounding, “YES”!! i.e. criminals tend to look like criminals, get it?!!!! i.e., like that!!!!
Ugh gone!!!! 🙂
bimbro u seem to be brainwashed by the british standards, learn some history for change, men was wearing earrings long before women, and as fact, piercings are history from both african and indian tribes, first started among men in persia, yes the soldiers in persia wore body piercings. but wait, since when earrings for women only, if earrings were for women only, a woman would have been born with her ears pierced, you have no argument with that. its true that some men do wear earrings that does not fit their appearance or masculinity but you can never win the argument on that earring issue.
lol bimbro which mean i look like a criminal den? wa i got a bald head and i see nuff criminals already wid bald heads.
the world today is not corrupted by the young people who wear their hair twist and locked, its this way because men who keep their hair low like mine. bimbro as technician said, you should hibernate, bcos its not gonna change for you nor me, if ya dont like to see de hair, look at de people shoes when facing them.
instead of trying to change someone (which i know you wont want anyone to change you) learn to adapt as long as no crime is being committed. ya gone now? keep rolling 🙂
Poor Bimbro….what gone what!
Without this blog your life is nothing, this is the only way you can converse with others since you are surrounded by the people you hate, so we all know you will never go.
Do you think I really care if the PM grew locks or not?
His good friend who is always in his company is a Rastaman, that alone puts an end to your argument!
The fact of the matter is that the Government chose this young man AS IS.
If one should be criticized it should be the ones who made the decision, since being a senator is not a job one applies for. Where is the out cry there?
Bush Tea , I hope you are being comical in your reply to Kadri. You talk about standards when it suits your argument against the youth but overlook the declining standards by our leaders and older generations.
Sometimes I wonder if people like you all were born big. Maybe you all popped into this world at 40.
Bimbo. Are you saying that the senator is not intelligent? Since you are bajan in exile and unable to understand and see for yourself the intelligence of the man – and not how he wears his hair – you will not be talking so much garbage. Remember, things have change, and I being over 50, had no alternative but to accept these changes since I have employed both males and females with hairstyles that would be a no-no in my time.
Remember my quote “Hair can’t talk, hair can’t act, hair can’t make decisions, hair is nutten, yuh hear”.
Suppose, I am just supposing and not trying to offend you as a parent (Just guessing). Suppose your daughter who is pass 21, bring home her boyfriend who is rasta, but attends University and comes from a well-to-do-family. Would you in all honesty, tell your daughter to get this rasta out of your house? Would you turn your back on your daughter? I await your comments and hope it is not based on hypocrisy.
So Bajan men really does wear earrings, fuh truth?!!!!
Lorrrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddddddd!!!!
So, wuh wunna women does wear, den?!!!!
Lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
Kadri, yuh mekking me laugh, today, man!!! Oh Lord!!!!
Kadri, what’s the relevance of what men, women or african tribes did a million years, ago?!!!!
Look, just 200 years ago, our people were in slavery!! Would you like that still to be continuing now, or to be revived?!! Obviously, not!! What was done in the past is of no significance!! What IS important, is what is sensible and right and I can’t c how a woman could get excited by a man in earrings, locks, or cornrows!!!!
Mind u, I would n’t want to b a woman!!!!! 🙂
Kad, I’m inclined to think that more dreads commit crime than bald-heads but, next on my list would be, bald-heads!!
Kad, I would look at the ground, when passing them, but I’m afraid I might bump into something, maybe even a woman with straight hair!!!! Lorrrrrrrddddddddddddddddd!!!!
Kad, all this ‘learn to adapt, is a pale excuse for keeping-up decent, standards!! Give in to every whim and fancy which comes along and soon, Bim will be in the gutter, even more than it is, now!!!!
Mr Tech, I can subscribe to other blogs!! I don’t NEED to subscribe to this one!! In fact, I’ve been trying to go but you people wun let me!!!!
You may not mind, but I don’t think the majority of Bajans would like their PM to be a rasta or to be bedecked in canerows!!!! I’m pretty sure you’ll never see Thompy dress like that – he’s not stupid!!!!
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His good friend who is always in his company is a Rastaman, that alone puts an end to your argument!
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He’s probably, currying the Rasta vote, by so doing!!!! He wants to encourage, just about anybody and everybody to vote for him!! That’s what politicians do!!!!
Older people as well as young people need to maintain high standards – they’re not only for the elderly!!!!
As an aside: I’m inclined to think that a number of you are jealous, because I’m British, and you’re not!!!! You know, Shakespeare et al !!!!
Suppose your daughter who is pass 21, bring home her boyfriend who is rasta, but attends University and comes from a well-to-do-family. Would you in all honesty, tell your daughter to get this rasta out of your house? Would you turn your back on your daughter? I await your comments and hope it is not based on hypocrisy.
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Bush Tea, no, I would n’t ‘turn my back on my daughter’ – and this may be a good lesson for child-rearing for some of you!!!! I would wait until he’d left and then ask her, wha he was doing here?!!!!
The fact that he was studying for, or already had a degree, would be of no importance to me because I realise that if that was the kind of image he presented then it probably, would n’t be long before he would be in the gutter, and, obviously, I’d have no intention that he should take my daughter with him !!!
Tell Me Why, there’s well to do and there’s well to do!! Money is n’t all!!!!
Bimbo my boy, you are all confused with the lashes that you are getting that you mixed up my comment with Bush Tea, probably, you was secretly complaining to him.
Agreed, his studying should have no importance to you since you are not the person that will make up bed with him. But I can sense a devilish scenario coming from you regarding your feelings that this rasta would take your daughter into the gutter. Do you know, a well dressed man with a clean-cut can also take your daughter into a gutter. You seems to be the type of parent who get too involved in your children’s affair and you know something, your behaviour might cause them to pull away from you. Hair has nothing to do with integrity, intelligence, success or being an outstanding son-in-law. Get a life.
Not that I am anti Thompson but look at what he allowed to happen at the Rihanna tribute which is also about declining standards…
The senators hairstyle is representative of our willingness to accept the lower standards ( in this case American influenced presntation of self ) and to cry individual freedam as a salve.
Parliament is not ( and should not be) a fete.
His hairstyle is just that a style , a CASUAL party rap american style. It is not appropriate for our parliament UNLESS we all agree that parliament should be come as you please! In which case sagging pants, arm hole shirts etc should also be allowed. He is showing no respect for the position.
If Thompson etc is happy with his presentation then so be it. Once we all understand where this is going!
BTW Kadri I lived for many years in the states and it is through living there and other places where i grew to understand that what happens in the USA does not translate DIRECTLY to all societies and cultures. Infact in many instances it doesnt translate within certain communities in the USA itself. Did you ever try to get a cab in NYC? In the USA Guy with locs and a guy without with similar qualifications in a business field, who gets the job?
I know it shouldnt be like this but guess what it is… and it wont change because you say it should!
It MIGHT change if the guys your age with the locs and the corn rows etc STOP BEING DEVIANT and live good lives!
Tell Me Why, I in leffin my innocent daughter to the wiles of some dirty, musty rasta who’s only going to drag her down!! No, Sir!!! Give me a decent and respectable looking man, Sir. He’s more likely, to remain that way!!!!
Well said, Me. Could n’t have said it better myself. Some of the people here must be really, immature!!!!
P.S. I forgot to say that I think what I suggested in the post above re: my ‘would be’ daughter’s , rasta boyfriend, is no more than any sensible, responsible father would do!!!!
Me says…’I know it shouldnt be like this but guess what it is… and it wont change because you say it should!
It MIGHT change if the guys your age with the locs and the corn rows etc STOP BEING DEVIANT and live good lives!
Do you realise how ignorant and contradicting your comments sound?
Slavery was ok by the majority…..that didnt make it right!!
The South Afican government implimented apartheid…..that didnt make it right!!
The fact that you know within yourself that it shouldnt be like that, yet still accept it as rule, does not, to me, say much about you as an individual. It is that precise way of thinking that have us forever mentally enslaved.
Just think of what Rosa Parks did for example…you think the Sentor’s hairstyle is a fad….the whites thought Rosa was being an uppity negroe (we know the real word here).
What is the differance? Didn’t the whites thought they were lowering their standards also?
If you think it will all change if young guys with locks and corn rows stop being deviant……think again or go live on the moon.
It will only change if ALL the youth stop being deviant and if we all start living good lives….starting with not judging others and accepting each others opinions and faults.
What de hell does cornrows derived from american harstles and jamaican bashment culture have to do with Slavery??? NADA! Is a hairstyle a skin colour? Is it a race??? Yes I understand that blacks are at a disadvantage because our hair being kinky is not considered by some to be presentable if left untidy while some of us excuse white people with untidy hair. FYI like i said earlier if a white man came to parliament with a mohawk or shorts I would also consider him disrespectful. We have to get beyond making excuses for people based on history or based on race.
As leaders we need to lead, we need to set the example. I maintain that we all have the right to wear whatever hairstyle/ clothestyle we wish but be prepared to face how others react to you.
Now the Senator is being compared to Rosa parks, a black woman who faced discrimination because of the colour of her skin in a place where those with black skin had very few rights……LOLOLOLOLOLOL! How ridiculous.
What is the senator rebelling against in a country where education is free for all, where ther is free medical care, where even though I might object he is clearly allowed to wear a stupid hairstyle to parliament?
Pulease next you will be telling me to take you guys seriously when you come to an interview with your pants falling off you arses…
Guys, there’s one further aspect to this which you have n’t, yet, considered. You might be perfectly happy to go around sporting your silly, hairstyles but do u spare a thought, for a moment, of what tourists and other visitors to the island must think you look like?!!!!
You may not care, but it’s certainly, NOT, the way to be taken seriously, as an important trading nation, especially, one with aspirations to be somewhere among the top league of trading nations!!!!
Technician, “not judging others”, is an excuse for accepting all kinds of degenerate, standards, plus it’s hypocritical!! We judge others all day long, even without meeting them, just by seeing them from a distance, hearing them speak, seeing the way they behave, etc, etc, so it’s a nonsense to talk about “not judging others”!!
To constantly, judge others is normal and right!!!!
FYI , ME……it has all to do with principle, whether you can identify with it or not.
Fact is …I would be more disappointed in the Senator if he did go and cut his hair now.
You said….’As leaders we need to lead, we need to set the example.’
Wasnt it leaders who chose him to be a Senator.
Why dont you crucify the leaders then?
You keep harping about standards…whose?The over 60’s with their village ram mentality? The over 70’s with their colonial mentality?
Times are changing, either get busy living or get busy dying.
If a guy come to an interview with his pants hanging off his ass, then it is your right to refuse him a job. If you go out there and pick him as he is, then why the hell turn around and make a fuss?
ME says….’Now the Senator is being compared to Rosa parks, a black woman who faced discrimination because of the colour of her skin in a place where those with black skin had very few rights……LOLOLOLOLOLOL! How ridiculous.
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And how ridiculous of you to discriminate people with a different hair style to yours.
How much rights, if any, would you give to a guy with locks or corn rows. Right there, you have started to take away the most important right of all.
P.S ….do some research and see the origins of corn rows before you make such stupid comments.
Tell Me Why, I in leffin my innocent daughter to the wiles of some dirty, musty rasta who’s only going to drag her down!! No, Sir!!! Give me a decent and respectable looking man, Sir. He’s more likely, to remain that way!!!!
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Based on your statements, I now reach the conclusion that you are hopeless, waiting patiently for your number to call, but in the meantime, you enjoy being a devil’s advocate.
Do let your daughter see your post if you are a man.
By the way, if ever you return to Barbados, take a visit to Accra Beach and you will see the many Caucasians waiting to get cornrows. Do yo feel these visitors will now find solace in gutters?
BU time to lock this hair thread. Its run its course and getting on my nerves. Thank you.
LOL Technician I’ve been to Africa too and they also have nose rings , neck rings, scarification etc… but guess what they also know TIME and PLACE.
And the young people respect their elders!
So you wont see young massai men wearing jeans to an initiation ceremony! LOL! nor pressed hair! But they might wear both in town on a night out!
Bored // March 11, 2008 at 3:31 pm
BU time to lock this hair thread. Its run its course and getting on my nerves. Thank you.
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Well, now, is n’t that the limit. Because he’s bored with a discussion BU, should discontinue it!!!! Er, what’s wrong with simply, not following it any longer?!!!!
It’ll be interesting to c if BU are ridiculous enough to do as he suggests!!!!
BU time to lock this hair thread. Its run its course and getting on my nerves. Thank you.
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This is the only contribution you can think of giving. Since you are bored, nuff discussions can be found on other BU blogs, or maybe, you ain’t got nutten tuh say.
There is no argument to be had that a hairstyle makes you bad.
If you want to say it gives the wrong impression, that its about place and decorum, conduct and character OK but you are going to have a hard time convincing black people that platted hair is intrinsically distastful, as coming from a white person it smacks of white racist attitudes to wolly hair, and from a black person ignorance of black culture.
If in barbados the more is that a senator cannot wear plaits to the senate, once it was thought that black people were not intelligent enough to vote , that was the white attorney general argument, a conservative too, in that house of parliment. So there should be a deeper understanding in the argument.
you say you are conservative, but in this is a fair amount of obvious racism and vilification of working class black people. That is fairly obvious and though conservative is racist as well. And that is the truth. So David this is a racist arguement you present. It is not a valid observation – Suppose you had said i word red yesterday and it rained so i must wear red for it to rain.
Just because criminals wear plaits doesnt mean a senator wearing plaits in the house is wrong. You havent even tried to present an argument. An no one has yet shown any proof in 70 replies, but of course all the people know this is wrong.
huh… HUh… HUH????/
Do let your daughter see your post if you are a man.
By the way, if ever you return to Barbados, take a visit to Accra Beach and you will see the many Caucasians waiting to get cornrows.
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Tell Me Why, when people are on holiday they do a lot of silly things, because they know it’s only for a few, short days, their neighbours and work colleagues can’t see them, or if they do in photos they know they’ll b excused because they’re on holiday, they may even listen to reggae, try k00-k00, or even get a tan, but it does n’t mean that they wish to remain like that or doing those things!!
In fact, they probably only tried them because they thought they were so ridiculous that anybody could want to be like/dress like or eat that sort of food, normally!! Anyhow, u may rest assured that before their plane reaches their homeland, the koo-koo will have been binned, hair will have been unplaited, the tan will soon fade and they’ll be more than relieved it was only a temporary, phase!!
So, in short, somebody mimicing u for a short time does n’t mean a thing – they could even think you ridiculous!!!! 🙂
How would you know what people do on holiday here Bimbro………you haven’t been back for decades!!!
Pat was right about you ……ya fraud!!
Technician // March 12, 2008 at 6:45 am
How would you know what people do on holiday here Bimbro………you haven’t been back for decades!!!
Pat was right about you ……ya fraud!!
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My dear Barbadian fellow, I should be less Barbadian and more circumspect, if I were u before accusing anybody of being a fraud!! 🙂
If u look slightly, above you’ll notice that ‘Tell Me Why’ informs me about the whites waiting for their cornrow hairdos on Accra beach, when there on holiday – as if I got nothing better to do than go watching white people on Accra Beach on my visits there on holiday!!
I prefer Brown’s beach and the St. Lawrence Gap!!!!
Dah fuh lick yuh!!!! 🙂
…all due respect to you technician, but I feel that Bimbro got you pin off in a corner… and jabbing…
Anyway, Brandons Beach or no Brandons Beach, it is imperative that all black men dress decently, at all times, especially when in public!!!!
Tell Me Why, when people are on holiday they do a lot of silly things, because they know it’s only for a few, short days,
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Probably, you are on holiday, because you are talking nonsense. (laugh).
You got it wrong buddy, these visitors return home with the said cornrows with beads. Not only are you missing the cultural changes in your homeland, but it seems that you are unable to leave the window that you looks through every day. Sorry for your plight, no wonder that you haven’t realised that gas gone up.
thank god for this young man !!
who is this old fool that wrote this !
Leave your hair the way it is …let the brothers and the sisters see you!! And maybe they will finally see themselves !!