HERE IS A little fable that responds to what seems to me to be the attitude of the principal of Harrison College to non-conventional hairstyles on the part of female students (or male students for that matter).
“I went over to America the other day and then I visited Canada, and then I went over to Europe. There I saw the most amazing things. In several places there were long lines of white women waiting to get into plastic surgeons’ clinics in order to have their straight, thin noses broadened and spread out like those of black women.
“Later I realised that many of them were also getting their narrow or narrowish lips expanded to be like those of black people.
“The most amazing thing of all, however, was the sight of all kinds of white people, women and men, fighting each other to get into the hair salons to convert their straight hair into kinky, fuzzy hair such as Africans possess.
“I will hardly bother to mention the crowds at dermatologists’ clinics insisting that their boring white skin be treated to become the far more interesting black shade.
MIKE J. MOSELEY
