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Court ruling not in favour of Jamaican girl with locs

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

What dreadlocks?

That looks like braids to me. Braids rolled up into two buns (like white folks' hair style).

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy locs are natural, that's an elaborate braid!


that said it, is a strange ruling!

this is more a case of fancy hair style.

People should be free to express themselves , especially when what they
do is acceptable , and Tidy . I found
nothing in the Photo that was disturbing in my opinion .

In reply to camos

Indeed! W@ould love to see the wording of the judgement.


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Absolute rubbish - fyah bun dem judges - dem can still wear dem colonial wigs though!

In reply to Chrissy

Fyah ball !

In reply to Ewart

False reporting.

The lawyers were incompetent and the judges didn't rule.

In reply to Chrissy

Fyah bun on the media

In reply to nick2020

You should watch the uproar in the yard

In reply to Chrissy

The mob may not understand.

While I am concerned as are many,all that has occurred so far is an oral presentation. The written judgement has not been handed down as yet and one party was ruled not to have standing and that the other claimant's constitutional rights were not breached. So as far as we know Jamaicans for Justice was deemed not to have standing.

On social media somebody said the 2nd claimant was the father. I hope their lawyers did not argue that it was the parents' constitutional rights which were at issue which if they did, as a non-lawyer that seems stupid. We will know soon enough when the written judgement comes down.

In reply to Chrissy

This is a classic case of Afro Saxons calling the shots. In Trinidad, the Afro Saxons era is over- the last remaining ones died.

This ruling is not only a massive backward step, but an insult to all Jamaicans and timing of it just shocking. Trump and other global white supremacist crusaders will be proud of those judges.

In reply to Emir

Again the written judgement has not come through as yet. So far what we really have are interpretations of what happened through the media and the lawyers who lost. See my previous post.

In reply to michaelmax

I understand, but the mere fact they lost the case in Jamaica is mind boggling- regardless of the logic the judges may have.

In Jamaica in the year 2020, a little black girl cannot wear her hair in a dreadlocks is the most bizarre.

Had this happen in the USA, we would have made sure to shame and chase away the school leadership and the judges.

In reply to Emir

Judges rule on the law or procedure, lots of possibility here! An important point here is that the kid in question is not wearing dreadlocks; but a fancy hairdo which schools prohibits, in an attempt to hide income inequality. Your thoughts on the lawyer in court attire wearing dreadlocks?

IN T&T we still go to the Privy Council, ask the Imam why?

In reply to camos

When you make an argument like, it only seeks to rationalize and legitimize the thinking of the judges. It is what oppressors do- they work to change the narrative.

Look at Zimbabwe, they invaded, occupied and stole the most fertile lands and sucked the fat off the land for generations. When the people overthrew their rule, the white settlers and thieves fought to change the narrative to one of compensation for "their lands" when the only true narrative was the people reclaiming what was stolen from them.

Back to the judges, you speak of "procedure." Whose's procedure and who determined the procedure?

In reply to Emir

Dude a judge is an umpire; impartial,looks at laws as he/she thinks lawmaker intended.

In reply to Emir

When someone explains to you what happened you will have to backtrack.

Who were the claimants in the case?

In reply to camos

In reply to nick2020

I would have no problem doin so, if my understanding of it is wrong.



It doesn't matter, injustice is injustice and those who fight against it are doing a good thing.

In reply to Emir

Emir it does matter.

If Camos and Nick2020 walked towards you and Nick2020 punched you in the face but Camos ended up as the claimant in court for assaulting Emir what do you think would happen?