No Rasta with dreadlocks in armed services

THE EDITOR: Kalifa Logan has made the front, second and third pages in the newspapers for some days. I am not against a child attending any school they qualify for as long as they maintain the school dress code. How many of you so-called big shots exploiting this situation would invite a Rasta with dreadlocks home for lunch on Sunday with your bigshot friends and family.

I have travelled extensively for the past 31 years, unfortunately, I have never encountered a Rasta with dreadlocks as a flight attendant. Now if this young lady or anyone else apply to BWIA or any other airline with vacancies published for an air hostess (this is her dream) and they were told the job conditions require a haircut or no dreadlocks, are they going to sue or are they going to conform. How many of you bigshots, politicians, doctors, lawyers and others send your children to school in a foreign country where they have to conform to the rules? Do you all complain? I have not heard of any.

Why are there no Rastas with dreadlocks in the armed services? Is the government discriminating? In TT there are taxi drivers who would not pick up a Rasta with dreadlocks day or night. There are people in TT who would not allow a Rasta with dreadlocks in their yard, but as some of us know not everyone who wears a dreadlocks is a Rasta, it is also a style because they eat from lizard to hog, and not all who is a Rasta wears a dreadlocks. Ask Haile Selassie grandson. I know, I have a son who wears dreadlocks. But as they say “this is Trinidad”.

R MALCO
San Fernando