Ghanaian actress and media personality, Lydia Forson has positively reacted to the issue of the two rastafarian students who were denied admission in Achimota because of their dreadlocks.
The actress took to her Facebook page to question the school authorities on why they stood on the basis of one’s culture to turn them out when they are perfectly qualified to study at the institution.
Lydia Forson however thinks there is nothing wrong with growing hair to school.
“This right here is why our country isn’t moving forward. How is hair that grows out of your scalp not acceptable but judges are wearing white synthetic wigs? How aren’t grown people seeing the ridiculousness of all this?!!”
“So many of you in the comments talking about rules and regulations as if these same schools don’t have Caucasians and sometimes mixed-raced students allowed to keep and style their hair as they want?”
“Didn’t you all see that foreigner in school with her hair? Even in my own school, black students from other foreign countries could keep their hair as they wanted. And for people saying “ go and build your school” are you just being deliberately ignorant?”.
“Because imagine everyone only allowed people from the same religion to their schools, or refused entry based on that; or a society where only people who had shared beliefs were permitted to enjoy facilities?”
“FYI rules were written by man and can be changed; if it couldn’t some of you would be working on plantation farms in the US”, she said with reason.
