Panyaza Lesufi on Pretoria Girls High School
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White girls get black dolls for Christmas; watch what happens
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Zulaikha Patel
by abagond
Zulaikha Patel (c. 2003- ), a South African schoolgirl, was punished by her school, Pretoria High School for Girls, for wearing her hair in an Afro. She had changed school three times because of her hair. This time she led a protest against the school's racist rules.
Her older sister Amira says:
"My sister has gone through a lot of bullying, she's had to change school three times because of her hair. Other children would laugh at her and say, "Oh my god, your hair looks like a cabbage". It broke my heart.
"She'd cry everyday when I picked her up from school. She'd get home and cry because of how she was treated because of her hair, and say that the school said her hair is a distraction and called it exotic.
"I'm kind of glad that she's done this but I'm also concerned about how it's going to affect her emotionally at a later stage. I know her, she's a very fragile person. What led to her to actually start this movement is the pain that she's felt when looked down upon, constantly feeling like she needed to be accepted or change herself to be accepted."
Nathi Mthethwa, the Arts and Culture Minister:
"Schools should not be used as a platform to discourage students from embracing their African identity"
But that is not what is going on.
Pretoria High School for Girls is widely considered one of the best high schools in the country's capital. But it was all-White in the days of apartheid and even now, with more than half of its students Black, it still makes them wear their hair in unnatural European styles and speak only in European tongues. In Africa!
The school's code of conduct is something students agree to before being admitted, but they have little choice if they want a good education: the free government schools for Blacks are terrible. And Pretoria High does not just enforce its rules, it does it in a way that makes Black girls feel like dirt. Some teachers tell them they look like monkeys or have nests on their head. Afros do not even appear in the school's code of conduct - because they count as "unruly" or "untidy" hair!
Protests were a long time coming. The example of Black Lives Matter gave the schoolgirls courage. So did Twitter and other social media. They use the Twitter hashtag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh and have a petition that over 25,000 have signed. Their protests have been non-violent. They made news nationwide and even overseas.
Courage: They needed even more courage than they imagined: when they came to the school for a yearly family event, they were met with men with machine guns and attack dogs.
Victory: On August 29th 2016, Panyaza Lesufi, the province's education minister, came to school. He met with some the girls, who broke down crying as they told him what they go through. Then he met with the schoolmistress. He gave her three weeks to change what he calls "stone-age rules".
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Supporting all these worldwide fundraisers would cost about 50 U.S Dollars. Give as much as you can, it all goes to support infrastructure for African American communities.
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Help save Gullah Gee Chee land. Fighting hard for African liberation since the 17th century, descendants of Angola, the Gullah Gee Chee people, managed to preserve some of their native tongue, their ancestry culture and pride. From slave revolts to freeing other slaves, civil rights struggle, Pan-Africanism, many of the members of the famed, "Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church" of Charleston are Gullah Gee Chee descendants. Because of the low state of economy of South Carolina's Low Country, government seizure of their lands and vicious taxation, many Gullah people are losing their lands. But you can help them out with a small donation. Here is their GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/panafricanfamilyem
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Dr. Umar Johnson's fund me page. Click here: https://www.gofundme.com/DrUmar
He is raising $5 Million dollars for a high tech private school for our young boys. If we could reach 300,000 people this would give Dr. Johnson his $5 Million for the school. A girl's school would be the next ideal mark and also Queen's club where our women can gather for they are the leaders of the family's interest.
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Also support the Collect Black People Movement. They have a .27 a cent day, $8.10 fundraiser a month, they already have a thousand people signed up. Click here: http://www.cbpm.org/neweconomicplan.html
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Much love for my believers on the Nation of Islam they also have a fundraising that's set at .30 cents day, about $10.00 a month. They are shooting for 16 million people, trying to raise about 250 million in a year. Click here: http://www.economicblueprint.org/
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Empire Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah. The Nation of ancient American Mound Builders they came before Columbus from Africa on Egyptian boats. Africans were sailing the seas for thousands of years. The Washitaw are ruled over, like the Gullah, by a Queen Mother, Her Highness Devine: Empress Wendy Farica Washitaw. Please show your support for their nation. We are only as strong as our weakest link as African Diaspora. The Washitaw donation page: http://empirewashitaw.org/index.php?p=1_15_Make-a-Donation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Our goal is $1 Billion, raised by all Africans worldwide, all languages and all ethnic groups.
