Every child who has learned to talk can learn Calculus and Topology. The fact that more than ninety percent of all the people alive in Trinidad and Tobago cannot make head or tail of the Calculus has nothing to do with the alleged difficulty of the subject. It has to do with a bankrupt set of politicians, parents, teachers and media managers who have transmitted their anxiety and ignorance, like a genetic defect from generation to generation. The identical way they have instructed most living Trinidadians and Tobagonians that kinky hair and dark skin are symbolic of ugliness. That is the means of our liberation.
Symbols animate our deeds.
He is by symbols we are guided to define our humanity daily. We have to use art to teach, to help children learn. I was focussing on our aesthetic symbolism. We have an excellent eye for different shades of blackness. Forget the vapid condemnation of Mpule Kwelagobe for wearing a wig and or straightening her hair.