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General news for Monday, October 12, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-10-12
Radio personality, Blakk Raska
The Progressive Organization for the Advancement of Women (POWA) is calling for the removal of radio personality Blakk Raska for abusing former Deputy Minister of Communication Victoria Lakshmi Hamah.
Blakk Rasta on his Facebook wall described Victoria Lakshmi Hamah as “sick with sickle brain cells” after she threatened to sue him for mentioning her name in a post by IMANI Ghana chief Franklin Cudjoe.
POWA, in condemning his comment, describes the use of sickle cell anemia as insensitive and an affront to people living with and suffering from sickle cell disease.
In a statement copied to GhanaWeb, it states that “POWA considers in no uncertain terms the discriminatory use of sickle cell anemia as an abusive attack on Victoria Lakshmi Hamah by Blakk Rasta as insensitive and an affront to people living and suffering from the disease. sickle cell disease. His comment clearly demonstrates his overly cruel and inhumane view of people living with sickle cell disease. “
Below is the full statement:
POWA condemns Blakk Rasta for discriminatory use of sickle cell anemia as an abusive attack against Victoria Lakshmi Hamah and calls for her removal from the radio
The Progressive Organization for the Advancement of Women (POWA) has received shocking news about a statement made by Blakk Rasta, a popular social media radio host describing Victoria Lakshmi Hamah, former Deputy Minister of Communication and Executive Director of Progressive. Organization for the Advancement of Women, as “sickle cell disease of the brain.”
POWA in no uncertain terms considers the discriminatory use of sickle cell anemia as an abusive attack on Victoria Lakshmi Hamah by Blakk Rasta is insensitive and an affront to people living with and suffering from sickle cell disease. Your comment clearly demonstrates your overly cruel and inhumane view of people living with sickle cell disease.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 4 million people around the world live with sickle cell disease and in 2015 there were about 114,000 deaths worldwide.
The devastating impact this condition has on patients, as well as their families, should not be trivialized in any way.
POWA reiterates that all forms of discrimination are linked. An attack against those with sickle cell disease is as unfair as any form of racism, sexism, xenophobia and discrimination against people with disabilities.
The media are a very powerful structure of our social fabric and must be used responsibly. Therefore, it is up to the personalities of the media to act with the utmost sensitivity and decorum to ensure the cohesion of our society.
Therefore, POWA seriously opposes the discriminatory use of sickle cell anemia as an abusive attack on Victoria Lakshmi Hamah by Blakk Rasta and therefore calls on all progressive and straight-thinking Ghanaians to swiftly condemn her sloppy and inappropriate comment about sickle cell disease.
NB: Attached is a screenshot of Blakk Rasta’s comment on sickle cell anemia.
Signed:
Victoria Lakshmi Hamah
Executive Director
DC:
Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana
Ghana NGO Coalition on Health (GCNH)
The National Media Commission
Ghana Journalists Association
Ministry of Gender and Social Protection
Ministry of Health
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
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