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Conversation: Matilda MacAttram (Part II)  Matilda MacAttram is
one of the leading figures addressing the issue of mental health
within the African-Caribbean community. She is the founder and
director of Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK.) Launched in 2006,
BMH UK campaigns to raise awareness about the inequality of
mental health treatment provided to black communities. In part
II of our in conversation series, MacAttram talks about the DNA
database and why it is an issue which needs urgent action.
BMHUKBelinda: And what does that say about what it means to be
black in the UK as of 2010?  Matilda: It is unnatural for you to
be defined by your skin colour when there is so much more to a
human being than their skin pigmentation. Politically, the
reason the definition is there is because its part of the
experience and it goes back to slavery and colonialism and I
think the civil rights movement is a key indicator of what that
definition exits because it def