Jamaican Till I Die!

The problems affecting black people are complex, but a lot the problems affecting black people are also self-inflicted. Which makes the solutions to a lot of these problems very complex. Our problems are not just Black and White but Black, White, Brown and everything else in-between. Multiple causes with multiple effects and multiple solutions.   We all know the part Institutionalized Systemic Racism plays in creating this dysfunctional state within the black communities. It is, as if the entire White Western World Order was designed to hold black people back. This White Western World Order has been defining who and what we are to the world for hundreds of years and that definition is almost always the racist perception that we are genetically inferior and predisposed to being dysfunctional and counterproductive. It gets even worse when Black people start to see themselves through white peoples eyes. When we adopt and accept the racist narratives of the White Western World O...

I remember after 9/11 I saw American unity on display for the world to see. It did not matter what race or religion they were, at that time none of that mattered because they were all Americans. It reminded me of that famous quote by Isoroku Yamamoto after the Pearl Harbor attack. “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”. I am not sure if that quote was real or something made up to sell a movie, but the 9/11 attacks reminded me of that moment. It was also at that time that I heard defiant Americans with flags waving declaring that “These colors don't run”. That unity was beautiful and wonderful to watch. However, all that American unity lasted about a week or two tops, before it was back to American disunity. No Symbolic Unity For these people. NEW YORK - A statue based on the famous photograph of the flag-raising at the World Trade Center site is being criticized because the three white firefighters in the picture have been trans...