Colonially Conditioned and Stewed to Subjugated Perfection
Flag waving piccaninnies with Watermelon smiles. To see the big white chief touch down in their big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
One must wonder what the Monarchy want with Jamaica. What are they trying to achieve, what are their objectives? The fact is the British Monarchy is not what it uses to be, it is a fraction of what it once was. The Monarchy is contracting, it is in a perpetual state of decline. Its level of influence reduced to a trickle and the Royals who are inline to inherit the Monarchy are scared their will be nothing left for them to inherit, when their time comes around.
Almost everyone of our Governments and every one of our Political Parties, promised that if elected they will make Jamaica a Republic and up until now, they have all failed to do so. They use this gimmick to pad their Manifestos and to sound progressive for some votes. Another reason why Jamaica is hanging on to this failed institution, is because Jamaicans are hoping for some handout but they will be waiting in vain. Some of us are thinking that since there are so few Subjugated people left and the numbers are declining, that the British Monarchy will open the royal treasury and share the stolen wealth with us. A wealth the British spent over 350 years stealing from Black and Brown people. The Subjugated Jamaicans would be delusional, since the British are wealth extractors, they do not return wealth.
Representatives of the British Monarchy are visiting this region, in a charm offense hoping to discourage the Republican movements, thus maintaining their level of influence, and restoring some street cred. Barbados going Republic has them running scared because they know the dominoes might start falling. The British Monarchy must not succeed. It is not in Jamaica’s interest or benefit to retain or prop up the British Monarchy and the failed, almost comical concept of the Monarchy of Jamaica.
The number one problem Jamaica faces when it comes to the British Monarchy and its relationship with Jamaica is that in Jamaica, we have done our population a disservice by engineering this ignorance about the British Monarchy as great white saviors. After 300 years of Colonial Conditioning most of us Jamaicans are stewed to Subjugated Perfection. We keep thinking that the Monarchy will come to save us from ourselves, to come take care of us. Back in colonial days the white man said that we, the savages represented the white man’s burden but now that is how some of us sees ourselves.The Royals touch down in Jamaica with dem two long hands to the jubilation of their flag waving piccaninnies with Watermelon smiles. Not a school gift, not a hospital gift, not even a barrel. I am shocked they did not use the royal plane to drop off some Windrush deportees as well.
My people are truly Colonially Conditioned and Stewed to Subjugated Perfection. As poverty-stricken piccaninnies run around trying to get a glimpse of their big white chief. I am both sickened and saddened by it all!
Lack of Nation Building:
Maybe we are a failing state simply because we always fail to make any big nation building decisions since 1962. Every Government and political party have declared over and over that we are becoming a Republic, and everyone failed to deliver.
Countries that are ahead of us are not afraid to take a stand. To chart out a path and head in that direction. They are masters of their domain.
Jamaica is a country trying to incrementally go in every different direction all at once and end up going nowhere very fast. Like going up the down escalator. Never giving up unsure for unsure describes us to a Tee. We suffer because we failed over and over to uplift ourselves. I am not shocked we are still running behind our colonial overlords like a chicken following corn.
Media Speculation
After much speculation and rumour, a source in the Jamaican government has confirmed to Good Morning Britain that Jamaica will begin the process of removing Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state “as soon as” William and Kate have left. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Jamaica today, March 22, as part of an eight-day Caribbean tour. However, they’ll be be greeted by a large demonstration outside the British High Commission protesting the visit in its entirety and calling for reparations for the slave trade, as well as an official apology.
Ever since Barbados officially removed the Queen as their head of state towards the end of 2021, there’s been growing support for the six other Caribbean states to follow suit. Earlier in the week, William and Kate had to rearrange plans for their stop in Belize after residents protested their visit due to a dispute over land ownership with Flora and Fauna International, a controversial organisation for which William is a patron.
Good Morning Britain reporter Noel Phillips, who is currently in Jamaica covering the royal visit, confirmed the news earlier today after speaking to a senior government source. He said: “I’ve been speaking to a source within the Prime Minister’s Government who has told me that as soon as they leave, Jamaica will begin the process of removing the Queen as head of state. “I’m trying to make sense myself as to why they are hosting William and Kate knowing very well they are going to remove the Queen as Head of State. And that this diplomatic charm mission appears to be a complete waste of time.” .... We will see. Jamaica To Begin Process To Remove Queen Elizabeth II As Head Of State
34 out of the 54 Member States of the Commonwealth of Nations are Republics! They did not curl up and die after removing the Queen as Head of State and disconnect themselves from the Monarchy.
**What did invasion, conquering, subjugating, genocidal murder, slavery and colonization mean for European and their descendants?
For Europeans and their descendants, Slavery was to wealth, what the Big Bang was to the Universe. I look at slavery as a Big Bang of wealth creation. An instant explosion of Wealth that ripples through space and time, creating compounded wealth that transcends generations. The benefits of which is still being felt to this very day by Europeans and their descendants.
**What did invasion, conquering, subjugating, genocidal murder, slavery and colonization mean for Africans and their descendants?
For Africans and their descendants, Slavery was to Poverty and suffering, what the Big Bang was to the Universe. I look at slavery as a Big Bang that created great human suffering and poverty. An instant explosion of human Suffering that ripples through space and time, creating compounded suffering and hardship that transcends generations. The negative effects of which is still being felt to this very day by the descendants of the conquered and enslaved people.
It is amazing to me that there are those among us who can list all of the problems Jamaica currently faces and then declare that the Monarchy are the least of our problems. Consider the fact that all these problems exist while we are the Monarchy of Jamaica. We have been associated with Britain for well over 350 years in one form or another and still our problems exist.
So, clearly keeping the British Monarchy and the Queen is NOT contributing to any solution. The Monarchy is useless and not helping to solve any of our problems. It has made a big fat ZERO contribution to solving crime or the GDP or anything, so what purpose do they serve, what use are they to us? Why do we have this Monarchy as our Head of State, while we exist in this state of semi-independence, halfway house.
Maybe when we start to make the big nation building decisions like becoming a republic, then we might start to make other big Nation Building decisions. The Monarchy seems to mentally limiting us and it is about time we Relegate it to the Blood socked, human suffering pages of our history with the British.
Bahamas have had enough!
I have no idea what the Monarchy brings to the table or how staying under the Monarchy will help solved any of our problems. What is the Monarchy doing for Jamaica and the average Jamaican on the street? Please enlighten me! Is having the Monarchy growing the GDP or helping to increase employment or our standard of living? Is having the Monarchy preventing the increased murder/crime rate? If our relationship with the British was beneficial, I would be the first to declare that we cannot give up a good thing, that we cannot leave sure for unsure but that is NOT the case.
Akala:
It’s about time really. While this change is partly cosmetic it is also conceptually important. The British Crown has remained the head of state in Jamaica, even though Jamaicans need a visa to visit the UK (i.e to visit their own head of state, in theory) even after repeated Windrush ‘scandals’ after the UK govt redrew Commonwealth citizenship laws to stop the ‘flood’ of Caribbean's and Asians (while subsidising Italian and German former enemies) and even after the best development assistance the UK government could think to offer Jamaica was a prison to house the grand total of about 700 Jamaican nationals that were in British prisons at the time. (there were much greater numbers of Irish and Polish nationals in UK prisons for example).
In any case, for all of Jamaica's many flaws and the huge challenges it faces, the country is a democracy and hereditary monarchy (or lords exerting undue influence in parliament for that matter) is of very questionable value to a modern democratic state.
I also take this time to randomly remind you that the University of the West Indies (Jamaica campus specifically) outranks the Universities of Brighton, Manchester Metropolitan, Coventry, Oxford Brooke’s and many more on the Times Educational supplement yearly rankings. Cos why not.
Hopefully the Jamaican ruling class will think very seriously about the message they are sending out here and what it should mean for their attitudes to Jamaica's future, to national development and to unearned positions in society more generally.
Bless up
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