Jamaican Till I Die!

How come we do not see videos of blood, guts and gore like we see in Jamaica from US and UK sources. There were at least 10 mass shootings across the US this weekend with 17 people dead and 33 more wounded and we have yet to see dead bodies being turbo blast all over social media. So far this year there have Been 194 Mass Shootings in the USA and I cannot describe one scene of these gruesome carnage. There was a shooting in Time Square New York with 3 Shot, Including a 4-Year-Old. There were 4 deaths in London following bloody weekend of shootings and stabbings and no turbo blast of these deaths to show blood and gore on social media. On Monday, May 10, 2021, In Chicago 27 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend violence and in a previous weekend in Chicago 46 shot, 7 killed. In Jamaica the various Whatsapp groups I belong to is bombarded with the most gruesome Jamaican content. Why do Jamaicans video tape gruesome death and destruction and spread it around the globe with such pride, are we tu...

Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Search who got what and how much Some Jamaicans are so desperate trying to identify Jamaica’s “ Oh So Special ” moment in history, trying to identify with something big, great and special from our past that they are now claiming that the period of Slavery was Jamaica’s “ Oh So Special ” moment to be proud of. I often wonder why Jamaica’s half breeds and white population are so willing to identify with the whip hand of slavery, with the plantation slave owners. So quick to sing their praises to the black population, like rubbing salt in the wound of our ancestors. My great, great, great grandfather was Lord Racist Overlord and he owned 300 slaves. Any comparison between wealth generation during the period of slavery and wealth generation today is flawed and should never be made by anyone. To treat the period of slavery as a special time in Jamaica’s history is an insult to humanity and a bigger insult to Jamaica’s black population. To make...