Jamaican Till I Die!

I agree that parents are responsible for the development of their offspring's. I agree that parents should guide and protect their offspring. I agree that parents should make sure their offspring's are properly socialized, understanding their roles within society. I agree that parents should teach their children manners, morals and proper problem/solution skills. Making sure they know that violence is not the solution to every problem. I agree that parents should properly integrate their children into society, promoting good social values and behavior over anti-social behavior.  In order to teach better, you must know better and if you do not know better, thinking your dysfunctional lifestyle is the norm and acceptable, then how are you going to teach better to your children? In the real world, I think we overuse the word parents and apply the word to people who should be parents,  but they are not parents  because they were never educated to be parents and as such, t...

I have always been an opinionated, social and political activist  for as long as I can remember,  I am from a family of opinionated, social and political activist … WHO AM I?  InMyOwnWords   is behind  JamaicanTillIdie !  Who I am, is NOT important. What I have to say is more relevant to me. I write almost everything under the Pen-name “ InMyOwnWords ”. I have been writing with this name long before Facebook was ever invented or thought possible, from the early 1990's. I use to write letters to various news organizations, to ministers of Government and various members of Jamaica’s Political class and so I saw no reason not to continue that tradition when I first created a Facebook account to associate with this blog. My inspiration for creating this pen-name came from the TV show Dark Angel , where Michael Weatherly who played the character Logan Cale an underground cyber-journalist with the alias “ Eyes Only ” fighting for truth and justice. OK ...