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The Dehumanisation and Demonisation of Black People

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I was sitting in the front yard watching my little nieces and nephews play, running around with not a care in the world. I watched the bigger kids of my family with their friends drive in and back out again, chatting and laughing. I must say, I am happy we live in country like Jamaica, where for the most part we are just Normal Human Beings . I am happy that Jamaicans have the chance to grow up in a society void of daily engineered institutionalized racism, designed to dehumanize black people.  The bigger children and their friends will be leaving for colleges and universities soon. Some will go local, others will migrate to the USA, UK and Europe but I am happy that they got this chance to grow up with a concept of self, knowing who they are without the pressure and prejudices of race. We try our best to describe to them the world they will face once they leave the comfort of our small beloved island home and we hope they are confident enough, strong enough and full of self respe...

The Commonwealth of Nations - Jamaica's Future?

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The 54 member state of the Commonwealth of Nations was founded on December 11, 1931, back then it was called the British Commonwealth. The Commonwealth of Nations is one of the most useless and worthless organization and I challenge anyone to show how being a member of this dog and pony show contributes to our lives or our development. What does it add to our daily existence? As of 3 February 2020, 31 out of the 54 member states were Republics!  The Commonwealth of Nations represents one of Great Britain’s biggest failure since losing its brutal empire but that is by design. It represents the failure to evolve from Slavery, Colonialism, from Commonwealth into something more meaningful and beneficial for all.  The Commonwealth exists with no sense of direction, no sense of purpose and exist in limbo. The British have never defined their relationship with the Commonwealth Realms or Nations as a “ Special Relationship ”, that title is reserved for the United States of Am...