Jamaican Till I Die!

The first rule of Jamaica is we do not do Maintenance, it is also the second and third rule.  On Friday | January 29, 2021 | 12:29 AM The Jamaica Gleaner published a story about the state of an old building being used as a post office since 1950 within a community.  "The community of Benbow, situated about one and a half miles from Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, has had a postal agency serving residents of adjoining communities dating back to the early 1950s. The building has fallen into disrepair over the years, and no attempt has been made to improve the facility which serves residents of communities such as Middlesex, Copper, Bonnet and Moreland." The reaction of my country men was mostly predictable. To them the existence of the dilapidated building was an embarrassment, it was an old wooden structure and needed to be replaced with something new, modern, and metropolitan to fit their foreign minded mental state.  The first thing that came to my mind was, a nice, lovely qua...

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...