Dear Editor,
As a Jamaican residing in America I cannot help but notice the hypocrisy of many fellow Jamaicans living on foreign shores. They are quick to cry racism and get on the bandwagon in "merry macka". But tell them to give a voice to the injustice taking place in Jamaica and these Jamaican-Americans are noticeably silent.
I question, then, if America is so racist, and white police are going around just randomly shooting black men, why are so many black Jamaicans here in the USA and not back home in Jamaica where they do not have to deal with racist cops?
Since the Michael Brown incident, everyone and their grandmother has an opinion about racist America. But when Mario Deane and so many others suffered, these same foreign mouthpieces had nothing to say, hypocrites much?
We do not have solutions on how to fix things in Jamrock but we dare to suggest that we have the moral authority to talk about what happens in "merry macka"? Seriously?
I would suggest that those who love to jump on the racism bandwagon and seem to have the answers, go home and implement some of those same solutions in Jamaica. Why waste time in racist "merry macka" when you all could be doing something positive in Jamrock?
Michelle Bradshaw
michelleannmariebradshaw@gmail.com
Dance abroad, quiet ah yard
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As a Jamaican residing in America I cannot help but notice the hypocrisy of many fellow Jamaicans living on foreign shores. They are quick to cry racism and get on the bandwagon in "merry macka". But tell them to give a voice to the injustice taking place in Jamaica and these Jamaican-Americans are noticeably silent.
I question, then, if America is so racist, and white police are going around just randomly shooting black men, why are so many black Jamaicans here in the USA and not back home in Jamaica where they do not have to deal with racist cops?
Since the Michael Brown incident, everyone and their grandmother has an opinion about racist America. But when Mario Deane and so many others suffered, these same foreign mouthpieces had nothing to say, hypocrites much?
We do not have solutions on how to fix things in Jamrock but we dare to suggest that we have the moral authority to talk about what happens in "merry macka"? Seriously?
I would suggest that those who love to jump on the racism bandwagon and seem to have the answers, go home and implement some of those same solutions in Jamaica. Why waste time in racist "merry macka" when you all could be doing something positive in Jamrock?
Michelle Bradshaw
michelleannmariebradshaw@gmail.com
Dance abroad, quiet ah yard
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