The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto
Michael Dawson, Adidja Palmer
Language: English
Pages: 239
ISBN: 0615510671
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As strange as this may sound , I hope you do not enjoy this book, I hope it disturbs you. I hope after reading you realize there is something wrong with Jamaica that needs to be fixed......I hope you will never look at a ghetto person the same again.
I hope you will never see a young girl in a compromising position with an older man and not question what is going on. I hope you will never see a young man in jail and write him off as 'wutless' or bad.....
Most importantly, I hope that you will not only hear but listen to the voice of the ghetto. I end in the words of Marcus Garvey - One God, One Aim, One Destiny, one Love. Until we meet again, I remain, yours truly.
during pregnancy, the youth can end up being born premature, having a low birth weight, damaged lungs and a very unhealthy life. Do not accept the belief that a little drink here or there cannot harm; just cut it out for the youth's sake so they will have a chance to sing "Mama mama, mama, my mother" to you too. Now back to the YWF and the politicians. Young men, some of you do not even want to take care of the youth when they're born so I have a hard task in encouraging you to take care of the
sign, dem a pree sup’m else. Whenever we travel, well at least those of us who get to travel, we feel as if we are being interrogated by immigration just to get our little stay, even though we are going there with our money to spend in their economy. Whilst this is happening, until recently, you could come to Jamaica on just a driver’s licence if you were an American. A man wanted by the US for over ten years, told a judge in Jamaica recently after he was apprehended that he came here just on a
Or, they may say, “har hair bad,” or “shi neva get good hair.” Even the former Prime Minister’s wife Beverly Anderson Manley explained how she was ridiculed and chastised for keeping her African roots in dress and hairstyle. There are jokes made about people who maintain Afro-centric dress and other aspects of our African culture. There are songs that make fun of the great South African chief, Shaka Zulu laughing at how ugly he looks, there are songs that make fun of the African dashiki dresses
event that this happens. Also, you have to be wary of thieves who may see your things and try to take them. In the ghetto, a man can 165 hol’ a fresh one evening, put on his clothes and when he walks outside he just gets a feeling that something bad is about to happen. There is no cloud in the sky but the place is overcast. The youths are playing in the street, di man dem a beat domino pon di sidewalk and the sound system is pushing out some serious tunes, but even with all that noise, the
were Massa’s property to buy, sell, trade, lend and do anything that he desired. Real thing black man, I know it is hard to accept but in those days your wife may have been yours in spirit but her body was Massa’s or the overseer’s if they wished. Your beautiful little girl could be taken from you a week after she was born, a year after or on her sweet sixteen; it just depended on when Massa was ready to use and abuse her. As a child, every night you would go to bed not knowing if Mommy and Daddy