How can we tek wi han tun fashion and use mikle mek muckle
when so many external, antagonistic factors prevail. Some persons will try but
whole heap will, according to our nation’s history and peoples nature, never
reach beyond the presumptuous boundaries set.
Wi watch di news an imagery of wage freezes an pompous
vehicles riddle the airwaves with intent to over shadow the loathing realities of inflation,
constricting debt, joblessness, etc. Not everyone will master the tracks,
conquer the boxing rings or stumble upon cash just left alone by careless atm
attendants in order to clear their plates of the stale and insipid realities
that we have been fed or have been fed us. Rightfully so we must recognize
those who have triumphed over there dispositions but no be swept away by the whirlwind
within which one is so bugled that he becomes blind sighted. Jamaica’s reality
of lacks in intellect, capital, collateral, etc. has crippled our youth, both
male and female.
If I am special, you are special we all are special then all
we are left with is a monotonous flux. As Black people were cultured to believe
that we should turn the other cheek when our men are shackled, our women are
raped and our kids are left to ride the illiterate wave because Gad naah gi yuh
more dan wah yuh can bear , a di same way, we have been left to think that we
are special and the world is obligated to us blindly leading us to take part in
the rat race.
We as Jamaicans have no clue how to step away from monotony
and mediocrity hence we are as captives to a redundant rhetoric which holds tight the regressive grip of the
common vice. A long time Rasta a talk bout Babylon and wi deemed him fool with
intense skepticism. Our country because of this has been littered with persons
unable to think beyond the walls of their craniums further propagating and perpetuating
an unbearable stench of disrespect and egotism.
Cow si him tail and tink a bush biting at it till him nyam himself.
Egotism is disingenuous. It has been etched into the bones of the old and breed
into the genes of the young. Propaganda and hungry bellyism is our down fall.
Tik bruk inna wi aise puppah jeezas. Every baddy know she yuh cyaah clean di
stream from di battam yuh fuss affi
start from di tap but yet wi blame di mussic an deem our young men as packs of
rats without first highlighting the fact that we left the food and built the
nest.
Mek wi stop pointing fingers and start painting solutions to
our economical situations to make Jamaica a betta plaice fi live, work , raise
family , whatever. Why can’t our leaders stop trying to be culprits and embrace
the fact that they have substantive purpose? Who are we fooling to think that
we can outfit politicians with exorbitantly priced vehicles which they will in 4
years time own, fi likle aar nutn, in the name of service to the people when di people a dead fi hungry. We see wars
happening globally and retaliations by citizens of nations and think we are nowhere near such wanton
behavior but believe me it’s at our doorstep about to insert its aggressive shaft
into our context.
I’ve always thought it to be nonsencesical( if such a word
exists) to train people in a field which has no industry and send them to sit
on their couches after the graduate but di foolishness starts when yuh start
train to much 1000 people fi waah industry we have 10 and smiling aaff yuh face
like yuh mekking a difference. Yuh aint better dan the fool we think seh dem fi
tek waah old car, call it jeep an dash some half starving and desperate young
people in deh fi guh paint side walk an kleen gully with intent that yuh
plugging gyaps in unemployment. A who a di fool doah gad, di man weh cum up wid
di plan are di one pan di wagon.
Untill this island nation eradicates the filth from our
upper and lower cottages we will never move. Untill we can stare wi selves in
the eyes, gi wi self a raahtid bax an she a who yuh fooling den wi doomed to
sitting and watching di same reruns on the unplugged tv screen.
