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As Jamaica’s journey to remove King Charles as head of state and become a republic by 2025 progresses, the island is currently in the process of reforming its constitution.
Last year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness appointed 14 members of a Constitutional Reform Committee to discuss the necessary steps in transforming Jamaica into a republic including who the president, replacing the British monarch, will be, among other matters.
One issue that has sparked heated debate in Parliament recently is whether or not dual citizens, specifically those who have pledged allegiance to countries not part of the Commonwealth, should be allowed to sit in the Jamaican Parliament.
Under the current constitution, Commonwealth citizens (including those with dual citizenship) must reside in Jamaica for at least one year to be eligible for Parliament. But while Commonwealth passport holders can participate in general elections and serve as MPs or Senators, non-Commonwealth citizens with foreign allegiance (such as U.S. citizens) are barred.
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Kendrick, Drake, and Ethnic/Cultural Identity
One of the most discussed topics during this exchange between the two is if Drake is a culture vulture. In short, yes. He's always been. It boils down to inherited cultural identity and respected history, not the upholding of a social construct of “race.”
Race is a goofy non-biological caste system that operates in various countries and it’s a dumbass global push to get people to embrace a superior to inferior hierarchy in classifying the globe into 5 broad groups solely based on perceived skull sizes, hues of skin color, and perceived traits and phenotypic features via the teachings of François Bernier, Johann Blumenbach, Carl Linnaeus, and them other hoes. Get race tf outta here.
I’m gonna make this concise as possible, but fleshed out a bit for full understanding.
Kendrick Lamar is Black American on both sides with his roots most likely coming out of Mississippi and/or Alabama to Chicago to Cali by way of the Great Migration. (He may even descend from Duckworths from Louisiana). I haven’t done his genealogy, but now I may out of curiosity.
Black American is a double ethnicity. We’re citizens of America (nationality = US Citizen), and our ethnic group (Black) was created & descends from this land (ethnicity = American) through ethnogensis. It has nothing to do with one’s brown skin color or how the cops see us 🙃, but everything to do with the lineage of one’s parents and their parents, etc. (For info on lineage tracing, refer to my post here.)
Black Americans are an ethnic group (the largest from this land and largest in this country after Germans), while “white Americans” are a self-identification race to remove ethnic identity and conflate numbers. I can break this down further in another post if y’all want since American history is complex and will explain why Black Americans have been reclassified seven times by the US government 🙃.
Now.
Culture is largely passed down through your mother, and her mother, and her mother, and so forth for Black Americans (and I’m sure other ethnic groups). No matter if it’s a two-parent or single-parent household, she’s your ultimate teacher in setting the foundation of your cultural upbringing. It’s the same if one is raised by their grandparents. It largely stems from the grandmother. If one’s father is their main parent, that’s a different case of course.
Drake falls in line with this as someone from a single-parent household. He is half Ashkenazi of Latvian and Russian descent (ethnicity) through his mother and of half Black American descent (ethnicity) through his father. He is a dual citizen of Canada and America (nationality), who was raised in Canada with his Ashkenazi Jewish mother and Ashkenazi relatives with an Ashkenazi upbringing. He went to a Jewish day school and was engulfed in all aspects at home.
Kendrick is ethnically and culturally Black American. Drake is ethnically and culturally Ashkenazi. He is also ethnically Black American (through lineage), but not culturally Black American. Does that make Drake a culture vulture? No. He just didn’t have the cultural upbringing but could always immerse himself in learning, appreciating, and respecting the other half of his history and culture.
What makes him one is how he operates as an outsider. He participates in an aspect of Black American culture (Hip-Hop) for his monetary gain, adopts a manufactured image for his perception of believability, and disrespects the people of this culture. “…run to America to imitate culture.” It’s like a jacket to him. He takes it off to try on another (like a Jamaican accent) and swaps for another, etc.
A few examples that’s been touched on: He blackened his face to depict blackface while wearing a Jim Crow t-shirt… That’s specific disrespect towards Black Americans, mocking our history and our ancestors. “Whipped and chained you like American slaves.” That’s specific disrespect towards Black Americans, mocking our history and our ancestors. “[You] always rappin' like you 'bout to get the slaves freed.” Do I even need to explain this? Hopefully it’s understood.
The muthafucka is not like us.
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Yesterday marked the death of Sylvia Pankhurst - one of the finest revolutionary communists to have ever graced Britain's shores. We have rarely seen such fighters on this earth.
Sylvia was the most tortured suffragette, targetted for her insistence on including working class women within the demands of women's suffrage (much to the disdain of her mother and sister). She did not balk against repeated forced feeding, hunger striking and sleep striking.
She was one of a handful of communists in Britain who opposed the first world war. Her criticism of the war was ceaseless. Practically isolated, she organised relief for working class people in London with cost-price restaurants, free child care for mothers, and more.
She broke with the Labour Party over this, and never returned despite the enormous pressure put upon her by the British labour movement and, later, the Third Internationale. Her arguments with Lenin remain a key debate in communist and British politics.
Pankhurst stood resolutely with the Bolshevik revolution at its outbreak, and was pivotal in organising the "Hands Off Russia" campaign in Britain - which culminated in dock workers across the country refusing to load any munitions to ships.
Pankhurst was an outspoken opponent of racism. Her newspaper - then the Worker's Dreadnought - was the first newspaper in Britain to hire black journalists. When articles written by the Jamaican journalist, Claude McKay, were viewed as seditious, she went to jail for him.
Her support for Irish independence never wavered. She supported Larkin, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and United Builders' Labourers Union during the Dublin lock-outs. She stood by the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.
She was one of the first in Britain to recognise the dangers of fascism, her warnings and agitation beginning as early as 1920. Through this struggle, she became deeply involved in Ethiopian national liberation, where she spent the last years of her life.
All of this is just the tip of the iceberg of the contributions Sylvia made in her life. She did all of this at great cost to herself, enduring her mother and sister denouncing her in the press repeatedly, endless slander, rejection by the mainstream communist movement and worse.
Sylvia also belongs to the great pantheon of disabled revolutionaries, being diagnosed with endometriosis whilst in prison. This, along with the damage done to her organs by forced feeding, left her with often crippling stomach problems.
"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving." She fought until she died, but capitalism didn't kill her. At aged 78, Sylvia passed on.
She was given a state funeral in Ethiopia, and remains the only foreigner buried in the front of Holy Trinity Cathedral. An Ethiopian migrant, cited anonymously in Rachel Holmes' biography of Pankhurst, summed up what she meant to him thus:
"After God, Sylvia Pankhurst".
To learn more about Sylvia, we highly recommend Rachel Holmes' biography, "Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel".
#sylvia pankhurst#communism#politics#marxism#philosophy#communist#anti imperialism#history#leftism#world history#working class#feminism#womens rights#smash the patriarchy#suffragette#suffragists#women's suffrage
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When you talk to an insecure man baby pt.1
Before I start, sorry that the replies are all out of order, we were messaging over each other.
So this is just half of the conversation. A little background, we were cool and all the night before when i was in his live, but he was apparently going through my likes or whatever, which I had blocked later on because one of my friends taught me how. And the next day out of nowhere he starts accusing me of being "racist" and being "against" white people because I had liked a post of a drag queen who was talking about white ppl names and there was a black man in the audience with the name of Steve so they started joking about it. Both them and the audience were having a good time.
You can see up top, that he says slurs and is really disrespectful for no reason. Bitch-??
you'll come across the comment I made about him saying I was illegal. For clarification, when I was in his live, I mentioned that I was Jamaican-Colombian (because I am), and he proceeds to tell me that my parents are most likely illegal and so am I. Like...?? I was born in Colombia but my parents proved themselves to be U.S citizens way before they had me and they filled out a CRBA to prove myself as one too.
He is also asking me to show him my vagina which wasn't going to happen, at least for him.
I would take his username out, but he likes saying shit and I think people should be aware, before talking to him at all. He's rude on his lives and he's a complete asshole in general.
I have so much more tea, especially for Pt. 2
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I'm not white
You are not white. No really no one is "white". And I'm sick of this bullshit of people saying, "White" this and "Black" that and "Brown" this. Just stop. Judging people by skin pigment is something that we should not be doing at any point. And yet, the people that are "the most against racism" as it were, are insistent we continue to use these terms and so much so that if you are pale AT ALL you "should be considered white". Meanwhile you actually make it easier for people to be racist when you do this.
And you make the spreading of hate that much easier. "Boo hoo wyte pepo so bad they evil with no soul and something something melanin gives empathy". Shut the ever loving fuck up.
Frankly, it pisses me off more than anything to hear that kind of bullshit. AND YES that is a real thing people have said. We need to get away from labeling people as white, black, brown, etc, etc. Why? Easy, because if we are being honest here, it's kinda ignorant. I'm of French/Irish descent and I was born and raised in the US. Simple. And the same way I can say that. A "Black" man could be of Jamaican descent and also be born and raised in the US. Hell, he could be from Haiti and be a 3rd generation US citizen who's parents did REALLY well for themselves. You don't know. And that's the point.
You CAN'T know. It's just, "Oh this person LOOKS pale. We will just label him white, say he's never suffered oppression or discrimination at ALL and say that he is privileged." It's disgusting.
I've seen someone say that to a friend of mine, who's family barely survived the Holodomor, that he was just a "privileged little white boy". Excuse the fuck out of me but WHAT?! Kindly LTG.
Fact is in the US funny enough, those of Asian descent do better than almost ANY demographic in the US at all. People from India, Japan, China, South Korean, Taiwan, Philippines, etc, etc. Not "White". Which funny enough. Calling someone "White" and then saying, "White people have no culture" is some of the most racist and xenophobic shit I hear in my life. Why? Well let's look shall we. Where are can you find "White" people?
Russia
Brazil
Ukraine
South Africa
Spain
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Chile
Poland
England
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Canada
France
Germany
Ireland
Scotland
Finland
United States
And the list goes on. So you are going to tell me that NONE of the people from these countries have a culture. That they are just one with the "White Conglomerate" as it were? If you think as such then YOU are the racist. And also Xenophobic as well. We need to find a way to stop this "skin tone classification" bullshit. Especially since we seem to be EXPORTING IT to every other country in the world. Which, newsflash, is making things in the world THAT MUCH WORSE. And what's better? It's "well to do liberals" doing it. Congrats. You are making the world a worse place because you can't stop being racist little shits.
Am I blaming all liberals? No. Many? Absolutely.
We need to put a stop to this. And it needed to stop AGES ago.
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I often think, based on either of her canonical names alone, if Layla/Aisha was a real person, what would be her heritage? I know she's based on Beyonce so the most obvious answer would be an African-American citizen (or, not influenced by Saga but: British Jamaican???), but I like to entertain more elaborate options, especially since both names have Arabic origins but are widespread in differents countries and communities.
My tentative guess, when taking into consideration the fact that both her names have Arabic origins, would be that her character has some influences from North Africa. The majority (if not all) of countries in North Africa are culturally, ethnically, and linguistically related to Western Asia. As a result, different variants and dialects of Arabic are widely spoken in many countries in North Africa. That could explain why both her names have Arabic origins.
Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily say she'd be of North African descent if she were a real-world person; I'm mainly saying it's a possibility that some inspiration was drawn from North Africa when creating her character.
#interestingly her mother's name (niobe) has greek origins#and greek influences are particularly evident in countries like egypt libya and tunisia#which are north african countries#winx club#winx#winx layla#ask livienne#Anonymous
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‘God Save the King’ doesn’t fall from Jamaican lips so easily. Soon we’ll be a republic
Barbara Blake-Hannah
Barbados beat us to it, but this week our prime minister made throwing off the colonial yoke a top priority. It won’t be easy, but watch this space
Published: 14:59 Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Britain, take note. A post-Elizabethan era is taking shape here in Jamaica. And it looks like a republic. “The government will be moving with haste and alacrity towards transforming Jamaica into a republic,” said our prime minister, Andrew Holness, on Monday. “Please move ahead with speed,” he urged his minister of constitutional affairs. If there are obstacles, the government will do whatever it takes.
But then, the signs have long been there. Little or no notice was taken in Jamaica of the Queen’s jubilee last year. There was no bunting, no official party at King’s House. The main celebration was a big party celebrating a different jubilee – the 50th anniversary of The Harder They Come, the Jamaican feature film that introduced reggae and Rastafari culture to the world. But our most notable celebrations in 2022 honoured the year in which Jamaica also celebrated 60 years of independence from British colonial rule, with many activities, memorials and galas honouring that national history.
The visit to Jamaica by Prince William and his wife, Kate, last March was designed to generate a swell of pride in the Caribbean’s ties to the “mother country” and the Queen’s rule over the colonies of the British empire. Instead, it merely highlighted Jamaica’s longstanding call for slavery reparations, and reawakened calls to end Jamaica’s history as a British colony ruled by the Queen.
Anti-jubilee anger was also apparent in Belize – the first stop on the royal tour – when indigenous citizens also told William “not on our land”, protesting against the “colonial legacy of theft” when he planned to land his helicopter on a football field in their community. That same month, Belize had hosted a meeting of heads of government of Caricom, the political and economic union of 15 Caribbean member states; and after the royal visit, ministers signalled their intention to remove the Queen as head of state.
The reparations fire became a volcano in November 2021, when Barbados became a republic. Barbados! The “small island” we in Jamaica referred to with a sneer as “Little England” took the big step ahead of us. To rub it in, the prime minister of Barbardos, Mia Mottley, declared her country’s music superstar Rihanna a national hero, thumbing her nose at Jamaica, which has yet to truly honour its even greater superstar Bob Marley. The then Prince Charles stood solemnly as the union jack was lowered.
That did it for Jamaica. If Barbados could do it, so could we! Removing the Queen as head of state immediately became Jamaica’s most popular topic of discussion. This was not about her colour and race (though neither is immaterial): it was about her role as inheritor and keeper of Britain’s history of slavery and colonialism, the fundamental and continuing reason for Jamaica’s poverty and its associated ills.
Monarchists will oppose any effort to cut ties, but they contend with a social media debate suggesting an overwhelming majority of Jamaicans have been angered by the treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan. Meghan is biracial, like so many of us, and that anger cannot help but speed the decisions of many colonial nations to step away from having a British monarch as head of state.
For 70 long years, God saved gracious Queen Elizabeth to reign over us, happy and glorious. But the familiar words don’t fall from our lips as easily for Charles. The prospect of him and his former mistress Camilla being crowned king and queen of Jamaica is not relished by many, while Harry’s book, Spare, opens a window on the dysfunctional nature of a monarchy ruled by the “men in suits” who set the agenda and make the decisions. The view is not pretty.
The Jamaican government has created a new ministry with a specific mandate to lead Jamaica along the steps to becoming a republic – and promises that it can be accomplished within a year. When the monarch is replaced as head of state, it looks likely from current discussions that a president will be appointed by the prime minister in consultation with the leader of the opposition and confirmed by a two-thirds majority of both houses of parliament, with a term of office of six years, and limited to two terms. Much needs to be done, but now there’s “haste and alacrity”: Jamaica is ready to build a future of its own.
Barbara Blake-Hannah is an anti-racism activist and a former TV broadcaster in Britain
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Take a few minutes to click the links (click on the room name) + read the new room descriptions on Cliq. We look forward to seeing more activity there as you make yourselves familiar with the additions. Please reach out if you need ideas on how to make the most of them.
Equinox Fitness Club
STK Steakhouse
Casa Madera
Simply Wholesome
Georgia (due to a lot of citizens being from this state)
Erewhon Market Organic Grocer and Café
Greek Theater (this technically inside of Griffith park per our research. So the Griffith park room can be used for this.)
Bel-Air Country Club
New York (unless none of the citizens want a room for this, we can remove it)
Silicon Valley (this is where social media and tech headquarters will be located. Places such as Google, Apple, Tidal, Snapchat, Meta; formally known as Facebook, Twitter; now known as X, and Instagram)
Egg Slut
Harolds Chicken & Bar
A Beautiful Life Jamaican
Verve Coffee Roasters
L.A. Farmers Market at 3rd & Fairfax
Post and Beam Soul Food
Fixins Soul kitchen
Yardbird
Nevada (for Las Vegas)
Urban Air California
The Escape Revolution
The Grove Shopping Center
Aquarium of the Pacific
Dragonfly Hollywood
Napa Valley Wine Country
Xtreme Xperience Racing
Bottega Louie
Rooms that are already at the rp per suggestion:
Staples Center or Crypto.com Arena
Florida
Outside of California (this room should be used as any State that was not given an individual room)
Room name changes.
Club Paradise will become Dragonfly Hollywood
BXR Gym will become Equinox Fitness Club
The Dolly Llama will become Jeni Splendid Ice Cream
Katana Sushi will become Jinya Ramen Bar
Bossa Nova will become Bottega Louie
Roscoes will become Harolds Chicken and Bar
Breakfast bitch will become Egg Slut
Sky Zone will become Urban Air Revolution
Oceans Aquarium will become Aquarium of the Pacific
Rooms that are being removed:
Gizmos Cereal Bar
Boa Steakhouse
Ocean Prime
Star Hookah Lounge
Firefly
Johnny Rockets
Providence
7Eleven
Target
Border Grill
Oasis of the Seas
Big Bear Cabins
Mildred E. Mathis Botanical Garden
Delta Phi Zeta Sorority House
Omega Psi Beta Fraternity House
Runyon Canyon
Walmart
Hollywood Sign & Boulevard
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something i think about sometimes that i think usamericans fail to realise is that, yes, while usamerican neo-colonialism does include the colonialism of media, it also includes the colonisation of the internet. im jamaican; i was born and raised in a country whose citizens are mostly black and yet i am consistently referred to as a minority online because that is the reality for a black person in the us and therefore it is the reality for any black person existing in the wider space of the internet
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Jamaica Warns Citizens Against Traveling to the United States Due to High Mass Shooting Rate.
The Jamaican Government has issued an advisory to its citizens, urging them to reconsider travel to the United States due to the high level of mass shootings in the country.
In an update to their website on Wednesday, the Government of Jamaica says mass shootings occur regularly in many places including schools, workplaces, shopping malls and even churches throughout the United States.
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Developing Countries
In class this week we went into detail about developing or less developed countries, highlighting key characteristics, such as youthful age structure, Multinationals taking advantage of inexpensive labor, cities still offer great hope and higher wages compared to rural, Informal economy, squatter settlements, primate cities, overurbanization. As someone from the developing country, Jamaica, I have seen these characteristics first-hand.
Multinational corporations, seeking to capitalize on inexpensive labor, often play a role in the economic landscape of developing countries like Jamaica. This can bring economic growth and job opportunities, but it also raises concerns about fair labor practices, exploitation, and the potential for wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a few. Additionally in Jamaican cities, the allure of better opportunities, higher wages, and improved living standards compared to rural areas is evident. However, this urbanization trend also leads to the growth of informal economies, where a significant portion of economic activities occurs outside formal regulations. This can make it challenging for the government to collect taxes, enforce labor standards, and provide essential services to all citizens.
Squatter settlements, characterized by makeshift housing and inadequate infrastructure, are a stark manifestation of urbanization challenges. These settlements often lack access to basic services such as clean water, sanitation, and healthcare, highlighting the need for comprehensive urban planning and slum improvement initiatives.
The concept of primate cities, where one city dominates the urban landscape and concentrates most economic, political, and cultural activities, is relevant to many developing nations, including Jamaica. In the capital, Kingston, this is where the source of all decisions are made and most of the countries resources are concentrated. The concentration of resources in a primate city can lead to regional imbalances and unequal development, exacerbating disparities between urban and rural areas.
Overurbanization, a phenomenon where urban growth outpaces economic development, can lead to strain on resources and services. In the Jamaican context, managing rapid urbanization is crucial to ensuring sustainable development and avoiding the pitfalls associated with overurbanization, such as traffic congestion, inadequate housing, and environmental degradation.
As a Jamaican, it's essential to recognize both the potential benefits and challenges associated with these characteristics of developing countries. It underscores the importance of informed policymaking, investments in education and infrastructure, and fostering a balance between urban and rural development. Moreover, engaging in global discussions on sustainable development and fair economic practices is crucial for addressing these issues not only at the national level but also on an international scale.
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i am more in touch with my culture as a black american which i am not even technically im not an american citizen than i am with my african and jamaican culture which is really not far my family only moved from those places at most 3 generations ago. grins
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Given a voice to the powerless is always socially appreciated, but what about giving them light? That’s what Khalik Allah, the American filmmaker and photographer (Wikipedia contributors, 2021) based his career on. He revolved his photography career around shedding light – quite literally – on those that are usually hidden and disregarded in society.
Khalik Allah’s photography style mainly consists of portraits, documentaries and most obviously, street photography. His street genre is the most apparent genre of all his work, it’s what the eyes first notice. Khalik Allah believes that the role of photography in his perspective is that it was a gift sent to him from God and that he needs to use it to benefit and help out others. Given that he converted to Islam, his spirituality is quite intense and it’s showcased in the reasoning he gives behind his work. He has a high moral reasoning behind his work and photographs.
Another purpose that Khalik Allah believes his work has, is shedding light on those hidden in the darkness. He believes that his work showcases the truth and, in a way, decreases pre-made judgments and stereotypes that harm the minorities; the forgotten. As well as, he feels that his purpose in life is to extend light into peoples’ lives. Given that he comes from a Jamaican mother and an Iranian father, he himself is considered a part of the disadvantaged; he wants to help those like him so that they don’t go experience the same things he did. “I felt like I was baptizing people with Light: The Light of truth awarded to the mind that withholds judgment, because judgment always obscures truth,” said Khalik, (Masih-Tehrani, 2019). He sheds light in an emotional or a psychological aspect where he puts these struggling people in the spotlight to showcase the reality of who they are and their living conditions. He shows that not all stereotypes are true, and that these made-up realities can mess up these peoples’ lives even more. Additionally, he sheds light quite literally on them, in a photographic aspect.
While some people may not come to an agreement on how effective and impactful photography may be in bringing out understanding, it definitely does make a difference. Even if photographing these people living a harsh reality won’t change their lives, but it can bring awareness to their living conditions, to who they really are not who some people may think they are. By pointing the lens into darkness, we can change the situation. Not necessarily change someone’s life, but maybe by changing how others view them, we can in fact change their lives and give them an opportunity to seek a better life. Sometimes this type of photography can actually change the life path of individuals and bring them out into the light.
There are however ethical issues with his work. The main one that will be discussed is photographing intoxicated citizens who are not fully aware to give consent on being photographed. He is proving his point, and yes, his intentions seem to be well, but ethically speaking it’s unfair to abuse their inability to think properly to basically treat them as lab rats just simply used to make an experiment reliable or to prove something.
Even though there may be some ethical issues with his work but he is, at the end of the day, able to send out a message, a very strong one in fact. You know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, let alone a whole career as a photographer.
References
Masih-Tehrani, M. (2019, July 18). How Khalik Allah Bent the Rules of Street Photography, and Found His Vision. PDN Online. https://pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/how-khalik-allah-bent-the-rules-of-street-photography-and-found-his-vision/
Wikipedia contributors. (2021, December 30). Khalik Allah. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalik_Allah
De la Photographie, L. (2018, January 30). Khalik Allah. The Eye of Photography Magazine. https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/khalik-allah-125th-and-lexington/
Light Work. (2019, June 4). Khalik Allah | Light Work. Light Work | a Non-profit Photography Organization Supporting Artists Since 1973. https://www.lightwork.org/archive/khalik-allah/
Glanzman, A. (2014, October 14). Meet Harlem’s ‘Official’ Street Photographer. Time. https://time.com/3589404/meet-harlems-official-street-photographer/
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CHAPTER 6 FIELDWORK
My name is Tashya Anderson and my name was originated from my mothers. Her name is Tashonna. From the best of my knowledge both my mother and father are simply just Black Americans. I was born and raised in Camden, NJ. I come from a big family but a single parent household that consist of I, my mom and my little brother. I do want to add that I do have a sister (not by blood.). My mom had me at 19 and ever since then she's always told me she knew she had to work harder in life. My mother is my rock. She has honestly made so many sacrifices for me and I love her for that. She deserves the world and the most I would like to do for her is make her proud and give her an unimaginable life when she's old lol. My dad isn't in my life and it's honestly a touchy subject I tend to avoid to talking about.
Moving along, on a piece of paper I identify myself as African American/ Black because it's usually the only option us black Americans have in society. The point I'm trying to make is that us African Americans can become disconnected from our roots. I could honestly be Nigerian or Jamaican and not even know because of my family not educating themselves. This is why sometime this year I would like to start an Ancestry account or even maybe take a DNA swab test kit that can tell me where my ancestors originated from.
For the most part I know that for many generations my family has been in America for decades. We're just regular Black Americans with no known history of original ethnicity. Sometimes I wish I had something to rep like hispanics, French, or other ethnicities. I only say this because I would honestly take much pride in doing so. I would love to have some time of pride for where I come from. Not debunking the fact that I am an American citizen just wish I had some type of gratification for my culture.
The pictures I included our MY FAMILY. The ones I love the most! I can admit that I am very fortunate to have a huge supportive, loving family!! My family values the traits of being their for each other, acceptance, and most importantly unconditional love!! My friends tend to compliment me for having this as well. It never really occurred to me how common it is for people to not come from super supportive, loving families until I got older. Family means everything to me and more.
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Let's talk about this song:
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I love it & I'm GLAD it was made.
SADLY, the uptight, upperclassmen especially the ones in Parliament will not just ignore it but also not listen to it. There is a HUGE value that they'd miss from not watching it.
Which like my post on "hustle" culture they read but took the WRONG thing from it.
Yes, I'm not supporting any form of thieves no matter if they feel they must. But the problem is NOT the people trying to "hustle" & ultimately thieving. It's the income themselves. How many of those people are kleptomaniacs, stole as a child or has been stealing from a long time? That's the question you should be asking. In fact, I know 90% of them aren't those and if you awaken them to the reality, would adjust.
So the bigger question is. Why do they do it? And the answer is in the same post and the song they'd avoid:
Income is too low.
I hear far too many Jamaicans complain (but don't do anything to fix it) about poor working situations.
THAT IS WHY I SUPPORTED THE TAXI MEN PROTESTING. MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROTESTING AND HOLDING THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE!! THE JOB WAS GIVEN TO THEM BY THE PEOPLEM SO WHEN THEY NOT WORKING RIGHT DEMAND MORE OR REMOVE THEM. ITS YOUR RIGHT AS A CITIZEN. DO NOT LET THEM THINK OTHERWISE.
So, whether overworked but not paid the value of it, under paid or more but feel they can't fix it. So they take liberties to make themselves comfortable or bring ease to their work experience until they can do better or just survive. Which pours into the poor customer service experiences, late starts or "hustle" culture.
Plus THEY ARE NOT LAZY. If you give those same people a foreign work visa and a ticket. They would work 10 jobs if they could. Because most of those jobs their time equal money. So they see what they put in come back to them.
So I don't wrong them for doing what they feel they can to even the scales. But I DO NOT like it. This is because it affects the businesses experience and more. The question though is, who's supposed to look out for the working man? Who's going to make sure they get proper wages?
Obviously NOT the government. Because, instead of looking at the possibility or raising the minimum wage. They made a news report about how an investigation on JUTC shows that the workers have been taking the equipments and supplies. I'm sure the Government felt like they did something. They felt like they got the thieves.
Funny story: apparently it's commonly known to be the case from the inception.
So once again another PERFORMANCE. But NO fundamental change.
But here's an hypothetical. IMAGINE:
Jamaica with a livable minimum wage. A wage that can help each Jamaican young or old. Someone with 10 subjects or none. Live, grow, thrive and feel like a HUMAN being. Don't you think those people, especially if they realize what they're doing is stealing will stop? Or gunmen who are afraid of police and DEATH would choose a different path? Wouldn't that be a fucking fundamental change that those left doing the bad things are REALLY the bad bunch and not the ones just trying to survive. You don't have to call the men on the road digging out their hand middle as waste youths, but simply men relaxing on their day off.
So as someone who was sheltered or raised like the uptown youths. I KNOW how they'd respond to people like them or the workers at JUTC or just the "everyone else" mindset. That they're the thing that's causing problems in Jamaica. That they should stop wasting time or get subjects or do something with their lives.
You may not want to watch the video but now that I'm inevitable & y'all can't stop watching me or try to prove me wrong or make a performance. Do this:
WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO
(put aside your pride or the fact that he called you out, whoever, and TRY to CARE. Just this once. Take my idea too and increase minimum wage. Try and fight the people funding y'all because they like the profit margins of low wages and ever increasing price for products and/or services. To keep them RICH and special. Just do that. AT LEAST STEAL MY IDEA AND DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME. Unlike the other times where you ran off with it without pausing, thinking, doing some research and ACTUALLY Problem solving. Not the performance you like to do. Take it. While you continue to ignore me and secretly attack me. I'll take it for the team because THE PEOPLE NEED IT. But THINK. But if you fuck it up. That's on you. Because I already thought it through, planning and just waiting to execute it. Y'all going to be HELLA embarrassed when I do. I WON'T CARE.)
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