The BN Village - View Single Post - OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE?...So are Jamaicans a "Raceless" People???

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#1 (**permalink**))

Although I tried avoiding the discussion all together, this chocolate Jamaican sister (born in Spanish Town)who I deem misguided and rather coonish tells me that she comes from a "raceless culture" of people and that the only racism in America is Diasporic Africans hating on each other. Granted, all African people have experienced hate fromother African people at some point, butwe must recognize that this is out ofignorance. It isonly addressing the effects, and leaves the causes ofthe problems to cause further damage without being affronted.

She went on a huge nonsensical rant about how she never gets hated on by her White friends and says that if "African-Americans" are discriminated against it is because they are always playing the "race card".She also tells how hervery own best friend, who is Haitian, wouldn't let her come to her family's house because shehas an Afro that wasn't chemically or thermally texturized in some way. She is basically mad at all African people blaming them for their own problems.She is such a waste; the girl is gorgeous but her ignorance is so deeply seated that I am certainly not dealing withher anymore.

At the same time, I am aware of many Jamaicans who are rather progessive in areas contrary to her claims about her "raceless culture". In fact, perhaps the greatestPan-Africanists and Black Nationalists of all time was the late great Marcus Mosiah Garvey who started his campaigns in Jamaica. This is why I am rather dumbfounded at the retrogressive mentality of this Jamaican sister.

Is this the state of consciousness with Jamaicans today? Is this the ramblings of an isolated person who is just far gone? Or perhaps is this a growing line of thought within the Jamaican Island and Diasporic communities?