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liberals be like: capitalism is FAR from white supremacist
reality:
capitalism
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📍white supremacy
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every video i've ever seen of dominican men confirms they are just jamaican men in spanish
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bold statements from the uni that has 0 Black professors
A commitment to exposing and challenging social evils, like racial inequality, is part of our founding purpose.
#BlackLivesMatter
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I feel sad that because of the Caribbean being an archipelago, when you hope for the storm to swerve to miss your island, it can only mean it will be redirected to another
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"They add that the baby’s life can continue as it is now in Jamaica with financial support from his mother in the UK." Barrel children as institutional policy. No words.
Woman who gave birth in Jamaica stranded after baby refused entry to UK
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some of u said i was exaggerating last year when i said the uk was doing eugenics but 🤷🏾♀️
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Remember when the British banned drums in Jamaica?
WATCH: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate, participate in the entertainment events at the Trench Town Culture Yard in Kingston.
The Royals joined in the drumming as members of the Rastafarian community chanted.
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More enslaved Africans were trafficked to Jamaica than the entirety of the US South, because British plantation owners worked out it was cheaper to keep trafficking people than have them reproduce. Life expectancy of an enslaved African in Jamaica was 34.
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the caribbean is not north or south america, but a secret third thing
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another installation of dystopian realities repackaged as feel-good news stories
14-year-old Kelvin Peart of Ferncourt High School transformed an old bar into a classroom to teach little ones in his community - a true Ray of Hope
@televisionjam
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pls what does a politics degree have to do with a linguistics argument.
I have BSc and MSc from LSE, and I disagree, so what now. Degree-off?
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Do you have to be a chef to know when food tastes bad?
Since everyone is an expert...what do you guys think the govt should do?
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let's just ignore the fat that soda companies privatise water resources in poor towns in the global south, make soda cheaper than fresh water and then allow rates of diabetes and obesity to skyrocket
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Yes we will discourage it because stockpiling sets a dangerous precedent and deprives the most vulnerable populations of food and hygiene. We can't just let people run amok because it makes them feel "wholesome" whatever that's supposed to mean
Frankly. If you don't see the need or urgency in "stocking" up on whatever, (that is ok). However, stop discouraging people from doing what makes them feel wholesome. Buying stuff from the supermarket doesn't mean that was the only precaution taken. We all don't perceive the same
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nah this is testing children's reasoning capacity instead of the rote memorisation our generation endured
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It's been a long time coming but I finally wrote this.
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show's over
i've posted about this everywhere but here: my mum is terminally ill. i am in jamaica because she is dying. still say hi if you see me around town but please don't ask me what I'm doing home/when i'm leaving :(
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the glamorous part took me out too because the majority of these women have hyper-glam aesthetics
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realise that you don't have to be rolling in money to be richer than 90% of the world
'The richest 10% of the global population, comprising about 630 million people, were responsible for about 52% of global emissions over the 25-year period, the study showed. Globally, the richest 10% are those with incomes above about $35,000 a year'
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@ChasmDenial
Why are you asking this? In 1992 our former PM ran his campaign with the slogan "black man time now". Apart from him and one other, the country has been run almost exclusively by white or mixed people. Our leader of the opposition is a white man with a British passport.
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That's an even worse return on investment if someone paid for you to be educated and the end result was a YouTuber with less than 200 subscribers
That's assuming that I went to a school subsidized by the government. How do you know that I wasn't educated elsewhere at a private institution? Assumptions assumptions lol.
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'job stealing immigrant' is such a funny phrase like ofc why else would i be here. the culture? the warm and friendly people? be serious pls.
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lesbians and other women said this months ago for the entirety of male existence to attack them but i guess these things are more palatable if a man says it 💅🏾
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they called my dad capital L because he was tall and skinny with size 14 feet
Jamaicans are so insensitive with nicknames, you’ll have a near death knife robbery ahn dem start call yuh “Stab Up”
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imagine how people reacted to sliced bread when it just came out
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i can only assume this is the development plan for the other 13 parishes
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I really hate when Americans act like they had it uniquely bad
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god imagine being a jamaican marxist economist and u end up raising k*mala. i'd be pissed.
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i promise you, a strip of land in the mediterranean is not controlling the US of A
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diabetes and hypertension. this is like most of our grandparents in jamaica. stay home.
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white person in nyc is gonna tell us, black and brown people, to stop being white saviours
one day we'll stop looking at people around the world from a white savior propaganda viewpoint, going in and enforcing raids and tying aids funding to an "anti-prostitution pledge"
maybe we'll simply start listening to the people there about what they want. this framework harms.
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like the whole point of (CAPE) caribbean studies was that we don't really have an agreeable working definition for "caribbean". it's a sociopolitical identity that people identify into based on geography, history and/or culture
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idk you'd think we'd have learnt as a 'post-slavery' society that just because something is the law doesn't make it right
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can someone commission me to write about how this government uses the pretext of climate change to beg money abroad when they're not even doing the bare minimum at home
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we are cancelling onomatopoeia?
“Oontz Oontz” is a micro-aggression, suggesting Black-rooted forms of dance music are so indistinct & lacking in complexity that they can be summed up by the sounds of an infant. This has largely been the discourse on Black dance music for the history of recorded sound. 💥
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first of all why are you as a black person in jamaica going to a restaurant named plantation smokehouse
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"Links run Jamaica" is a very uninteresting statement to me. Links run every country, we just see it more clearly because this place is so damn small.
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#JAMAICA
: Attorney and reparations advocate Bert Samuels. speaking on the arrival of Prince William and Kate Middleton to the island, says that "Jamaicans were very torn up to hear about Harry and Meghan's issue, during their interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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The term Caribbean is also a colonial construct
The Caribbean is a geographic region, the West Indies is a colonial construct. They are not the same.
West Indians are Caribbean people, not all Caribbean people are West Indian
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Environmentalism, Capitalism, Racism and Imperialism: a thread by me
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y'all hear sumn?
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tropical island nations are doing the most to fight environmental degradation and yet also suffering the most from the carelessness of big polluters, the world is unfair
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what is it about jamaica that makes diasporans imagine it an ideal place for racial healing? is it the motto?
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claims starting with "no one talks about" are untrue 99% of the time. someone is talking about it; you're just not paying attention.
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My 7 year old daughter strikes again. She said "the BOJ's policy interest rate hike doesn't go far enough to fight inflation"
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yeah i wish i was illiterate so i didn't have to read this take
I always say it..JA had far less crime and much greater family/community morals and values when a significant amount of the population was illiterate...the more "educated" we became, the more entitlement over empathy, more enraged than engaged, divisive over decisive
#ThisIsUs
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growing up poor is not a teachable moment, it's traumatising
@flotisserie
I think former rich kids who are cut off are, at the point they’re thrown out into the world on their own, often worse off than kids who grew up poor. Growing up poor teaches one the skills to survive poverty. Rich kids don’t learn that until/unless they’re cut off and HAVE to.
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marriage is kind of crazy, you like a person so much you get the state involved?
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it is NOT classist or fatphobic to say poor people deserve access to fresh, healthy foods. soda is everything but that
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to the people who keep asking me "why are we replacing chilitos", chilitos once called me to tell me that they were out of cheese, and asked if i still wanted my quesadilla delivered without cheese. they said i could add the cheese myself at home.
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jamaican twitter has the wrong demographics to be arguing on whether or not jamaica is 'safe'
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this museum had a solo exhibition in 2014 for a white jamaican artist who still lives on a staffed great house. so this is par for the course
Congratulations to Michelle Charters, Head of International Slavery Museum, whose services to our local community have been recognised with an OBE in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours list.
Read more:
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my cousin used to use our (liguanea) address on job apps because he'd get rejected with his actual (spanish town) address. why are we so obsessed with pretending that privilege isnt real?
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they fired him because they found out he was bipolar. a haunting reminder that mentally ill people do not have legal protections in jamaica to prevent terminations like these
UWI U-TURN - Lecturer fired before getting chance to donate $3m salary to needy students
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Ash: Argentina is genocidally racist
Argentinians: no it isn't n*****, go back to Africa
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you know i really wish i had tthe privilege of being apolitical sometimes. i like dogs and art and cooking and parties but i can't even be a basic bitch in peace with all the oppression in this world.
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they do this to filter out physically disabled people btw (usually they don't use such a heavy weight)
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a more serious administration would have done this at the beginning of hurricane season and made plans for regular maintenance throughout the season
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my bf doesn't even live here and he got my mum flowers delivered to her bedside at the hospital 🥺
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not every personal slight is oppression, sometimes people just don't like you and it has nothing to do with any of your identities
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@ChasmDenial
White people are 0.4% of the population and they dominate commerce, politics and industry. In any case having black leadership means little if they represent white interests, in the same way that Obama serving two terms as president didn't end racism in the US.
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i love this song
A cruise ship carrying more than 600 passengers with at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board is frantically searching for somewhere to dock after it was refused entry at several Caribbean ports
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i've posted about this everywhere but here: my mum is terminally ill. i am in jamaica because she is dying. still say hi if you see me around town but please don't ask me what I'm doing home/when i'm leaving :(
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I am a Jamaican living in Jamaica
This is an opinion piece by an intl journalist for an intl news outlet wonder
@NestaJA
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@julietcuthbert
saw and read this? 🤔... Shower rangers, weh unno deh? 👀
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tweets that did not age well
In typical Chinese Communist Party fashion, Beijing confines 35 million people rather than pursuing the transparent and targeted approach to the Wuhan coronavirus that public health and human rights require.
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@_haaniyah_
and u know im kinda fine with that because boots/superdrug seem to automatically double the price of hair products once they realise that it's for afro hair 💀
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Me today, for gal-dem
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caribbean people who travel, what's the most racist country you've visited?
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going thru my mums photo album from the 80s/90s... when can men dress like this again?
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@mcintosh_kim
In general I wish we would talk more about the disproportionate role Scotland played in slavery. I feel like it's been so whitewashed now with their push for independence.
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it was a waste of our tax dollars to educate you
Loans are only given to people who are mostly likely to repay them. Financial institutions are not charities. And, if you say, well government should do it. That'll be at the expense of the rest of us; our tax dollars would have to go towards subsidizing an already weak industry.
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why do we have to go back to our ancestors to justify a dance move? can't we just enjoy dancing? does there have to be profound spiritual meaning behind everything we do?
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if they raised $11,500 yesterday and had a press conference yesterday, why have they only mentioned it today AFTER the opposition mentioned their own fund
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this was so funny
Rory Stewart takes selfies with members of the public whilst campaigning in Hartlepool (2019)
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Funny you didn't name Marcus Garvey, who did leave Jamaica 💀
@JamaicaGleaner
Imagine Paul Bogle, Sam Sharp, Norman Manley and the other freedom fighters had left Jamaica because they couldn't manage the struggle.
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