The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto: Incarcerated but not Silenced

by Adidja Palmer

If it were an Ashanti King, a Zulu Warrior, Yoruba King or even a Xhosa (Nelson Mandela’s tribe) that we are asked to bow down to as black people, I would understand because Nelson Mandela could represent us better than an Anglo-Saxon. If it were a descendant of Haile Selassie I could understand because our first National Hero His Excellency Marcus Garvey said we should look to Ethiopia for our leadership. Even, most Christians cannot dispute the fact that there was a promise made to Isaac and Israel that as long as there is a sun and a moon there should be one to sit upon the Throne of King David. There is historical evidence that it is Selassie’s descendants that have that right today, so if we have to be a part of an Empire, if there is love for the Black Child, should we not pay homage to an African Empire rather than to a European empire that maintained its wealth through the robbing, raping and pilfering of our ancestors? If you show so