The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto: Incarcerated but not Silenced

by Adidja Palmer

neighbourhood for years and some men arrived with their flags and say, “hey, we discovered you.” I believe that any ghetto youth would destroy that flag but somehow the Ministry of Education in Jamaica has allowed our children to be taught that lie without any reservation. Christopher Columbus neva discova nuttn! He was an opportunist, a murderer, a liar and a thief but we are taught to revere him as a great man. We continue the brainwashing throughout our children’s secondary education and many leave school learning nothing great about black people. On the contrary, blacks are portrayed as an inferior, backward and subservient race that should be glad that whites helped them advance. On the Gaza, you have to pree things in a way that eliminates brainwashing. Everyone knows the greatest pyramids are in Egypt yet a man named Pythagoras gets credit for geometric triangular formulas – that can’t make sense. Civilization, all forms of it, started in Egypt and we know it. Why don’t we teach it to our children