by Sheri Veronica
THE TRUTH IS, we were taught to hate
JAMAICANS. As a little girl in primary school, our teacher taught us
that Barbados was the jewel of the Caribbean. We were taught that any
mad/crazy slave or any slave who could not take instructions, were
shipped off to Jamaica. This was the mandate, I supposed in my little
head (or was that taught to me also), of every Caribbean island. Send
the mad and **aggressive slaves to Jamaica. Then as time passed and you
start to see clearer, meet people and question things, you soon realize
that the insurgent slaves were the brave ones. They were the men and
women who could not be broken…
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