Yah mix two different argument. When people seh all Jamaicans smoke gunga or all Italians inna di mafia or all English people have bad teeth or all Chinie man nyam dog a dat is being steriotypical. When people question if you are Jamaican dem jus dahk. Di majority of di island a black people but every race an colour of di earth is dere. Is mostly Jamacians who hokkle mi an seh shit like " You are too white to be Jamaican". Mi nah bex, mi jus laugh. Yuh nah fi let dem mek yuh bex, cool out papa.
Black people were taken to Jamaica/the Caribbean in the 1600's, black people were taken to America in the 1600's. If only black people can be Jamaican then that must mean that only black people can be American ?? White people have been in Jamaica longer but are not Jamaican, therefore white people in America can not be American ?? American Indians are indigeneous in America, they are also indigeneous to Jamaica/the Caribbean !! Watch my video response above for some clear elucidation.
good for you, it takes a true Jamaican to know that you're one... who nuh believe yu dem a idiot! big up yu self yah my boy. I grew up in JA wid nuf white Jamaicans and even havenuff in my family, Take a look on the south side of St. Elizabeth nuff white people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_face please read the whole thing if interested. I am sorry for the way it was in the "past" but this is the 21st F@#king century and lets not pick at any scabs. I read the black face history on wikipedia.org and it also said "Despite its racist portrayals, blackface minstrelsy was the conduit through which African-American and African-American-influenced music, comedy, and dance first reached the American mainstream. It played a seminal role in the introduction of African-American culture to world audiences"
and also "yellowface, in which performers adopt Asian identities, brownface, for East Indian or non-white Latino, and redface, for Native Americans. Whiteface, or paleface, is sometimes used to describe non-white actors performing white parts (for example, in the film White Chicks, although it more commonly describes the clown or mime traditions of white makeup. Dooley Wilson, famous for the role of Sam the piano player in Casablanca, earned his stage name "Dooley" from performing in whiteface as an Irishman"
if you only look for negatve you will only find negative.
i will not walk on egg shells!!!!!!! nor am i making "black face" a habit. The people who get upset with me because i painted my face black, and call me racist my heart goes out to you. I hope that one day we will see people and not colour, because thats what i see. Not a black man, white man, Asian or even blue i see people. We cannot change the past but we can help the future. MWJ
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If only black people can be Jamaican then that must mean that only black people can be American ??
White people have been in Jamaica longer but are not Jamaican, therefore white people in America can not be American ??
American Indians are indigeneous in America, they are also indigeneous to Jamaica/the Caribbean !!
Watch my video response above for some clear elucidation.
u do u thang sa yah mon !!!!!