I love being Jamaican for the most part but it comes with a price. The price we pay for being Jamican comes to the forefront when one falls out of the favour with theie “fans”.
Think Usain Bolt after the Olympics and the saga that follow his “exploits.”
Now think Etana after the interview with Anthony Miller. She was chastice for saying that she supported Donald Trump.People cuss her out because she tried to explain the reasoning behind her migration and dem nearly buss har head when she try fi speak up bout the poor people dem .
I watched the interview and she didn’t seem like the brightest flame nor did she seem like the dullest but she did seem human . The last time I check humans are not without their flaws and some humans are clueless and not proberly informed, right?
Nevetheless, I think the root of all this lashing out is BADMIND. Jamaican people badmind. Dem nuh like fi see people progress and worse if you black .So of course the point about the state of the island in terms of the government and the poor people got lost and probably miscontrued as more a downright rejection of Jamaica rather than a damn blatant significant fact.
Yes I said it .. JAMAICAN PEOPLE HAVE BADMINISM
Let’s break this term down in layman terms:
Badminism is when you refuse fi support a particular business, venture or idea because you nuh want di other person fi mek a money ,survive or even progress pass yu. How dare they?
Badminsm is when you know some information but you keep it fi youself because you alone fi strive, right?
Badminism is when somebody whe yu presume is better advantage than you , makes an assessment of a particular situation and offers dem opinion and you tek it and cuss dem seh dem nuh fi taklk bout it because dem no inna di same boat . (Think Etana).
So yes, Etana has migrated because the state of the the country is not condusive for her survival but wasn’t she born and raised here ? And hasn’t she experience life here enough to warrant the expression of her sentiment?
I am in agreement with a lot of unno that she should probably put her money weh har mouth is , but proably like you and me,she no have no money? Money have away of coming and going by the blink of an eye, she praobably as bruk as yu. Yet, the mere fact that she spoke about the situation shows that the situation is one that needs to be remedy.
Many people tink Merica life sweet.. and hence wen somebody deh ya so yu tink dem bread butter. That’s where unno get it wrong.. Life is a Merica full up a more bills than Jamaica ..Money tun p ..Bills tun up.. Cold tun up.. Police killing tun up.. Hospital bill tun up..
Stop watch di barrell and tink seh money running. Nuff time is free clothes,free food, food stamp money pack di barrel and nuh time is 3 or four jobs one haffi tek fi call demself “econonomically advantage”.
Etana might be scrapping together scraps off the table just like you , the only difference might be that the government handout might be a little bit more, so stop Badmine di gal and Badmouth her just because she talk bout the state of Jamaica.
She might have migrated but her heart still belongs to Jamaica . So dash weh di badminism and rally the government for change for the betterment of all Jamaicans.
Cause foreign life aint no sweet …sometime you haffi sleep inna house without heat.. (inna di winter).
My Blood is Jamaican (A so me see it) 