As Don1 would say, 'Noice!' - GETTO RISING: Jah could never

[Karl]

...give the power to a baldhead

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GHETTO RISING



Children of the Commonwealth. Jamaica Part One: By Richard Walker

Sunday 13 April 2014

Jah could never give the power to a baldhead

Jah could never give the power to a baldhead

Run come crucify the Dread.

Time alone - oh, time will tell:

Think you're in heaven, but ya living in hell.

Time Will Tell


- Bob Marley

The youth with the dreadlocks gave up a half-hearted attempt to sell some marijuana and fell instead to discussing politics."Jamaica is not independent," he said. "We are in-de-pen. You cannot be independent when you are denied the resources you need to survive. This here is not independence. It is hell." He's talking in the shade of a tree outside the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston's Hope Road. This is the house where Marley brought the ghetto uptown, and the house where the reggae superstar was shot, probably by political gunmen, on the eve of a unity concert at the National Heroes Park in 1976. It still stands as a symbol of a doomed attempt to cross the chasm between uptown and downtown and to end the violence that runs like a scar through Jamaica's inner city communities.

If Jamaica is a hell it is a particularly beautiful version of it. This is an island of palm trees and lush, green vegetation stretching up from white sands and deep blue seas. Kingston today has a sleek and modern business centre, smart and affluent suburbs, cool jerk restaurants and the relaxing, beautifully tended Emancipation Park. You can live here without ever being seriously perturbed by the violence that was once synonymous with the Jamaican capital.

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If posted already, please forgive!

[Sir X]

Good piece.