What is Jamaica's greatest contribution to the world?

[Willi]

Joke yuh a mek!

[Don1]

There's a debate but no question about the answer..

Marcus Mosiah Garvey...

The Father of Black Nationalism and the leader of of the largest Black mass movement in the history of the World.

One of the greatest cultural figures of the 20th Century.

The inspiration for other leaders overthrowing Babylon Colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean

The Man with The Plan for our Salvation...

No contest

[Karl]

A live mike can trip up the best of us!

[Historian]

You Got It Right!

DIRECTLY adverb,
with nothing or no one in between.

Far more people know who Bob is than who Marcus is. Hence he impacted more people directly.

As simple as that.

You got it perfectly correct, I’man, and yes, it really is “as simple as that”!

There is really nothing for me to add to your solid point. Nevertheless, I am surprised that there are people who truly believe that Marcus Garvey, great as he was, impacted more lives than Bob Marley!

[Mosiah]

You got it perfectly correct, I’man, and yes, it really is “as simple as that”!

There is really nothing for me to add to your solid point. Nevertheless, I am surprised that there are people who truly believe that Marcus Garvey, great as he was, impacted more lives than Bob Marley!

But Marcus is a National Hero! How can Bob...yuh know what...mek mi gwaan cool.

[Mosiah]

If Kaci had mentioned Marcus Garvey they would have replaced her in the top 5 with Miss Phillipines.

[Jangle]

If Kaci had mentioned Marcus Garvey they would have replaced her in the top 5 with Miss Phillipines.

DWl

[Mosiah]

She had seconds to answer, X. She was not able to write a thesis on the subject.

[Stonigut]

The quest for freedom and human rights as symbolized in:

1. The fight for survival by Arawaks/Taino into the mountains and mixing with runaway Africans to form the base of the maroons. This after near eradication of some say sixty to a hundred thousand Arawaks by the early spaniards.

2. The fight for freedom by Jamaican woodsmen/hunters and runaway Jamaican Spanish slaves starting in 1655 symbolized by Juan De Bola and Juan De Serras both of whom were formidable foes of the English and both fought a guerrilla war against English until de bola sided with English and these first maroons signed a treaty with the English recognizing their right to freedom.

3. Innumerable revolts highlighted by many revolts in the seventeenth century and followed by maroon war of 1730's, obtaining a peace treaty for Africans to live free in a slave economy.

4. 1760 Tacky rebellion that led to an explosion in real discussion on the rights of man and really got the abolitionist movement into gear. It was also in Tackys rebellion when slaves were burnt and racked live and uttered not a groan through their agonizing death. Multiple hundreds of slaves killed and tortured.

5. Multiple rebellions between 1760 to the second maroon war in 1795 when one maroon town held off the entire English army for about a year and killed about 100 English soldiers all in a fight for their freedom. Five hundred maroons sent to Nova Scotia and eventually Sierra Leone forming the base of the Krio community there.

6. 1831 Christmas rebellion led by Sam sharpe ended Slavery in English colonies and started the process to the end of slavery. 60,000 slaves participated, this rebellion featured passive resistance well before Gandhi and mlk.

7. 1865 morant bay rebellion, fighting for the right to earn a living, better living conditions, bogle led effort to improve living conditions, four hundred plus slaughtered by English troops. Led to wide scale improvements in living standards thereafter for all Jamaicans by institution of crown colony style government instead of planter/ property dominated elite.

8. Claude Mckay writes "if we must die" written about returning American black soldiers being hung after ww1 and race riots of 1919.

9. Rise of Marcus Garvey and Unia black nationalism and be proud of blackness movement. Movement spread across Latin America, North America, uk and Africa countries. Extremely influential in independence movements in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania etc, also in the American black freedom movement even though insufficient credit given here.

10. 1938 labour rebellion, sugar estates to dock workers led to formation of parties and independence movement.

11. Rise of Rastafari another pro black, pro african, freedom oriented, independence movement.

12.Jamaican independence in 1962 giving rise to free expression of a people who create new imaginative sounds that captivate world audiences talking about freedom, oppression, liberation. A new but old culture combining multiple influences to create a new vibrant joy to the world expressed in many things from art to music to sport, food, culture.....

13. Rise of third world vibe via Manley, Marley, tosh, rasta and reggae. Liberation, democracy, advocacy for destruction of apartheid with jamaica at the fore.

14. Continued advances in the world of sport matching and exceeding the might of much larger countries in cricket, football, track and field and boxing giving even greater recognition to the fighting and independent spirit that makes Jamaica what it is, a resilient, resourceful independent minded underdog that is just a plain fighter and survivor and still enjoys life, is upbeat and ready to go that spirit is what Jamaica has given the world. Never say die!!!

[Sir X]

As if we don't know

[Sir X]

Hehe....what we gave to the world...Billy Ocean said we fought for everyone...I remember a Jamaican who served in the British army telling me how they fought in the U.K for respect where they would kick everyone ass but Jamaicans,said they would walk straight threw any skin head mob and not a word uttered.

Bob Marley.... Please. Buff man pave that road for him with blood.Marcus mi say.

[Don1]

If life is judged by a popularity contest your point may carry some weight. That thesis of yours is much too superficial.

Calculating influence is more complicated than mere name recognition. If it were so even Usain would rank higher than Garvey.

Garvey has no peer when it comes to influence. He is by far the most consequential Black person of the 20th Century.

[Mosiah]

Hehe....what we gave to the world...Billy Ocean said we fought for everyone...I remember a Jamaican who served in the British army telling me how they fought in the U.K for respect where they would kick everyone ass but Jamaicans,said they would walk straight threw any skin head mob and not a word uttered.

Bob Marley.... Please. Buff man pave that road for him with blood.Marcus mi say.

Zas crise, man! Is a beauty cantest, not a university paper!

[Mosiah]

To be honest, this is hardly answering the question.

Kaci: B+

Stoni: C-

[Sir X]

Kaci shoulda tell dem,wi come fi bun dem out,Yuh nuh see wi a rebel by how di hair cut short, nuh mek it fool Yuh ,a di war pose...he he.