What is Jamaica's greatest contribution to the world?

[Gamma]

Don't think Kaci could have said all of that in the time allotted

[Willi]

Tan deh.

Big time lawya get kidnap offa train in Yugoslavia. Mercan and Saudi suck salt. man tell dem seh him a Jamaican, dem seh wha dat? Man show dem pon map and dem laugh. Man tell dem Bob Marley and him get freed with a warning dat if him was Merican, dem shot him tarrawatt!

[Willi]

Bob Marley had a far bigger influence on the whole world.

Marcus was more on Black people, but he did influence MLK and Bob, so I guess you can count something for that.

[Willi]

Hehehehe

[Stonigut]

Not doing it for Kaci doing it for all those that miss the point and focusing on one man,this is a struggle of people and the message is getting lost.

[Stonigut]

Thanks mo. You fall into the praise to one man trap too.

[Karl]

Great! You do wonder on 'teaching' in our schools and the effect it has on development of our people.

Btw - That was not the first time a question relative to who we are as a people was asked at one of these events.

[Rockman]

Two things I find troubling,like I said,I have no problem with her answers ergo the intelligence of the persons judging..,and had they asked her about ice skating then..but surely she would have been prepared to answer the question actually asked.She is an ambassador so someone dropped the ball(she seemingly had to fend for herself).

[Rockman]

It really is not one or the other,both identified the evil force and alluded to solutions;the rasta way of life and the economic detachment which would lead to empowerment.
No doubt,Garvey's remains The blueprint that will eventually be used once people are forced to take a serious..

[Karl]

Could it be lack of vision that allows unwillingness to give the original trailblazer his due or a mental paralysis or a thought process that acknowledges the effect of 'the now' to exclusion of past influences and contributions?

In a thousand years or less when, for example, a 'new Jamaica prophet' comes along regurgitating Marcus Garvey's teachings Bob will no longer be our flag bearer as per some in this thread?

Just asking!

[Time]

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

Excellent. Now question 2. What would be the best answer for the judges in a 'white look Miss Universe' contest Black Nationalism/Marcus Garvey or Reggae Music/Bob Marley'?

[Stonigut]

Karl if our fifty plus audience don't get that it is bigger than any one person then it will be tough to teach others.

Btw some people think that this question is about what the world thinks we have given, it is the other way around, the real deal is what we have contributed to the world and a lot of it is not the pretty stuff like usain and bob, it's the fire and brimstone of five hundred years of Jamaica that produce, Marcus, Bob and Usain.

[Mosiah]

Not doing it for Kaci doing it for all those that miss the point and focusing on one man,this is a struggle of people and the message is getting lost.

Yeah, yeah!

Kaci would have gotten an A+ from me is she had thrown in the Jamaican bobsledders! Think about the implications of our competing in a winter sport at an Olympics!

Maaaad dem!!!

[Mosiah]

Stoni, the question implies something unique. Jamaica was not the only country that had a slave rebellion. That would be something Miss Haiti could show off about.

Why unnu can't get it?!?!?!?

[Willi]

Yuh figget seh the ordinary white man under the babylon shitstem too and needed to be made aware. is not just black people being kept down by vipers.

Bob tek the message universal and appealed to the brotherhood of man... all man. Crab in the barrell is not just a black people thing.