Golding,time soon come,Holness in tears , the race card

[Sir X]

I post this article in reference to certain utterances of race, that certain green posters have uttered or implied on this forum . Yuh know yuhself.

On the matter of “colour and race”, Warmington does not seem to know that not every white Jamaican is a descendant of the exploitative planter class. John Golding’s roots were not in Jamaica. His grandparents on his father’s side were Jews from Lithuania, which was ruled by Russia. They fled in the 1890s to escape persecution. Relatives who stayed behind were exterminated in the Holocaust. John’s grandparents on his mother’s side left the UK in the early 1800s in impoverished circumstances to make a better life in Australia.

John Golding did not come to Jamaica to become a backra master ruling us. He came to serve as an orthopaedic surgeon. Six months after he arrived in 1953 to teach at The University College of the West Indies, a polio epidemic struck. About 1,500 people caught the crippling virus. Golding set up a programme to help them recover.

Carolyn Cooper | ‘Massa’ Mark’s time soon come? | Commentary | Jamaica Gleaner (jamaica-gleaner.com)

[Sir X]

In 1957, there was a disastrous train crash at Kendal. It was then the world’s second-worst rail accident. About 200 people died and more than 700 survivors suffered massive injuries. John Golding helped many of them to heal. Mark’s grandfather on his mother’s side was Dr Logan Levy from St James. He was once head of the Sav-la-Mar Hospital.

Last week, Dr Nigel Clarke, minister of finance and the public service, echoed Warmington’s derogatory description of Mark Golding. Clarke referred to him as “Massa” Mark. Unlike Warmington who was speaking at a political meeting, Clarke was in Parliament reading from a script. He recklessly and deliberately drew the race card. Like Warmington, Clarke was insinuating that Golding was not fit to become prime minister because of his supposed “backra master” origins.

Carolyn Cooper | ‘Massa’ Mark’s time soon come? | Commentary | Jamaica Gleaner (jamaica-gleaner.com)

This is a clear indication that the JLP is fighting an uphill battle to retain power. The Speaker with her arbitrary decision to usurp the IC reports , the JLP/PM effort to usurp the populations and opposition voice on constitutional reform; to implement a democratic dictatorship and the bottom of the barrell statements and inferences questioning the leader of the opposition nationality and loyalty. I dont see how the JLP comes back from so many shotgun blast to its feet. The JLP is running a campaign on tribalism, nothing else! They have lost the economic message and the anti-corruption message. The fuel for political change is rage .

Good morning Lazie & Sass !