Instead of continuing to exist, meander along the bastardised persona which they have inherited from their maligned inception or conception as 'Jamaicans'.
As the descendants of slaves, of the people who had been exploited, brutalised and dehumanised by 'others'.
They struggle to 'move on', to establish and develop a 'new and positive identity', and 'vision.'
They, like many other oppressed people, continue to perceive of and define themselves in terms of 'victims', and 'the other' in terms of 'victimiser', the 'perpetrator of injustices and perpetual oppressor.'
This, it seems to me is the basis on which too many Jamaicans and others predicate the establishment of their socio-political, economic and personal relationships.
On the basis of 'black and white', on the basis of 'black is good but is being oppressed, and white is bad, and is an exploiter and oppressor.'
The white sibling of the black sibling, owes the latter a debt of reparation for wrongs done by the ancestors of the former to the ancestors of the latter.
Thereby continuing to perpetrate the defective, skewed, and, probably pathologically, but definitely unhealthy relationship between the black and the white siblings of the human family.
A more positive and prosperous future for Jamaicans, and all the other peoples who history, and, yes, present, have been tainted by the dystopic 'oppressor-oppressed', 'master-servant', 'exploiter-exploited' relationship.
To be continued!
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