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Kiwanis of Hopewell: Prospects for 2040 Where Youth Are At The Center of Its Transformation

6/3/2021

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Imagine with me if you will, 2040, Jamaica is leading the world in Agronomy, Medicine, and Space Exploration. How are we going to meet the demands of the future, 20 years from today? How are we going to get there?

For the organization to expand, the youth arm has to be extraordinary. This means training them for 2040—serious examination of Futurology—study of the future; technological advancement, development of humanity in Jamaica and the world.

Excerpt from Talk at the Kiwanis Event
Photo Credit: Erika Giraud - Unsplash 


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Race, Class, Culture and Resistance A Boy and the Spirit of a Nation

3/6/2021

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​CLASS 
Social and Economic Status It is often said that Jamaica is a very class ridden society. Indeed it is. Your social and economic status determines what doors you open and what doors are opened to you.  
  • Very early, you learn that class is not only a noun but an adjective that folks of a certain standing in society would “style you”—by style I mean, you would overtly, subtly slight persons who you perceive to be outside of your social or economic group.
 
If folks are behaving unseemly in public, some would just cross over on the other side of the road, roll their eye, “Oh, they have no class.” We learned this snobbery very early as children.  


If you live Uptown or downtown, place defines your class. Right after independence, the country was divided. There were those who preferred what the Crown represented.  I remember a few years ago, a dear friend of mine, very educated person, saying to me, I was so upset when Jamaica decided to become independent, I lost my British Passport. That defined his sense of belonging. 

Excerpt from a talk I gave at CUNY - Queen's College, New York on Race, Class, Culture and Resistance. Watch the entire Conversation here: 



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Blood of Lambs (AIDS)

5/20/2020

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Pandemic Pandemonium--
Where the blood was once
the emblem of cleansing
the royal fount of purity
for the remission of sins
bonding blood siblings
across generations and continents.
 
Pandemic Pandemonium--
Africa bleeds tainted blood
that murders first the men 
then it murders the women 
soon it murders the vegetation 
spreading famine on the land.
 
Pandemic Pandemonium--
Where blood once stood for bravery
now paled in the children’s eyes
who daily watch the funeral
march for mothers and fathers
who left them to face a life of
ambiguity with the aged soon departed.
 
Pandemic Pandemonium--
Evil spirits rife with hate
bloodless multinationals
find yet another way to
abuse the human capital
too weak to work—to fight,
not too weak to diiiiieeeee.
 
Pandemic Pandemonium--
As the blood returns to
replenish Mother Earth
recycling death in the
valley of mass open graves
where Africa’s finest sons
and daughters must greet
the ancestors without poise.
 
And so the dark moon weeps
rivers of blood on this dearth
this Auto Immune Demolisher.
 
Tell me—is this liberty?—is this justice?  
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Love Your Child's Teacher Meditation

4/10/2020

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An Affirmation for Parents & Caregivers in Quarantine

4/9/2020

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2020 Love

2/14/2020

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​love waited for me
at the raging water's edge 
of my becoming.
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​Joseph Shabalala

2/10/2020

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Lost a whole octave
from the black people’s songbook
O Shabalala.
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Grateful for Life and Literature

3/28/2019

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New Beginnings

1/30/2019

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Story Gridding My Sequel

8/10/2018

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I am in the final edit of Olympic Gardens Sequel #2 and I needed some real help to get to the finish line. Then, Tim Grahl's podcast, "The Game Theory in Story" with super editor, Shawn Coyne came to the rescue. What the podcast did was validate where I am with the structure of the manuscript. 

If you are serious about writing, please check out https://storygrid.simplecast.fm/
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