Kiwanis of Hopewell: Prospects for 2040 Where Youth Are At The Center of Its Transformation6/3/2021  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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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.
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: 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? love waited for me
at the raging water's edge of my becoming. Lost a whole octave
from the black people’s songbook O Shabalala. 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.
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