Jamaican Style ... Again

Jamaica is a boil on the ass of the planet. Nuff said. Anyone who goes there on vacation and falls prey to a mishap ... well, what do you expect from people like this. From the Jamaica Observer -- Mob Beats Cross-Dresser See video below.

Comments

[Harold Gibson]

This was so sad. Although I don't know the background, the expressions on the faces of the people were so demonic that even if they were acting out of a some religious doctrine that decries homosexuality, their actions were not reflective of an act of faith. It is scary to see what happens when people gather in a mob.

[Cocoa Rican]

Horrifying! Just as the U.S. has bans on American tourism to Cuba, we need to impose a tourism ban to countries that show this kind of violence and intolerance. Jamaica should be stricken from EVERY gay and lesbian vacation guide. Since tourism has to be their number one money maker they can use the quiet time (without our dollars) to think about making a change to this hideous and hard to watch ignorance!

[Cocoa Rican]

Horrifying! Just as the U.S. has bans on American tourism to Cuba, we need to impose a tourism ban to countries that show this kind of violence and intolerance. Jamaica should be stricken from EVERY gay and lesbian vacation guide. Since tourism has to be their number one money maker they can use the quiet time (without our dollars) to think about making a change to this hideous and hard to watch ignorance!

[taylor Siluwé]

I couldn't agree more. Gay tourists, for the most part, avoid Jamaica already. This hasn't stopped the tourism dollars enough to effect change.

I believe its our hetero tourists who need to boycott. And I guess its our job to inform these heteros (black woman loves themselves some Jamaica), that a thug-vigilante-mentality makes no one safe there.

Especially women.

[Colin Robinson]

Thanks, Taylor, for getting the word out on this. I wonder, though, if a boycott is the best way to improve the lives of same-gender-loving folk in Jamaica. I think we should ask them first. Maybe we send the gay groups there the dollars we would have spent vacationing...

[taylor Siluwé]

Colin, I think a mixture of both ideas would probably work best. Pressure on the government with dwindling tourist dollars, and financial support for groups inside Jamaica working for change such as JFLAG.

[Chris]

I think a big part of the homophobia in places like Jamaica is the very strong anti-homosexuality sentiment in most Afrocentric/black nationalist/neo-Garveyite circles. Hence we get titles such as "Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males". A summary:

Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Afrikan Males begins with an Afrikan Centered investigation into the origins and historical evolution of homosexuality. This elemental study expands into a detailed analysis of the most important part of this work, the growing gender confusion of Afrikans socialized into European culture and society. The historical relationship of white supremacy, based in the real and perceived threat of Afrikan males, to European global cultural imperialism/hegemony provides the foundation for these arguments. In plain terms, there is a direct relationship between the forced enslavement of Afrikan males into European society, the ongoing fear of Afrikan men by European men, the racist economic order that has gradually but systematically reduced its need for Afrikan labor since the official end of the Afrikan’s physical enslavement and the subsequent growing effeminization of a significant number of Afrikan males in this Western society. The process and desired result of this effeminization process is a significant part of the means by which European society seeks to reduce/eliminate the potential expression of a righteous rage by Afrikan men. This methodical demasculinization manifests itself in numerous ways and rationales, from within the prison system to higher education to single parenting to the labor market to the church to the media, all of which are thoroughly discussed in this book. At the base of this assault is the historical confusion and cultural alienation of Afrikans themselves. If people act toward any problem without historical awareness, for all problems are located in history, then in all probability they act wrongly or, as many prefer to say, they do no more than react. Therefore, many of us who are alarmed over this growing sexual confusion are mostly reacting to what is being done to our sons. And, because of this, we are unable to effectively arrest the European psychosexual assault on them. We do not see ourselves as powerful enough to stop others from turning our sons into their daughters. In the Western cultural context, men fear men, not women. And European men fear Afrikan men for many good reasons. They understand that the best way to significantly reduce this threat is to turn your enemy’s males into females so that they make themselves into nonthreats. Blame for powerlessness in the face of assault falls on the victim. That undeniable truth is what this book attempts to explain in as great a detail as possible so that Afrikans can act on a deeply informed Afrikan interpretation, and not a European fiction, of Afrikan traditions.

http://www.akobenhouse.com/h_e.htm

[taylor Siluwé]

Thanks Chris for that summary.

This book seems to prove at least one thing: sometimes great minds just need to chill the fuck out and shut up.