Behind the Tattered Curtain...

[sistactry]

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me tink dis did a go die a slow death, but i guess not....so, let me add one of my friends interpretation/reaction of this story....and she is not a member here~

<span style="font-weight: bold">I finally read it!

My take on this is that that woman should keep her opinion to herself and shut the **** up! She sought out and chose the worst aspect of one person's life in Jamaica and used that as a general example of life for the majority of the people on the island when that is farthest from the truth. Ironically, her example a Jamaican but instead a a displaced drug addict foreigner who made Jamaica her home and chose to live in squalor. The author is one of those who is looking to make money from a book at the expense of our national pride. The author dragged down Jamaica by sensationalizing the story to spark interest and generate sales of her book. She it telling the world that Jamaica is a far cry from the island paradise it is long considered to be, and that there is a seedy dirty side to the island brought on by poverty that most of the people live in. This she is trying to convince readers is the dirty little secret about Jamaica that they never knew about, but America is no different, there are families here that live in dire poverty, squalor and crime, but that's not what America is defined by. Those bastards only have to encounter one incident or a single scenario and that will be used to define our little country, a so called &quot;Third world country&quot; .... Liar! You bet she is one of those white women that goes to Jamaica to smoke weed and have sex with the rastas....
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[loops]

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i don't know if she gets a bare big up....but i doubt she gets a bare beatdown.

[loops]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">one of my friends interpretation of this story....and she is not a member here~

<span style="font-weight: bold">I finally read it!

My take on this is that that woman should keep her opinion to herself and shut the **** up! She sought out and chose the worst aspect of one person's life in Jamaica and used that as a general example of life for the majority of the people on the island when that is farthest from the truth. Ironically, her example a Jamaican but instead a a displaced drug addict foreigner who made Jamaica her home and chose to live in squalor. The author is one of those who is looking to make money from a book at the expense of our national pride. The author dragged down Jamaica by sensationalizing the story to spark interest and generate sales of her book. She it telling the world that Jamaica is a far cry from the island paradise it is long considered to be, and that there is a seedy dirty side to the island brought on by poverty that most of the people live in. This she is trying to convince readers is the dirty little secret about Jamaica that they never knew about, but America is no different, there are families here that live in dire poverty, squalor and crime, but that's not what America is defined by. Those bastards only have to encounter one incident or a single scenario and that will be used to define our little country, a so called &quot;Third world country&quot; .... Liar! You bet she is one of those white women that goes to Jamaica to smoke weed and have sex with the rastas....
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i'm sorry....but that summary is pure hogwash. who is &quot;your friend&quot; to think she knows exactly what the writer was motivated by or was thinking?

[sistacaf]

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uhhhhh that is totally off the mark, that person did not read thoroughly and the comments show so.

OPP did not 'seek out' something nor did she have any 'agenda'. She related a 'snapshot' of a moment in time that she happened to encounter.

OP is not writing/selling a book. only mentioned that she and the story's subject had chatted about doing so, but it did not ever happen. there is no 'boosting sales' going on.

and OP is not a sex tourist neither.....

personally, i absolutely 100% agree with ohliz's comments, but just had to point out those few things there

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i don't know if she gets a bare big up....but i doubt she gets a bare beatdown. </div></div>

Many of the responses in this thread were a reaction to others who came out of the woodwork to defend her characterization of Jamaica. I didn't see anyone attacking her personally... as a matter of fact in my 1st post I pointedly said that I enjoyed her writing and I took pains (Tropi style) to point out the aspects of the story that bothered me. She simply said - well I wrote it who don;t like it lump it - so we lumped it. That's all.

Shoot this coulda have been wrapped up 4 pages ago...

[tuffstuff]

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*wrap up mi head and put on mi petticoat. Tek a shot a whites and clear mi choat for dis operatic rendition*

Khum bar yar mi lard, khum bar yar. Khum bar yar mi lard Khu-um bar yar. Hoe lard khum bar yar!

*sprinkle di room wid 2 shake a rum and sip di ressa di bokkle*

[Bizzy]

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a bare big up


unu a joka <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i don't know if she gets a bare big up....but i doubt she gets a bare beatdown. </div></div>

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tuffstuff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">*wrap up mi head and put on mi petticoat. Tek a shot a whites and clear mi choat for dis operatic rendition*

Khum bar yar I lard, khum bar yar. Khum bar yar mi lard Khuihum bar yar. Hooe lard khum bar yar!

*sprinkle di room wid 2 shake a rum and sip di ressa di bokkle* </div></div>

BOAL I doan know why I continue to read yuh post dem

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so be it!!

and interestingly so dont u think, how many jcans are on Negril.com Loops??

</div></div>Two Jamaicans and a whole heepa &quot;experts&quot;

[Seveen]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;Kumbaya, my Lord&quot; started out in the 1920s as a Gullah spiritual sung on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort</span>. Gullah is the creole featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of &quot;Song of the South.&quot; &quot;Come by here, my Lord&quot; in Gullah is &quot;Come by (h)yuh, my lawd&quot; (see our Gullah dictionary).

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">me tink dis did a go die a slow death, but i guess not....so, let me add one of my friends interpretation/reaction of this story....and she is not a member here~

<span style="font-weight: bold">I finally read it!

My take on this is that that woman should keep her opinion to herself and shut the **** up! She sought out and chose the worst aspect of one person's life in Jamaica and used that as a general example of life for the majority of the people on the island when that is farthest from the truth. Ironically, her example a Jamaican but instead a a displaced drug addict foreigner who made Jamaica her home and chose to live in squalor. The author is one of those who is looking to make money from a book at the expense of our national pride. The author dragged down Jamaica by sensationalizing the story to spark interest and generate sales of her book. She it telling the world that Jamaica is a far cry from the island paradise it is long considered to be, and that there is a seedy dirty side to the island brought on by poverty that most of the people live in. This she is trying to convince readers is the dirty little secret about Jamaica that they never knew about, but America is no different, there are families here that live in dire poverty, squalor and crime, but that's not what America is defined by. Those bastards only have to encounter one incident or a single scenario and that will be used to define our little country, a so called &quot;Third world country&quot; .... Liar! You bet she is one of those white women that goes to Jamaica to smoke weed and have sex with the rastas....
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I taught reading for the first 12 years of my career. I had 35 students per class per day, 5 periods for a total of over 100 children per day. I could have all 100 or so ready the SAME story, and when I would ask questions about what was read...scope and sequence, main idea, plot, character development, Rise and fall, innuendo, fact, etc.... I got about 100 or so different answers for the number of kids asked.

Therefore, I am not surprised at the different interpretations expressed in this thread.


<span style="font-size: 20pt">Now that being said...this statement was NOT necessary to make a point about the written word, it is not polite, it is not necessary </span>Liar! You bet she is one of those white women that goes to Jamaica to smoke weed and have sex with the Rastas....
I honestly don't see why anyone on here has to say things like that about one another. I don't know this lady, so I can't say what she is or is not, but I bet this is NOT a fair representation. It's hurtful, destructive, and divisive. I don't feel it has a place on this board nor in this discussion, which on a base level COULD have been an intellectual and interesting discussion of points of view without some of the venom that has been spewed in this thread.

[Seveen]

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[tuffstuff]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;Kumbaya, my Lord&quot; started out in the 1920s as a Gullah spiritual sung on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort</span>. Gullah is the creole featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of &quot;Song of the South.&quot; &quot;Come by here, my Lord&quot; in Gullah is &quot;Come by (h)yuh, my lawd&quot; (see our Gullah dictionary).
</div></div> u know is wen mi come a ,merca that mi really learn this song! Neva popula wen mi was a youth. Mighbe it ney mek it off di ship wid mi great great grt grt great GReAT grampa! Or mighbe

[sistacaf]

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yah Marilyn, that seems to be the standard knee-jerk reaction/insult to any person that says or does something that is disliked. if a person says/does/thinks something wrong, they <span style="font-style: italic">must</span> therefore be a slut.

i mean, really now - is that the ONLY conclusion some ppl can come to? everything MUST be about <span style="font-style: italic">'that thing?'</span>

Please.

As our own jams.commers who responded did, it <span style="font-weight: bold">is</span> possible to point out what one finds inaccurate, offensive, distasteful, or even disrespectful without going there, or concluding that 'THAT' is the reason for it. That particular response only shows that the person who said it has their own mind in the gutter...

[tuffstuff]

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Trus mi, u don't see no venom fra me! I bite mi lip sutill I coulda bayly kiss mi boss [censored] todeh!