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It's because of one of the Marzouca girls that the term "wee dropper" emerged.
The full story is that she was travelling on a boat from the UK to the USA enroute back to Jamaica. She was snooty and ignored the Black people on the boat. When the boat approached the shore one of the men she had been roo...I mean hanging out with turned to one of the Black men and said :Okay you take care of her from here on." She was offended that she was considered to be Black.
SERVE AR RIGHT!!!
Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - December 15, 1984, Kingston, Kingston
LISTENING POST Wee-dropper
Some years ago, just after the war, a Jamaican woman who taken part in the services was on her way to Jamaica. She had to stop over in Miami. In those days the races were strictly and there was one waiting room for the whites and one for those who used to be called 'coloured'.
The Jamaican lady was furious when they put her among the 'coloured'. She said she had only a wee drop of coloured blood in from which arose the term in the and the 50s of 'wee-dropper'.
http://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kings...4/12-15/page-5
Ah and finally we get the full story about the next incident.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030802/letters/letters2.html
It's because of one of the Marzouca girls that the term "wee dropper" emerged.
It is about a Jamaican woman who revelling in her witnesses and delusions, went to the USA and was immediately classified as black. Grievingly she declared that all she had was a wee-drop of African blood. From henceforth she was called "Wee-dropper".
The full story is that she was travelling on a boat from the UK to the USA enroute back to Jamaica. She was snooty and ignored the Black people on the boat. When the boat approached the shore one of the men she had been roo...I mean hanging out with turned to one of the Black men and said :Okay you take care of her from here on." She was offended that she was considered to be Black.
SERVE AR RIGHT!!!
Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - December 15, 1984, Kingston, Kingston
LISTENING POST Wee-dropper
Some years ago, just after the war, a Jamaican woman who taken part in the services was on her way to Jamaica. She had to stop over in Miami. In those days the races were strictly and there was one waiting room for the whites and one for those who used to be called 'coloured'.
The Jamaican lady was furious when they put her among the 'coloured'. She said she had only a wee drop of coloured blood in from which arose the term in the and the 50s of 'wee-dropper'.
http://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kings...4/12-15/page-5
I was among the student body at UWI in 1968 which planned a demonstration to protest the Government's refusal to allow Rodney back into the island from a visit to Canada. We took to the road, all of us in our red gowns as a means of identification. We were to face the police with guns and tear gas. In downtown Kingston things became very ugly when the people on the street literally took over the demonstration and started to riot.
This was the heyday of the Black Power Movement of which Rodney was an advocate. Books written by black people, like Malcolm X, were banned. An unpopular Shearer Government was, understandably, quite frightened. And it was all very disturbing to the ruling elite generally but particularly the "black aristocracy" and "wee-droppers", many declaring that they were not Africans but "Jamaicans" or "West Indians".
This was the heyday of the Black Power Movement of which Rodney was an advocate. Books written by black people, like Malcolm X, were banned. An unpopular Shearer Government was, understandably, quite frightened. And it was all very disturbing to the ruling elite generally but particularly the "black aristocracy" and "wee-droppers", many declaring that they were not Africans but "Jamaicans" or "West Indians".
Ah and finally we get the full story about the next incident.
In 1965 a black woman, working with a Chinese family, was allegedly set upon and beaten by members of the family. When news of the incident got out it sparked an attack on the Chinese community by some angry black people, in revenge.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030802/letters/letters2.html
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