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Re: How does this article speak to u as a Jcan?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm not sure the writer, Mr Rattray, read Martin Henry's article in depth, but I didn't read that he was playing the race/'skin color' identity politics, that so many so-called intellectuals in Jamaica like to do. In fact, he rejected race as a point of analysis regarding the PNP losses in the last two by-elections. I get the sense that he is pro-PNP, and I have no problems with that, but I find that his points departed from the usual race politics that seems to infuse public discourse in Jamaica. The article, "The Brown Man Wins", may have caused some who didn't bother to go beyond the headline to think this was just another article about race politics. </div></div>
Martin Henry, Garth Rattrary are cut from the same cloth.... they are nothing but PNP Shills who are there to promote their Candidates. In Martin’s case, he do not support Portia but supports the PNP in Garths Case he supports the PNP and is with Portia or anything but the JLP.
All Martin needed to do to write a piece critical of the Leadership but not supporting the JLP is to start with the idiotic premise that a Brown man won the Election. Granville Valentine is just as brown or browner than Michael Stern.
Once he put that little germ of lie in the heads of the Chicken Back Party all he has to do is to claim he is ruling it out and then go on to weave a more unconscious tale of historical arguments on the subject of race and class.
His whole article after the fifth paragraph is junk and has no relevance as to why the PNP lost the first two Bye-Elections.
Garth Rattrary clearly saw the exact intent of Martin's Article and sought to reinforce it just in case they was any mistaken conclusions drawn.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm not sure the writer, Mr Rattray, read Martin Henry's article in depth, but I didn't read that he was playing the race/'skin color' identity politics, that so many so-called intellectuals in Jamaica like to do. In fact, he rejected race as a point of analysis regarding the PNP losses in the last two by-elections. I get the sense that he is pro-PNP, and I have no problems with that, but I find that his points departed from the usual race politics that seems to infuse public discourse in Jamaica. The article, "The Brown Man Wins", may have caused some who didn't bother to go beyond the headline to think this was just another article about race politics. </div></div>
Martin Henry, Garth Rattrary are cut from the same cloth.... they are nothing but PNP Shills who are there to promote their Candidates. In Martin’s case, he do not support Portia but supports the PNP in Garths Case he supports the PNP and is with Portia or anything but the JLP.
All Martin needed to do to write a piece critical of the Leadership but not supporting the JLP is to start with the idiotic premise that a Brown man won the Election. Granville Valentine is just as brown or browner than Michael Stern.
Once he put that little germ of lie in the heads of the Chicken Back Party all he has to do is to claim he is ruling it out and then go on to weave a more unconscious tale of historical arguments on the subject of race and class.
His whole article after the fifth paragraph is junk and has no relevance as to why the PNP lost the first two Bye-Elections.
Garth Rattrary clearly saw the exact intent of Martin's Article and sought to reinforce it just in case they was any mistaken conclusions drawn.
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