David Cameron is racist

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no wandar y dat oyinbo nuh waan chatt bout reparation iss cah imm royal ancestors were some aff da peeps woo enslaved africans and benefitted awf aff slavery. now dat oyinbo racist eediat a try fe buildinn more jails inn jamaica

do oonnoo rememba da daze aff slaveree

oyinbo need fe goo sitt dunn fore imm start a fiyah dat imm cyaan putt out?

wat oonnoo tink iss david cameron a racist?

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Sam Sharpe was born in Jamaica in 1801. It seems that he was raised in Montego Bay on the north coast of the island and named after his owner (Samuel Sharp, Esq), who it is said, treated him relatively kindly. He became a Baptist preacher and followed the developments of the abolition movement in England by reading local and foreign papers. He had many followers and supporters and was well known for his inspirational words. It is said that those who heard him speak, never forgot his message or his voice and that he amazed people with the power and freedom with which he spoke. As a preacher he travelled far and wide throughout the parish of St James, decrying the injustices of slavery and making the point (which he had learnt from the Bible) that the whites had no more right to hold black people in slavery, than black people had to make white people slaves. Sharpe organised the 1831-32 rebellion when he was 31 years old. His idea was to organise a general strike against slavery in the western parishes, suggesting that the slaves didn't go back to work after their three day Christmas holiday. Sharpe encouraged a peaceful resistance however, and that they should only fight physically for their freedom if the planters did not grant the demands of the general strike. Sharpe was knowledgeable and intelligent and probably knew it was unlikely that the strike would succeed, so he had made military preparations for the rebellion. This uprising, which began on 28 December 1831, starting in St. James and spreading throughout the entire island, is generally regarded as the greatest (and the last) acts against slavery in Jamaica before it was abolished in August 1833. The Rebellion lasted for eight days and resulted in the death of around 186 Africans and 14 white planters or overseers. The white vengeance for this rebellion was terrible. There were over 750 convictions of rebel slaves, of which 138 were sentenced to death. Some were hanged, their heads cut off and placed in conspicuous parts of their plantations. Most of those who escaped the death sentence were brutally punished and in some cases the punishment was so harsh that they didn't survive.

Samuel Sharpe

Sam Sharpe was also captured and executed in Market Square (also called the Parade), Montego Bay on 23 May 1832. As he awaited his execution he is recorded to have said 'I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery'. His opinion was the same as many other enslaved Africans who chose death over a life of slavery. Slave resistance was costing the British government dearly and only one week after the death of Sam Sharpe, Parliament appointed a committee to consider ways of ending slavery. Slavery was ended partially on 1 August 1834 and completely (with the ending of apprenticeship), four years later. In 1975, following independence, Sam Sharpe was made a National Hero and in his honour this square was renamed Sam Sharpe Square.

On the northeast corner of Sam Sharpe Square is the Cage, built in 1806 as a jail for runaway slaves and drunk seamen or sailors. Today it is used as a ticket outlet for various local events.

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Reggae legend and last remaining of the Original Wailers, Bunny Wailer led a number of artists who supported the National Commission on Reparations (NCR) at Liberty Hall in downtown Kingston Tuesday.

“This is a wonderful moment to see Rastaman standing together at Liberty Hall for reparations… Brothers an’ sisters, we have been involved in a long struggle an’ the British people who brought us into slavery, they are the ones to give us dat which we have been denied for over 500 years…,” Wailer told the packed venue, before chanting the well-known spiritual, He Never Fails Me Yet.. Rastafari Never Fails Me Yet.

The event coincided with the one-day visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said the matter of reparations to descendants of slaves was not being considered by his Government.

The open forum on reparations heard from Dr Donna McFarlane, chairperson for Liberty Hall and vice-chair for the NCR as well as Professor Verene Shepherd, chairperson for the NCR.

It began with a performance by Ras Ivi and the Rastafari Nyahbinghi drummers and chanters.

There were cultural items from Olivia Derrett, whose poem A DEH Cheque, was well-received; singer Isha Bel, Prophecy, Zechariah Rose, the Uprising Roots Band, and Bongo Herman.

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Let Prime Minister David Cameron Keep His Trojan Horse


When Dickie Crawford, esteemed Academic postulated on CVM Live at 7 that Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister is a racist I concurred with him.

Cameron’s failure to apologise for his foreparents accumulation of wealth from the flesh of black people is not anything new. He personally has benefitted as his ancestors were slave masters and plantation owners paid at the emancipation of slavery by the British treasury.

To add insult to injury he came bold and brazen to exact trade rights and benefits for his ailing economy and his capitalist friends. Added to this, he brought the evil gift of a prison, a coded institution to put more back men in jail.

What is alarming is how low our government bowed to the “Anansyism” of David Cameron. Lacking deep analytical knowledge and sense of sociology, cultural studies and intentional politics our leadership allowed Mr Cameron to bully the government.

Where else in the world of the Commonwealth can Cameron travel to push down his ill conceived intentions, certainly not India nor Pakistan . If he had gone to Zimbabwe or Tanzania they would have run him out as Britain had stole 90 percent of their best arable lands and given to her white colonial stooges. People ignorantly blame China but history has shown the Chinese had never enslaved us. Mr. Cameron should realize Britain has nothing to offer us.

They cannot produce machines or medicine or inputs at competitive prices. UK goods have been and remain expensive. We have alternatives these days from Japan, China, and even India. We do not need them to mark our high school exam papers as we have a competent CSEC equivalent to the best of Britain, neither do we need to travel to London or the Midlands for studying medicine and engineering. The world is open as it regards academia and competition means our scholars can choose and refuse where they go, once they have the money. Our students can matriculate for higher institutions in Canada, The USA, Australia, Brazil, Germany and even Russia.

Today we have a closer relationship with the USA as western countries than Britain. Since the 1970’s net migration to the USA is at least 20 times that of the net migration to England. Yes, we do not need Britain . Sadly, we also continue to bow to a queen whose family has benefitted from the suffering and atrocities meted to our forefathers; the floggings, the deprivation of medicine; the murders and hangings; the deprivation of property and land; the rapes resulting in Caribbean “Collorism” and the destruction and death of entire villages such as Stony Gut and the torture from the tread mill to indignities vividly documented in the history books such as dosing our forefathers with faeces. Does Cameron understand how we feel regarding what our forefathers went through?

We must understand that Britain will never repay us for slavery. Britain’s DNA is stealing and not just from Jamaica but her wealth is derived from Buccaneerism, Privateering, robbing the copper diamonds and gold from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. A country built on “thieving wealth” will never change its spots.

Our leaders have let us down but the spirit of the Jamaican people, the daughters and sons of slaves will forever prevail. A race of proud people captured and taken to the west have survived and will survive without much assistance from white people. Let Cameron take his Trojan horse elsewhere but not to a country where the majority are the proud descendants of black African slaves.

http://jablogz.com/2015/10/let-prime-minister-david-cameron-keep-his-trojan-horse/

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Protest Against UK Prison Deal Goes International


Opposition to the prison deal by Jamaica and Britain is intensifying and has taken on an international flavour.

A first term member of Britain’s parliament, is among more than 8-thousand people, who’ve signed an online petition in protest against the the 25-million-pounds-sterling prison gift to Jamaica, from British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The Labour MP, Dawn Butler, who’s of Jamaican heritage, is the third black woman to become a British MP after Diane Abbott and Oona King.

The prison deal is attracting outrage in Jamaica and abroad.

Word came today that the first African-Caribbean woman to sit in the UK Cabinet, Dawn Butler, has signed the online petition criticising the deal.

Butler was appointed as Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement in October 2009, under Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leadership.

She and other petitioners are arguing that it was wrong for Mr. Cameron to have travelled to Jamaica to announce the gift of a prison, yet refused to apologize for slavery.

The petition says Jamaica needs schools, hospitals, equipment and other poverty and crime alleviation measures.

The document says Jamaica does not need additional British-developed criminals to further burden the island.

The petition is aiming to attract the support of 10-thousand persons.

The woman behind the petition, Jacqui Clarke says after the document attracts 20-thousand signatures, she intends for it to be delivered to Prime Minister Cameron.

She spoke with our new centre from the UK.

Up to newstime, it had reached 8-thousand-9-hundred-and-35 signatories.

Most of the signatories are in the UK.

Others are from the US, Portugal, Canada and Jamaica.

The petition can be found on ‘change.org.’

It’s titled ‘Jamaica needs schools and hospitals, not a 25-million-pounds-sterling prison, David Cameron.’

It is expected that a letter with the signatures of all supporters will be delivered to Prime Minister Cameron, when the petition has reached the 20-thousand mark.

Meanwhile, another online group, “Jamaicans in New York”, have also joined in the protest against the prison offer.

They are asking other concerned Jamaicans in the United States to write to the Jamaican Consulate General in New York as well as Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, to register their disapproval of the deal.

http://nationwideradiojm.com/protest-against-uk-prison-deal-goes-international/

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if you want to sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-david-cameron-mp-david-cameron-mp-mr-cameron-dont-use-our-taxes-towards-25m-prison-in-jamaica-we-need-schools-and-hospitals?source_location=petition_footer&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=2

Petitioning Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Rt Hon David Cameron MP and 1 other
Mr CAMERON: DONT use our taxes towards £25m prison in Jamaica. We Need Schools and Hospitals
Diana Sinclair United Kingdom


Dear Mr. David Cameron,

It is with a heavy heart that I find myself in this position of having to put together a petition pertaining to your proposal of supporting a Prison in Jamaica.

As a British citizen and a descendent of Jamaica I feel that it is totally inappropriate for British taxpayers money to contribute to the creation of a new Prison in Jamaica. What message does this send out to the rest of the world?

What the people of Jamaica need, is new schools and new hospitals because the level of both in Jamaica are abysmal.

In some places children are attending school without breakfast, lunch and without shoes on their feet.

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Blacks are Three Times More Likely to be Tasered by Police Than Whites in Britain


Despite attempts to sweep them under the rug, Britain has had longstanding problems regarding institutional racism, racial violence and police abuse against Black people, and the latest news on the use of Tasers in the UK bears this out.

Data from the Home Office in the UK tell the story: Blacks in Britain are three times more likely to have Tasers used against them. Of 36,000 cases between 2010 and 2015, police used Tasers against Black people in more than 12 percent of cases, including those of African-Caribbean and mixed white and African-Caribbean origin, as The Guardian reported. Meanwhile, Blacks are subjected to this law enforcement weapon far beyond their numbers, as they comprise only 4 percent of the national population.

In addition, the data shows an increase in the use of Tasers against children under 18—522 times last year compared to 349 in 2010. In one case, police used a Taser on a 9-year old boy, and in another instance against a 91-year old man.

According to data from the London Assembly, as many as 30 percent of people Tasered by the London police are mentally or emotionally distressed, while half of those Tasered are Black or from other racial and ethnic minority groups. Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a high profile Black lawmaker, has called for an investigation.

“In order to ensure we maintain trust in the police it’s absolutely essential the home secretary orders an immediate investigation to get to the bottom of the dis-proportionality of Taser incidents involving black people,” he said. “The Home Office has some very serious questions to answer on the data it releases. It releases Taser data on an annual basis but has, it seems, deliberately withheld details regarding the ethnicity, age and gender of those involved in these incidents.”

The release of the data comes amid growing tensions between police and communities of color. Further, despite an overall drop in the number of youths in police custody, the percentage of Black youths in jail jumped 37.5 percent, and the proportion of mixed-race youths increased 50 percent between 2012 and 2014.

Activists are left concerned. For example, the Campaign Against Police and State Violence said the police clearly have a problem with Black people, offering that of the 240 complaints against the London Metropolitan police last year, not one was upheld.

“This racial bias cannot be blamed on individual rotten apples, the consistency of disproportionate racist outcomes means that the entire barrel is suspect,” a spokesperson for the campaign said. “Even the head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association last year stated that she believed the police are institutionally racist.”

The group also noted that police use of Tasers in England has resulted in fatalities, meaning that police are disproportionately targeting Blacks with potentially lethal force.

“When you take these figures in context, the conclusion that you come to is that there is a resurgence in systemic, institutionalized racism in the police service, and within the Met police in particular,” Lee Jasper, a race relations activist and former senior policy adviser on equalities to the Mayor of London told The Guardian. “All we need is a bit of hot weather and one inappropriate stop and search or death in custody and we could be looking at a return to [the riots of] 2011.”

The debate over the use of Tasers is hotly contested. The Home Office describes them as “an important tactical option to help specially trained police officers resolve potentially violent situations safely,” according to The Guardian, and this year the Police Federation voted to issue all uniformed officers with Tasers. The National Police Chiefs’ Council claims that police receive “world-class training” and use Tasers only in situations involving violence and impending violence. In contrast, Amnesty International has warned they are potentially deadly weapons, and non-specialist firearms officers should not use them.

As the use of Tasers against Black people in Britain takes center stage, the controversy over the racist use of Tasers in the U.S. has been resurrected, demonstrating the linkages of the oppression of Black people across national boundaries. On Thursday, police in Prairie View, Texas—the town where Sandra Bland was arrested during a traffic stop and found dead in a jail cell three days later—used a Taser stun gun on Jonathan Miller, a city councilman, while he was on his knees. One of the two officers involved in the incident had been involved in the July arrest of Bland. Miller, who is newly elected and voted to rename a street after Sandra Bland, was arrested outside his home while his fraternity brothers were practicing a step dance routine.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday announced a proposal to seize the wages of immigrants in the country illegally, treating the money as criminal proceeds, as part of a crackdown designed to reduce immigration to Britain.

“It has been too easy to work illegally and employ illegal workers here,” Cameron declared during a speech at the Home Office, which deals with visas and work permits. “So we'll take a radical step: We'll make illegal working a criminal offense in its own right.”

Cameron’s speech, coming just two weeks after a reelection campaign in which immigration was a prominent issue, coincided with the release new government statistics showing net migration to Britain had jumped to 318,000 people in 2014, an increase of 109,000 from previous the year.

The numbers, issued by the Office of National Statistics, proved embarrassing to Cameron, whose Conservative Party promised before the 2010 elections that brought him to power that it would reduce net annual immigration to fewer than 100,000 people.

Cameron is expected next week to announce a series of proposed laws to tackle illegal immigration, including forcing banks to check accounts of people who could be in the country illegally and giving local governments across Britain greater powers to evict those violating immigration laws.
What David Cameron is trying to do partly is to appease the right-wingers in his party, for whom Europe is bad enough but foreigner is even worse. - Rodney Barker, professor of government at the London School of Economics.


Though the prime minister said in his speech that Britain is proud of its diversity and immigrant history -- “Poles who fought with us in the Battle of Britain; West Indians who helped rebuild our country after the war; Asians from East Africa and the subcontinent who have brought enterprise to our country” -- he has plans to lower demand for migrants by advancing the skills of British workers and fining companies that advertise for positions abroad before they do so at home.

Cameron and his party are being forced to come up with a strong stance on immigration, critics say, by both the statistics on migration and pressure from the right. UKIP, a political party that takes a strong nationalist anti-immigrant stance, won only one seat in Parliament during last month’s election but still pulled in more than 3.8 million votes nationwide, suggesting the popularity of one of its central tenets. Right-wing members of the prime minister’s own party also are pressing him on the matter.

“The Conservative Party, like all large parties, is a coalition with quite a range of opinion from socially responsible, paternalistic Tories to really quite ideologically radical-liberal economists to old fashioned right-wing xenophobes,” said Rodney Barker, a professor of government at the London School of Economics. “And unfortunately, what David Cameron is trying to do partly is to appease the right-wingers in his party, for whom Europe is bad enough but foreigner is even worse.”

There are concerns that criminalizing the wages of workers that are in Britain illegally could create serious human rights problems. Don Flynn, director of the London-based Migrants’ Rights Network, told the BBC that seizing wages would force some immigrants into systems of modern slavery without protection from the law.

“Their vulnerable status means they are confined to the most insecure and exploitative forms of employment, usually earning scarcely enough to maintain themselves on a day-to-day basis,” he warned.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-britain-cameron-immigrants-20150521-story.html

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Jamaica needs the prison... the last prison built was the Gun Court Called south park now.... it was built to hold 120 prisioners I think that was in 74 ... That is my memory... now it holds up to 330 without any new building!

if you want to sign the petition

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-david-cameron-mp-david-cameron-mp-mr-cameron-dont-use-our-taxes-towards-25m-prison-in-jamaica-we-need-schools-and-hospitals?source_location=petition_footer&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=2

Petitioning Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Rt Hon David Cameron MP and 1 other
Mr CAMERON: DONT use our taxes towards £25m prison in Jamaica. We Need Schools and Hospitals
Diana Sinclair United Kingdom


Dear Mr. David Cameron,

It is with a heavy heart that I find myself in this position of having to put together a petition pertaining to your proposal of supporting a Prison in Jamaica.

As a British citizen and a descendent of Jamaica I feel that it is totally inappropriate for British taxpayers money to contribute to the creation of a new Prison in Jamaica. What message does this send out to the rest of the world?

What the people of Jamaica need, is new schools and new hospitals because the level of both in Jamaica are abysmal.

In some places children are attending school without breakfast, lunch and without shoes on their feet.

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Jamaica needs the prison... the last prison built was the Gun Court Called south park now.... it was built to hold 120 prisioners I think that was in 74 ... That is my memory... now it holds up to 330 without any new building!

dat maybe so butt at da xxpense aff cutting miseducation funding. mii nuh tink so.

plus it contingencee pon ja changinn dem criminal injustics laws so iingland can send back more allegeded jamaicans criminals even sum aff dem woo barn inn ingland.

never figgit oww iingland build prisons inn jamaica to strengthen da institution aff slaveree

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Jamaica Accuses David Cameron of Inaccurately Claiming to Have Signed a Deal to Repatriate About 300 of its Citizens Serving Prison Sentences in the UK


Jamaica has accused David Cameron of inaccurately claiming to have signed a deal to repatriate about 300 of its citizens serving prison sentences in the UK, just weeks after he announced the supposed agreement on a trip to the Caribbean island.

The prime minister hailed the “important” step during a visit to Kingston in September, saying the UK would provide £25m from the foreign aid budget for a new prison in return for being able to send Jamaican inmates back to their homeland from 2020.

However, the Jamaican government disputes the existence of such an agreement, amid controversy over the idea of repatriation and concern that it will have to fund about 60% of the prison construction and all its running costs.

The Jamaican government has suffered a backlash after Cameron’s visit, including a protest about prisoner transfers outside parliament and a walkout by opposition politicians.

Speaking in the Jamaican parliament, Peter Bunting, the security minister, said: “Unfortunately, communications from the UK government, which has been carried in British and local media, may have left an impression in the public mind that Jamaica has signed a prisoner transfer agreement. This is not the case.

“The fact is, we have agreed to commence a process which may or may not result in a prisoner transfer. We have brought these inaccuracies to the attention of the British high commission locally and trust that it will be corrected.” He said the only document to have been signed is a non-binding memorandum of understanding to explore the possibility of prisoner transfer.

The plan would also need to be agreed by Jamaica’s parliament, which has previously declined to ratify a voluntary agreement announced by the former British prime minister Gordon Brown in 2007.

Bunting added: “There is no guarantee at this time that this administration will sign a prisoner transfer agreement with the UK. The government of Jamaica will only sign the prisoner transfer agreement after adequate public education and debate and the enactment of new legislation in the Jamaican parliament.”

Read more at www.theguardian.com