Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

[jah_yout]

or will her new party the New Nation Coalition (NNC) go the way of all other attempts to break from the stranglehold of PNP & JLP


she has an interesting story;


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Blaine describes her life as being an interesting one, noting that even the way in which she was conceived was an unlikely occurrence in those days. Her mother was a black country girl from Westmoreland who was selling in Coronation Market in downtown Kingston and her father was a white-skinned Jamaican man from a ‘fairly well-off’ family.

“They met in Coronation Market,” Blaine said. “And because my father dared to marry my mother, his side of family was ashamed of us — literally.”

As a result, they never got a chance to grow in upper St Andrew where her father was from, instead she grew up in a tenement yard on Chisholm Avenue in Kingston.

“My parents didn’t have any money, but we didn’t know we were poor,” she said. “My mother and father taught us the values of education, honesty, respect, hard work, integrity and love.”</div></div>


---jamaica observer

[mountaingal]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

i think she's had her opportunities to change jamaica before and they came to naught.

her one-time compadre in creating change, antoinette haughton, a fugitive now, nuh suh?

[Wahalla]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

No..

shi soon move miami like Ras Astor...

[jah_yout]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No..

shi soon move miami like Ras Astor... </div></div>

damm-- you got me there; i don't know who is ras astor...

but if he was for a rasta government he has my vote

[jah_yout]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think she's had her opportunities to change jamaica before and they came to naught.

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yea too much corruption...the pnp/ jlp mafia, much like the demon-crat &amp; repugnicans stateside-- won't allow any other players in to take away any cut of the action from their crime families

[jah_yout]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

i would vote for her before any of the other guys for sure...

she has seen first-hand the demented color-coded/ racial issues of jamaica;

she would be in a good position to finally address this issue which is a cancer to the society but virtually all jamaicans of any power ignore

[mountaingal]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i would vote for her before any of the other guys for sure...

she has seen first-hand the demented color-coded/ racial issues of jamaica;

s<span style="font-weight: bold">he would be in a good position to finally address this issue </span>which is a cancer to the society but virtually all jamaicans of any power ignore </div></div>

that's an extraordinarily naive statement.

[Panajar]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

I think she is sincere, and i do like some of her views ,however her party has too much of a religious leaning .Most of the modern world is trying to separate religion from state. But in Jamaica we are moving in the opposite direction. Religion has done little or nothing to advance Jamaica and it would appear that Bettyann and other well meaning members of her party are intent on creating a pseudo theocratic state.

[jah_yout]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i would vote for her before any of the other guys for sure...

she has seen first-hand the demented color-coded/ racial issues of jamaica;

s<span style="font-weight: bold">he would be in a good position to finally address this issue </span>which is a cancer to the society but virtually all jamaicans of any power ignore </div></div>

that's an extraordinarily naive statement. </div></div>

i said address, not solve...

she at least spoke about it in an honest way

[jah_yout]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think she is sincere, and i do like some of her views ,however her party has too much of a religious leaning .Most of the modern world is trying to separate religion from state. But in Jamaica we are moving in the opposite direction. Religion has done little or nothing to advance Jamaica and it would appear that Bettyann and other well meaning members of her party are intent on creating a pseudo theocratic state. </div></div>

true, but being the majority of j'cans are christian or christian sympathizers. maybe it's not such a handicap.
in either case she could never win;
the 2 entrenched parties have their death-grip over the island

[mountaingal]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i would vote for her before any of the other guys for sure...

she has seen first-hand the demented color-coded/ racial issues of jamaica;

s<span style="font-weight: bold">he would be in a good position to finally address this issue </span>which is a cancer to the society but virtually all jamaicans of any power ignore </div></div>

that's an extraordinarily naive statement. </div></div>

i said address, not solve...

she at least spoke about it in an honest way </div></div>

the naivety was in thinking that politics puts anyone in a position to address race issues, especially in jamaica.

i'm not sure what you felt was honest about BAB talking about her racial heritage, but she has not been the first nor will she be the last to do so. Have u read <span style="font-weight: bold">Going Home To Teach</span> by Anthony Winkler?

[evanovitch]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No..

shi soon move<span style="font-weight: bold"> miami like</span> Ras Astor... </div></div>

no joke...i had to wonder yessiday if anybody leff a yaad...fi real..mi shock fi have a good fren tell mi dat she is resident in Miami...mi email har fi mek plans fi meet again in Nov ongle fi she tell me dat she liff awf....

[Peasie]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have u read <span style="font-weight: bold">Going Home To Teach</span> by Anthony Winkler? </div></div>

&quot;To be white in a black country with a long English colonial history is to be a pariah, an ambiguous entity. It is to be simultaneously respected and despised, to arouse suspicion and curiosity, to evoke defiance, rudeness, envy, and condescension. It is to be separated from that inalienable birthright every white American enjoys in his country: the expectation of being treated with indifference in a public place.&quot;

[evanovitch]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have u read <span style="font-weight: bold">Going Home To Teach</span> by Anthony Winkler? </div></div>

&quot;To be white in a black country with a long English colonial history is to be a pariah, an ambiguous entity. It is to be simultaneously respected and despised, to arouse suspicion and curiosity, to evoke defiance, rudeness, envy, and condescension. It is to be separated from that inalienable birthright every white American enjoys in his country: the expectation of being treated with indifference in a public place.&quot; </div></div>

this says how blacks feel in America n even Jamaicans in Jamaica

[Peasie]

Re: Betty Ann Blaine- will she change Jamaica?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">no joke...i had to wonder yessiday if anybody leff a yaad...fi real.
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Plenty people in Jamaica. And commerce is strong as usual. But there is quite a palpable restlessness and dissatisfaction among most everyone.