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Re: This lady is such an embarrassment...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does anyone know what books <span style="font-weight: bold">Mr. Shearer</span> banned?
Was it <span style="font-weight: bold">Baa-Baa Black Sheep</span> or is this just another unsubstantiated rumour? </div></div>
Very funny.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Malcolm X book ban</span>
by Julian 'Jingles' Reynolds, Guest Columnist
However, my exposure with Hugh Shearer didn't end there, as in 1968 Mr Shearer caused me to resign as a staff journalist with The Gleaner Company. On the 7:30 a.m. news on JBC Radio one morning, I heard then Prime Minister Hugh Shearer declare a ban on the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and other so-called black power books, refused re-entry into Jamaica of the Guyanese social activist and University of the West Indies historian, Dr Walter Rodney, and distanced Jamaica from the black-power movement then sweeping the United States of America. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I was infuriated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, for me and my peers and close friends at The Gleaner, Clarence 'Ben' Brodie, the late Eric McNish, Leslie Thompson and Lloyd 'Young Ben' McIntosh, was an inspiration to struggle against racism, classism and oppression - a must-read. And so I wrote an article condemning Prime Minister Shearer. I had just been transferred, upon my request, from The Gleaner's sports desk to the political desk, then headed by the late Ulric Simmonds.
I submitted the article to the editor, the late Theodore Sealy, who told me to go back and research the news item by going to JBC and carefully listening to the tape and use quotes to substantiate my article. I did that but the article was never published. I wrote a letter to Mr Sealy, resigning immediately, becoming a freelancer with the Public Opinion, Abeng, Swing Magazine, and Cooyah Magazine.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Does anyone know what books <span style="font-weight: bold">Mr. Shearer</span> banned?
Was it <span style="font-weight: bold">Baa-Baa Black Sheep</span> or is this just another unsubstantiated rumour? </div></div>
Very funny.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Malcolm X book ban</span>
by Julian 'Jingles' Reynolds, Guest Columnist
However, my exposure with Hugh Shearer didn't end there, as in 1968 Mr Shearer caused me to resign as a staff journalist with The Gleaner Company. On the 7:30 a.m. news on JBC Radio one morning, I heard then Prime Minister Hugh Shearer declare a ban on the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and other so-called black power books, refused re-entry into Jamaica of the Guyanese social activist and University of the West Indies historian, Dr Walter Rodney, and distanced Jamaica from the black-power movement then sweeping the United States of America. </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I was infuriated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, for me and my peers and close friends at The Gleaner, Clarence 'Ben' Brodie, the late Eric McNish, Leslie Thompson and Lloyd 'Young Ben' McIntosh, was an inspiration to struggle against racism, classism and oppression - a must-read. And so I wrote an article condemning Prime Minister Shearer. I had just been transferred, upon my request, from The Gleaner's sports desk to the political desk, then headed by the late Ulric Simmonds.
I submitted the article to the editor, the late Theodore Sealy, who told me to go back and research the news item by going to JBC and carefully listening to the tape and use quotes to substantiate my article. I did that but the article was never published. I wrote a letter to Mr Sealy, resigning immediately, becoming a freelancer with the Public Opinion, Abeng, Swing Magazine, and Cooyah Magazine.
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onoo (not you Evanovitch) don't come give me stupidness about him being red, clear, brown skinned or whatever other terms some Jamaicans use because they are ashamed of being Black. 
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