Growing Up in a "Chiney" Shop

[twiney]

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my questioning of your calling a person a liar give you reason make an nonsensical response to a comment I made?

Go find something to do!

[j-kid]

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I guess some Chinese suffered from the same low self-esteem that some American Blacks did back then. It you called smaddi BLACK, dem would get mad an waa fight, until James Brown made it proud to be Black.

[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">reminds me of an anecdote i saw when reading about the 1965 anti Chinese riots in Jamaica: crowd was after this half chinese guy he is telling them he is not chinese so he pulls out his wood and say if chiney man have anyting like this </div></div>

woooeeeee,

and me did a tink say today a go slow,

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aye sah

[Tuff Gong]

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I grew up surrounded by <span style="font-weight: bold">Chiney Shops</span>.....until the dark period of <span style="font-weight: bold">Better Mus Come</span>, when the Comrade horde descended upon the local White and Chinese entrepreneurs and chased them out of the community.

For decades we have been told that these White and Chinese merchants were nothing but, blood sucking parasites who were allied to USA Imperialists and the CIA.
If would have been better if we had studied their ways.

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
If would have been better if we had studied their ways. </div></div>

I was saying something similar to my sister only yesterday. We were bemoaning the fact that some people we know were going to extremes to 'beautify' the outside while inside they had no foundation.

Case in point: One person worships at the altar of bleaching cremes. She wears the longest weaves and will always be sporting the latest gear. She has two teenage daughters and she will constantly boast on how beautiful they are as they primp with the cremes the weaves and the clothes.

This person still live a tenement yard. She will spend major bucks on buying the latest, but does not see the need or practicality in buying or building a house. Inside her tenement residence, she has big screen plasma, high end furniture and all the latest gadgets.

She doesn't have a car (doesn't know how to drive and see no reason to learn) and sees no reason to get property that would be legally hers. All she an har fren dem do is tear dung dem one anedda. Wha day, one a dem decide fi ga Englan (or was it Miami ) an gaa school. De adda one dem neva stop bad mout har an pint finga, bout how she tink say she betta dan dem an foreign soon kick out har baxide.

Mi nuh knoa why wi haffi tan so. God knows, it is a mystery to me...

[Tuff Gong]

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quote=Nunya]Mi nuh knoa why wi haffi tan so. God knows, it is a mystery to me... [/quote]

Just like your story.
And most of the Tenements Yards in Jamaica are still owned by the Whites and Chinese that they chased out of the communities.
I know for a fact that all the Chinese Shops and some of the yards are legally in the names of their original owners.

[Tuff Gong]

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The area's greatest musical legacy is the Channel One studio which was owned by the Hoo Kim brothers: Joseph 'Joe Joe', Paul, Kenneth and Ernest.

Between 1973 and 1984, music from 29 Maxfield Avenue dominated reggae charts.

Delroy Wilson's It's a Shame was Channel One's first number one hit. Many others followed including the Mighty Diamonds' Right Time, Have Mercy, I Need A Roof and Africa; The Meditations' Woman Is Like a Shadow; Ballistic Affair by Leroy Smart and John Holt's Up Park.

The house band was The Revolutionaries whose line-up included drummer Sly Dunbar, bass players Ranchie McLean and Robbie Shakespeare, guitarist Winston 'Bo Pee' Bowen, saxophonist Tommy McCook and keyboardist Ossie Hibbert.

&quot;Channel One studio was like a community centre to the residents of Maxfield Avenue and its surroundings,&quot; Franklyn 'Ben up' Irving told Splash. &quot;The Hoo Kims would not turn away anyone.&quot;

Irving, who was born near Channel One, said the Hoo Kims adopted him at age 10 after his father abandoned his mother and his 10 siblings.

&quot;When our father left Joe Joe took my five brothers shopping downtown and then I went to live with the family on Norbrook Drive,&quot; he said.

According to Irving, his was not the only family that benefited from the Hoo Kims benevolence.

&quot;Engineer Peter Chemist's mother was a janitor at the studio, so he would often just come to chill inside the building. He was a good observer and fast learner, so in about two years he became an engineer,&quot; Irving stated.

Chemist stayed at Channel One for a few years before moving to singer Sugar Minott's studio.

Irving said Maxfield Avenue was almost entirely peaceful during the studio's reign.

In addition to the recording studio, the Hoo Kims owned several businesses in the area. These included an ice cream parlour, a sound system, a record pressing plant and a printery.

&quot;Almost everyone in Maxfield and other surrounding areas could earn an income as these businesses provided numerous jobs. The community was almost violence-free as there was no room for idling,&quot; Irving recalled.

Ironically, the studio started losing its strength after Paul Hoo Kim was shot and killed in 1977 in nearby Greenwich Farm.

&quot;His death was a great blow not only to his family and the musicians but to the entire community. The studio operations continued but it didn't possess the vibe that was once there,&quot; Irving said.



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