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Brief history of Jamaica

Brief history of Jamaica before, doing and after the Europeans invaded, occupied, colonized and enslaved the Island by the way of Christopher Columbus. You might call this the testing ground for the enslavement of Africans in what we now call the USA. Pre-Colombian Jamaica Prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494, Jamaica was inhabited by Arawaks, living in simple communities based on fishing, hunting, and small scale cultivation of cassava. The impact of the contact with the Spanish was traumatic, and these communities disappeared in 70-80 years. Plunder, disruption of economic activities, new diseases, and migration decimated the indigenous population. Only a few artifacts-facts, examples of which are on display at the small museum at White Marl, and a few Spanish corruptions of place names (such as Ocho Rios) remain from this period. Otherwise, there is no Arawak influence on the subsequent development of life on the island. The Spanish Occupation, 1494-1655 Disappointed...

The Zebra Reminds Me Of Black People

Reading Off Whiteness IV wrote: The zebra reminds me of black people. The zebra thinks just because the lion has let the zebra drink side by side with it at the pond that not all lions think zebras are prey. Although that thinking by the zebra benefits the lions, it is certainly detrimental to the zebra. For if lions could get a few zebra to think in the same confused manner as the one drinking beside it, the lions hunting would be made easy. The lion will allow the zebra  to leave unharmed because there may be other zebra witnessing from a distance what has taken place believing they too can do the same. The moral of the story is the nature of the lion has not changed, the lion has simply refined its hunting tactics to make the zebra think that it has. Just because you are now able to drink water, eat, work, and play next to white people does not mean that their nature has changed, white people simply refined the system to make you think they have. ‪#‎ Racism_is_WAR‬ !...