Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce Strikes Gold For Jamaica, Jamaica Gleaner
I am yet to sit down in front of a television and watch an Olympic race, match...
I do look at the videos posted online though, so I am not totally in the dark.
What interests me about the Olympics is the same thing that makes me smile during 'Cricket season', unity among Caribbean people.
You don't have to watch a cricket match to know what is going on, simply sit on your bed and be still, the grunts, and cheers coming from every house in your village would let you know what is what. Apparently the 2012 Olympic games are having the same effect on Caribbean people.
The entire Caribbean rallying around our athletes is joy sweet joy.
I leave you with the words of Miss Lou
COLONIZATION IN REVERSE
Wat a joyful news, Miss Mattie,
I feel like me heart gwine burs
Jamaica people colonizin
Englan in Reverse
Be the hundred, be de tousan
Fro country and from town,
By de ship-load, be the plane load
Jamaica is Englan boun.
Dem pour out a Jamaica,
Everybody future plan
Is fe get a big-time job
An settle in de mother lan.
What an islan! What a people!
Man an woman, old an young
Jus a pack dem bag an baggage
An turn history upside dung!
Some people doan like travel,
But fe show dem loyalty
Dem all a open up cheap-fare-
To-England agency.
An week by week dem shipping off
Dem countryman like fire,
Fe immigrate an populate
De seat a de Empire.
Oonoo see how life is funny,
Oonoo see da turnabout?
Jamaica live fe box bread
Out a English people mout’.
For wen dem ketch a Englan,
An start play dem different role,
Some will settle down to work
An some will settle fe de dole.
Jane says de dole is not too bad
Because dey paying she
Two pounds a week fe seek a job
dat suit her dignity
me say Jane will never fine work
At de rate how she dah look,
For all day she stay popn Aunt Fan couch
An read love-story book.
Wat a devilment a Englan!
Dem face war an brave de worse,
But me wondering how dem gwine stan
Colonizin in reverse.
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