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Xaymaca National Pride

5 February 2022 (published 13:00)·Verse commentary

A long verse commentary on allegiance, the Crown, and what “political independence” actually delivered—opening with a preamble on what Black people endured and still deal with.

Preamble

Nuh body weh get fi keep demname caan tell mi seh wah dem go throughwas worst than wah black people go throughand still a deal with...

Black people lost everythingFathers watched their mothers,wives and daughters raped by thehands of the white man—not beingable to do much about it.

Xaymaca National Pride

Where is your pride, dignity,love and self-worth?You’ve never yearned or dreamtof seeing streets and edifices named after you and yours?

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaicanpatriotism and national pride, when yuh abow and pay allegiance to that woman from that other isle.

“Repita por favor” dem seh—and that I did

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaicanpatriotism and national pride, when yuh abow and pay allegiance to that woman from that other isle.

Hold it, hold it; wah dem seh, which isle, which isle?Mi a talk bout di British IslesDefinitely not the Isles of Man

Where is your pride, dignity, love and self-worth?You’ve never yearned or dreamt of seeing streetsand edifices named after you and yours?

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaican patriotismand national pride, when you are not an independent nationUTTER MALARKEY

Wah yuh seh, political independence? Political independence?Political independence represents the ultimate misnomerIt is tantamount to British exploitationWith no liability on their partAnd no representation and benefits for me to gleanBy me, I mean the Jamaican peopleThat is not far removed from their prior colonial modelAn extraction centric operation

A waan tell yuh a next thing tuThose who benefited from colonialismShould not be permitted to benefit penultimately froma post-colonial Jamaica and ultimately froman independent Jamaica—Jamaica the Republic that is

Read the constitution and it’s preamble documents,like the West Indies Act of 1962 & theJamaica Independence Act of 1962, then youwill find that this has been a hustle, all along

Remove the veils from your eyesWhere is your pride, dignity, love and self-worth?You’ve never yearned or dreamt of seeing streetsand edifices named after you and yours?

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaican patriotismand national pride when your highest court is in another domicile

Let me repeat

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaican patriotism andnational pride when your highest court is in another domicileVACUOUS REASONING

Privy me not to certain counselsWhy should a foreign court be the ultimate arbiter,relative to my own judicial affairs?

Adjudication by proxy is tantamount to injustice.Note, ultimate Adjudication requires a VISANo to the Privy CouncilBAFFLING TO SAY THE LEAST

Per the constitution, our primary allegiance toElizabeth and that is farcical at bestIn second comes our national debt obligationsLargely due to those who are responsiblefor our current predicamentThey are positioned to benefit from suchpayments—another hustle for their benefit

His worship his mayor thisQueens counsel thatYour Royal this and your Royal thatASININE AT BEST

Wah yuh seh, speak di queen’s English?Watch yuh self before mi…yuh know what let mi hold mi tongue

Which queen; which king; why a King’s House?Fire fi di notion of a Crown LandAgrarian reform; give to the people that which is theirs—their land

Where is your pride, dignity, love and self-worth?You’ve never yearned or dreamt of seeing streetsand edifices named after you and yours?

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaican patriotismand national pride, when yuh a bow and payallegiance to that woman from that other isle.

Shut up, you don’t have any Jamaican national pride.

Di same people dem weh enslave yuhDi same people dem weh colonialize yuhThen further exploit yuh—post colonizationRape yuh motherKill yuh fatherPillage | GenocideA dem yuh a bow to?A dem yuh a embrace?Stockholm Syndrome is realWHAT A QUANDARY

Commonwealth, Commonwealth?OR one way street?Haha, please don’t speak, don’t mek mi laughDem have rights in your country that you couldONLY dream of in theirsCanadians and all other Commonwealth folks,with no Jamaicans ties, can hold political office in JamaicaWhilst the reciprocal cannot be realized for a Jamaican in their countriesMIND BOGGLING

Where is your pride, dignity, love and self-worth?You’ve never yearned or dreamt of seeing streetsand edifices named after you and yours?

Yuh caan tell mi bout yuh Jamaican patriotismand national pride, when yuh a bow and payallegiance to that woman from that other isle.

A prime minister should not be paying allegianceto a foreign sovereign or joining elks that do notprimarily represent Jamaica’s best interest.TRULY BEFUDDLING

In time I will also touch on the exploitative andmanipulative ‘Out of many, one people’ motto

BLACKnowlwdgement | BLACKnowledge that which is

All a now mi nuh touch on your lack of embrace for your African self and your lack of African prideWhere is your Afrocentrism?

Ashe

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