The slimster usually avoids politics like the plague. Whoops, we are living in infected times, are we not? Beyond politics, that is. It is with chagrin that we have to view the uprisings, yet again, south of the border. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Violence is not the answer. Nor is answering that with the threat of more, backed by the state. But the oppressed do not stay down, for a reason.
No wonder then, that the mind went to the Jimmy Cliff classic movie “The Harder They Come” and its timeless soundtrack. The lean one dug it up, having a choice of three various formats – vinyl, cassette (only for personal use) and CD. The movie, while no great shakes technically is honest, a true representation of poor Jamaicans.
Many remember the original Rodney riots – not in Los Angeles and beyond, associated with a man whose last name was King - but in Kingston, Jamaica, October 1968. The Rodney there was the last name of a professor (first name Walter) who was banned from teaching at a university there. The riots inspired the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. The work of an American minister, also...
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