When a nation no longer embodies its motto 'Out of Many one People" and is no longer united just merely on a paper when I sign that our nationality is Jamaican. When a nation decides to use the culture of other lands as its primary source of education their child. When a parent doesn't spend time to educate their child on the history of a nation but allow that child to be fed the practices of the land we look up to so much'not the mother land but the land we seem to view as the answer to all our problems america' when a nation looks for inspiration on literature,dress and music from other lands and places ours on the back burner. The young will not be educated about what the true meaning of a Jamaican is. The young will simply be living in Jamaica but have the minds of Americans. That is what Jamaica today is all about our young know more of foreign lands than our own therefore the Jamaica you grew up knowing is gone
The death of the young By:©Saccheen Laing I put on my uniform Armed with books I set out in search of a good education. Streets lined with the blood stains of those who fell on the way I'm determined to live to see another day But I have no control over those who believe they can have their own way. Armed with guns and knives They attack me, They assault me, They abuse me , Because they believe they have control over me Because of guns and knives in hand. In my hands I write my plans A singer, an actor, a doctor, a fashion designer or a police man I clench my fist as my blood runs to join those who fell before My plans remain in my hands Never to be realized I am young but that means nothing on this land. The blood of the young will replace the ocean that surrounds and beautifies the land How many more shall die before you answer when I ask why? My mother shall cry and bury her son before he becomes a man My brot...
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