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vex! But, whilst chatting with a Yemeni bloke who had a store in Flatbush, he seh most Jamaicans aren't good! However, he said most Guyneez, Treeknees, Grenadians are...did acknowledge that few are ragamuffins!

In reply to BeatDball

If he has a store on Flatbush, I am confident that most of his customers are Jamaicans, another in the community biting the hands that have been feeding him for years. Take their money but talk bad about them behind their backs, I think there is a Jcan word for that! John crow aka Joncro!

We have learned long ago not to trust Arabs or buy from their stores. The Arabs are responsible for conducting mass murders, mass castration and mass relocation of black people from the Middie East and Northern Africa. Now they have entrenched themselves into countries like Egypt giving the impression like they were the original inhabitants or the ones who built the pyramids.
When we watch World Cup teams, we see that there are no real Africans on any of the Northern African teams.

In reply to BeatDball

Don't forget that anything bad that happens within the Caribbean diaspora, Jamaicans get 'credit'.

We doubt whether this Yemeni can distinguish.

In reply to Drapsey

That’s so true. I remember when I lived in New York and worked on the World Trade Center building, a coworker came to the office and reported that a Jamaican was committing crime in her Staten Island neighborhood. I said to her, “how do you know this guy is Jamaican? Have you seen his passport or birth certificate. Is I am Jamaican written in his forehead?” Sure enough the very next week the news reported that the guy was from an African country. In New York if you are black and have a so-called accent then you are deemed Jamaican, as Jamaica is the most popular “black country “ in USA.

In reply to BeatDball

And you BeatDball sounds like you are glorifying the comments instead repudiating them, we cannot even trust some of those among us, they gleefully allow others to divide us as Caribbean people.

Even many white Jamaicans reported how they on several occasions had to repudiate comments made in US about their Jcan brothers.

In reply to BeatDball

why would I give a whisk what a Yemenite think about me.

Isn’t this biting the hand of the guy feeding you?

Look, people EVERYWHERE will talk. People are people. All Yemeni grocery owners arent like this and of course not all Jamaicans are ‘not good people’. Show me a man without a bias.

Why get vex?

In reply to Slipfeeler Lie! In the 80s/90s...not anymore.

In the 80s I was a student at Manchester Uni.doing a Diploma in Auto Engineering,I once bought 4 cans of Larger from an Indian owned OFF Licence.I took it on credit to pay him in 2 days later,I forgot all about it, as a week went by.One day going home after Uni,I heard a loud voice shouting ,"aye you boy from Kingston come back and pay me my money",here's is the problem,if you don't hear me talk you wouldn't say I am West Indian,I usually speak English and an accent which to others sounds Yard a bit.Yes it is true Jamaicans always get the blame.

In reply to Slipfeeler Real Africans...as in blacker than Frank Bruno's dressing gown?!!

In reply to Slipfeeler

Sounds like the Chinese store owners

In reply to birdseye

Exactly
Then need to take care of dental hygiene anyway many of them have brown teeth

In reply to BeatDball

Absolutely YES, you are saying it like it’s meant to be an insult, as per your mindset, I guess years of brainwashing and stereotyping have gotten the best of you.

In reply to Slipfeeler



Were/are the Berbers real Africans? Ancient Egyptians are supposed to have been largely Phoenician or Middle Eastern, by origin.

When one looks at the present Meditteranean peoples, one is struck by a common physical resemblance between southern Europeans, North Africans and Semites including Jews and Arabs. These peoples are surely more closely related to each other than they are to sub-Saharan Africans.

I'll do a repost later. The software on this site is beyond ridiculous.

In reply to KTom

My only response to you will be by way of a history lesson, as many of us are ignorant of African history, of which, we are not to be blamed due to the overwhelming and deliberate emphasis on brainwashing us into believing that Europeans and Arabs are original inhabitants of the Middle East and Northern Africa.

“The Arab migrations to the Maghreb[a] involved successive waves of migration and settlement by Arab people in the Maghreb region of North Africa (excluding Egypt), encompassing modern-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The process took place over several centuries, lasting from the early 7th century to the 17th century. The Arab migrants hailed from the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula, with later groups arriving from the Levant and Iraq.

The influx of Arabs to the Maghreb began in the 7th century with the Arab conquest of the Maghreb, when Arab armies conquered the region as part of the early Muslim conquests. This initial wave of Arab migration was followed by subsequent periods of migration and settlement, notably during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and later Arab dynasties. However, the most significant wave of Arab migration occurred in the 11th century with the arrival of more Bedouin tribes from the Arabian Peninsula, such as Banu Hilal, Banu Sulaym, and Maqil.[8] The last significant wave of Arab migration to the Maghreb was from Al-Andalus in the 17th century as a result of the Reconquista. These migrants established numerous Arab empires and dynasties in the Maghreb, such as the Aghlabids, Idrisids, Sulaymanids, Salihids, Fatimids, Saadians and 'Alawites.

The Arab migrations to the Maghreb had a profound impact on the demographics and culture of the Maghreb. It resulted in significant Arab demographic growth, forced displacement and Arabization of the Berber and Punic populations and spread of the Arabic language and Arab culture throughout the region. The descendants of the Arab settlers in the Maghreb are known as Maghrebi Arabs. According to Charles-André Julien, a specialist in North African history, the Hilalian invasion was "the most important event of the entire medieval period in the Maghrib" “

We always tend to forget one important factor that man originated from Africa, and for Ktom and BeatDball, it gets worst for you guys because original man was as black as BeatDball described, maybe even blacker

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA)[a] is the most widely accepted[1][2][3] model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens). It follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa, accomplished by Homo erectus and then Homo neanderthalensis.

H. sapiens most likely developed in the Horn of Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago,[7][8] although an alternative hypothesis argues that diverse morphological features of H. sapiens appeared locally in different parts of Africa and converged due to gene flow between different populations within the same period.[9][10] The "recent African origin" model proposes that all modern non-African populations are substantially descended from populations of H. sapiens that left Africa after that time.

In reply to Slipfeeler

Your only response will be by way of a cut and paste. A poor excuse for what's meant to be a discussion board. Who were the main inhabitants of North Africa before the arrival of the Arabs/Muslims? Were they black Africans or were they peoples already closely related to the Near/Middle East?

The blame game,bad mouth on Jamaicans overseas is not new.
Perhaps Jamaicans are known to be expressive in language and swagger and in
seem to adopt a high profile stance more than other migrants even if they don't
really have it so they become better known.

This came to the fore in 1958 in Britain in what is still known as the Notting Hill Riots
which resulted from some dispute among black and whites

Jamaicans being the most popular of that race were blamed for starting this which escalated
to the point where Norman Manley,Premier of Jamaica had to fly to Britain as the Riots became
destructive and threatened to blow up England.
Racial problems were ever a part of England from the Windrush folks went there to rebuild the
failed empire land when benefits were very scarce.

When the dust was settled it was disclosed that Jamaicans did not start the event but Jamaicans were blamed for
it,not fellow Caribbean or African folks.
Fast forward to the late 80s here in Philadelphia when I got involved with some cricket here in Philadelphia.
Met and became friendly with an Antiguan...he has since passed...but one of the first things he told me
and others was that an Antiguan was the main culprit and he was also involved as a worker in the Transit system.
Not Jamaican was at the forefront but they who did ,never made corrections at the time an flew under the radar.
We had fun with it though.

In retrospect, I can remember the splash headlines in the Jamaica Gleaner detailing the Riots. It was Big deal.
But such is life, Jamaica's name was easy to call. Here in Philadelphia, when I use to be in circulation I have had to
correct some Americans here too..More than once I was asked what part of Jamaica is Barbados or Trinidad.
Things have changed a lot now. But Geography is perhaps America's worst subject in all levels
of school here.
But I like when deportation of black people is front and centre and people from Africa, Haiti claim
Jamaica as their homeland and come have even been deported to Yard as there chances of beating the
system to return to the USA were much better at one time. Perhaps still is.

That same Antiguan friend also mentioned that the fastest bowler he saw was a little man from Jamaica
in the summer of 1956 but could not recall his name until I mentioned Gilchrist. He immediately concurred and said
his older brother Eugene Brown who represented Antigua in the game against a Jamaica Next Xi had his
stumps flattened by Gillie before his bat came down when Anigua played a 2-Day warm up against the
Jamaica team which went on to play Guyana in a non FC game over 4 days with the then BG team
with Kanhai,Butcher and Solomon beating the Jamaicans.
Cricket always play a part in shaping relationship and friendship even if it it takes the history of riot in a far off land and
decades to do so.

In reply to KTom

The original inhabitants of the entire continent of Africa were black Africans. Europeans with their usual policy of divide and ruled, socioeconomically and racially divided the continent into Sub-Saharan and Supra-Saharan, with mass relocation, mass enslavement and mass murder and castration of darker-skinned Africans, to fulfill their racial agenda. Until they discovered the wealth of resources, minerals, oil, gold, diamond, plutonium, uranium, bauxite and the entire world’s supply of raw materials existed in Sub-Sahara Africa. Without African raw materials, the entire Europe and North America would cease to exist economically. Like that Yemeni shopkeeper in Brooklyn, they all choose stereotype, humiliate, racialize and discriminate against the very hands that have been feed them and providing the economic stimulus to their respective economies for years. Now, many African nations have started to expel European and American military/spies from their countries and rightly so, it’s about time.

In reply to Slipfeeler

No
Not all black africans

The originals from Chad were as we say ‘red’

That can easily slip into the lighter hues of Libya to Morocco

...
The earliest humans who lived in Africa were anatomically modern humans, and their physical characteristics likely varied over time and across regions.
These populations gradually developed traits that we associate today with different groups due to adaptations to their environments (e.g., skin pigmentation as a response to UV radiation).

Africa has always been highly diverse, even in ancient times.
The genetic and cultural diversity across the continent today reflects a long history of migrations, intermixing, and environmental adaptation.
For example, groups like the San (Bushmen) in Southern Africa represent some of the oldest genetic lineages in the world.

Africa was not just the original home of modern humans; it also saw subsequent migrations and exchanges with populations from other regions.
For instance, North Africa has long been influenced by populations from the Middle East and Europe, leading to a mix of genetic and cultural traits.

The original inhabitants of Africa—our human ancestors—were anatomically modern humans whose physical characteristics would have varied.
The concept of "Black Africans" as a unified identity is a much later development rooted in modern history and social constructs.
Africa's history is one of incredible diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness that resists simple categorizations.

In reply to sgtdjones

I have no problem with diversity, intercultural and interracial integration, it only becomes problematic when one race or group of persons decide to assert or empower or enforce themselves over a race or group of people for socioeconomic gains. Legalization of racism has destroyed the social and economic fabric of many African societies by Europeans and enforced by Arabs. The underdevelopment of the African continent by Europeans so as to control its natural resources to augment or stimulate European and North American economies is one one the greatest injustice in the world history. How would you guys feel about your neighbour stealing all your resources, raping your wife and children, treating you as inferior, harassing you and talking badly about, while using your resources to build and beautify his home?