The Official Jamaican Thread

[JimRaynor]

[siablo14]

yeah i'm Jamaican man. I'm on a bobsled team and everything. Here's a pic of me and my mates. Don't mind the white guy, massa doesn't like us talking about him

remnants of massa are always around and funny they still have the money and some of the money to this day.

[siablo14]

Big up yuhself, Jim.
Yuh a real yute.

[siablo14]

But when wi a gi it to gyal. We a give it to them hard like this;




Because wi a nuh battybwoy
Wi nuh fraid a pum pum either.

[siablo14]

As yuh can see. Dancing is not fi big belly bwoy. So get fit and roll through.

[siablo14]

Today is our Emancipation Day.

August 1, 1834 marked a special day for Africans in British colonies as it was the day they received freedom from slavery. In Jamaica, the Emancipation Declaration was read from the steps of the Old Kings House in Spanish Town, St Catherine, the country's capital at the time.



The bill for the abolition of slavery in the British colonies received the royal assent on August 28,1838. It stated:

Be it enacted, that all and every one of the persons who on the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, shall be holden in slavery within such British colony as aforesaid, shall, upon and from and after the said first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, become and be to all intents and purposes free and discharged from all manner of slavery, and shall be absolutely and forever manumitted.



The passage of this bill in the British Parliament in England enabled approximately 311,000 enslaved Africans in Jamaica and hundreds of thousands more across the colonies the freedom for which many of their predecessors had fought and died. However, the Africans did not receive full freedom until four years later, as all slaves over six years old were subjected to a mandatory six-year period of apprenticeship. The ex-slaves would work - without pay - for their former masters for three-quarters of the week (40 hours), in exchange for lodging, food, clothing. medical attendance and grounds on which they could grow their own provisions. They could also, if they chose, hire themselves out for additional wages during the remaining quarter of the week. With this money, an ex-slave could then buy his freedom.

Special shout out to:

Samuel Sharpe


Paul Bogle


George William Gordon


George William Gordon was Jewish.

[Outworn]

[siablo14]

Those are cool but on a day like this. This more the type of Bob we are jamming to:


Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle,
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fight for our rights!

To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.

[Outworn]

Those are cool but on a day like this. This more the type of Bob we are jamming to:


Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny,
And in this judgement there is no partiality.
So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle,
'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Brother, you're right, you're right,
You're right, you're right, you're so right!
We gon' fight (we gon' fight), we'll have to fight (we gon' fight),
We gonna fight (we gon' fight), fight for our rights!

To divide and rule could only tear us apart;
In everyman chest, mm - there beats a heart.
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.

[Outworn]

Former Jamaica and Chelsea football player


Next Jamaican wonder, Leon Bailey. Leverkusen has to let him join Chelsea.