By every traditional measure, this generation of young Jamaicans should be thriving.
They are among the most educated cohorts the country has ever produced. They are technologically adaptive, globally aware, entrepreneurial, and remarkably resilient. They speak the language of digital commerce, remote work, artificial intelligence, finance, branding, coding, and content creation with a fluency previous generations could scarcely imagine. They have done what they were instructed to do: Pursue education, avoid criminality, remain disciplined, and work relentlessly towards upward mobility.
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The most radical thing a Black man can offer a Black child is his consistent, unashamed, present and deliberate love. Every system built around that child was designed assuming he wouldn’t.