I’m very unsurprised to hear that Roland Martin decided to discuss mental health in honor of his fraternity brother, as opposed to discussing the misogynoir that has reared its head, causing three Black women to be the victims of femicide.
Homosexuality is AFRICAN. It predates colonialism. It predates every foreign missionary, every British penal code, every American "pro-family" group that flew in with a suitcase full of hate and a strategy document.
These laws are not African culture.
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says Jamaica continues to maintain a strong and strategic foreign policy, while holding firm to what he described as core national values, including his position that gender is limited to male and female.
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🇯🇲 Kingston has just 1.8% public open space, far below the 15–20% recommended for healthy cities. Grassy lots, shade trees, and open spaces are increasingly being replaced by parking lots, commercial complexes, and gated developments.
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You can’t strip the Cuban medical missions from the socioeconomic system that produced them and then pretend you’re making a serious human rights analysis. It’s intellectually lazy beloveds
It's one thing to bow to US pressure out of legitimate fear that the US will harm the country, especially with its recent actions in the world and region.
It's another thing to do so while denying it, lying to the people rather than admitting we're in a difficult spot.
“Because it’s the main source of hard currency traditionally for Cuba, the U.S. has decided to destroy Cuban medical internationalism,” John Kirk, author of Healthcare Without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism, told Belly of the Beast.