I
picked up the book Fight for Freedom by Carey Robinson while in Jamaica. It was
the best thing about that trip for me. Robinson tells about everyone from the
Arawaks to Three-Finger Jack. As you read through the book you see that all of
the slaves were defiant. Genocide could not stop the natives and the slaves
from fighting against those who tried to keep them in bondage. After reading
Fight for Freedom I began to wonder what happened to that fighting spirit in
Jamaica. I saw a country that produces bauxite which is valuable and poverty of
the masses. How can you have valuable minerals along side poverty of the
citizens? It must be cowardice or some kind of mind control. The people of
Jamaica need to read Fight for Freedom by Carey Robinson before they look up
and find themselves in chains.
