tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001053.post113190911890886910..comments2023-10-03T19:27:48.034-07:00Comments on Yannick's Misadventures in Jamaica & on Asylum Earth: THE INVASIONYahnykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12589230289599721399noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001053.post-1132271630101740272005-11-17T15:53:00.000-08:002005-11-17T15:53:00.000-08:00But isn't that the truth throughout the West Indie...But isn't that the truth throughout the West Indies? In Barbados, it's less easy for white people to hide out, but hide out they still do. And to be honest, whenever I enter one of these white bastions where they tend to gravitate towards (away?) like Harbour Lights, I am astounded... "Wait, Barbados got so much white people fuh real?"?<BR/><BR/>Ecky-beckies like sand...<BR/><BR/>Not quite sure why they do it- was debating this on a Bajan message board the other day. I think that in a country as small as B'dos or even as JA, you have to make a damn hard effort not to mingle with the majority- why we don't see them in the gas station, in the supermarket, at cricket or football at de regular nightclubs? And then on the other hand, when you see one, you see ten?<BR/><BR/>Someone was arguing that it's the tendency of a minority to stick with whom they identify with...which I tend to understand more, now being up here.<BR/><BR/>When I see a black face (and trus me, dem can be SCARCE!), we kinda silently bond, give each other the "wha gine on?" nod. It's just relief to see another black face. I was at a dinner party recently where it was mostly black people-admittedly a motley crew- two Bajans (one who is a motley crew in herself), a Mali-American, two Brit-Nigerians and a blackish Indian Kenyan.<BR/><BR/>And it felt right. It felt comfortable.<BR/><BR/>But I still mix with white people. I have to. They're all around me, I am the minority and I would have to go way out of my way to avoid contact with them as much as West Indian whites do with us...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001053.post-1131917971770722722005-11-13T13:39:00.000-08:002005-11-13T13:39:00.000-08:00Dammit, there goes my hopes of second city dominat...Dammit, there goes my hopes of second city domination. haha<BR/><BR/>Jus a pass through and a hail up the works still.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com