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Subject: The White Jamaican
From:	e.
To:	trevoroche
Date:	Mon, Jun 10, 2019 8:04 am

White Jamaican Revolution--Up with George William Gardon

I'm not a historian, so bear with me:

- George William Gordon was a white Jamaican revolutionary. His is probably the extreme example of the white Jamaican soul, in that, just beneath the surface in the white Jamaican, there beats the heart of the white revolutionary who has yet to emerge. 

- The white Jamaican is no angel, but as one of them told me, we (meaning ALL Jamaicans) have blood on our hands. So let's stop pointing fingers.

- The white Jamaican, with their subtle and not so subtle privileges, is more aware and sensitive to architectural and natural heritage than the black Jamaican, who sees them as a mark of shame and backwardness. The argument over heritage preservation between the Custos of Trelawny and the Mayor of Falmouth is illustrative of the issue. 

- Where it comes to heritage preservation, and not for all eternity, the white Jamaican must be put at the head of the table.

- Just as the Chinese Jamaican is not at all the same as the foreign national Chinese, the white Jamaican cannot be compared with the foreign white person (ESPECIALLY the militaristic, break-your-ass Blackwater American types we might encounter. By contrast, the Jamaican white person has been nurtured by centuries of cultural blending, rendering them highly civilized by contrast. 

- In this time of utter catastrophe for the preservation of Jamaican heritage, the Jamaican white person must be taken out of the glass cage (in the same way the Garvey must be taken out Of the glass cage, in a different context) and put back to work leading the preservation effort. 

- We need a serious governance program run on Garveyite principles on one hand, and we need a colonial and natural heritage program which features Jamaican white people on the other.