Dear Montego Bay, Stop Killing Your Family

Dear Montego Bay, our ancestors all came to Jamaica on the same boat so we are all related. The Africans, the Chinese, the Indians all came over on the boat at different times to work on plantations and then all of them had babies together because that was their favorite thing to do and that’s how we the descendants came to Montego Bay. So we are all cousins and the land belongs to all of us. None is better than the other. We are all equal. So why are we killing our own cousins in Montego Bay. Even if someone isn’t your cousin, you probably went to school with them or grew up in the same community and played Dandy Shandy together, so let us stop pretending like we don’t know who these “killers” are. So now that we have all come to the shocking realization that we are all related, stop waiting on the government to solve our problems. Let us own the problem and do something about it. The next time you go to Sam Sharpe Square, and a random person walks past you, that person could be your distant cousin and share your DNA. Look at that person as a possible family member even if he or she is black, chinese, Indian, white or mixed. Stop killing each other.