Portia vs Lady Saw
21 06 2007
Today as I drove around the hot streets of Kingston, I was listening to a talk show. One caller called in and said that she is tired of hearing from people that she knows that Portia is behaving like Lady Saw and is beginning to look like Lady Saw. Hmmmmmmmm…………………..I thought. The behaviour is beginning to bear resemblance of ”Lady Saw” (note I didn’t say Marion Hall as I gather she is not the same as Lady Saw). So, I came home and researched some pictures of both persons and come to think of it……if I didn’t know better I would say they both resemble…any opinions?
Lady Saw is a professional entertainer. The fact that you cannot be identified with the class of persons who supports her does not mean something is wrong with her. Your linkening of the the Prime Minister’s behavour to that of Lady Saw leads me to believe that she falls into a category that does not fit into your class. I agree that as Prime Minister, the political correct thing prescribed by society is to adopt the behaviour of the elites and live like the Jones’. To frown on the worldview of those outside your class is an indication that you are afraid to accept the Lady Saw in you. The class of the Jones’ continues to live in denial and continues to look to the slave masters to dictate how we should live and behave.
Lawd that was so technical…what happened to the “laugh a day”?
I am so happy Jamaica is now been Govern by someone who looks and speaks like the majority of us, sad to say there are a lot of people that seem to have a problem with that. Such a pity.
Nobody has a problem with someone who “speaks and looks like the majority of us” but at least let it be someone with sense. There is no way I think she has much of it. Jamaica is stuck in the “curry goat and beer” culture of governance. This is the Third World, we don’t have time for people who perpetuate this stance! This not only goes for most PNP candidates, but also most JLP candidates.
That is wicked funny jamaicangirl2007! Separated at birth I’d say. Laugh a day— I will be laughing all week.
I do agree with jamaicangirl2007, there is nothing wrong with looking like the people you represent. However, running a country with the challenges that Jamaica faces requires someone more intellectually equipped than Portia.
Now I completely understand the sentiments behind “yeah she looks like us, she talk like us, she is one us—first female PM etc”. But Jamaica needs more than that. We deserve better than that. The big challenge is how we educate voters that we should require more of our leaders. And I am not talking “handouts”. I am referring to requiring our candidates to have a strong action-plan for growth of our country. It’s about time the masses realize that the person, who stands on a podium before an election and charismatically yell blah, blah does nothing! I have been hearing the same lame political rhetoric since the 70’s— nothing has changed.
How do we change our politics? Educating the voters!
greetings from barbados…
saw a post from you on the Free Press, decided to check you out. congrats on your site. may it live long and prosper!
incidentally, pay no mind to the foolish humourless poster above who poured mannish water over your funny and light-hearted comparison between Lady S and Portia.
yo, “sheila”: you a wannabe (or maybe a hasbeen) UWI politricksical scientist, right?
heh.
peace out.
Samizdat: Welcome to my blog! I am dying for the day when blogs across the region can seriously start comparing notes, only to realise that the one common factor our political parties have in common is that they take us (people of the Caribbean) for dayum idiots. :)) We have to take a stand on the insanity which reigns supreme in Jamaica and the rest of the region!