Comments on: Jamaica’s Culture of Torture and Death

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:19:29 +0000

kayla/Brianna,

Jamaica isn’t even in the top ten of countries visited by tourists.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:04:40 +0000

Jealous much? Why would you boycott? How stupid! You can find something bad about every country but you decide to just boycott Jamaica? Wow… Rasists. I call them like I see them. I will always love Jamaica. IT HAS THE MOST TOURISTS FOR 2009 BABY! YEA!

By: kayla

kayla — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:54:43 +0000

And by the way, Jamaica has the most tourist out of all the countries for 2009 so all you guys are saying went to waste. and so will you for believing this crap.

By: kayla

kayla — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:52:04 +0000

okay you guys are so stupid to even think of writing soemthing this unrealistic. like what? some of my riends are gay and we went to jamaica for grade 12 and they treated them with as much respect as they treated the other people. you people are hating because it is such a beautiful country. I’m white and i think Jamaica is a wonderful place, for everyone! No one cares what you say, It’s dumb and immature for whoever even wrote this nonsense artical.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:17:20 +0000

people have a right to their openion, as long as no one get hurt.

Indeed.

But in Jamaica they seem to get hurt at a much higher rate than anywhere else in the Americas. Jamaica is a cauldron of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination.

And if you have gay friends, and if you really and truly like those friends, you will try to make their lives better and work for their freedom and equality rather than criticize those who actually want to benefit the lives and improve the freedom of your “friends”.

By: ANDRIA

ANDRIA — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:39:46 +0000

It is unfair and unrealistic to say boycott Jamaica, and that Jamaicans are so call christians. How can you put all Jamaicans in one catagory. If that is the case then we can say all gays have AIDS and is sure to burn in hell. I am Jamaican and have many gay friends. I love people for who they are not what they are. that is the preception of almost all the individuals I know. people have a right to their openion, as long as no one get hurt. violence and hatred can come from anywhere not just Jamaica.

By: Mike Airhart

Mike Airhart — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:46:10 +0000

A boycott effort was launched several months ago.

However, the one GLBT Jamaican organization opposes any action, and many U.S. GLBT organizations refuse to support a boycott that is not supported locally.

Before a successful boycott can take root, there must be a broad and well-funded public education effort to demonstrate that inaction and denial will not keep gay Jamaicans safe.

The Jamaican GLBT group, J-FLAG, seeks donations to stop the violence — but they say nothing about what they would do with the money, other than buy office supplies.

http://www.jflag.org/

By: mikeksf

mikeksf — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:15:55 +0000

I believe it was just a month or so ago that calls went out to boycott Jamaican tourism. The local gay goup opposed that idea and so it seems to have gone nowhere.
I’d like to suggest pressure, demonstrations and boycotts targeted at Ziggy Marley. He’ll be in LA on 7/25/09 and then in Honolulu. His music and family are intimately associated with Jamaica. I don’t know if he has spoken out on the issue, but, if he is the man of conscious and compassion his music of love and family and god proclaim than his words are certainly needed. If he supports this culture of hate than we need to know that.

By: Christopher Waldrop

Christopher Waldrop — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:38:47 +0000

Priya, your comment reminded me of something I read several years ago about how in my city (and probably most others as well) places where gay men got together were often high-crime areas. Police looked the other way when the victims of muggings or assault were gay men. I agree that simple laws against assault and murder aren’t enough, but there needs to be a cultural shift as well. Police need to treat everybody equally under the law.

By: tinagrrl

tinagrrl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:38:30 +0000

Boycott all things Jamaican.

Write about it. Speak up about it.

Their culture has no redeeming value.