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KAMALA HARRIS’ JAMAICAN HERITAGE – UPDATED – 14.01.2019

Kamala Harris

Reflections of a Jamaican Father

By

Donald J. Harris

As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my parents and family friends: “memba whe yu cum fram”. To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me.  As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters.  Born and bred in America, Kamala was the first in line to have it planted.  Maya came two years later and had the advantage of an older sibling as mentor.  It is for them to say truthfully now, not me, what if anything of value they carried from that early experience into adulthood.  My one big regret is that they did not come to know very well the two most influential women in my life: “Miss Chrishy” and “Miss Iris” (as everybody called them).  This is, in many ways, a story about these women and the heritage they gave us.

My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me).  The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).

Both of my grandmothers had the strongest influence on my early upbringing(“not to exclude, of course, the influence of my dear mother”Miss Beryl” and loving father “Maas Oscar”). 

Miss Chrishy was the disciplinarian, reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’, but capable of the most endearing and genuine acts of love, affection, and care.

Miss Chrischy - Gret Grand mother of Kamala Harris
Miss Chrishy dressed up in her usual finery, standing in front of the home at Orange Hill, St Ann parish where I spent my early years

 

She sparked my interest in economics and politics simply by my observing and listening to her in her daily routine.

She owned and operated the popular ‘dry-goods store’ on the busy main street leading away from the famous market in the centre of Brown’s Town.  Every day after school, I would go to her shop to wait for the drive home to Orange Hill after she closed the shop.  It was here that she was in her groove, while engaged in lively and sometimes intense conversation with all who came into the shop about issues of the day.

Business was front and centre for her, a profession and a family tradition that she embodied and carried with purpose, commitment, pride, and dignity (next to her devotion to the church that, as she often said, her ancestor built).  She never paid much attention to the business of the farm at Orange Hill.  Her sons took care of that side of the family business.  Her constant focus was on issues that affected her business of buying and selling imported ‘dry goods’ as well as the cost of living, issues that required understanding and keeping up with the news – a task which she pursued with gusto. She was also fully in charge of ‘domestic affairs’ in our home and, of course, had raised eight children of her own at an earlier age.

There was a daily diet of politics as well.  She was a great admirer of ‘Busta’ (Sir William Alexander Bustamante, then Chief Minister in the colonial government and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).  She claimed, with conviction and pride, to be a “Labourite” (as members of the JLP were called) and for the interesting reason that, as she argued, “labour is at the heart of everything in life”.  Little did I know then, what I learned later in studying economics, that my grandmother was espousing her independently discovered version of a Labour Theory of Value!

Her philanthropic side shone through every Easter and Christmas when she had my sister Enid and me package bun and cheese (a favourite Jamaican Easter fare) and other goodies in little boxes that we carried and delivered to families living in the area around our home.

She died in 1951 at the age of 70.  Her departure left me, then only fourteen, with a deep sense of sadness and loss.

Miss Iris, mother of eight children too, was the sweetest and gentlest person one could meet, but underneath it was a tough farming woman who ran the cane farm at Thatch Walk (near Aenon Town) jointly owned with her husband “Mr Christie”.  She was always ready to go to church on Sunday to preach and teach about the “Revelations” she saw approaching the world at that time (during and after World War II) in accord with the Bible.

I spent summers with her, roaming around the cane field, fascinated by the mechanical operation of cane ‘juicing’ by the old method (a wooden pole extended out from the grinding machine and tied to a mule walking round and round to grind the cane), and eager to drink a cup of the juice caught directly from the juice flowing into the vat to be boiled and crystallized as ‘raw sugar’.  No Coke or Pepsi could beat the taste of that fresh cane juice!

It was a joy and a learning experience for me to hang out with the workers on the cane farm, see them wield a ‘cutlass’ (the machete) with such flourish and finesse, listen to their stories of exploits (some too x-rated for me to repeat), and sit with them as they prepared their meal by putting everything in one big ‘Dutch’ pot, cooking it over an open fire in the field and serving it out on a big banana leaf for all of us to eat sitting there.

Looking back now I can say, with certainty and all due credit to Miss Iris, that it was this early intimate exposure to operation of the sugar industry at the local level of small-scale production with family labour and free wage-labour, coupled with my growing curiosity about how these things came to be, that led me, once I started reading about the history of Jamaica, to a closer study of the sugar industry. I came then to understand its origin as a system of global production and commerce, based on slave labour, with Jamaica as a key component of that system from its very start.

Miss Iris died in 1981 at the grand old age of 93 and I grieved over the loss of someone so dear and close to me.  She is shown here in photo (taken by me in 1966), just back from church, proudly holding in her lap little Kamala, and confident in her firm prediction even then of the future achievements of her great-granddaughter (after giving her ‘blessings’ by making a cross with her finger on the child’s forehead).

Miss Iris, Jamican Great Grand Mother of Kamala Harris
Miss Iris with great Granddaughter Kamala

 

From the start, I strived to retrace for my children the path on which I had traveled: from Miss Judah’s primary school at Top Road in Brown’s Town to Park School ‘Elementary’ just around the corner, to Titchfield High in Port Antonio, to University College of the West Indies (UCWI) then to Berkeley where Kamala was born, to Illinois where Maya was born, and subsequently to Cambridge University, Wisconsin, Yale, and Stanford.  

Throughout this retracing, my message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that the sky is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination and that, in this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who get left behind by social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources or ‘privilege’; also not to get ‘swell-headed’ (a favourite expression and command of Miss Chrishy); and that it is important to ‘give back’ with service to some greater cause than oneself.

Donald Harris

Experiencing their Jamaican heritage

In their early years, I tried to convey this message in very concrete terms, through frequent visits to Jamaica and engaging life there in all its richness and complexity. In Brown’s Town, we walked the streets during ‘market day’, chatted up the ‘higglers’ in the market and were rewarded with plenty of ‘brawta’ (Jamaican word for bonus offerings) in naseberries, mangoes and guinep after each purchase.  We checked out the location of the old Park School which had become transformed into Brown’s Town Comprehensive High School, strolled into St. Mark’s Church and graveyard, and traversed the road up the hill to Orange Hill where my uncle Newton had taken over the family property and started a limestone mining and brick producing operation in addition to the cattle, grass, fruit and pimento farming of earlier times. 

Images of Brown’s Town courtesy of Bruce T Photography

We drove up to Thatch Walk and worked our way, with lots of cuts and bruises, through the same cane fields where Miss Iris had run a thriving business in the ‘good ole days’ of sugar and, a long time before, had probably been part of a slave plantation. We played around on the lovely white sand of the beach at Dry Harbour and in the forceful but soothing waters of the world famous Dunns River Falls.  

In Kingston, we visited the campus of the former UCWI, today The University of the West Indies ranked in the top 5% of world universities  (in my role then as member of the faculty) to view its remarkable physical setting in the misty morning light, the buildings comfortably spread out over the vast lands of the Mona Commons and against the imposing backdrop of the Blue Mountains.

In Port Antonio we visited my high school alma mater at Titchfield, still sitting there (as a powerful symbol of the privileged system of education that existed before the progressive reforms of the Manley era) at the end of the little peninsula overlooking Navy Island and in the historic setting of an ancient battery and cannons pointed out to sea to defend the harbour. We trekked over to the ruins at ‘Folly’, and to the ‘Blue Hole’, and took a swim at the exquisite little beach tucked away in a little cove at Fairy Hill.

Map of Jamaica
Map of Jamaica

 

Of course, in later years, when they were more mature to understand, I would also try to explain to them the contradictions of economic and social life in a ‘poor’ country, like the striking juxtaposition of extreme poverty and extreme wealth, while working hard myself with the government of Jamaica to design a plan and appropriate policies to do something about those conditions. The National Industrial Policy promulgated by the Government of Jamaica in 1996 and the Growth Inducement Strategy of 2011 were the outcome of that continued effort.

Now, far away in the diaspora in 2018, one of the most vivid and fondest memories I have of that early period with my children is of the visit we made in 1970 to Orange Hill. We trudged through the cow dung and rusted iron gates, up-hill and down-hill, along narrow unkempt paths, to the very end of the family property, all in my eagerness to show to the girls the terrain over which I had wandered daily for hours as a boy (with Miss Chrishy hollering in the distance: “yu better cum home now, bwoy, or else!”).

Upon reaching the top of a little hill that opened much of that terrain to our full view, Kamala, ever the adventurous and assertive one, suddenly broke from the pack, leaving behind Maya the more cautious one, and took off like a gazelle in Serengeti, leaping over rocks and shrubs and fallen branches, in utter joy and unleashed curiosity, to explore that same enticing terrain.  I quickly followed her with my trusted Canon Super Eight movie camera to record the moment (in my usual role as cameraman for every occasion). I couldn’t help thinking there and then: What a moment of exciting rediscovery being handed over from one generation to another! 

This early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, “a neegroe from da eyelans” was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!).  Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.

So, here we are now

granddaughter Meena, her aunt Kamala and me
My granddaughter Meena, her aunt Kamala and me

All grown up now, Kamala is carving a way for herself in America and Meena is doing the same by her own route (as is her mother Maya).  Not to be ignored is little Amara, the first of my two great-granddaughters.

In this Photo I am holding her lovingly and joyfully in my lap, and having there perhaps the same thoughts and expectations about her as Miss Iris might have had about little Kamala on that day, half a century ago, when she held her in her lap.  Thus, the cycle continues. 

The cycle of history repeats itself in remarkable ways, small and large, across the generations of us Jamaicans, though we may be scattered around in the diaspora and far away from home where it all started.  It is up to each generation to play its part, using well the legacy it inherits from the previous generation, so as to leave behind something of value for those who follow.

Notes

* Correction: Miss Chrishy died at age 70, not 62 as previously reported.

Donald J. Harris

Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University, Stanford, California

September 26, 2018

©2018 Donald J. Harris.  All rights reserved by the author.


Kamala Harris Fact File 

  • Born October 20,1964
  • Graduated from Howard University and Hastings Law School UCLA
  • Elected 32nd Attorney General in California (2011-2017) – First black woman to be so elected
  • Elected US Senator in California in 2017 – First ever Female Senator of Jamaican descent; first black Senator in California and second black woman to be elected to the US Senate
  • Dubbed by the media as “the female Obama”, President Obama once described her as being not only brilliant, dedicated and tough but (who) “ also happens to be, by far, the best looking Attorney General in the country.”
  • Fights for middle class families; children; education; environmental protection; seniors and immigrant communities
  • Has been President Trump’s most strident critic inside and outside the Senate
  • Made current US Attorney General Sessions complain that her persistent questioning at his Senate confirmation hearings “made him nervous”.
  • Led the campaign against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh immediately his nomination was announced

 Notable Kamala Harris quotes

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine; Work out and eat well”

And this to young women: 

You’ve got to work out. It has nothing to do with your weight. It’s about your mind.”

TRACKING KAMALA HARRIS ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

She may not have formally declared her intention to make a bid for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 Presidential election but this week, Kamala Harris gave the clearest indication yet that she intends to throw her hat into the ring as a contender. Latest reports set the date as January 21, Martin Luther King Day.

She not only began the week by launching a book tour and media blitz to herald the publication of her second book The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, she also boldly declared on ABC’s show “The View” that the US was “absolutely” ready for a woman of colour to be President. Ms. Harris was clearly NOT referring to Elizabeth Warren who recently announced that she was launching an exploratory committee to run for the White House. As the only woman of colour in the picture, Kamala Harris must have been referring to herself. At the same time, she was clever enough to deflect any direct reference to herself by suggesting to her interviewer that she was referring to the sophistication of the American public in making the right choice based on a candidate’s abilities rather than gender or colour. As for the timing of the publication of her book, John Diaz of the San Francisco Chronicle observes:

The Truths We hold“ The release of the book on the cusp of her expected plunge into the 2020 presidential race is no coincidence”. Diaz continues: “ A pre-candidacy memoir is essential not only to introduce oneself to the relatively limited pool of voters who do their own due diligence, but to provide a baseline of facts and a suggested narrative for commentators and profile writers who will be shaping public perceptions about the contenders.” He is convinced she has begun her run for 2020.

And in a review of the book for NPR, Daniele Kurtzleben says Harris presents herself as a potentially formidable candidate which is to say she efficiently makes her case like the prosecutor she is.

But if action speaks louder than words there are other clear signs that Harris is preparing herself for a run at the nomination. She recently closed down her state campaign committee “Harris for Governor 2026” and although observers are convinced that she had no real intention to enter the California gubernatorial race at any stage, she is strategically redistributing funds collected to various state organizations in advance of California’s state caucus which has been brought forward to March. In 2018, she was very active in travelling to crucial primary states like Florida, Iowa and South Carolina to help boost Democratic party candidates running in mid-term elections and her Political Action Committee (PAC) raised over $2.4 million in support of candidates.

Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris

There are still nagging questions that the latest Harris memoir fails to answer. As her reviewer says the book “reads as a memoir –but-not-really. Harris does tell her life story but she uses it as a vehicle for telling us what she really wants us to know about her”. Apparently there is much ado about her growing up and relationship with her mother. Jamaicans will be anxious to find out what she has to say about her Jamaican heritage and her relationship with her father!  

See Also: A JAMAICAN ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE AS KAMALA HARRIS FORMALLY DECLARES HER CANDIDACY

See Also: TRACKING KAMALA HARRIS ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

 

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81 comments

Alexander Israel March 15, 2019 at 8:07 pm

Jamaican heritage…in 2019 if you people still think that means anything for people of color especially so-called Jamaicans you have no idea how this world is running, her track record speaks for itself (PRO-PRISON for Blacks and Hispanics), she sees the white man and woman that she surrounds herself with as Gods, and anyone around her that has melanin they share her views…so lets see how this plays out…Blacks,Hispanics and Natives you’re the real Jews learn your history.

jeff February 26, 2019 at 8:02 pm

who cares. she is toast. zero probability of winning. her chances are slim to none and slim just left town!

Debra Johnson February 25, 2019 at 6:52 pm

Thanks to Mr Harris for his candid story. The troubling part of Kamala Harris’ past is that she does not have birthright citizenship, which requires at least one of her parents to have been a citizen for 5 yrs. Neither of her parents were even in the US for 2 yrs & neither were even eligible to be a citizen, nor to date has it been established that they are today. This is a common anchor-baby falsehood. On top of the fact her mother moved to Canada before she attended school. Going to college in the US, is not a qualification to run for president, citizenship is, therefore Ms Harris should read the rules before she steps forward.

Paula February 26, 2019 at 5:19 pm

Debra, Kamala Harris is an American citizen and has been one since she was born here. The restrictions you cite may be ones that some in our country could like to place on birthright citizenship, but they are not currently in place and would require an amendment to the US Constitution to put them in place.

JOHN BROWN February 25, 2019 at 5:28 am

I HOPE THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE DO NOT FALLOW THE BLACK AMERICAN, JAMAICA IS A MULTICULTURE COUNTRY
OUT OF MANY ONE WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF MISS HARRIS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT NOT NOT TALK LIKE THESE BLACK AMERICAN THEY ARE IN AMERICA 2000 YEARS AND DO NOT ACOMPLISH NOTHING ONLY CRY ABOUT RACE.

Tommy L. February 23, 2019 at 6:38 pm

Thanks for posting this article. Now I know for sure she won’t get my vote!

Obummer February 23, 2019 at 4:09 pm

So Kamala Harris is the descendant of slave owners? She’s done.

Ventura Capitalist February 26, 2019 at 3:22 pm

Looks like Kommiela is toast.

Daire Feeney February 22, 2019 at 12:44 pm

I don’t care for this politician or any politician. The good politicians usually have their Cessna fall from the sky due to “mechanical failure” or they happen to trip into a bullet.

That said, i don’t particularly give a care about the histrionics around slave history. The last 200 years of slavery PALE in comparison to the millennia of slave ownership all across Africa, the middle east, Europe, Balkans, Mongolia, on and on.

All colors. All religions. All races. And yes, its TERRIBLE but its history. However, it’s only been the last 100 years that for some inexplicable reason everyone wants to talk about how the white man has stolen all this land and benefited the most from slavery.
Meanwhile, black tribes have been slaughtering each other for MILLENNIA, brown tribes have been slaughtering each other for MILLENNIA, white tribes have been slaughtering each other for MILLENNIA…..

but the moment a white tribe starts slaughtering other tribes, now we have moral and ethical debates? Please, the effort is very disingenuous . Cry me a river to Genghis Khan because disparities are non existent from 5000BC to 1850 AD and even to Saudi Arabia 1960 AD. Wake me up when the world agrees to give Ukraine back to Attila the Hun.

Allan Harl Thomas February 21, 2019 at 2:28 am

Thank You, Mr Harris, for sharing this story.

Nikki Carlson February 18, 2019 at 7:37 pm

People are criticizing Kamala for talking more about her mother than her father. Her parents divorced when she was very little and she was raised by her mother. She didn’t even live in the same state as her father. And if the statement on this site talking about pot smoking joy seekers is actually true, he is a terribly unsupportive father.

Joan Samuels-McKenzie February 2, 2019 at 9:56 pm

When I read this article I saw the mind of a man with “deep social awareness” (his words) of his origin in a sugar plantation system based on slave labor. He is open and honest about it. He even took his children to “retrace” his steps and educate them about it. So, I went back and looked up his bio and his work as an economics professor. I found that it is all there on the internet. And it blew me away. This is a man who spent his whole career dealing with the conditions of poor people, black people, both in Jamaica and in America, and writing about how to improve their life.
Then I take a look at what his daughter is saying today about her upbringing and how she came to be who she is. As a mother myself, with three grown children and a husband of 37 years, I got curious about this. The way she tells it, it is all about her East Indian mother. Her mother is the “super-hero” in her life. No problem with that – her hero is her choice to make. But then she goes on to claim her mother is the one who taught her about being “black”, “civil rights”, “social justice”, and all that stuff. On its face, this part of her story makes no sense to me. When you hang around East Indian immigrants in America, the people I work with, you understand why.
The high caste ones (the so-called Brahmins) look down on the low caste ones as “untouchables” (literally!), but living in America they have to pretend to be “open-minded”. According to reports, Kamala Harris spent her time in San Francisco in the circle of rich white women, flaunting “her Brahmin background” and proving how “that accounts for her ease around wealthy, powerful people.” Nowhere in her bio do I see a speech or any writing that shows any serious thinking or writing about what it means to be black in America, to be poor in America or, even more, what it means to be a slave or a descendant of slaves. Instead, as a prosecutor, she seem to take pride in throwing innocent black men into jail and prosecuting poor black women for truancy of their children.
By the way, how come the father is not in any of those pictures she is flashing about her career, or even her swearing in as a senator?
What I see here is a woman who is confused and a bit naive about who she is and what this means for her role in politics. As I said in my previous post, I view the “pretend African woman” thing as a scam. The truth is, she is riding on her father’s racial identity for her identity politics while running away from the reality of her father as a whole person and his role in her life. She has to resolve this conflict if she expects to have any credibility or trust as a leader. She has yet to show how her understanding of “blackness” stacks up against her career as a “top cop” in San Francisco. Right now, it is not clear to me that she can. It needs some serious reflection about these things. I don’t see that in her so far. Instead, all that I see and hear is talking points, empty slogans and platitudes.

Ian Randle February 17, 2019 at 10:32 pm

Dear Joan Samuels McKenzie, you should read the latest story on this site in which Don Harris blasts Kamala for her stereotyping Jamaicans as pot smokers. Bears ot a lot of what you said

Peggy Abby June 29, 2019 at 2:32 pm

I read your commentary as more self gratifying criticism that might make you feel superior rather than good and truly helpful information that helps people understand qualities of a possible Presidential candidate who might do a lot of good for our fragile nation. While no one is perfect, you nor me, your remarks are not helpful in discerning if this candidate could do us proud as a nation. We need to look deeply at the characteristics that will protect and enhance our nation, not all the knit picky stuff we enjoy venting. This woman must walk a difficult path to become our President. God knows we need a strong capable leader that has at least a rudimentary understanding of race and the widespread injustice we live with now, and what our faltering nation needs! Please find better ways to support that!

Carlene February 2, 2019 at 12:12 pm

Why are we so “jealous”about our own, some of you are like crabs never like to see anyone get a head always tries to pull them down.Lord I declare a miracle in the 2020 Election you said no weapon that formed against Miss Harris will not prosper and every tongue that rise up negatively against her shall be condemned .Father you are a way maker, miracle worker, promised keeper light in the darkness my God that is who you are.

merritt July 3, 2019 at 12:04 am

You are delusional and Kampala is NOT #ADOS so miss us with your delusional BS.

Carla February 1, 2019 at 8:51 pm

The issue I have with this alleged history is the statement “born and bred in America”. Kamala lived in CANADA from ages 6-18 (until she came to the US for college). That is basically all of her formative years. She lived only with her Indian mother in Canada during this time, and went to Canadian elementary, middle, and high schools. WHY do they seek to hide and obscure this fact and pretend she grew up in Oakland–even saying she was “influenced by the Panthers” (as she claimed in her Breakfast Club interview)? Why did she say “growing up in Oakland” in the campaign announcement speech, knowing good and well she was raised in Canada? She is eligible to run since she was born in the U.S. (so any type of birther controversy would be completely misguided), but the deliberate omission (here and in all other circles) of the fact that she was raised in Canada from ages 6-18 is very disturbing because it seems fraudulent. Why not just tell the truth about that? She seems to be pretending to have had the Black American experience (announcing on MLK Day at Howard University, coopting Shirley Chisholm’s logo, using Life Every Voice and Sing) all in order to win votes, but she does not actually have that Black American experience or context to draw from. Just going to Howard does not mean she had the Black American experience throughout her life. Kamala, don’t masquerade as something else–just be true to who you are. It’s insulting to American Black people who actually grew up in America and experienced all the hardships that came with it. Furthermore, telling the truth about growing up in Canada could be an asset, given many of the policies Canada has that many Democrats in America admire and wish could be implemented here in the U.S.

Josepheme KellyBent February 18, 2019 at 12:34 pm

You must weigh things before commenting. No because u are black and she’s black the truth must be spoken. Iam black and Jamaican too but don’t want any Jamaican president who will not recognise her roots especially her father properly. By the way the comment”no weapon etc””is not quoted properly.You cannot say “no weapon cannot.”It must be “No weapon can” prosper. Check with your English teacher.

T February 1, 2019 at 8:11 pm

Your mother is Indian from India. Your father is Indian and WHITE JAMAICAN. In case all of you darker JAMAICANS don’t understand, his ancestors potentially OWNED some or ALL of your ancestors in Jamaica. All you ADOS’s in America that are caping for this fraud, you deserve what you get. She’s using you like Obama used you. You’re welcome.

Apalled February 17, 2019 at 11:51 pm

Ummmm there is NOTHING white about her father or his parents! STOP IT!

Pilgrim1 February 21, 2019 at 11:51 am

Apalled, Mr Harris stated, ” My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner”. This will be an issue in MS. Harris’s run for president and a disqualifier, in the current political environment here in the US.

badMemory February 23, 2019 at 8:24 am

Steyn and Carlson having fun with this on Fox it seems. We do know many plantation owners had chaotic sex lives and “favourites”, right? Presumably, consent means nothing when you are “owned” and want to avoid being beaten …

Hamilton Brown (1776 – 18 September 1843) was an Irish sugar planter and slave owner in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.

nylor February 1, 2019 at 3:06 pm

Seems I read something like this about a week or so ago and it was stated that there was a plantation with slave ownership by your family. Did I read wrong?

Domincika February 1, 2019 at 12:32 pm

Kamala Harris put many African American men in jail, and when they were found to be wrongly convicted, did NOTHING. Just took off and left them to die in prison. Some champion for civil rights, heh? A real advocate. And then there’s Larry Wallace, her close, close confidant and colleague. Wallace is a serial sexual predator who was preying on women right under Harris’ nose, and she claims she was “unaware.” Good to know. Because if Harris was unware of what was going on within a 200 square foot raidus of herself, she sure can’t know what’s going on in USA. Remember her latest photo? A homeless man passed out on a bench right outside her window, and she’s just a carefree, laughing and enjoying life and limelight, not a care for anyone else but herself. This is the real Kamala Harris. Narcissitic. Sociopath. Bitter. Irritating nasal voice. Chose to never have kids so has no nuturing ability to care for another human. Just herself.

Californiaqueen January 31, 2019 at 11:33 pm

No, never Kamala. This bitch locked up too many of my brothers to Ever get any respect!! She is not a black American woman!

Georgia January 29, 2019 at 12:59 pm

She bears the resemblance of father. I wish her well in her run for the Presidency. How wonderful that her father took the time to acquaint her to Jamaican side, Well done Mr. Harris.

Georgia January 30, 2019 at 11:56 am

So y’all just going to update the part where he says they were proud slave owners on out of there huh?

Ricardo Torres January 28, 2019 at 7:32 pm

It’s a great thing when someone comes to this country legally and does well for society or is a contributing member of society. Just because a person has a minority background it does not automatically make them a good or great person to all minorities. If we simply remove the names, color and race from people and do an analysis based on their performance as professional and personal life, the dynamics quickly change. As a minority in this country I refuse to back someone based on ethnicity just because. They must still be held to a certain standard, especially those who are in leadership positions. Harris past is well documented the means of her rise is less than honorable. She IS a politician and will say whatever is popular with Hollywood and the extreme left in the present. Unfortunately she is NOT for the people! Boil it all down and she is as self serving as it get’s. She is NOT African American and it can not should not be spun as such. She will play the free benefits for all card and the ignorant will follow the FREE dinner bell. There is no such thing as FREE! The working class pays!!

Will she acknowledge her families history as slave owners? I hope she does. But I smell a spin on the truth.

JOR EL January 29, 2019 at 4:45 am

WILL KAMARA HAVE GUTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW SHE GOT TO ALL THIS POSITIONS?…HANKY PANKY SITUATION IS NOT EASY TO COVER…THAT BEING SAD..HER BID FOR WHITE HOUSE IS OVER BEFORE EVEN STARTED

Blondie Smith January 31, 2019 at 8:24 pm

Ricardo Torres: She is an African American, she was born here. I don’t know of any blacks being slave owners in Jamaica,

merritt July 3, 2019 at 12:11 am

She is NOT African American. She has no roots in Africa, and she has no roots connected to slavery like #ADOS. Her lineage is Indian and Jamaican. #ADOS’s lineage me we endured Slavery and Jim Crow. she doesn’t have any to that lineage. She is Indian and Jamaican. You don’t know that because you do not know history.

Lion Paw February 1, 2019 at 4:12 pm

Its called Identity Politics, The Democrats have mastered it. Vote your values and not the color of the person’s skin.

Luis D Rey January 28, 2019 at 8:19 am

Mr. Harris seems to be a nice fellow but her Kamala seems to have been raised in Hell by The Great Mammon, lol

Noemie NJOH NJOH January 29, 2019 at 3:26 pm

Do people ever vote for someone and look at their tract record,??,,look at the way this woman handled her career ,,did she defend black men?? in the court system,,, this woman promoted the prison industrial system and everyone knows who the slaves are in those prisons . !!! ,her dad is Jamiacan ,,he is one they would call brown skin, ,,Father left mom at age two,,so she was raised by an Indian woman,,,,east indians do not like black people NoNoNo,,,wake up black people

Btw January 28, 2019 at 2:17 am

I have read all the comments and my final analysis is that every one is hopeful that the next president will make a positive impact on the country and regain world respect .

Derek January 27, 2019 at 2:31 pm

It’s as if you guys see a ‘black’ face and think your saviour has arrived.

Noemie NJOH NJOH January 29, 2019 at 3:17 pm

not mine,,

Basil Waine Kong January 24, 2019 at 12:52 pm

Like Mr. Harris, I migrated to the United States in 1959.I was born at Victoria Jubilee Hospital and got. my broughtupsy in St. Elizabeth, all of which I cronicled in my book: “Bad Boy From Jamaica”(available on Amazon), a good read for those interested in Jamaican culture. I became a lawyer and fathered four highly successful children and six amazing grand children. I am in awe of Miss Harris and believe she will become the next President of these United States. I plan to work heard to that end.

Derek January 27, 2019 at 2:28 pm

As a Jamaican I must take issue with that Miami picture of Jamaicans grinning inanely as if in a lunatic asylum, with Harris, a woman who has even apologised for the amount of black people she helped incarcerate in California.

Paul January 28, 2019 at 2:16 pm

In support of your comment, I refer readers to these two YouTube postings titled: “Kamala Harris’ Record as a Prosecutor is Appalling and Indefensible” and “The Case Against Kamala Harris: 25 Years of Sex, Lies & Corruption”

Victor Prabhakaran January 22, 2019 at 10:02 pm

Her mother is a Tamil Indian; Tamil is one of the oldest continuously used languages of the world. Her mum looked after her from a very young age. Good luck & God bless you kamala.
V.Prabhakaran.MD., FRCPC.

Christina Anhmanhpour-Jackson March 9, 2019 at 2:20 am

really? MD., FRCPC? I’m impressed. You must really know what you’re talking about because you went to university for 12 years and have a last name of insurrmountable P’s, K’s V’s and a few vowels. Stick to medicine and worry about your own problems in Canada. You have more than enough to keep you all busy.

Murphy Browne January 22, 2019 at 3:24 pm

Some of these comments are unbelievable! It seems that people do not realize that Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm who is claimed by African Americans and held up as an example because she was the first to run for President of the USA was also a child of immigrants. Although she was born in Brooklyn, New York, Shirley Chisholm was the child of an African Barbadian mother and an African Guyanese father. Added to that Shirley Chisholm spent much of her early life (3 to 10 years old) living in Barbados with her maternal grandmother. She was greatly influenced by those 7 years spent and educated on the Caribbean island and she never lost her Barbadian accent.

Michael Thomas January 22, 2019 at 3:41 am

If you aren’t in favor of the criticism of African Americans it’s really simple go back to your homeland from that base there would truly be no need for the glamorization of your country and haritige in a foreign land you could easily display it that pride and results on the global stage. If you are not in America to serve the interest of the descendants of the ones for which you can have the possibility of upward mobility then you become a enemy and if this is your position then it should be stated with courage. If this isn’t the case stand with us economically and politically and then some progressive progress can be achieved.

Janet January 21, 2019 at 11:19 pm

No wonder we have that man in the WH. Firstly, Mr. Harris has written a very interesting article mostly about his upbringing and the contacts his daughters had with his own growing up in Jamaica.
Kamala Harris is an American woman. She wasn’t born in Jamaica.
All of you writing such disparaging remarks are envious of Kamala Harris. You did the same thing when Obama was running. You completely omitted his mother’s ancestry and claimed him only when he won. Jesse Jackson did not think he was “black enough.”
Now listen to yourselves about Kamala Harris. And that idiot who says she can’t run because both her parents were not born in the US- even though she herself is a natural born US citizen. Where do you get this information? You should all shut your kokers up and stop saying anything negative about this woman. She comes from the belly of an Indian (Tamil) woman-Scientist. Why the hell should she behave like a Jamaican or go at the pulpit and shout out that she has Jamaican roots? She is not denying it but she is an American citizen. Thank God she doesn’t have a Jamaican accent or that would have surely dis-qualified her. She has acknowledged her father’s ancestry. That is enough. She has the blood of India, mother Ganges running in her veins—don’t diminish that – so I claim her for all Indians living here. Her mother made sure that her two daughters were given Indian names-Kamala and Maya. ❤️❤️
Peace and love ayu Ras.

Necilia Jones January 29, 2019 at 1:12 pm

As a mom of Jamaican born children and wife of Jamaican husband, I too wondered why the public and the media chooses her Jamaican side to speak about the most…Jamaica is not 3rd class and one if not the best island in the Caribbean but I want to know more about the Indian culture and her brilliant mom scientist genius wombman influence…we all know about Jamaican and the African dominant cultures that exist within and can come out at any time whether you grew up there or not, but it would be nice to see a little more info about her mom’s influence…Indian culture is exquisite and so spiritual and the foooooooood….yaaaaaaas!!!

Jos Tros January 30, 2019 at 7:44 am

Success has many mother, failure is an orphan.

Sandra Taylor January 21, 2019 at 8:04 pm

Kamala Harris has decided to run for president. The problem is, the Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born citizen”, that is, someone born on U.S. soil to parents who are themselves, citizens. Since her parents were NOT citizens when Kamala was born in Oakland, CA in 1964, Kamala is NOT a “natural born citizen”. She is a citizen only through the 14th Amendment, which does not and cannot make anyone a “natural born citizen”. She is not constitutionally eligible to BE president or vice president.

M Kirlew January 22, 2019 at 11:07 pm

It would do you well to research your information before you post. Kampala is a natural born citizen and is, in fact, eligible to be president’

US American January 22, 2019 at 11:13 pm

You are an idiot. Natural born citizen means born on US soil

Hargrove Jones January 24, 2019 at 1:37 am

You’re wrong, *Diasporans didn’t claim Obama after he won, we claimed him, with 96% of our vote, before he won, which is why he won…
*Diasporan: A descendant of a survivor of the African diaspora.

Surinder Mahajan January 29, 2019 at 9:34 am

Did you know Donald Trump,s father was a migrant from Germany ( German born) and mother’s was migrant from Scottlanc ?

Jacqueline Hylton January 30, 2019 at 10:23 pm

You are wrong, as long as she is born in the United States she is eligible, your racism is showing.

A Jamaican

Barr January 31, 2019 at 10:01 pm

Tell that to Reagan

Norma January 21, 2019 at 12:33 pm

Happy to hear someone of Jamaican heritage is seeking the highest American office. I am proud of her.
Her father’s story is encouraging. As I read it brought me back to my childhood days in Jamaica. I could relate to the experience of the sugar cane harvesting as my mother had men working the cane fields to harvest the cane for selling to the sugar factory, Surgeisland, St. Thomas. His story took me back to summer holidays and us roaming the farm to harvest the fruits, jackfruits, starapples. Custardapples sweetsop. Those were precious days that we hold dearly.
I admire Kamala. I was impressed with her questioning in Kavanagh’s hearing. I will purchase and read her book.
I wish her all the best in her pursuit to be president. I will encourage my American cousins and friends to support her. As a Canadian, I can only observe.

Jay Kay January 21, 2019 at 10:36 am

Thank you for sharing this article about your family history.
Ignore the comments from the stupids and afraids.
The future looks difficult and humans like your daughter need to help light the dark paths.

Karen January 16, 2019 at 10:39 am

Her record speaks loud in California she hurt my community not helped with her politics.
She is a fraud

Karen January 16, 2019 at 10:35 am

She a fraud and we know it.She won’t get the nomination.
Until things change for US DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES THEY WILL FOREVER STAY THE SAME.
THE GOV’T OF THIS COUNTRY IS CROOKED AND WILL US ANYTHING TO FURTHER IT’S AGENDA!! BEYOND TRUMP HE IS JUST AS MUCH A STOOL AS WAS OBAMA.
WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN, SORRY WE WHERE HERE FOREVER FIRST AND UNTIL WE ARE ACKNOWLEDGED AND NOT CLUMPED TOGET HER WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE FIRST TO GET WHAT IS DUE US .GOD SEES ALL REMEMBER! !!

Francis December 30, 2018 at 7:44 pm

Many Caribbean immigrants of African ancestry arrive in America with opinions which do not match the facts. Somehow, American slaves had rougher lives than did those in the Caribbean. Slavery in the Caribbean was allegedly kinder and gentler. Ha!! We consider ourselves better and there is much evidence of this wanton display of conceit. That African Americans are suspicious when persons like Kamala Harris appeal for votes should be expected.
Ms Harris, Ms. Stacey Adams and Ms Ocasio Cortez are three recent additions to my political vocabulary. I sought to learn more and found Mr Donald Harris, a graduate of my alma mater, UWI. His story is so much like many others I know; a weave of nationalities, education and survival techniques. Hers is an exciting, ongoing story and I am following.

Joan Samuels-McKenzie November 1, 2018 at 12:09 am

Such a lovely story. Thank you sir. A touching tribute to the inspiring role of your two grandmothers in your life and to the uniquely Jamaican heritage they gave you and your children. But, sad to say, it also serves to reveal the deceptive game your daughter Kamala has been playing on the American public. She started her career in local politics in California pretending to be African American. Even today, if you look at her senate.gov website or her personal website kamalaharris.org, is all about her being a “African American woman”. She give credit to her Indian American mother. But nothing at all said there about her Jamaican heritage. Obviously, when she is “rubbing shoulders with Jamaicans” in that photo taken at fundraiser in Miami, she has to acknowledge the truth (but even then she cant get her facts straight – she tells Commissioner Barnes her father is from St Anns Bay while her father shows in this article he is from Brown’s Town). That is the way the game of identity politics is played – different faces for different spaces. This is why many people say she “lacks authenticity”.

Those of us first and second generation Jamaicans living in America and following Kamala Harris political career can easily see through this scam. But to real African Americans this must be a hard pill to swallow. Up from slavery in America, and struggling hard against huge barriers to make progress here, they were long denied access to the centers of power. It mus be especially galling to them now to see this image of a pretend “African American woman” manufactured by the political image makers and touted as the future president of the United States. Former President Obama is of African but not African-American descent. He readily aknowledged his African ancestry, wrote a excellent book about it (“Dreams from my Father”). But he was also able to claim a authentic African American woman for his spouse. Not even that claim can be made by Kamala Harris, since her current spouse dont appear to fit that bill.

Catherine Albaugh January 12, 2019 at 1:57 pm

There is no “scam” to see through. As all Americans with African American descent check the same ethnicity box in America, so does Kamala Harris. There is no box for “Jamaican or Tamil American”. Her biographical information all states the same facts of her origin, born in California in 1964 to a Jamaican father who immigrated to America in 1961 (Professor at Economics at Stanford) and a native Tamil mother (Cancer Research Scientist) who immigrated to America in 1960. Also please note St Ann’s Bay and Brownstown are within close proximity, both in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica – a good comparison would be Clearwater, FL and nearby St. Petersburg FL, both in Pinellas County, FL- no significant difference that bears any “scamming” notion. Kamala Harris can only be who she was born into this world as, born on American soil to two worthy people that had immigrated to the United States, her father being of African descent, her mother being of Tamil descent. The ethnicity of Kamala’s parents or her husband’s ethnicity are part of Kamala’s personal life, just as applies to any other person on this planet – remember “out of many one people” applies to mixed races all over the world, not just Jamaica. The majority of the present day population on Earth come from mixed ethnicities. We are one thing – people. Kamala’s record of professional integrity and service to the people, are the factors to research and give careful consideration to, and then communicate factually.

Norman January 20, 2019 at 6:52 pm

Thanks Catherine, for your intelligent and logical response to the sorry garble espoused by some. No wonder this nation has been endowed with the worst of humanity at its helm.

Hargrove Jones January 24, 2019 at 2:06 am

I care less about *Diasporans marrying other races, than I care when they’re eager to tell, everything they are, besides African…
*Diasporans are a people that evolved out of the experience of descending from African people, who were enslaved and racially maligned, slandered, and discriminated against, to justify it; we are not nationally, racially, or ethnically the same, but we are all of African descent…

Gaynor January 27, 2019 at 8:04 pm

I know so many Jamaicans who never left Jamaica, when asked where they are from, will tell you the big town not the little district. Imagine if you have visited a few times- more so as a tourist than as a a resident- you don’t necessarily distinguish the town.
Some of us are now nit picking. Can’t we just be proud? She’s woman, She’s black, she’s African American etc.

Lorna Bryan October 24, 2018 at 8:01 am

Yep, a Story, Just saying Jamaican Kamala would not make the Presidential Candidate list. Why?? Black Americans do not like us .I tested the water and during my Campaign that was what I was told,.But then again she has really muddied the water already with ALL HER SHADY DEEDS..BY THE WAY I DID WIN FOR THE CITY I LIVED IN.

Shelly-Ann Finegan October 18, 2018 at 5:40 pm

Its a real joy to see a family member elevate to such high levels but cousin Donald i would have loved to see you posted a picture of my beloved grand aunt Beril Finegan (who you look so much like) affectionately known as as aunt B B and not only a casual mention considering she always spoke so highly of you .In case your wondering who I am I’m the one grand niece who she would accept visits from while she was in hospital at St Anns Bay every day I had take her soups n porriage as she wouldnt eat the hospital food and only my mom could cook it the way she wanted

Marguerite Mongal October 15, 2018 at 8:09 am

Thank you for this story that brings back the same memories of Mr Harris. I too am from Jamaica and took my children there many times and did the same things. I wonder if I crossed paths with Mr Harris on the athletic fields at Titchfield High as I went to Happy Grove High in Portland and my school competed with Titchfield in sports.

Pauline Pringle October 12, 2018 at 10:05 pm

Because I do not believe in Luck or Accident, I am so awed to be led to this page, and to share with you a most interesting journey of a true Jamaican, with past and present family. He has so Masterly penned the times and dates bringing to life a period in our history not to be forgotten. A Jamaican regardless of the Nationality they accept to live and work with, still is spiritually bonds with Jamaica, the daughter of Africa, the motherland. Much Respect!

Mavernie Wright Mitchell October 12, 2018 at 9:56 am

What a delightful commentary on our Jamaican heritage. I got goose pimples all over my body as I I read the article in which you so effectively recalled how fascinating life was in Jamaica. I’m doing the same as you did – taking my grandchildren home to give them a real glimpse of life and teaching them to love and be proud of their heritage and that the sky is our only limit if we work hard at whatever it is we want. I’m proud of Kamala’s work and will be supporting her all the way to the top of her adventure. God bless her.

Loraine C Prince-Stennett October 9, 2018 at 9:15 am

Flashback to my childhood growing up in Jamaica and raising my three children on the values of Jamaican parenting. My children spent their long summer vacations in Jamaica until their grandparents could no longer care for them. They continue to visit Jamaica as adults!
Loved the story

Herman McKoy October 8, 2018 at 3:20 pm

Great story! I certainly enjoyed reading it. I’m familiar with almost all the distrcts/villages mentioned in this story, being born and lived in Orange Hill, Brown’s Town for many years.
I wish Kamala Harris well! Go for it–there is no limit to your success–nuff blessings from your heavenly Father!

Delores Walford-Harris October 8, 2018 at 1:16 pm

Wow unbelievable. Kamal Harris dad is only 2 miles from my home. I know Newton Harris very well a friend of my dad Captain Walford of lower Buxton. I am a fan of kamal Harris. Ok Jamal don’t be ashamed of your roots. Colin Powell always make references to his Jamaican parent. Thank you Mr Harris for telling your story and a very proud one. I am from “meadows lower Buxton” migrated to the the USA 1983. I am proud of my beautiful Jamaica!

Ivor Minott October 8, 2018 at 6:35 am

Very refreshing to read. This article on combuckus day my mom also attended titchfield i proud jamaican who always instill similar values in my kids big up all jamaicans and jahmericans

Margaret Rudy October 6, 2018 at 9:15 pm

A unifying figure already.

Claudette Finegan October 4, 2018 at 6:29 pm

A friend of mine just sent me this article. After reading I realized that we are related. One would never know. The Finegans are so widespread and yes I feel good to know that one us is being represented in high places. Maybe Kamala knowing her current situation would not talk so much about her roots. In fact, she was born here and thank God her dad was able to make her come to life with her roots. There are many of us Jamaicans here are afraid to say they are from Jamaica for whatever the reasons are. I will stand proud at any time and let the world know that I grew up in Inverness, St. Ann, Jamaica and I am a product of all that Jamaica has to offer. Proud to be a Jamaican. Kamala, take courage, run the race and do all you can as a Jamerican. God bless.

Gail Cruz October 4, 2018 at 9:56 am

I had no idea. Being from Jamaica myself, and now living in USA, I enjoyed reading this story. Funny, she has been my favorite since I started watching more and more of the political system in this country. I have been here since 1969 and never before thought that I must watch the politics. I never felt that democracy was a threat before this President was elected. My family was from a city close to them, and my mother actually went to school in Brown’s town.

I wish her the best and would LOVE to see her run for higher office!!

Y. Marsh October 3, 2018 at 10:47 pm

Interesting that the negative comments about Senator Harris are in essence anonymous. Makes me very suspicious of the intent. We live in such polarized times that one has to wonder if there is more behind their message than just commentary.I for one am so proud of her and so happy she is my senator. I thank Professor Harris for sharing this enlightening and heartwarming family history. I am sure Senator Harris is proud of her father and her heritage despite possibly uncomfortable family dynamics to which Professor Harris alludes.

jessie October 3, 2018 at 2:21 pm

I accidentally stumbled on this article while doing a research on the people of the Caribbean in quest of my own Jamaican roots. I am also very much in the thick of things in the US political circle not in any huge way but enough to know who is who and what is what in the 2018 political maelstrom. I was stunned to read about the origins of Kamala Harris who is aspiring to be President of the United States. Dubbing herself as the female Obama is an insult to Obama. One thing you can credit Obama for sure, is that, he never denied his African father’s heritage – he embraced it. In retrospect, most of Kamala speeches and personal stories never came across as authentic. There were so many holes in her personal stories and she would deliberately ignore whoever asked a question. One clip I heard she spoke gingerly of growing up jointly – another was a stark contrast. Hmmm it depends on the crowd she is talking to. Kamala Harris just proved why President Trump won and he will win again. Trump never shied away from who he is – for better or worse! Trump was authentic.

yelsin October 3, 2018 at 9:45 am

Thank for such a riveting and interesting article about the trail blazing hard working Jamaican women who paved the way for your daughter Kamala Harris. What beautiful pictures! This is a treasury-trove of memories of a lovely Jamaican family. It proves to me that you are proud of where you are coming from, where you are today and who you are as a person. Who wouldn’t be! Respect to you and all the lovely Jamaican people. I know many Jamaicans on a professional level and they are wonderful people! It is a shame that your daughter Kamala Harris has been hiding under the cloak of hypocrisy and using identity politics to appease to her base and in the process deliberately denying who she really is. How can any one in his or her right mind engage in such an immoral behavior. We all have a moral responsibility, especially when we are in public office. Listen up, we are who we are, and no skin color, no social or political affiliations can change our DNA. None. If we think otherwise, then we are either dumb or think other people are dumb. It is not the latter for sure. By Ms. Harris’ own DNA, she is a Jamaican-American woman, a black woman, a descendant of slaves and a plantation woman with Jamaican blood flowing through her veins. Elizabeth Warren might run with this instead! This is the real deal that Ms. Harris should be proud of and this is what Ms. Harris should be talking about. Instead of engaging in BS about who she is not. People love authenticity not hypocrisy. By the way, the daughter is the replica of her dad – will she deny this too. This is an untold story that makes the incomprehensible comprehensible. Thank you Sir!

Ewart L. Walters October 2, 2018 at 10:20 pm

Excellent story. Very interesting and exceedingly well told.

I had not heard of you before and now I am wondering if I could write for you. I am a published author, my most recent book being “We Come From Jamaica: The National Movement 1937-1962.” It is the story of the men and women and ideas that were the foundation of the Jamaican as we know him/her today.
I am at base a journalist having worked with Public Opinion, The Gleaner, the Daily News, the JBC, RJR, the Toronto Star, and my own publication in Ottawa, The Spectrum which appeared monthly for 29 years. I was a diplomat for the government of Jamaica and a senior public servant for the Federal Government of Canada. I have been honoured by the Jamaican government with the Order of Distinction (Commander Class), and by the City of Ottawa with the Order of Ottawa for my work with Black communities here in Canada. And I have been writing occasional columns for the Sunday Gleaner.
Do let me know if you are interested, and what that would entail.
Cheers!

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