Who is Responsible For Our Children?

I am sitting back and watching in utter amazement at the ignorance of my people.

If one did not know better one would think that under the JLP crime, abuse of children, abuse of the elderly, and others were never issues in Jamaica. I am watching in awe at the level of venom, and  hypocrisy, being leveled at the Prime Minister, and for the first time I have to say I feel for her, I really do. I have never supported her or the PNP, and while I honestly do not think she is equipped to lead, I am saddened by many of the comments I see being leveled at her by Jamaicans.

Common sense dictates that neither the Prime Minister or her cabinet can dictate and TELL people who to love, so if mothers who should protect and nurture their children are because of want of sex and affection, bringing men who are monsters into their homes, who then turn around and rape, murder and abuse their children, what can the Prime Minister do about it? How can anyone blame the Prime Minister and say it is her fault that the children are being murdered when a.) members of the community are silent. b.) Mothers turn a blind eye to the fact that their kids are being molested. c.) These women have given to men the power to do as they choose with their kids.

Apart from implementing laws and enforcing them, what else can the government do? If reports are not being made to the police, if people are silent when they know what is taking place, what can the government do? Should the Prime Minister now make it her point of duty to dictate whom these women love and bring into their homes? Should she get a motorcade and visit each and every home and do a survey to make sure the children in those homes are protected? When these women were making these children, was the Prime Minister present?

To see that we have such a SERIOUS issue on our hands and all SOME people can do is throw stones at the PNP and the Prime Minister speaks volumes. It’s blatantly clear that we are a country so politically divided that even the issue of child abuse becomes fodder for politics. As a child men were impregnating their daughters, uncles, cousins,and step fathers were molesting their children, and the entire community knew and no one said a word, and If I remember correctly since I am now 47 and with age comes the loss of memory, these things happened unber both the JLP and the PNP.

It is sad that as a people we have no concept of where and when to draw political lines, and SOME of us do not even have any empathy. Persons go as far as using the pictures of the DEAD to score political points. Today once again I am ASHAMED. Ashamed that even in the midst of such dark tragedy my people have no concept of unity, and rather than coming together to find solutions, many prefer to lay blame, because by laying blame they will ensure that their party wins the next election.

When people go as far to use these tragedies to speak about the Prime Minister not having children, it shows just how nasty, despicable, and utterly ignorant and illiterate many of my people are. I was not aware that having a child would indicate how well one can lead a country. What is even sadder is the fact that once anyone decides to speak up or speak out, immediately they come under fire because –  if you do not support the nastiness and vitriol being spewed by those who support the same party you do, you become the enemy. Well I was taught that I either stand for something or SIT on my derriere and support SLACKNESS. At 47 I will not confrom to please anyone. That is NOT who I am. Sadly by what I witness taking place on social media I have come to the conclusion that unless we begin to think outside the political boxes of JLP and PNP, we are a people who will continue to be lost in the wilderness and will never see the forest for the trees. I weep for the children, because while the adults continue to draw political lines, they are deaf to their cries. God please help them.

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