King Charles 111? Yuck.

Over the years and much to the disgust of many of my fellow Jamaicans, I have never hidden my distaste for my country holding on to a member of the British monarchy as our head of state, despite our decades of so-called independence.  

Many of my listeners and readers would take umbrage, asking stupidly; “so what shi do yu soh” or “how it a go mek di price a bread go dung if wi get rid har?”

I have never had a personal problem with the Queen herself, as she was simply doing very well, the job she was trained to do. My repugnance has always been with the institution which she has unapologetically represented for over seventy years.

For it is that institution which cruelly murdered, tortured and exploited our ancestors for centuries, thus becoming an extremely wealthy nation on the backs of black people.

How many times have you seen the Queen being featured in Forbes magazine as among the wealthiest women in the world? Where did her wealth come from? A statement from the Economic Freedom Fighters of South Africa, partially reminds us. “... we do not mourn the death of the Queen, because her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in South Africa and Africa’s history.”                               

Neither is it only Africa that suffered greatly at the hands of the British monarchy but basically most of the black world.

Also, I used to often wonder aloud if those Jamaicans who support the continuation of the British monarchy assumed that the “nice lady” would live forever? Have they really been looking forward to Charles being their head of state? That man who took an innocent young lady into the terrible institution that the British monarchy is, treated her like garbage then abandoned her thus causing her untimely tragic death?

In my book, the very thought of Charles being our head of state along Camellia who had no problem breaking up a marriage to move up in the world on her back, has always made me cringe.

Well, here it is now.

In reality, heads of state ought to be, at the very least, role models. Now we are stuck with those two, who certainly are not. 

This is because for decades, successive Jamaican governments twiddled their thumbs and caused that lot to become our reality. That is totally unforgivable. 

The worst government was led by P.J Patterson for 14 years but they did nothing. In 2022 however, Patterson had the nerve to demand that the government act quckly to make Jamaica into a republic, because Barbados had done so!

Now, we, a struggling nation, must find millions to finance the changes, especially in the court system and parliament, to accommodate the new king. And if Mallahoo-Forte is to believed, we will become a republic before the next election, so that means we will soon have to waste the money all over again, to accommodate that transition.

Such unnecessary nonsense caused by this inexplicable love of our oppressors. 

The Stockholm syndrome, no less.

While it is really none of my business, the last British prime minister to have been sworn in by the queen, Liz Truss, did in 1994 call for the abolition of the monarchy! Maybe having someone like Charles as her king and Camellia as their queen, will speed up their process.

However, it is unlikely that King Charles 111, like Charles the 1^st, will be executed (He is the only English monarch to be executed). Though, it will probably be more appropriate karma for Camelia if he follows in the footsteps of Charles 11, who was mockingly called the “merry monarch” because of the many affairs he had during his tenure on the throne! (He is probably too old for that though😆.)

Only time will tell what Charles 111’s fate will be, but in the meantime, we in Jamaica certainly do not need such people as our heads of state and assumed role models. ……then there’s the pedophile!👎

Now even Trevor Noah is ridiculing us; https://youtu.be/nOI--lP8bVI

AAnd im own subjects don't want him! ;https://youtu.be/xPeCv9MxzJs

Reform urgently needed

I have been most uncomfortable for years, living in a so-called independent country with the head of state being a foreigner.

Worse, the head of state is from the same institution that kept our ancestors as slaves for three hundred years then followed up with the vicious, racist colonial experience.

The fact that the modern-day British Monarchy, no longer has any real power in the island and hasn’t interfered in out day to day lives has not eased the discomfort and is irrelevant in my book.

It’s the symbolism that’s painful!

Oh no, I have not personally had a problem with Queen Elizabeth who has been very circumspect and whose tenure I could not find a fault with.

But believe it or not, she too is human and one thing all us humans all have in common, is that we die. 

So, I have been nervously watching the steady deterioration of her health with some trepidation, especially as now that at age 95 she has come down with covid.

As she too faces her mortality, she has been diligently putting the succession process in place, so on the 5^th February 2022, she made the most unpalatable statement (in my book).

“When, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me,” she wrote. “[It] is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service.”

OMG.

Charles King of Jamaica and Camellia the Queen!

Tell me I got it wrong.

Charles who drove princess Diana to an early death and Camelia who destroyed that young lady’s life  to become the King and Queen of Jamaica?

The fact is, that royal House is not an institution that can be admired in any way shape or form and when Elizabeth leaves, not only will that unsavory couple be our highest-ranking officials, but also carrying along a sibling who is, for all intent and purposes, an (almost) self-confessed pedophile!

No sir, Jamaica has to work urgently and quickly to move as far away as possible from that royal house.

Earlier this year, the prime minister established a new ministry, the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs. One stated function was to prepare the country for Republican status, something successive PNP and JLP leaders have been promising for decades but doing nothing further,

Since the announcement of the new ministry, we have heard nothing further not even if a new expensive, fancy office has yet been acquired and furnished and how much it will cost us for this new (unnecessary) bureaucracy, much less what time-table has been set to get us out of this monarchy business and on the path to republicanism.

We, as an independent country, desperately need a head of state that we the people select and not another lazy, underutilized, unresponsive representative of the British royal family, who politicians  select on the grounds of religion or whatever.

 Has the new ministry been in consultation with the opposition to decide what the functions of our own president will be or are we going to just swop one ribbon cutter for another?

These matters need to be urgently put on the table and discussed publicly, not just presented to the public as a fait accompli.

We are a mature nation of almost 60 years and it's about time we at least get our governmental structure right.

The churches

When are we going start to investigate people establishing churches and holding up themselves as religious leaders?

Jamaica is a very ‘churchified’ society where parents drum into their children that ‘parson spreading the word of God’ etc. As a result of this blind stupidity, hundreds of children have been abused by pedophiles with a bible.

The church problem has become even more dangerous, as recently it was exposed that one church which was operated by a criminal who had been incarcerated in Canada.

He was also demanding human sacrifices.

Just as shocking, now that secret tapes are being played in the Clansman trial, it is being revealed that one parson was not only an alleged member of that bloodthirsty gang, but also actively engaged in endorsing murders, while gospel music blared in the background!

How much scarier must the Jamaican church community become before the authorities realize that they must regulate how churches are established and put in place, ‘fit and proper’ criteria?

I am not at all proposing a ban on freedom of religion, but if the churches are to remain tax-free influential organizations, they must be regulated so that the vulnerable, especially our children, are no longer being influenced by scammers and other criminals who walk around with a bible.

Charles own subjects dot want him! https://youtu.be/xPeCv9MxzJs