Juliet Holness Went Under Fowl Roost And The Fowls Did S**t On Her…

It is dif­fi­cult to get a true han­dle on the motive for the dis­re­spect met­ed out to Member of Parliament Juliet Holness, who is also the wife of Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
Some peo­ple booed Mrs. Holness in the crowd at a Jerk fes­ti­val she attend­ed in Miramar, Florida, last Sunday.
One local news­pa­per bemoaned the boo­ing, thus,‘Diaspora mem­bers embar­rassed by the boo­ing of Juliet Holness in Florida.’
Wanting to get a bet­ter han­dle on what may have been behind the boo­ing of Mrs. Holness by peo­ple in a crowd at a jerk fes­ti­val in the state of Desantis, I reached out to a few friends who actu­al­ly live in that most south­ern of south­ern states along with Donald Trump and the oth­er ‘deplorables’ Hillary Clinton warned us about in 2016.

Call after call, the response I received from sources was the same. This was the act of Jamaicans liv­ing abroad act­ing out at some­one from the par­ty they did not sup­port. I was­n’t sure whether or not there was some­thing more spe­cif­ic behind the con­cert­ed boo­ing which prompt­ed Mrs. Holness to brave­ly deliv­er her short address over the act of hooliganism.
Global Jamaica Diaspora Council mem­ber, Dr. Allan Cunningham, opined to a local publication
that it appears that peo­ple were vent­ing their frus­tra­tion over the coun­try’s direc­tion, espe­cial­ly regard­ing crime and cor­rup­tion, speak­ing of Jamaica.
Does any­one real­ly believe those peo­ple boo­ing the Prime min­is­ter’s wife were doing so because of cor­rup­tion or crime?
I think not. As one Floridian told me this morn­ing, Juliet Holness is one of the coun­try’s most ded­i­cat­ed and effec­tive polit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and she did not deserve the disrespect.
I agree with my friend on both counts, and I cer­tain­ly do not believe that that ele­ment in the crowd was boo­ing about either crime or cor­rup­tion in Jamaica. To my mind, those ele­ments may be more about increas­ing crime and cor­rup­tion than end­ing it.
Jamaicans liv­ing in the United States and oth­er coun­tries are doing big things wor­thy of recog­ni­tion and emu­la­tion in Jamaica. Jamaicans who did not have the oppor­tu­ni­ty at home have moved to the United States and oth­er coun­tries and worked won­ders out of nothing.
Those are the peo­ple Jamaica’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives need to meet with to seek solu­tions. Nevertheless, as per usu­al. They meet with a few peo­ple in lit­tle cliques who shov­el them into sit­u­a­tions like Miramar, Florida, result­ing in that outcome.
An old Jamaican say­ing is quite apro­pos in this sit­u­a­tion: ” If yu nu gu anda fowl roos fowl caan shit pon yu”.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.