The Truth Is Not Always Popular , It’s Just The Right Thing To Do..

Carolyn Cooper, Linguist and teacher at the University of the West Indies (UWI) could not resist the temp­ta­tion to dip her beak into the shal­low pool of murky noth­ing­ness, which was the much to do about noth­ing brouha­ha, on social media which occurred when Reggae singer Sean Paul’s wife Jodi Stewart-Henriques said Jamaican sprint­er Usain Bolt was a hor­ri­ble neighbor.

Henriques who is also know by the moniker (Jinx) made the com­ments on social media, then retract­ed them after a mael­strom of crit­i­cism went fly­ing her way in true Jamaican fashion.
Stewart though Jamaican , clear­ly did not under­stand from her uptown enclave that if some­one is dubbed the big man you crit­i­cize them at your own detri­ment and peril.
Dr. Cooper her­self, a cul­tur­al icon of sorts has man­aged to attach her­self to pop­u­lar cul­ture like a crus­tacean to cor­ral reef. Cooper teach­es a course at the UWI which cen­ters on Reggae poetry.
Among some of the eye­brow rais­ing things she has done was to invite now impris­oned mur­der­er Adidja Palmer o/​c Vybz Kartel, to speak to her class, even though the class focused on the lyrics of Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Tanya Stephens and Buju Banton.

Cooper, true to her counter cul­ture per­sona delved head first into the debate adopt­ing a pre­dictable pop­ulist stance.
I found that laugh­able that peo­ple will twist real­i­ty and com­mon sense to suit a par­tic­u­lar nar­ra­tive because they are expect­ed by their fol­low­ers to think and react a cer­tain way.
In the process they end up twist­ing them­selves into con­ver­sa­tions of word vom­it which end up expos­ing their hypocrisy.
The truth is one is oblig­ed to believe what they believe and not what some­one else thinks you should believe, because of past posi­tions you may have taken.
Cooper in sup­posed sup­port of Usain’s rise to the prime and pris­tine com­mu­ni­ty of Norbrook , quot­ed Bob Marley whose mon­ey and Chris Blackwell’s help allowed him to move from Trench Town to Hope Road.
Quote:

I want to dis­turb my neighbour

‘Cause I’m feel­ing so right

I want to turn up my disco

Blow them to full watts tonight

Inna rub-a-dub style.
After going on and on with her pop­ulist rant she did a com­plete one hun­dred eighty degree turn.

I must admit I do have some sym­pa­thy for Jodi Stewart-Henriques. She’s suf­fer­ing from town-house syn­drome. It’s a con­di­tion brought on by liv­ing so close to your neigh­bours that every­day noise grad­u­al­ly gets on your nerves. Eventually, even the flush of a toi­let enrages you, let alone loud music and dirt bikes. And you end up mak­ing unfor­tu­nate state­ments on social media about who should go back to where they came from.

She then went on to talk about her own expe­ri­ences with night nois­es and how it prompt­ed her to speak to the work­men who gave her a prop­er trac­ing. She bab­bled on for awhile more that she was forced to report the nois­es to the Architect.
Right thats exact­ly the per­son to go to about con­struc­tion noises.
When that did not work she went on, she went to the police of course as far as she is con­cerned that did not pro­duce any result either.
In the end Carolyn Cooper expressed more exas­per­a­tion that Jinx ever did about night noise but she still found it pru­dent to side with Bolt because it was the pop­ulist thing to do.
The last line of Cooper’s disin­gen­u­ous pop­ulist kiss-up, exposed her to be a pho­ny and a fraud.
No mat­ter which kind of ten­e­ment yard we live in. We can’t all go back to wher­ev­er we came from”.

If Cooper want­ed to bring intel­lec­tu­al hon­esty to the debate about noth­ing, as a per­son who pre­tends to be a “roots daw­ta” she would have con­ced­ed that in every ghet­to, every gar­ri­son, every com­mu­ni­ty, in Jamaica it is a part of the every­day col­lo­qui­al ver­nac­u­lar for peo­ple to tell peo­ple to go back where they are com­ing from.(“ gu bak weh yu cum fram”.
It is patent­ly false and intel­lec­tu­al­ly dis­hon­est to see noth­ing wrong when down town peo­ple uses it but quick­ly jump on Jinx when she uses it.
Sometimes when you are revered by cer­tain class of peo­ple the best thing to do for them is to tell them the truth rather than feed them with a a lie.
The truth is not always pop­u­lar, it’s just the right thing to do.
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