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Happy Independence Day Jamaica (Original Post)
malaise
Aug 2013
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)1. Kick it up, Mun.
Happy Birthday, Jamaica!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)9. Is this you, malaise?
My inner self is the person yelling "¡Carajo!" missing a toofer.
malaise
(268,958 posts)5. Toots just sued that guy in Virginia who threw the bottle at him
while he was performing a few months ago.
Wish I could get more details on that bottle pelting.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)8. William Connor Lewis
Does this guy look like he's got $21 million?
Does he look like he even knows what $21 million is?
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/crime/reggae-singer-toots-hibbert-files-million-suit-in-bottle-throwing/article_a3829c9d-0ace-5a09-99e6-9c3d92fdd1c5.html
malaise
(268,958 posts)11. No he has neither common sense or money
Looks like a little punk
ornotna
(10,800 posts)2. Happy Independence Day
Thanks
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. Happy Independence day!
John Kerry sent us a message on behalf of Obama - heard it on the news.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)10. Dat cris!
Gonna have a bashment time!
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)12. In Jamaica, transgender teen murdered by mob
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023444830
Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.
"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgendered friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like most transgenders and gays in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.
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Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.
"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgendered friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like most transgenders and gays in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.
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malaise
(268,958 posts)13. It's a detestable crime
and I hope they catch the scumbag murderers.