Coming Sunday...

Mark Wignall writes about the colour and class complexity in Jamaica. Three years after Independence, the major issues affecting most Jamaicans were illiteracy, education, landownership, praedial larceny, and poverty. Plus, most people who lived in rural areas had no electricity supply or piped water. The state of our roads was simply not a problem because few Jamaicans owned cars. Colour and class were not items many Jamaicans saw as oppressive to their social and economic aspirations. Racist thunder and lightning and storm clouds of the 1960s were mostly generated in the US. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were still our martyred heroes as we entered the 1970s.