The first time I saw Dr Cooper walking across the UWI Campus I was struck by her confident stride and her short dreadlocks( maybe sisterlocks). She was a fierce force and would push back hard in her columns against columnists such as Morris Cargill among others who tried to ridicule her. As a Black Jamaican I too felt the class divide, so to try to bridge the gap at home and in company I spoke the way proper "white" people spoke. However catch me among my peers "the breh breh" -patwah reigned supreme. Hence I spoke formally in company somewhat like the French "Vous" and among the Breh Breh it was "Tu". But I have a confession, I love patwah, but even today at 77 years old I cannot take it seriously, as to me it is the language of comedy. Is Miss Lou, Mass Ran and Oliver fault. So the Bible could never be read by me in Patois. I could never take e.g a legal brief in patois seriously. So teach English in schools and leave patwah to be the organic language that it is. That's what all non English speaking cultures do. Thank you Professor Cooper, you are still a gorgeous beautiful Black woman withh your white locks and for that matter so am I.🤣🤣🤣
@@mark6714 How di rass you know how this man feels about his skin color? Do you believe that every Black person aspires (like you) to look White? There are Black people who've lived in foreign for so long, their pigmentation faded with time...but when Summer comes they spend time in the sun to regain their deep chocolate complexion.
@@shjakes It's clear that many Jamaicans are color-struck. In my mom's day, if she had married a dark-complexioned man, her family would've disowned her. There are similar stories in many Jamaican families. Today, so many selfies/photographs are heavily filtered that the person appears several shades lighter than his/her natural skin tone, even the children are "lightened" in their photographs. What message does that send to a child? Also, the bleaching craze in a tropical climate; I was surprised to see so many Jamaican men bleaching their skin, even the criminals.
I LOVE DR COOPER. SAW HER FROM A DISTANCE ON THE UWI CAMPUS ONCE. ANYWAY, SHE MUST ALSO ADDRESS THE FACT THAT CERTAIN DANCE HALL SONGS HAVE DESTROYED THE MINDS OF JAMAICANS. NO DIFFERENT TO electric folk, heavy metal, blues rock, hard rock, Britpop and punk rock. NEVERTHELESS; THEY HAVE DAMAGED OUR SOCIETY AND CHILDREN. I LOST RESPECT FOR HER WHEN SHE INTRODUCED THAT MURDERER TO SPEAK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES IN THE PROCESS FURTHER ADVERTISING HIS DESTRUCTIVE SONGS TO OUR PEOPLE. I GOT IT THAT SHE PROMOTES OUR CULTURE WELL, BUT SHE NEEDS TO ALSO EXAMINE THE IMPACT THAT THE NEGATIVE CULTURE OF JAMAICA HAS HAD ON THE PEOPLE.
Sweet lady. You're radiant.
Well said! Very woke woman!
The first time I saw Dr Cooper walking across the UWI Campus I was struck by her confident stride and her short dreadlocks( maybe sisterlocks). She was a fierce force and would push back hard in her columns against columnists such as Morris Cargill among others who tried to ridicule her. As a Black Jamaican I too felt the class divide, so to try to bridge the gap at home and in company I spoke the way proper "white" people spoke. However catch me among my peers "the breh breh" -patwah reigned supreme. Hence I spoke formally in company somewhat like the French "Vous" and among the Breh Breh it was "Tu". But I have a confession, I love patwah, but even today at 77 years old I cannot take it seriously, as to me it is the language of comedy. Is Miss Lou, Mass Ran and Oliver fault. So the Bible could never be read by me in Patois. I could never take e.g a legal brief in patois seriously. So teach English in schools and leave patwah to be the organic language that it is. That's what all non English speaking cultures do. Thank you Professor Cooper, you are still a gorgeous beautiful Black woman withh your white locks and for that matter so am I.🤣🤣🤣
I would love to meet this lady who wears her Blackness with pride...just like me, my long gone mother and my Tobago family.
she looks uptown to me
But look the quote was made popular by Marley and all his Pickney marry white woman..
Sum wish dem skin skin was lighter but mi wish mi skin was darker
No you dont
@@mark6714 it’s figurative ah speech but if mi really wan mi skin darker who you fi tell mi, mi don’t?
@@mark6714 How di rass you know how this man feels about his skin color? Do you believe that every Black person aspires (like you) to look White? There are Black people who've lived in foreign for so long, their pigmentation faded with time...but when Summer comes they spend time in the sun to regain their deep chocolate complexion.
@@shjakes
It's clear that many Jamaicans are color-struck.
In my mom's day, if she had married a dark-complexioned man, her family would've disowned her. There are similar stories in many Jamaican families.
Today, so many selfies/photographs are heavily filtered that the person appears several shades lighter than his/her natural skin tone, even the children are "lightened" in their photographs. What message does that send to a child?
Also, the bleaching craze in a tropical climate; I was surprised to see so many Jamaican men bleaching their skin, even the criminals.
@@TheDarkDresser the brain-washing is complete when one begins self-dosing with poison from the adversary's apothecary...
God help these lost souls.
So true
We must respect and love ourselves.We are a great people.Thanks for this video.
Dr Caroline . You beautiful too. Big ups
Queen 👑🌻💛
Absolutely correct
jamaican 😍🇯🇲🇯🇲
you know what i just don't like bougie type people regardless of their race
First shall be last and the last shall be first
Thank you Professor Cooper!!! ♥️
I LOVE DR COOPER. SAW HER FROM A DISTANCE ON THE UWI CAMPUS ONCE. ANYWAY, SHE MUST ALSO ADDRESS THE FACT THAT CERTAIN DANCE HALL SONGS HAVE DESTROYED THE MINDS OF JAMAICANS. NO DIFFERENT TO electric folk, heavy metal, blues rock, hard rock, Britpop and punk rock. NEVERTHELESS; THEY HAVE DAMAGED OUR SOCIETY AND CHILDREN. I LOST RESPECT FOR HER WHEN SHE INTRODUCED THAT MURDERER TO SPEAK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES IN THE PROCESS FURTHER ADVERTISING HIS DESTRUCTIVE SONGS TO OUR PEOPLE. I GOT IT THAT SHE PROMOTES OUR CULTURE WELL, BUT SHE NEEDS TO ALSO EXAMINE THE IMPACT THAT THE NEGATIVE CULTURE OF JAMAICA HAS HAD ON THE PEOPLE.
Beautiful woman
❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤💚💚💚
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Dr Cooper you should join the U I C. Last chance to save Jamaica.