that, there is one person I really wanted to talk to. Now remember, Kamala Harris's former communications director Jamal Simmons told me that she needs the support of two groups in order to mount another campaign. She needs her base, who we talked to in South Carolina, and she needs the donors. And so to get a temperature check on that group, I
character of left-wing candidates. Jamaal Bowman uh uh just faced this in in in her race uh up in New York 13. And they get picked apart in ways that others don't because particularly about their stances on taxing billionaires and frankly on cutting arms to Israel.
E está convidado, Edu, não passe vontade, por favor, apareça. Jamais. Voltando para São Paulo, estou lá. Não estou aí nesse momento, mas voltando estou lá.
So that's amazing. And so Jazz, you made her story when you helped form the first ever Women's Olympic Jamaican bobsled team to compete in the games. You are the actual female version of "Cool Runnings." I'm sure that's not the first time you've heard it.
Well, hello, Suzie, if you're watching. Jamaica actually just recently stopped having curfew.
And he was like, sure. Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who has his own bass named after him, the Tacuma Bass.
formerly British territory. Or, as I put it to people. Jamaica was in a political union with England before Britain existed. So, in other words, Jamaica was in a political union of England before England was in a political union with Scotland. That's how long Britain is.
plan you need to move on move on after what happened Saturday you're not the one who's dead Jamal so what if I chased your tail up to college Kim the same damn thing could happen to me well you're not really like that what I can't all right Miss drama actress
Well, yeah. I was born and raised in Miami, but my family's from Jamaica. Jamaica used to be under British rule, which is why England has so much reggae music. But reggae is such a revolutionary genre.
I was on time today, though. Jamaicans are notoriously late. So one day, I was on my way, late to my job at "Essence" magazine, I swear to God.
about it when you're a fighter in southern Thailand as a Jihad but actually it's primarily an ethnic thing now Jama Lam which is the Al-Qaeda Ally in that part of the world went to Thailand and said hey we want to help you out we want to be part of this process uh and make it a true Global Jihad you guys get on board with the the
And he was like, sure. And Jamaaladeen gave us that groove.
undifferentiated by class, undifferentiated by current or background, undifferentiated by whether or not their Children are there, where their parents are West African university educated civil servants or British Jamaican bricklayers. My body just black kids in trouble, even in a country where the majority of poor people are white, even a country where the vast majority of murders are white, on white, even in a country where the majority of prison population is white. So even demographically, we're not in even vaguely the same
this conversation on American corporate platform, but I don't hold my tongue. I say what I think to be the truth on DSO There is there is the wider dialogue when we're romanticize Jamaica, because, of course, the Jamaican ghetto has all the same problems that get whatever ever else in the world has. But there is not this idea. A
Donc on peut changer chaque partie. Si jamais l'écran casse, on le change. C'est un système juste de pièces qui s'emboîtent et donc on peut upgrader son téléphone, mettre un processeur plus rapide, etc.
And they would put, same resume, black-sounding names. So Jamal, Lekeisha. Right? And they would send them out to various employers.
So I was speaking with your drummer earlier before the show, and we were talking about the differences between reggae music in Jamaica, and what's successful here in the US. And with reggae, very much so about the message, and commenting on the culture and politics,
A lot of Caribbean countries, they have free education because they're still under the British rule, or the French, you know? But Jamaica somewhat is still, but not when it comes to free education. So you have a lot of children who stay home because of poverty, you know?
But Jamaicans are notoriously late.
In Jamaica, as in many developing countries, poverty is never far away.
This was published in JAMA in 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
This guy published in "JAMA ," and he's got a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania.
I'm Jamaican and Bahamian, Afro-Caribbean, but I grew up in Miami.
And the United States, depending on the home nation's alphabet, we're often down at the end. And then same for Jamaica. Sometimes it's Jamaica, sometimes it's spelled with a Y. So you never really know where you're going to come out.
And then same for Jamaica. Sometimes it's Jamaica, sometimes it's spelled with a Y. So you never really know where you're going to come out. So you're sitting for a while.
My mom is from Jamaica, and my grandma from Jamaica also from home and taught me the power of the written word, and how powerful it
Anyone that knows a Jamaican household, having a Jamaican grandmother who is extremely strong-- she was the matriarch of our family--
I love Jamaica. I embrace my Chinese ancestry, Jamaican Chinese ancestry.
Caribbeans, English speaking Caribbean's to Britain, was then paralleled by migration of English speaking Caribbean's to New York, Miami and Toronto. So we've all every Jamaican has cousins in those places. So Caribbean American culture and black American culture black British culture, in a way is an amalgam off black American culture and something unique to here because obviously we've got a special one population to on DSO. We experience or feel that we experienced black
political union with Scotland. That's how long Britain is. That a relationship with Jamaica describing Jamaicans foreigners is absurd. But that's what we do, right, even though Jamaicans have been part of the British labor force since the middle of the 17th century, so British exceptionalism predated American exceptionalism, much of the none of this is even unique
She migrated from Jamaica to the states to live the American dream.
My name is Obayda Jamal.
I said Jamaica. And I reflect on that now and to the extent of trauma and like the extent of things that you go through
When we went to Jamaica, actually, it was quite familiar things.
For taking us to Jamaica and helping us produce a really beautiful book.
So we went to Jamaica.
Going out to Jamaica, something I always dreamed of doing.
So in that strong Jamaican accent, really good.
Les médecins n'ont jamais entendu parlé de ça. Les généralistes.
Et elle avait jamais vu ça.
« Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard ».
It's accepted in Jamaica or in Haiti.
The other side is Jamaica.
And the Jamaicans are generally known as a pretty surly group.
Two African Jamaican, and one was a Chinese bride that his parents sent from China, sight unseen, for him to marry.
It was the Jamaican bobsled team.
Are you from Jamaica Plain?
You know, I'm wondering how they deal with it. Was that in Jamaica, or was that in the US?
York at the top of the list. Just for Jamaican families to come and set up shop early on, like in the '50s and '60s and whatnot. Between the New York, and then over to LA in particular.
So the Jamaican example, for instance, is a little-- it fits into a longer story of slavery and industrialization.