BLOOD AND FIRE - Jamaica's Political History 2 of 4

[akaspaldini]

Hardships there are but the land is green and the sun shineth!!!

[brownrice0]

Manley's background is definitely not middle eastern...Seaga yes but Manley no.......check your facts please...............

[jamsonata]

The narrator used black for hardship because he was talking about the meaning of the symbols in 1962. Both black for hardship and black for the resilience of the people are correct but it depends on the period.

[mtlsniper]

ceaga & manley ther from middle eastern Background

[mdotty42]

@mtlsniper manley is mixed race. Norman Manley was a 1/4 Black and Michael Manley 1/8 black

[mtlsniper]

@mdotty42 yea ther from Seria something like that Middle eastern country

[mdotty42]

@mtlsniper The Manleys are not from Syria. 

[mtlsniper]

@mdotty42 well his Background from ther thats were his ancestors are from

[mdotty42]

@mtlsniper Seaga has Middle Eastern ancestry, but The Manleys are of African and British or Irish(I assume)ancestry.

[mtlsniper]

@mdotty42 ok cause i knew one of them was from a middle eastern Decent

[RelativeMc]

Why the narrator didn't use the the correct description to describe the Jamaican flag at 04:36secs seeing that this documentary was done 2011.

Yellow for the sunshine

Black for the HARDSHIPS there are {which still exists}

Green for the vegetation of the land

[sesomyort]

@RelativeMc: I don't know. I thought it was Black for the People, Gold for the Sun, Green for the Land. But I've also heard Green for Hope. Never in my life (apart from this documentary) have I ever heard of Yellow for riches.

[ImacAna]

@sesomyort naaa... he's right. bt they changed it recently apparently; the black now represents hope and the strength of the ppl.