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

BBC documentary aired August 4, 2002, celebrating Jamaica's 40th year of independence.

"As Jamaica celebrates 40 years of independence, the BBC Two programme, Blood and Fire, examines the struggles involved. Here, leading theologian and academic Dr Robert Beckford, who presents the programme, argues that Britain must re-examine its own role in the process. Independence movement The programme traces the rise of the independence movement in Jamaica in the late 1930 to full independence in 1961. Controversially, the programme questions the political and philosophical basis of independence through an examination of neo-colonialism. On one level Jamaicans continued to be economically and politically exploited by larger and more economically advanced nations as soon as the Union flag was taken down and the green, gold and black flag of Jamaica raised in its place. Jamaica's history demonstrates we can't talk about the "end of empire" without acknowledging how the empire lives on in a variety of benign and malignant forms." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2166977.stm

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• michael
• manley
• edward
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[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.

[mtlsniper]

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

[mdotty42]

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

[mtlsniper]

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

[mdotty42]

@mtlsniper The Manleys are not from Syria.

[mtlsniper]

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

[mdotty42]

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

[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...............

[ImacAna]

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

[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.