DI BLOG

You know dah bredda yah. The man your mother warned you about. The man who will shoot up the dance on Saturday night and pay the school fees for three children on Monday morning. The man who makes your community dangerous AND keeps it safe.

The question this series seeks to explore (and maybe to answer) is, "Why does Jamaica keep doing this?" My theory is that it isn't luck and it isn't talent. It is a reflex. Something we are trained into, generation after generation, by circumstances so specific to this island that almost nowhere else on earth developed it in quite the same way. I call it the go-round gene. And before you get all excited over the use of the word gene, let me stop and qualify what I mean.