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Samantha J blamed for child prostitution in Jamaica
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This is what is wrong with our society. This is the totality of everything that is wrong with Jamaica.
This, is hypocrisy — hypocrisy of the highest order.
It is front page news that our children are prostituting themselves in the JUTC bus park. Many of us have expressed outrage. Many have asked the question, what is our society coming to? What is wrong with our society? Why do our children glorify in demeaning themselves? Where is their sense of self? Do they not have any self worth?
Since the story broke, many have proffered suggestions of how to reign our little ones in. How to prevent further degradation of our society; but nothing any one suggests will make the change that is so clearly needed, because our children frolicking in the bus park is not the problem. It is a symptom, one of many, that points to a much deeper problem — a problem that exists at the core of our society and is characterized by our reaction to this song and this music video.
Samantha J is a 16 year old child proclaiming to be “d girl inna d tight up skirt”:
The action of the music video starts in a detention room where our ‘heroine’ is being ‘called out’ by her teacher as ‘d girl inna d tight up skirt’. She accepts the ‘charge’ and it moves to the streets where men of all ages leer at her lasciviously as she passes them by, and nobody is crying foul!
Nobody is outraged that a 16 year old child is parading around, showing off her wares and proclaiming that she is only worth as much as the heads that turn for her when she ‘win’s‘!
No, we celebrate her. She is the next big star! We share this video on social media. We play this song on the air waves. We call her for interviews. We write glowing reviews in our national papers and entertainment blogs. And we expect our children to not have sex in public bus parks. We expect our children to value themselves and to know better than to share themselves with every Tom, Dick and Harry that come their way. Of course, because that’s what we’re teaching them, right?
We’re not the ones promoting the message that it’s ok to give myself to every Tom, Dick and Harry. That it doesn’t even matter where I give it to Tom, Dick and Harry, because if I say no to Tom, Dick and Harry, I am worthless. Because it’s not just the most delightful thing to “watch yu face just light up light up when you watch my body win’ up, win’ up”.
So on the one hand we find the lewd behaviour of our children utterly reprehensible, but on the other we celebrate this and so many other popular tunes that espouse and promote this same message and then wonder why our society is going down the tubes and why our girls don’t respect themselves and why our boys and men don’t respect women.
This, is how we got here Jamaica. And this is what we need to change before our children can change! We need to take another look at our values, JAMAICA!
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what exactly was she trying to get hit 
