I notice that he is deliberately more reserved than his last sojourn into the liberal foreign media with Stephen Sackur on the BBC.
His rhetoric seems reasonable at face value, and it is evident that he has learnt his lessons from the HARDTALK faux pas, but it really is just a shallow politically correct response to those in the know.
This ambivalent approach to homosexuals may ring true to those in his social circle but it certainly is alien to those on the streets.
Shout "battyman" in Half Way Tree and run. See how many people run with you like Labradors searching for the duck. "Battyman" really is a magic word that illicits a fight response in Jamaicans.
I've deliberately restrained myself from mentioning that organization that claims to speak on our behalf and I hope to continue doing so, but I couldn't help but think of them when I read this article from my fellow Jamaican LGBT blogger that was a flashback to 1982.
The tone of this article is certainly more evolved than some of the rot I've seen in the local papers since I became self-aware, and also, the approach of the GFM from what I've gleaned thus far has not left a bad taste in my mouth.
I think this movement needs to be resurrected to counter the foolishness that permeates the political landscape, on both sides of the rainbow divide.
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