The Chikungunya virus affectionately called chik V virus epidemic in the Caribbean to Ebola fears world wide. I had the chik- V virus and it was not affectionate. West Africans and Sierra Leone citizens lost their lives and are still loosing their lives to Ebola. President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wrote a letter in the Marabi Post pleading for unity and global help to stop the ebola epidemic that had claimed up to the time she wrote the letter 2,000 Liberian lives. I pray the epidemic will end.
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| Medical workers with a Ebola victim. Picture from nbcnews.com |
There was increased violence towards young men of African descent in the "West"; there was Mario Dean (he was beaten to death in police lock up) in Jamaica, the Mike Brown situation ( he was shot by a police officer) in Fergusson Missouri which led to riots and looting in that town. The death of Eric Gardner in New York (police held him in a choke hold which resulted in his death). These deaths brought back memories of the Trayvon Martin death and case where George Zimmerman ( A vigilante with a gun) walked free in Florida. John Crawford III was shot in a Walmart by police in Dayton Ohio, he had a toy gun in his hand. Similarly, 12 year old Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police he was playing with a toy gun. It was a sad year. But it showed us the truth the 'West' is becoming more of a police state. Racism is not dead it seems it can never die. Cops and marines don't seem to know the difference between a real gun and a toy gun.The police officers in these cases have not been penalized by the justice system which led to riots in New York, Cleveland and Fergusson.
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| Twitter feed on Facebbok when Fergusson was 'lit up' from lovelyti's Facebook page. |
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| New Yorker's in the Streets after ruling on Eric Gardner's death 2014 from Lovelyti's Facebook page. |
Tesstober #Tesstober was awesome Tessanne Chin rocked her tour of the United States she had a full house and much love at all her performances. #Agentsongbird went on an amazing advertising campaign for Telecommunications giant #Digicel, she is one of their brand ambassadors. I cannot wait to see what she has in store for her fans for 2015.
#Chinitagoodas Roll out
We saw the power of social media at the end of 2014 when the voice and lyrics of a presumed 'mad man' -mentally unstable man now called Gully Bop reached our ears. He found his way into our hearts when we saw him performing his lyrics on YouTube and Facebook. He has re-launched his DJ career, as he fell on hard times in the late 80's and early 90's and disappeared from the Jamaican music scene or #dancehall space. He was working as a mechanic since the early 90's. His infectious lyrics "Every gal want a wuk offa me.... BOP BOP" are bursting through and mashing up the airways. I wish him new teeth and a good long career in #dancehall.
Photo of Gully Bop from The Jamaica Gleaner's website, The article entitled "Viral Buss".
We have begun 2015 with Terror attacks in Paris France, Boko haram have killed and kidnapped many Northern Nigerians and the situation seems to be getting worse......
#FromGullyBoptoterrorinparis hash tag this on Twitter, FB, and Instagram
This is my first blog post, I hope you enjoyed welcome me to the blogosphere! :)
#finally a blogger :) Until my next post Stay Blessed!!!!
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