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Jamaica, U.S.A.: Stupid is as Stupid Does

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 8 August 2008 17 years ago

“It’s the glorification of ignorance, the association of dimness with your degree of blackness that troubles me”: Jamaican Marlon James is troubled by the pressure put on black people to “dumb things down”.

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