Jamaica, U.S.A.: Fatherly Advice  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp considers the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. from a father's perspective: “I want my son to be a man who has enough self confidence to think that he can overcome any obstacle and that he will not permit any kind of violence, physical or verbal, to become a part of his life.  I also want him to stay alive.”