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Don’t judge Spice

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:12 PM
Dancehall artiste, Spice takes a selfie with (from left) Candace Webb, Shantavia Brown, and Rahim Steele at Spice’s Oh-No School Tour Launch at Waterford High School in St. Catherine.
Dancehall artiste, Spice takes a selfie with (from left) Candace Webb, Shantavia Brown, and Rahim Steele at Spice’s Oh-No School Tour Launch at Waterford High School in St. Catherine.

THE EDITOR, Madam:

I am wondering what the kerfuffle is all about when Spice visited a school and spent time with those students. After all, isn’t what she does considered a profession? It does provide for herself and her family and has afforded her some peace of mind, knowing she is her own employer.

Since when is being an entrepreneur such a bad word anyway. That’s what everyone arrives for. But, why stop at Spice, invite all the entertainers, and while you’re doing that, touch on some of the other professions we know some students will end up in as well. Notably, prostitution, lottery scamming, grave digging, fisherman, farmer, bad man. Represent the entire cross section of the community, what really makes it tick.

It’s about time we stop judging others for what they do, they all serve a purpose and they are also providing for themselves, which is the key to survival.

Cut these people some slack and ditch the whitewashing, it’s been going on for far too long.

Love one another as much as you love yourselves.

CASBURN TOMLIN

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