Jackass seh de worl' no level. Jackass seh im a penni piece a dis enquiry business whe a gwaan pon TV an' a seh, ow de sweet wud a some hot wud more time.

A lot of television time has been given over to the enquiry into the Mannat, Phelps and Phillips enquiry, which has been taking place in downtown Kingston. Jackass suspects that many STAR readers are not interested at all. Hell, Jackass knows that many Jamaicans are not interested in the play-acting and grandstanding that is going on, with people who have been highly educated in their respective fields tossing words back and forth.

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And from the little that Jackass has taken note of, the words are very sweet. Yeah man, the people in suits are having a great time seeing who can throw the quickest words that can score in some sort of grand debate game that they are playing among themselves.

But the world is not level at all, because those sweet words are hot words. Because in all of this, the people who died in West Kingston last May (at least 70 of them) are simply not a part of the conversation. It is a wicked thing, for real, to be totally left out. That wickeder than a denial that they were connected to what is happening on television now, to simply not be considered worthy to be a part of the proceedings.

And think about another television appearance, the people in white who marched out of West Kingston last May to show that they were free to come and go. When they shouted at the cameras they did not use the kind of language we are seeing the people who are speaking at the enquiry now are tossing around. Nah man, they used what some call Jamaican English, what some call patois, what some call creole.

Whatever it is, it has not found a place at the enquiry into the matter which led to them hitting the streets. And, chances are, it never will.

Jackass sight up a thing, though, that this matter of madness (because what happened in West Kingston last May was insanity, that Jackass does not believe could happen in any other country without Jamaica's insane political history) and then a related enquiry then forgetting about it is a trend in this country. Look back at something called the Rema Commission if you don't believe. Google it. Bet you either did not know about it or did not remember at all.

enquiries

But what gets Jackass most is how the language used by the persons who are really affected who get thrown out of their houses, burnt out, maimed and killed, is not a part of the enquiries that follow the descent into mayhem and murder.

And just as their language is left out when the lawyers and the witnesses meet to resolve the matter, so are the people who have felt it most, Jackass has observed.

Jackass seh de worl' no level. Jackass seh im no know if im ago see a day wen de kin' a people whe get lick dung a road really get a chance fe talk up a de henquiry dem.