An advertisement for low cost carrier REDJet has been creating quite a stir in Jamaica.
The advertisement depicts a man shouting at another man, with the title “Office Stress?” and it is not going down well with many online bloggers.
“Why is it always the black man who is the employee?” one blogger asked.
Another echoed the famous line of Bob Marley, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but our self can free our minds.”
Another, who described himself as a ‘white Jamaican,’ said he is tired of being portrayed as a slavemaster. “I am in the struggle too,” he wrote.
But others did not see the advertisement as a big deal. “Only idle people think about idleness,” one blogger wrote.
“Aren’t Caribbean people black?” Another wrote. “Get a grip.”
Maybe we should just Martioans in these ads then who will complain. We are so caught up in Black & White, when will we stop thinking like this? So what if it were the inverse in the picture… Geez, only losers complain a lot anyway.
The company has roots in the White bajan business community and that is how they see their world.
I DON’T BEIELVE IT!
I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH EVERYBODY’S COMMENTS!
TODAY SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY
BUT SERIOUSLY, DEM JAMAICANS STRETCHING D JOKE
IT’S A BLOODY AD FOR DRYING OUT LOUD!
Its because black people stuck in their slave mentality!! HE AINT NO SLAVE he getting paid!!! And if he don’t like it he can BOOK NOW!! and quit!! people get a life stop with color of skin shit. brown dog don’t only go after brown down… geez grow the hell up small minded people
when i saw the add i didnt think anything…………….always looking for a reason to cry…so stupid
admin atleast… a link to the commercial could have been posted…. when redjet come d.a they must do one with the chinese man as the boss/supervisor lol…. mr fang chou
Black, black people always keep one another down, black people enjoy the slavery mentality and and always feel depended on other people….
black people need to be used in that manner so they can see themselves and try to rise from it…
there is nothing wrong with the add… black man just need a vacation
RED JET IS HERE TO STAY< OH RED JET I NEED YOU TO COME TO DOMINICA
REdjet will never come to Dominica because as per Redjt Dominica is not ready yet….What a shame!! We not ready to compete with the region muchless for the world. We have a pack of jokers making joking decisions for us…..We will only suffer…Mellville hall is a $12 million joke!!
Dominica has too many non-enviable titles papa! Cyndarellar of the Caribbean? The heel of the Caribbean, Miss Caribbean Poor! So what you expect?
The US Air Force is spending millions to build infrastructure and upgrade airports in Africa for their unmanned drones. Maybe we can ask them to upgrade Melville Hall as a deterent to Chavez.
Empty vessels do make the loudest noise
That idea is not so stupid as one would want believe. Take it one step further, what about attracting some US funds to counteracting not only the Chavez influence but that of the Chinese in Dominican and the Caribbean. Take it from someone who knows, it’s not so stupid.
WHat freak…. every Oh goodness… watch the damn Ad and not the bloody skin colour? what if it was the black man being shouted at? you people like seeing your enemies suffer? if you all keep thinking about racism…Racism will still be alive… i’m sure the person who made the ad wasn’t thinking of those people colour…
Oh MY GOODNESS RACISM WILL NEVA DIE THANKS TO BLACK PEOPLE WHO CAN NEVA PUT THINGS BEHIND DEM AND MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are partially correct, that an advertisement is just an advertisement! However, I don’t know where you reside but racism is still alive and well in the USA, New York more specifically.
yes it is… and thnaks to people who feel like brining it up every time they see a black a white person and d black person is d one that getting hurt
Racism is alive in Dominica as well, against white and yellow. Racism is alive in every race. So get over it.
yeah… put two hundred years of oppression and slavery behind us just like dat…. its only those who feel it who know it
I doubt you old enough to have felt it…
Racism is what it is
If we advance ourselves as a people instead of trying to bring each other down the moment we see ourselves rising then we can be masters but if everytime a black man see a black man rise he have to go and rob him or make a problem or wish him ill then how can we as a people advance?
So how many more years are you prepared to put in in front of you? Another 200?
Racism does exist, but never use it as an excuse to hold you back.
You would have been what we called a house negro in the slave days…looka mi massa, I such a good boy…gah!gah!gah!Gooh!Gooh!
How do you put it behind you and move on when it is institutionalized in every aspect of our lives? It is not that we are holding on to it. We are confronted by it in every walks of life. Slavery may have been abolished, but the remnants of it are alive and well. It is just camouflaged. Now, you have wage slavery. You are allowed to work for a few dollars, but half of it is taken away. You have to pay the government, financial institutions, and utility companies just so that you can live a somewhat normal life.
Why do you think 98% of the world’s population are tetering on the brink of poverty? Even those people in the so called middle class are not at ease. If they miss two months of mortgage payments, they are in jeopardy of losing their homes.
When we were freed from slavery, we were told: go out into the world, you are now free. Go where? To do what? How? We were never given the wheres, whats, and hows. We were just sent out there without any resources, education, leadership, etc. Some of us have been lucky to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, but many others have not been so fortunate.
After three hundred years of being screamed at and dehumanized, if a white man screams at me today, my right foot would find itself in the spot where the sun “don’t shine”. Seriously.
So judging from your comment, 98% of the world’s population is in slavery, I thought the caribbean was self governed by the children of former slaves
TO: wesleyman,
Are we really self-governed by children of former slaves? Who owns all the wealth in Waitu? Who are the puppet masters in Dominica? Who controls the resources and banking institutions. Who dictates whether you get a loan or not? It is not the clerk (child of former slave) reviewing your application…Look a little deeper, and you will realize where you stand is not as sturdy as you believe it was…
some sense! poor you for you know not what you are saying,i forgive you.
okay
when will Dominica be on their route? because I need a ticket to get to DOMINICA FROM BARBADOS!
When Chavez and China build the International Airport in the next ten years!!!
So LIAT stop flying from B’dos to Dominica? Hahahaha.
are you being serious? where you going and look for your ticket now nuh
I wonder how Red Jet is going to advertise in Dominica ! Poor Dominica we cannot even compete with st.kitts. The Government wasted the money for the international airport allocated some 13yrs ago. Dominicans must take a stand and stand up! Only vote for the party who promises to build an international airport within 2 years in office. Our vote is powerful. Let’s stop playing party politics and vote for the good of the country. I am liberal!
You are fed up and will vote for a Politician that PROMISES TO BUILD AN AIRPORT? Every politician’s modus operandi, is to promise and never deliver, why would you sell your vote for a Promise?
Take a stand where? Fall the country falling!
Don’t talk crap!! St. Kitts airport has been more of an encumbrance and liability to their government than an asset. For your information at one point the government was considering shutting down part of it because of the high cost to opperate and maintain such a large facillity especially in light of the fact that it is being under-utilized.
Smart move! At least it drew a lot of attention to Redjet.