Do poor black Jamaicans really wish that Jamaica was still shackled by the British?

If they do, perhaps they should consider what Prof George M Wrong stated in 1909: “Britain controls today the destinies of some 350,000,000 alien people, unable as yet to govern themselves, and easy victims to rapine and injustice, unless a strong arm guards them. She is giving them a rule that has its faults, no doubt, but such, I would make bold to affirm, as no conquering state ever before gave to a dependent people.”

Wrong was quoted in the introduction to Niall Ferguson’s 2003 publication ‘Empire’ along with the following 2001 quotation from the Durban Declaration of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance: “…Colonialism has led to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and that Africans and people of African descent, and people of Asian descent and indigenous peoples were victims of colonialism and continue to be victims of its consequences.

I guess, as Bob Marley said, "Time will tell."