The 'people's cause' in the Caribbean

Jamaican rebel music

“…that we will see a better day[51 ] is really an inward search for the inner strength to endure -'the whip, fantastic fines, Judge Dread and Judge Four Hundred Years, the rule of eunuchs, fops, thieves and ignoramuses who break the law themselves, the brutish stupidity of a demoralised police force making love to their guns' [52] because deep down in his heart of hearts, he knows that: the hotter the battle , the sweeter the victory [53] ... ,, That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world which brings about an inner-felt need for inner peace, an inner strength, for 'spiritual well being' [54] in short, the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican is a deeply spiritual experience, a religious experience in the wildest sense of the word. The quest for spiritual well-being, this impelling need to be free of the inner pain, the inner tension, the oscillation between the psychic states of despair and rebellion does not necessarily oppose the physical quest for liberation.…”