Buju arrest stigma too bad for Jamaica

BUJU BANTON'S predicament reads like shorthand for the most unfortunate stigmas associated with Jamaica: 'deejay-homophobe-alleged cocaine dealer'.


There's more than a few stigmas abroad, such as how Caribbean gangs in the United Kingdom all get tagged as 'Yardie' – whether Jamaican or not.

Which maybe encourages things like this...

A Google Alert arrived in my inbox yesterday, about a man robbing a convenience store in Des Moines, Iowa. He was wearing, wait for it, 'sunglasses, a Jamaican hat and fake dreadlocks'.