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ON POINT: JAMAICAN GOVERNOR GENERAL HAS BEEN WEARING THIS HORRIFIC BADGE SINCE 🇯🇲 JAMAICAN INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND!!! JULY 19TH, 1962 .
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FINALLY THE ABOMINATION WILL BE REDESIGNED.
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Jamaica is to request a redesign of the badge worn by Governors General since independence, to remove the imagery depicting St Michael standing on the neck of a chained black man, which has become a flashpoint in the protests against racism.
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Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has acknowledged the concerns being expressed about one of the ceremonial medals which he wears, and is assuring Jamaicans that the necessary requests will be made for a revision of the image.
“The Star of the Order depicts St. Michael the Archangel as being triumphant over Satan. However, in light of the heightened scrutiny of our iconography in Jamaica undergirded by our history, the Black Lives Matter movement in America, and related issues in the global sphere, it is evid...
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