American’s getting clowned on Twitter for calling Sean Paul a culture vulture

[Unemployed GM]

This thread is so retarded that I don’t even know where to start.

The fact that there are some people that still don’t know the differences between race, ethnicity and nationality in 2025 is sad. It shows that these internet echo chambers are working their magic.

As a Jamaican, I’ve never heard anyone question Sean Paul’s authenticity or whether he’s “actually Jamaican” or not. This talking point has come solely from twitter, from people that don’t have any real connection to Jamaica other than being somewhat familiar with the music that has managed to crossover.

It’s crazy how people have access to so much information now to learn about the differences of other cultures with the click of a button but still choose to be wrong and strong.

Stop the cap. You ask any Jamaican if Jamaica is Black country they gonna say yes.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Oh yh and as someone said Sean Paul was an international star

The originator of his entire style is actually Super Cat so most ol skool Jamaicans actually saw SP as a pop version of Super Cat

 

[5n0man]

Some AA must think they are the only Blacks that are mix up and blend up

This is a crazy statement in regards to someone who isn't black at all.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

This is a crazy statement in regards to someone who isn't black at all.

What do u mean his father is Afro Portuguese mixed with Jew




How can u accept Creoles in Louisiana as Black and not a Creole Jamaican

 

[Harry B]

Like many people in Jamaica I always knew that he was a mixture of like 8 different things. Even the cricket guy he always shouts out in every song Chanderpaul is like an Indian Guyanese dude, but I guess in the Caribbean he’s just Caribbean

Americans love to apply their shyt to other countries as if they give a single fukk. Even locally you’ll see southern people tryna apply their MO to New York.

 

[Lord Beasley]

I fw Seana Paul .......


but the defense force assembled to cape for the man, valid. hope some of you same niccas wasn't questioning Kamala's blackness tho

Spoiler

Coli MAGAts and bothsiders told me this was an indian woman

 

[SpikeLee Cumbersmith]

I don't care...



I'm not Jamaican, I only gatekeep my blackness.

I don't know how i know this song, but it's been in my database for a while

 

[5n0man]

What do u mean his father is Afro Portuguese mixed with Jew




How can u accept Creoles in Louisiana as Black and not a Creole Jamaican

His father is European Portuguese, with claims of a black ancestor somewhere on the family tree. Black dna percent in single digits.

That doesn't count.

 

[DonB90]

Can we talk about how stupid Jamaica national motto is for a second. 2nd blackest nation in the western hemisphere talking bout Out of Many, One People.

Like I understand there are mixed or non Black Jamaicans but let's not act like 90% of the country doesn't look like Beenie Man

 

[banner34]

Sean Paul didn’t get popular until he started traveling to Canada, UK and America. He didn’t get love back home initially because he was seen as a fraud because of his uptown upbringing (wealthy origins) by the underclass who make up the bulk of the dancehall base. It wasn’t until his international fanfare and number 1 songs that dancehall fans in Jamaica warmed up to him.

That “Out Of Many, One People” motto is fukking cap. It’s used as a quip to smother any cogent critique of the unequal racial dynamics on the island. Rastafarian’s have been calling out racism on the island since the 1930s, same with UWI professors, even brehs in the ghetto who can put two and two together (from Professor Carolyn Cooper, Beverley Manley, Mutabaruka, DK Duncan). The slogan literally came about through a pageant celebrating the 300th anniversary of British colonial rule that showed Jamaica’s supposed racial diversity (called the Ten Type Beauty Contest), a contest mixed women would almost always win. The top 10% of Jamaica own and control 3/5ths of the wealth on the island, +90% of that 10 % are Chinese, Lebanese, Jews, Syrians, Cacs, Indian’s and Bi-racials. Only one of the top 10 wealthiest families in Jamaica is fully Black. Indian’s isolate and are more often than not opposed to mixing, they still celebrate their traditional holidays. You can’t even buried in the Chinese cemetery in Kingston if you’re non-Chinese Jamaican, they also socially isolate other than for engaging in commerce. If you do all that to distinguish yourself from the average Jamaican then how we can be the same?

These non-Blacks in Jamaica make it clear that the line of demarcation is ethnicity and nationality tbh. It’s only during sporting events and maybe carnival that they engage with their so-called “Jamaicaness”. These are the groups who hated on reggae and dancehall, who pushed for censorship and lobbied against its proliferation, but simultaneously pilfer and plunder it. These are the groups who led the charge of subjugation snd oppression against Rastafarian’s (who were seen as socially disruptive with all that blackity black stuff), for decades Rastas would get snatched up off the street and would forcibly get their heads shaved. All these other races do in Jamaica is isolate, practice anti-miscegenation, gaslight the Black masses, lobby against favorable social policies and wealth horde.​

Sean was buzzing in the dancehall scene before he got big. He was doing a lot of riddims with Mr Vegas and others in 1998. He didn’t become a international star until 2002.

 

[TheNig]

nikkas really don't be having shyt else to do but sit on the toilet and tweet all cotdamn day about the most trivial shyt.

 

[5n0man]

Can we talk about how stupid Jamaica national motto is for a second. 2nd blackest nation in the western hemisphere talking bout Out of Many, One People.

Like I understand there are mixed or non Black Jamaicans but let's not act like 90% of the country doesn't look like Beenie Man

But if they're cool with it

 

[Lord Beasley]

nikkas really don't be having shyt else to do but sit on the toilet and tweet all cotdamn day about the most trivial shyt.

yes nicca, it's saturday morning

 

[Kasgoinjail]

His father is European Portuguese, with claims of a black ancestor somewhere on the family tree. Black dna percent in single digits.

That doesn't count.

Stop the nonsense that man is Blaxker than Sean Paul

 

[Tair]

Their country, their identity, so they decide what makes a person Jamaican.