So the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) has lashed out against slack lyrics in sessions and dancehall. They also stated that they support a ban of sessions which utilise these slack forms of entertainment.

The JCC has also said they take the same position on slack soca and calypso lyrics. However, they are calling for a ban, and thus declaring an unequivocal position on the holding of such sessions.

I wonder what they think the police should do with carnival. There is no greater display of nastiness, in my opinion, than carnival.

Nothing displays sexuality like carnival. Based on what I saw on television some time ago, more rampin' and daggerin' take place on that big parade than whatever takes place in dancehall.

Vulgar display

Carnival is the most glaring display of sexuality. It can be an inconvenience, especially during the time of the road parades where you have to change your route to accommodate the public display of wining and grinding that takes place, along with what are essentially a bunch of half-naked people in a mass display of vulgarity!

For the JCC to be taken seriously as a body with any degree of credibility it must have a consistency with calling for a ban on that big carnival road parade.

To be fair, carnival patrons usually exercise their 'thing' in a way in which the general public is not inconvenienced. However, if the JCC is coming out against one form of vulgarity it must come out against vulgarity in all its various modes of operations, or shut up!

I am, etc.,

DAMION HESLOP

damionheslop@yahoo.com

Mandeville