Expletive use appropriate or not?

#TalkbackTuesday: There have been mixed reactions to Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts’ valedictorian Waldane Walker’s use of a Jamaican expletive as he ended an emotive address on Saturday. Social media weighed in on if this was appropriate.

• Yes ... Free to seh weh him want, u zeet ... School of arts free to express themselves.

– @sharn_enuh

 

• I don’t think it was appropriate for the occasion at all. There is a time and place for everything. And that most definitely wasn’t the time or place.

– @SpenceChanel

 

• I feel a lot of persons even envy the fact that he was allowed to say it, knowing that they themselves cannot say it in a setting like that. Why are we bashing our own culture, though? Foreigners appreciate our Creole but we here treating it like it’s some crime.

– @safflick20

• It is rather hypocritical that people push an agenda only when it suits them. If you support the standardisation of Patois and refuse to see ‘bloodcl**t’ as a mere form of colloquial expression, then while your body was made free, your mind is still being held captive.

– @introvertnikue

 

• Seeing that it’s a university for the performing arts and expression, I believe that although it’s inappropriate because of the wider audience, I wouldn’t beat him too bad as he’s just expressing himself and chose to do it in that fashion.

– @Boomdagger

 

• Certainly not and he should apologise, unless we have changed our laws in recent times and I am not aware.

– @rudyg2015

• Disrespect and disregard is NOT art.

– @aevumaureus

 

• Aw c’mon folks ... we know it’s not appropriate, but it’s 2019. We get too wound up on trivial, meaningless things. Until the other day, it was inappropriate for women to wear sleeveless dresses in Parliament.

– @mz__mika

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