Tripatini contributor Evan098 writes:

"Later in Kingston, I played dominoes with a few locals under a big tree. When I told them I was writing about Jamaica’s history, one guy said, “Then don’t forget - freedom didn’t come in one day. We had to learn how to use it.”

They told me about the early-20th-century activist Marcus Garvey, about how he taught Jamaicans to look in the mirror and see greatness (the statue of him pictured here was erected in his home village of St. Ann´s Bay, 15 minutes west of Ocho Rios, in 1976). They talked about independence in 1962, about how the flag rising didn’t mean the struggle ended.

It made me think of home - of how easy it is to take freedom for granted when you never had to fight for it."

Read more in his post Feeling Jamaica´s History and Heritage.