A jersey and a message

Mar 25, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh solidarity ain’t always about big speeches and marches. Sometimes it’s simpler dan dat. Sometimes it’s about what yuh wearing on yuh back.

Dem boys was walking down the road de other day, minding my own business, when dem boys see a fella with a jersey. Plain jersey. But de words pon it? Dem catch my eye straight. It print up bold, “I Stand with Cuba!”

Now, dem boys ain’t know de fella. But when dem boys see dat jersey, dem feel something. Because right now, Cuba going through hell. And dem boys don’t mean de ordinary kinda trouble. Dem boys mean de kind of trouble where fuel stop flowing. De embargo so tight now dat even gas for de people’s cars and de hospitals’ generators get cut off. America say, “No fuel fuh Cuba.” Full stop.

You know what dat mean? It mean people can’t get to work. It mean food cyah reach de markets. It mean ambulance cyah run. It mean mothers watching deir children hungry and de lights out.

Dat ain’t politics. Dat is suffering. And some people calling it what it is: economic genocide. Because when you deliberately cut off fuel to an entire country of 11 million people, you not aiming at de government. You aiming at de grandmother, de schoolteacher, de newborn baby.

So when dem boys see dat jersey—just a ordinary fella with “I Stand with Cuba” pon his chest—dem boys say, “Dis is how we fight back.”

Because dem boys seh, the big powers got planes and missiles and sanctions. But we got something too. We got voice. We got conscience. And we got de ability to wear a message dat say, “We see yuh. We with yuh.”

Not everybody can send rice. Not everybody can send bicycle. But every single one of us can wear a jersey. It small, yes. But don’t let nobody tell yuh small thing cyah mean something. When yuh walking down de road and ten people see yuh jersey, and one of dem go home and Google what happening in Cuba, dat is solidarity. When yuh child ask yuh why yuh wearing it, and yuh explain about embargo and justice, dat is education. When enough of us wear it, and people start to notice, dat is movement.

So let me tell yuh straight. Dem boys going and get dem own jersey. “I Stand with Cuba.” And dem boys wearing it loud and proud.

Talk half. Leff half.

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