“How can we preserve our culture and maintain our future? That's the first question we all need to ask ourselves.”

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Marcia Douglas (mar-shah dug-lass)

Colonel, Charles Town Maroons

IMAGE SOURCE: “Acting Colonel Marcia Douglas.” Maroons-jamaica.com. | TEXT SOURCE: “Acting Colonel Marcia Douglas speaks at the Accompong Maroon Festival 2020.” YouTube. 15 Jan. 2020.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “Are we preserving our culture and maintaining our future? Is there a possibility that in the near future we will still have culture within our hands? Our fore-parents fought long and hard so that we can stand here today.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What is the first question you need to ask?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “As leader and spokesperson for one of the several maroon communities in Jamaica, Acting Colonel Douglas stands as the first woman to occupy any such position of authority among them in present day.”

IMAGE QUESTION: With whom do you stand when you rise to speak for your People?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a YouTube video and the photo is from a website of the Jamaican maroons.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: Considering the potential for wide viewership how do you decide between mass media and independent media dissemination of your messages?

“How can we preserve our culture and maintain our future? That's the first question we all need to ask ourselves.”

Marcia Douglas (mar-shah dug-lass)

“Indigenous women in Jamaica live a role model lifestyle to redirect African people to a real image of compassionate family life, a unit that was totally intentionally destroyed in slavery.”

“If you chop that branch, it’s filled with water that the Maroons would drink…This is why, when we cut a tree, we plant another one to replace it.”