James you did not indicate your nationality. Are we to assume that you were in Jamaica as a foreigner and when it was time for you to leave you went directly to the airport and tried to leave on other documents (you did not state what type of documents). Any reason why you did not first go to the Canadian embassy? That is usually the first move.

You went on to say the following,
Incidentally, this person happened to be a young white woman who was getting ready to board a flight to New York. She was dressed very indecently, like a common prostitute, in a bikini top and tight shorts, and although she had absolutely no documentation whatsoever proving her identity
I can’t speak for this case but these might not be the type of comments to place in a post where you want to make a point about racism. I should point out that the customs officials will have a bias against a “black” person trying to fly to Canada on a driver’s license as opposed to a “white” person. Reason being, Jamaicans, mostly those of darker hue try many ways to get to Canada and the USA everyday. Call it profiling, call it what you may. You can argue the point that the female should have been detained (I don’t know her facts), but that does not mean that you should not have been detained. James (the names sounds Ghanaian so that will be my guess) if you are of West African decent and trying to leave Jamaica on a drivers license you are asking for trouble(Sorry). It would have been quite obvious to you the similarities between West Africans and Jamaicans.

They were extremely rude and ignorant, displaying all the nastiness and psychopathic callousness typical of the “Jamaican character”

I can understand your anger but, why did you even remain in this island filled with “nastiness and psychopathic callousness typical of the “Jamaican character”

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