A “brown-skin” Donald Tapia yesterday endorsed peaceful protests that are now taking place in his home country and recounted his own experience marching for equality with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr in his early 20s.
“It was an experience that they will never take away from me,” the US ambassador to Jamaica said during a live interview on the Embassy’s Facebook page yesterday.
Tapia, who was nominated by US President Donald Trump to become an ambassador, said the march took place in Montgomery, Alabama.
The ambassador said that he, too, would have been involved in the protest taking place in the US if he was back home but made it clear that he would only be participating in the peaceful ones.
“Peaceful demonstration shows the frustration, and so forth, that people in Jamaica and also in the United States have with the system as it is in place.
