"I've always had my culture, I've always known who I was" | SHERYL LEE RALPH

I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with the iconic Emmy award winning actress Sheryl lee Ralph a couple years back we spoke about her Jamaican roots and so much more. Enjoy ! 🎙

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Where is part 2

[@Judithbodley]

Out now !!

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Yes. Its the worlds best national anthem.

[@charlenestewartson5940]

Jamaica is one of the best places in the world. I know too that Jamaicans are very patriotic. Thanks Sheryl Lee Ralph for representing Jamaica in a positive way 🇯🇲🇯🇲 I can't wait for you to write a book.

[@Judithbodley]

She wrote one !

[@tishainnis]

I just LOVE her!!! She and I have the same heart for Jamaica. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@patrickrobinson7416]

I AM PROUD OF YOU SHERYL

[@patricialynch1244]

She's right on every level

[@dsmith9709]

Yes the words of Jamaican anthem is like no other. That's God's country. Regardless of what people say God will not allow harm to that island. Sheryl never stop being a Jamaican. Bill Cosby rejected her for the Cosby Show because he claimed she was too young to play his wife. That was a blessing for her. She hasn't aged.

[@Beyondme7700]

I will share something with u not many knows...it is said that heaven is located north of the equator and Jamaica is located right under it on earth yes! God's island.

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Jamaicans, JAMAICANS, unite, unite, take back jamaicA, take it back. Its the paradise of the world.

[@wesleyrattray4236]

I think the most tasty cooked food in the world is jamaican rice and peas, oxtail, curry goat....holy shit the stew peas.

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Who makes the best bread in the world....the jamaican harddough.....OMG

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Sheryl, everytime I see a movie with you, Harry, Madge or the true jamaicans I have to watch it.

[@Judithbodley]

Me to Wesley! 😊

[@paulamckenzie2356]

very good interview ❤️👍👍

[@Judithbodley]

Thank you ! ♥️

[@kevingrant5695]

She is right 💐🎖️

[@homodeus8713]

Has no idea. People of Jamaican descent in the UK are amazing - take no rubbish from anyone. So proud and hilarious when they tell the truth.

[@tdot1271]

She’s amazing❤❤❤❤

[@markpeter4304]

She criticizes well. Without condescension. Complementing but pointing out the elements that keeps us down.

[@evil-linn1371]

Constructive Criticism

[@marmiller5560]

Mi proud to be Jamaican 💯🇯🇲❤️❤️❤️

[@garfieldharrison510]

I'm a Jamaican/American. Watching Sheryl Lee Ralph makes so proud of her. I went to the same High School as Mrs. Ralph in the United States. I will not mention the School. Her music teacher advised me as well. I went on to do my thing in the Entertainment industry. She is right about that when you mention Jamaica.. I live in the world as a citizen. Proud of my roots.

[@thewordsmith5440]

Her dad an AA was a professor and teacher as well. He seemed like a good man.

[@cherrystephenson5967]

I am very proud of you Sheryl Lee Ralph, My first time meeting you you at at the hotel when I took my niece for the mother and child function, where Beverley Manley and her daughter Natasha Manley.

[@shawnaw9750]

Great interview! Love her!! She has shared a lot of gems.👍

[@Judithbodley]

She absolutely shared a number of gems. It was certainly a pleasure to interview her and I am also quite proud of what she has accomplished.

[@carmenbennett3073]

Knowledge send us Heavenly Father...grant true wisdom from above. Justice, truth be ours forever.. JAMAICA LAND WE LOVE 🇯🇲🇯🇲.Yes..we need vision!!! 👏👏👏❤️ Sheryl ❤️❤️❤️👏👏 Mandeville!! Yes!! #HouseofIvy

[@Judithbodley]

Mandeville! Manchester! Yes❤️

[@angeliastuart5555]

Jamaica chose love❤and live clean

[@cherokeeshabazz8199]

🇺🇸SOME OF THE MOST VIOLENT OFFENDERS IN THE WORLD GURRRRRL STOP🛑

[@wesleyrattray4236]

You did highlight the jamaican in you in piece of the action.

[@IVY87699]

Bob Marley one say Africa unite Jamaica unite one love🇯🇲

[@skbosdgame8435]

You’re so right Sheryl, let me add Jamaicans are also great to the world even when they’re in Jamaica, but the difference is we stayed on the plantation more than many diaspora unlike some enslaved black Americans can easy cross land to go north.When Jamaicans stay to suppress the plantation. we don’t have a easy sea or a big land country to get away or cross to go north and the south doesn’t start on the gulf or Atlantic coast, the slave master definitely didn’t think so when they taking slaves back and forth to the islands so why many ppl hate when Jamaicans want to go north from the plantation land to a broader horizon like many Indians done, so why with the greed mentality against other diaspora south across the Atlantic Ocean

[@thewordsmith5440]

Jamaica is like 90% black. Her dad was an AA btw so idk why you said this. It's weird that she presents herself as being only AA.

[@whothehelliscarlos7874]

Sheryl 😍😍😍

[@marmiller5560]

Sista fully loaded with wisdom 💯👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Yes, our patties, jerk food, athletes, canned foods, you name it....we are the boss.

[@mstwelvedeadlycyns]

Excuse me? Guyana is boss! 🇬🇾

[@wesleyrattray4236]

@@mstwelvedeadlycyns ***** i wouldnt doubt that ********

[@janjan-xc6iw]

Canned food is not a Jamaican thing!!!

[@wesleyrattray4236]

@@janjan-xc6iw my point is that the best canned food are from jamaica. Grace products. Montego, you name them.

[@Indigo565]

@@wesleyrattray4236 😂😂😂😂😂

[@millicentwatson1824]

So true

[@patricialynch1244]

❤️🙏

[@gloriaward2009]

❤ 💙 💜

[@izodman]

❤

[@coralmarnder2313]

The real Jamaica 🇯🇲 she is you Noh figat day ♥️👍🇯🇲

[@kincamell2]

Gratitude

[@andrewDaMack]

She's speaking a lot of truths here. I've never really pondered on that line in the national anthem..."Give us vision lest we perish". Without vision we really do perish. Many Jamaicans who migrate to other parts of world do so well to the point where their children are now VP of the United States, Governor and Lt Governor of states. It's not the people, it's the lack of vision. Too many Jamaicans at home don't see much hope for their country and their dreams and potential are too often derailed. The result of this is whats happening in the Jamaican society. I just wish we could get leaders who have charisma and a leadership style to inspire hope and vision of what we can become as a country.

[@wesleyrattray4236]

And its because of the division and control of jamaica by foreigners why jamaicans are now confused, feel hopeless, and helpless, thus migration and crime.

[@Beyondme7700]

Yes all Jamaicans love themselves ask them...

[@angeliastuart5555]

School the ignorant

[@wesleyrattray4236]

We could be leading the world, but apparently the words of the anthem, keep us free from evil powers, are not honoured by the one we pray to.

[@Beyondme7700]

God is not a man that he should lie or the son of man that he should repent

[@wesleyrattray4236]

Evil powers control the entire world.

[@adelec.9618]

THANK YOU. HE/SHE'S FULL OF SHIT

[@wesleyrattray4236]

@@adelec.9618 explain.

[@QueenZsWorld]

IS SHE JAMAICAN 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@jasminepearls1047]

Her dad wasn't but her mom was.

[@marciaburtongordon5028]

@Queen she is Jamaican

[@13579hee]

It isn't that Jamaicans know how to be great outside of Jamaica but not on the island. The issue was literally the lack of wealth and infrastructure on that island versus the wealth and infrastructure in more developed Western Nations like the United states. When the average Jamaican comes to the United States of america, be them well off or poor, they're coming to a more developed wealthier Nation with a black Freedom struggle that lays the groundwork for them to find their footing more easily. They don't find success simply because they embody some mystical greatness that comes from the island of Jamaica because if that were the case the island itself will be in a better set of circumstances. The reality as they walk into life in a wealthier nation with its own native black population (black americans) whose Freedom struggle has already opened the door for some degree of access to resources and opportunities. And as immigrants they are gaining excess to resources and opportunities in America without carrying the multi-generational plight in the US that black Americans have. This is where folks from the Caribbean, Africa or any other part of the world come to start a new. The Black American Freedom struggle is literally the Cornerstone of all non-white immigrant groups success here in the United States of America. She, like most people of immigrant descent, isn't doing a great job of explaining that. And in the process of her poorly constructed and limited opinion on this topic, she is a disrespecting both Black Americans and Jamaicans who live on the island

[@thewordsmith5440]

Her dad is AA. If you notice she never mentions her dad being Jamaican which she seems to not take pride in that.

[@13579hee]

@@thewordsmith5440 I know he's a Black American

[@cherokeeshabazz8199]

🖤BLACK AMERICAN🇺🇸CULTURE IS THE CULTURE OF THE WORLD🌎.PERIODT👈🏿 🇯🇲👩🏿‍🌾SLR👉🏿👉🏿🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝 WHY DID YOU FLEE YOU COULD HAVE RETURNED TO YOUR COUNTRY WE DID NOT NEED YOU HERE DISRESPECT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!! YOU ATE OFF OUR PLATE👂🏿👂🏿👂🏿

[@elfredawright]

Cherokee Shabazz, take your ignorance somewhere else. You ignoramus.

[@MrsDaye-eq4uf]

SHE IS A BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN. CHECK HER BIO…. SHE WAS BORN IN CONNECTICUT

[@jasminepearls1047]

Why post this though? And I'm AA.

[@jeanoblair1517]

@cherokee shabazz she is Jamaican! But she was born in America and raise in Jamaica-Connecticut,Plus can you listen how she expressing herself and culture of Jamaica. So where was your parents, grandparents or great grandparents from ? bcuz No one is fully American except the RED Indians is the true American,so plz stop talking about go back to country! Unless all of us need to go back and it need to start with u!!!

[@MrsDaye-eq4uf]

@@jeanoblair1517 I am aware. I was trying to make a point to Cherokee Shabazz ignorant comment about fleeing her country and not needing her here.