Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey im always ear bout shoppin' fe Carnival costume, but Sunday im see two browning shoppin inna carnival costume.

So Sunday Jackass got caught in the carnival road march of 'back-annalian' magnitude and proportions (you know, people wining on other people's backs, making another story for annals of Jamaican entertainment history. Don' try to read Jackass' rendering of the word any differently and cause cass cass). Note, Jackass did not say he got caught up with the road march; he got caught up in it and had to divert his cart according to the instructions of the police.

Arright, fine, cool, everyone has to have their fun and many of those people in the carnival road march need a tan.

But a few hours later, Jackass was at a large, a huge, supermarket approaching the upper regions of St Andrew and saw something that reinforced that the world really is not level. Two of the little (really little) brown girls stepped into the shop (cause that is all it is, no matter how expansive, how gargantuan it gets, a shop) in their itsy bitsy black and silver carnival bikinis and got served.

Now, if one of the dancehall girls had dared to step into that place in their drawers and brassieres, Jackass knows they wouldn't of got served. Hell, chances are they wouldn't even be let on the compound in the first place. And don't tell Jackass that it is a special day and the leetle brownings were in costume. Dancehall days are special too and the women who dress up and go out to them are in costume as well.

It's the same body parts a show, so what is the difference (apart from size, cause many of those dancehall ladies are oh so gloriously gone large. Mwwahh!)? Jackass doesn't need to spell it out for you, but he will anyway.

S-K-I-N C-O-L-O-U-R

Nah man, the world can't be level if two people can wear the same type of revealing clothing and get a totally different reaction and hence totally different treatment in the same situation. And don't tell Jackass balderdash about 'you don't know if that would be the case'. Oonu done know how it go too.

It is like this sign at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Well, it used to be there and maybe it still is, that there should be no dancehall clothing. So how comes there is no sign up by the UHWI, over Tony Thwaites Wing, that there should be 'No Carnival Clothing'? So waapen, brown girl from uptown no strip down an' walk a road too?

And you know what really, really hurt Jackass? The people at that big shop on Sunday who were grinning and gazing indulgently at the skinny girls in drawers and bras were all of much darker hue. Put a dark-skinned woman in front of them in the same outfit and suddenly the smile turns to a frown of disapproval.

Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey drawers a drawers an' bra a bra!