Hear mi nuh peeps, yesterday was another of those days where I spent so much time on Twitter that I almost forgot that I had to write something to put in this box. Sorry. I had a birthday on Sunday, and I'm now old enough to blame things on age, so yeah, let's just say di old brain ya ah gather water. Well, by the time I remembered about Blakka's Box, it was way too late to compose the article I planned on writing. So I decided instead, to share a little toops of what I encountered on twitter yesterday.

My erudite friend Dr Sonjah Stanley-Niaah posted a provocative tweet asking: 'Bruce Lee or Bob Marley, who was the first third world superstar?' Well, instead of choosing an answer from the two options proffered, or moving on if they can't decide which one is correct, people started adding other names as their answer. Ah wha do dem? Some of them take that same silly approach in school and then get vex when they end up failing tests.

Somebody offered up Jimmy Cliff as the answer, and that immediately got my annoyance tick buzzing. How some people so damn difficult? No, I didn't tweet that. That was just the question I loudly screamed at myself, because Mr. Cliff was not part of the multiple choice answer. But when people started putting up names like Haile Selassie, Nelson Mandela and Marcus Garvey, I had to fling in my quattie worth of tweets. My first intervention was to gently suggest that no matter how acclaimed those entertainers might be, it is irreverent bordering on disrespectful to put H.I.M.

differ in meaning

Haile Selassie in a contest with some entertainers. And it's not because I used to be a Rasta, I just think we shouldn't play with a people's deity. I also posted a tweet that tried to help them understand that superstar, hero, messiah and God are words that actually differ in meaning.

Somebody then sent me a direct message telling me that I take some things too seriously for a comedian, and I responded with a tweet saying I refuse to apologise for not being one-dimensional. What di hell dem think? Because I'm a comedian I laugh about everything? Well, I posted another tweet that made it clear that I never ever joke about topics like rape or slavery.

Another tweet that got me ticked off came from King Chris. He tweeted "Woman have hands, feet, eyes and a brain - so why can't they operate a motor vehicle, as men do". I responded by informing him that if they operated cars like men do, more women would die, because many more men die (and kill) while driving than women.

One of the people who got me 'bex and bringle' with their response to Dr Stanley-Niaah's original question, was Donovan 'JR' Watkis. Mi nuh know how him find so much time fi tweet given his day job as a teacher, but that's a whole different food for a different box.

JR is actually a former student of mine who I know might still be upset with me for giving him some very meagre marks on essays in which he (often brilliantly) answered questions I didn't ask, while ignoring the key task I set him in the assignment. He may even get more annoyed that mi loud him in this article, but ah mi brethren, so he'll hopefully either get over it quickly or rant about it - on twitter.

And look here nuh, things can sometimes get real bitter on twitter. Although, most times it sweet, that's why I tweet. Yeah, If yu nuh start yet, I urge thee to dweet. Follow me @BlakkaEllis!

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