Talk:Jamaican Americans

message: This article is definitely going to need expansion. Gringo300 23:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: I didnt make any edits but in a interview Keys revealed that she is in fact not of Jamaican background at all. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/18138354.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUt:aDyaEP:kD:aUiacyKUUr She described her ethinc background as Italian and black, with likely translates to Italian and African-American. So you may want to think about replacing her with someone.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sourcechecker419 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Alicia Keys

message: Please see the deletion vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Bahamian Americans. Badagnani 03:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion vote

message: Kelis should be here.... on kelis's page it states: Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. Her first name, pronounced /kəˈlis/ (she can be heard singing her own name in the song Blindfold me), is a combination of her father's name, Kenneth, and her mother's name, Eveliss. Kenneth is a Jamaican jazz musician, Pentecostal minister, and professor at Wesleyan University.[2] Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career.
Fefe Dobson: http://www.imdb.com states: Her father is Jamaican and Asian.
and another source: Felicia Lynn Dobson was born on February 28, 1985, in the Toronto, Ontario district of Scarborough. Fefe Dobson is biracial. Her mother is of Irish, Dutch and English ancestry, while her father is of Jamaican Heritage. 
http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/2922/fefe-dobson.htm
 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.192.179.150 (talk) 20:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kelis....

message: An editor made an error which blanked out most of the pictures in the infobox.  I resored the pics.  One pic, of olivia, I couldn't identify so I sub'd in harry belafonte--Work permit (talk) 04:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to subsitute her with someone else.  Grace Jones?--Work permit (talk) 05:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: infobox

message: The correct word in that sentence is ancestor. Not ancestry. The textbook Immigrant America (p. 69) issued at the University of South Florida says there were 554,897 Jamaican born people in the US in the 2000 Census. This article claims there are about 911,000 Americans (or residents in the US) of Jamaican ancestry. So the percentage of foreign born people is actually about 61%. It is quite obvious that 94.5% of Jamaican-Americans are not foreign born. Plus, within that remaining 5.5% that this article stated, there are people that are beyond second generation. There have been Jamaicans immigrating to the US as early as WWI. Wouldn't Colin Powell's grandchildren be 3rd generation? How would they be statistically accounted for in this statement? Look at all the other famous Americans of Jamaican background too. So many of them are old or would be old if they were still alive. Yet they were born in the US. Tom65.32.185.72 (talk) 17:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No where near 94.5% of Americans of Jamaican background were born in Jamaica. 

message: He should be on the list. 
http://ethnicelebs.com/will-i-am  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.5.129 (talk) 00:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Will .I .Am 

message: I'm calling bullshit on this figure, on every single page of foreign peoples there are always these ludicrous numbers of people compared to the actual census-reported figures.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.17.247 (talk) 20:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nearly 1 million Jamaicans in America? 

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message: I don't know if it is said like that in English, but Jamaica is an island in the American continent, so they are Americans per se  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.47.112.116 (talk) 21:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aren't Jamaicans already Americans? 

message: "After 1838, European colonies in the Caribbean with expanding sugar industries imported large numbers of *immigrants* to meet their acute labor shortage." 2603:6011:A400:9D32:B804:8C05:5EA:4BC3 (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Immigrants. BilCat (talk) 18:30, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  1st paragraph after the infobox: don't they mean slaves?