My dad sent me Back home when I was nine. And by then a new prime minister had come to power and he declared that Jamaica was a socialist country. If you had land, it belonged to the government. Now your profits, if your business were no longer your own. It was treacherous. And in fact so many Jamaicans fled because there was no freedom, there was no liberty. There was violence everywhere, political violence. And that's what I love about America, liberty, freedom. (02:50–02:57)
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Asserts that under the socialist government in Jamaica, private land and business profits were claimed by the government.
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