In this week's episode, Mark Jobson talks about coming of age in Jamaica in the 1970s when the country was rife with political polarization. As a teenager, he frequently traveled between home and Princeton, NJ, where he attended college. Mark’s son Ryan asks him about one memorable plane trip from Jamaica to the States, with an altered album in tow, that changed the course of both of their lives forever. Below, Mark describes the moment things got serious at the airport.
As I sit there in the departure lounge, up come to me two uniformed police officers, they had on the khaki uniform, which gives you an idea, they had the higher rank in Jamaica, the khaki clothes police or the higher ranks like inspectors or whatever. So two, two men came up to me, I'm sitting there just minding my business, and uh, they walk up to me and say, uh, ‘Mr. Jobson.’ And I said, uh, ‘What's up?’
