Bongo Dizzy, ‘Voice of the interpreter’, in Nettleford

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Bongo Dizzy, ‘Voice of the interpreter’, in Nettleford, R (ed), Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica, 1970, Jamaica: Collins and Sangster, p 44. Stated ‘Jamaica today is independent … yet English customs and laws and English instructions still leads us . . . how much voice do we have in saying what laws will pass . . . politics was not the black man’s lot but the white man’s plot.’

Explain the statement above