LOL get em freelance. Rory is all over this site with nothing to say. In the immortal words of Exuma: empty barrels make the most noise!! ain nobody gat time for dat!
@rory I suggest you take up @freelance's advice and read Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. You might learn something. People of all races are waking up. Babylon is falling. Get with the program.
I experienced a range of emotions after reading your piece. At first I was livid. I read and reread sections with a fire in my gut. Then I became perplexed. How could you suggest that demanding reparations from "Africa" was a more appropriate redress to the legacies of slavery and colonialism than the current action being taken by caricom member states? How could any moral person observing the evidence contend that Britain should "be sending us a reparations bill"? Finally, calm set in. I knew I had to respond to this (for lack of a better phrase) heaping pile of S**T.
The version of history you narrate poses slavery as an age old problem that was finally overcome with the dawning of the "Age of Enlightenment", a time when the powerful in Europe became civilized enough to understand the barbarism of the institution of slavery. The British were the leaders of this charge and thus the most civilized and favored of empires. In fact, the good old Brits were nice enough to let some of that good old civilizationizing rub off on the otherwise backwards former slaves,"After centuries of colonial rule, education and training, many have moved from a history of slavery to a future of heads of industry and leaders of nations". We owe our nationhood to their good graces didn't ya know?!
Now I believe in love and I try always to lead with empathy. I want to understand you. Is there some secret guilt in your heart that is alleviated by this one-sided, watered down vision of world history? Maybe you take some comfort in dredging up the fossilized discourses of the days when white rule meant something. Does it make you feel more in control in a world you can barely recognize?
The reality of the situation is that people the world over are beginning to take a critical look at the way the past and the present are linked. A dwindling number of them support your conclusions. You can no longer hide your venom behind the illusion of learning and authority. i see you. You can no longer pretend to be continuing a grand civilizing mission on people like me. i reject you. In other words dear Editor, you have no clothes.
One day, far in the future, someone will come across this piece and remark on how far we have come as a nation. We will progress with civility, dignity and honesty in spite of you. Our reparations will be won.
truth2power says...
LOL get em freelance. Rory is all over this site with nothing to say. In the immortal words of Exuma: empty barrels make the most noise!! ain nobody gat time for dat!
On Why were Bahamians not told about suing Britain?
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truth2power says...
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On Why were Bahamians not told about suing Britain?
Posted 19 October 2013, 1 a.m. Suggest removal
truth2power says...
@rory I suggest you take up @freelance's advice and read Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. You might learn something. People of all races are waking up. Babylon is falling. Get with the program.
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Posted 19 October 2013, 12:56 a.m. Suggest removal
truth2power says...
Dear Editor,
I experienced a range of emotions after reading your piece. At first I was livid. I read and reread sections with a fire in my gut. Then I became perplexed. How could you suggest that demanding reparations from "Africa" was a more appropriate redress to the legacies of slavery and colonialism than the current action being taken by caricom member states? How could any moral person observing the evidence contend that Britain should "be sending us a reparations bill"? Finally, calm set in. I knew I had to respond to this (for lack of a better phrase) heaping pile of S**T.
The version of history you narrate poses slavery as an age old problem that was finally overcome with the dawning of the "Age of Enlightenment", a time when the powerful in Europe became civilized enough to understand the barbarism of the institution of slavery. The British were the leaders of this charge and thus the most civilized and favored of empires. In fact, the good old Brits were nice enough to let some of that good old civilizationizing rub off on the otherwise backwards former slaves,"After centuries of colonial rule, education and training, many have moved from a history of slavery to a future of heads of industry and leaders of nations". We owe our nationhood to their good graces didn't ya know?!
Now I believe in love and I try always to lead with empathy. I want to understand you. Is there some secret guilt in your heart that is alleviated by this one-sided, watered down vision of world history? Maybe you take some comfort in dredging up the fossilized discourses of the days when white rule meant something. Does it make you feel more in control in a world you can barely recognize?
The reality of the situation is that people the world over are beginning to take a critical look at the way the past and the present are linked. A dwindling number of them support your conclusions. You can no longer hide your venom behind the illusion of learning and authority. i see you. You can no longer pretend to be continuing a grand civilizing mission on people like me. i reject you. In other words dear Editor, you have no clothes.
One day, far in the future, someone will come across this piece and remark on how far we have come as a nation. We will progress with civility, dignity and honesty in spite of you. Our reparations will be won.
Time alone will tell.
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