Tonight I blog with a heavy heart. I observe how the moral fabric of our society seems to be tearing apart and I feel helpless. What can we do as individuals to reclaim our once humble but proud land. We observe the escalating crime; I know, I know, I heard the glowing report from Inspector Barry Hunte at the recent Police press conference staged for CWC. We know differently, don’t we? But tell me, is it really true that the statistics now record Barbados high on the chart as a country racked with HIV/AIDS when compared to the world? How can this be in our so Christian society? Who should our populace reach-out to? The Church, the government, who then?
My heart is heaviest as I observe our next generation, many of them know no moral compass. They absorb the “bashment” culture imported from an illiterate element of a Jamaican society. It seems to collide with all that seems to be right and then there is chaos. A quick observation suggests that a generation is lost…forever. The solution let us go into the primary schools and begin the job of moulding those so innocent and impressionable minds. But I forget, it is an Archean educational system which still have oversight and which respond with the pace of a slug to a living and breathing organism we call society. You don’t believe me? Let me debunk the myth that all is well in our older grammar schools, oh the nerve I have. It is a myth which our middle class and hypocritical society work hard not to scratch the veneer. Why is it that our children continue to commit sexual acts in our classrooms or in the “trench” behind one of our well known secondary schools to be found close to the Queen’s Park and our administrators appear helpless. Why is it that fifth form student at one of our colleges fit for a queen wage bets to see how many first formers they can entice to engage in sexual activity? I could go on but I too am middle class and suddenly I have become extremely uncomfortable scratching the veneer, in fact I feel sick in the stomach.
Barbados is a small island, very little can happen without public knowledge. Why do our leaders cover-up and remain silent. Don’t they know that we can see the lie? Why can’t we all be enticed from our “comfort zones” to roll-up our sleeves and lead the fight to win back our young minds who are the future of our nation. My heart boils over that in our primary school system the majority of our schools have AIDS/HIV infected children – infected through no fault of their own – but yet we can observe no coherent educational program to ensure that this parasite on our society is delicately exposed to our generation next. Why don’t those with oversight respond to the natural curiosity of young minds who when they see blood will want to sympathize?
Their innocence may sound a death knell!
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