Submitted by Damian, Dominican BU family member

We definitely need more websites like these in the region and I’m appreciative but not at all surprised that the only one has its genesis deeply rooted in Barbados. I’m from Dominica. For example, and the difference between us is not only our physical environment, the geology of the land, but also the wiggle room that you possess to create such websites which promote ideas, this is what is lacking in this region: ideas. but ideas stems from freedom of thought and freedom of thought in any valuable sense includes freedom of speech and we have seen a trend and pattern especially in the smaller islands where new ideas are vehemently opposed mere by virtue of the fact that the human mind is naturally lazy and thus its rearrangement is a very laborious process.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it, and so we have a special responsibility and indeed an obligation to stand up for truth; the most important of our duties today in the region I think is to destroy all delusions which can never do more than mislead us, it is only then that we will surely become a powerful union and win the victory of reparations. “this is not going away; this will not go away.”

I have always had an enormous amount of respect for Barbadians, we simply have to remember that time is the only thing that dictates agenda and we island people know what time it is, it’s time for two indispensabilities, Caribbean unification and reparations. Only then can we truly move forward as part of the human family.

I am privileged to be alive today to be a part of this remarkable period, a period of peace and justice, so lets teach our children to enjoy their joint humanity and that we all belong to only one family; the human family. Thanks again for this valuable medium, a website through which free thought can be truly translated into free speech.