Submitted by Yardbroom
Chance and circumstance are often fore-runners of the unexpected. I must confess to often saying what some don’t want to hear. Before the last election I wrote the DLP would win by a landslide and was thus accused of being a dreaming DLP supporter. No! I try to write with balance of what I see and perceive before me. We can refuse to beat the drum but that does not mean we cannot hear its drumming.
“Mini Timi Mun Komal”
I will explain later in this submission what the above translates to in English, when it was said, and by whom.
In this male dominated society some women have to work twice, even three times as hard as men to achieve the same outcome, it would be nice if it were not so, but alas it is. Intellectual brilliance, integrity and ambition are often not enough to succeed. Like many black people in various endeavours, when they turn the corner to success there is always another hill to climb. For those women who seek the highest office in the land, dependent on public affirmation even by proxy. . . the task is no less daunting.
It is not that there are no examples or role models to follow, some of them very formidable indeed. On July 17, 1954 was born Angela Kasner. “In 1977 she married a student Ulrich Merkel, the marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Her current husband is a quantum chemist and Professor Joachim Sauer, she has no children but Sauer has two adult children by a previous marriage.”
Angela Merkel is now Chancellor of Germany, she assumed that office on 22 November 2005 and is certainly one of the most powerful women in the European Union. In addition to being the first female Chancellor of Germany, in 2007 she became the second woman to chair the G8 after Margaret Thatcher of the UK.
“Julia Gillard was born in Barry, Wales UK, in 1961, she migrated to Australia with her parents in 1966, and grew up in Adelaide.” Are there any clues, hints even, she has a background in law being first a solicitor, later becoming a partner in the practice of Slater and Gordon. She is the leader of the Australian Labour Party and holds a majority with the support of 3 independents and 1 Green. I could easily go into how Mr. Rudd her predecessor was displaced but that is not the purpose of this submission. I would only add that in displacing him she said:
“that a good government was losing its way”
She certainly is no blushing rose in the corner waiting for acclaim. Miss Gilliard has no children, leading to comments from a conservative opponent in 2007, she had remained:
“deliberately barren” for the sake of her career.
Just one of the epithets some female politicians of talent have to endure when seeking high office. She shares a house with her partner Tim Mathienson. “Deliberately barren” or not she is now the Prime Minister of Australia.
I promised you to return later in this submission to: “Minn timi mun komal”. Johanna Siguroardottir was born on the 4th October 1942 in Iceland, she has been a member of Iceland’s Parliament since 1978. She married Porvaldur Steinar Johannesson in 1970 and the couple had two sons, they later divorced. “She then joined in a civil union with Jonina Leosdottir in 2002. Johanna and Jonina changed the civil union into marriage, thus becoming one of the first same-sex married couples in Iceland.”
In the 1990s when Johanna Siguroardottir lost in a bid to head the party, she lifted her fist and declared:
“Mini Timi Mun Komal” it translates into English as: My Time Will Come.
On the 1st February 2009 she became Iceland’s first female Prime Minister. When the tide turns; it turns and then becomes unstoppable. I venture now to ask, has it turned in Barbados.
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