A few weeks ago, Barbadians erupted in nationalistic pride when a tweet from African American racial justice activist, Samuel Sinyangwe, about the Emancipation statue in Barbados went viral. Sinyangwe was in Barbados and posted two pictures of the statue commenting that he had never seen anything like it in America, this type of monument displayed prominently and designed specifically to symbolise the breaking of chains and the power of black liberation. In his series of tweets, Sinyangwe stated that the story of abolition in America is whitewashed, celebrating people who fought to keep black people enslaved and erasing the efforts of black people who dared to resist. He concluded that “the fact that the conversation in the USA is about keeping/ taking down pro-slavery monuments, not building anti-slavery monuments, speaks volumes”.
The tweet attracted significant attention with many people posting similar monuments from around the world. This morning, someone on Facebook shared an article from Vox that Sinyangwe wrote yesterday about Bussa and the absence of similar statues in the USA. After those tweets in July, I did not find any follow up posts about his experience in Barbados and this article on Vox does not shed any further light beyond his feelings about Bussa, so I am unaware about Sinyangwe’s overall view of Barbados. As a racial justice activist and someone who appears to have an intricate understanding of racism and the effects of colonialism and slavery across the colonised world, I believe that Sinyangwe would have discerned beyond the symbolism of the Emancipation statue had he dug a bit deeper.
I know I will face a barrage of criticism from my fellow Barbadians for what I have written here and I know some of my friends and family will sigh and say “here he goes again, inviting controversy with his provocative views”. I even delayed publishing the article until I saw this Vox article but I am used to being controversial and the disapproval of my countrymen, whether they are of African, Indian or European descent, is nothing new to me. So here goes.
I do not get the impression from Sinyangwe’s tweet that he stopped at the Emancipation statue. Had he done so and read the inscription on it, he would have noticed the “Ode to Jin Jin”. It has been said that this short refrain was sang by the enslaved when they heard news of Emancipation. It salutes Queen Victoria (Jin Jin) for setting the slaves free. The irony of this inscription on a statue commemorating Emancipation is that it takes all agency away from the enslaved whose revolts against the institution of slavery were a major cause in its termination and places it solely in the hands of the white saviour, the benevolent Queen Victoria.
Statue of Lord Nelson in Heroes Square, Barbados. Photo courtesy of barbados.org
If Sinyangwe had ventured a short drive to the centre of Bridgetown, he would have encountered the statue of Lord Horatio Nelson, defender of British imperialist interests. Nelson sailed nearby but never visited Barbados and wrote disdainfully of the island. His statue was erected by white Barbadian colonists even before their counterparts in London had built theirs in Trafalgar Square. Some years ago, the Government of Barbados had changed the name of Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, where the statue of Nelson is situated, to Heroes Square. Yet it was not courageous enough to move the statue that celebrates the British colonial and imperial enterprise. You see, the voice of opposition to unseating Nelson is too loud. It is led by white Barbadians and receives support from a significant number of black Barbadians. Sinyangwe would find parallels in the arguments espoused in defence of keeping Nelson statue where it is with those in the US protesting the taking down of monuments honouring a brutal past. They range from the farcical ones such as tourists come to Barbados to visit the statue so moving it does not make economic sense to the insidious ones about not erasing our common history, as if the oppressed are obligated to idolise their oppressors. The truth is that most of the people who oppose Nelson’s current location are not calling for the destruction of the statue and would find his repositioning to another area or to a museum acceptable. Meanwhile, in Barbados’ Heroes Square, a space meant to honour those Barbadians who contributed to the progress of the nation, there is one statue, that of Lord Horatio Nelson, defender of slavery, imperialism and colonialism.
This hostility to the mere mention of removing Nelson is symptomatic of the mental toll that the British colonial project continues to exert in Barbados. One only has to glance at the plethora of streets and institutions that pay homage to British royalty. Any calls to rename them to something more apt are met again with accusations of revisionism and erasure of history. Likewise, one only has to look at what the Barbados National Trust focuses its preservation work on to witness how those who command sway on the island feel about its history. If it is a plantation or great house exulting in whiteness and the grandeur of the lives of the enslavers, then expect the Trust to be at the forefront of conservation efforts. Anything venerating blackness, black Heroes and their contribution is left to the wayside by the Trust. Unsurprisingly, one of the past Presidents of the Trust is Sir Paul Altman, real estate developer extraordinaire and a man acclaimed by Barbadian politicians and most Barbadians in general as evidenced by him being awarded a knighthood in 2016. Altman is responsible for the sale of huge swathes of Barbadian land to rich white foreigners, many of them from the UK. Since his land development ventures have led to the environmental degradation of the island, the displacement of black Barbadians and the heinous overpricing of land on the island to the detriment of the average citizen, his claims of being a proud Barbadian are obviously limited to a white elitist Barbadiana.
Altman is not alone with his formidable position and his ability to influence black Barbadian politicians. Numerous white Barbadians employ comparable clout as a result of their lasting economic control. Naturally, when white economic power is spoken of, white Barbadians cry racism and point to black businessmen and Barbados gaining independence in 1966. Yes the island is independent and there are black businessmen. Some of them are indeed very well off and some of them engage in the same corrupt practices of influencing public servants and politicians. Nevertheless, this does not negate the fact that white people in Barbados carry on doing as they please because 300 plus years of economic dominance with its concomitant structural inequalities allow them to. A justice system that treats white people, and rich Indians for that matter, totally differently to blacks is not unique to the USA.
The Europeans created a socio-economic, cultural, political and racial order in their colonies that ensured European pre-eminence and tyranny. This is not something that is simply overturned by a legal independence document. Neither is an arrangement in place for over 300 years just disassembled in a few decades, especially when there is an absence of any concerted effort to do so. Indeed, Barbadian and Caribbean academics including Bedford, Beckles and Carmichael have written about the smooth transfer of rule from the UK to British educated elites in the Caribbean, the confidence of the British in granting independence because they felt secure that the order they fashioned would persist, and the fact that after independence, the state did not embark on a radically altered form of relations with its citizens.
Whiteness, the hegemony of whiteness, the confidence of it, the centrality of it, underpins how everything in America works. While it is on full display there, it operates in a much more sinister form in places like Barbados where the population is majority black and the country is presided over by black people. We have a few white Bajans who try to disguise their racism and the structural racism entrenched in the country in academic terms. They assert that people in Barbados who speak about racism on the island are exaggerating especially as the island has been black led for over half a century. As if the brutal history of white reign and the structures engineered to enslave and exercise supremacy over black people can be erased in a few decades. They claim that it is improper to draw parallels between different countries like Barbados and the USA, as if the European colonisers were disjointed entities participating in separate colonial and imperial ventures at distinctive stages in world history and as if race was not an integral aspect in the colonisation of the world by Europeans. These are the white Bajans I like to call “the contextualisers”. They like to contextualise slavery and colonialism and excuse the genocidal actions of their white ancestors by contending that what occurred during those times was within a period when it was the norm. Therefore, people should desist from looking back into history with sullied 21st century eyes since when they do this, they will obviously regard everything that happened in negative terms. Then we have the Bajan whites who find themselves on social media, unable to resist the “freedom” the platform affords them to spout the most racist and bigoted diatribe against blacks, Muslims and minorities in general. Like Trump supporters they see nothing wrong with their heinous views but are quick to cry out racism and play the victim anytime the topic of race is raised in Barbados. Nonetheless, history reveals that wherever white people have been minorities in areas with a majority of non-white people, they have been the oppressors and not the victims. Barbados is not an exception to this stark reality. All the while, white Barbadians in general fence themselves off in enclaves, socialise among themselves and live a much removed existence from most Barbadians.
I return to street names and institutions that salute the British colonial link alluded to above. When it became independent in 1966, Barbados made a calculated decision not to become a Republic even though it was possible, as other former British colonies had done, to be a member of the Commonwealth whilst being a Republic. The thinking behind this decision was conservative in nature. Barbadians by and large wanted to retain the Queen as Head of State and maintain the ties with the motherland. Moreover, it was undertaken to reassure white Barbadians about their place in society. This did not matter for many of them, who unable to tolerate residing in an independent Barbados with black people theoretically in full charge, migrated to countries like Australia and New Zealand. Their choice of these particular two former British colonies was telling.
Barbados marked fifty years of independence in November 2016 but it is no closer to becoming fully independent. In the mid-1990s, the then Barbados Labour Party administration touted the idea of becoming a Republic and proposed a referendum on the issue. However, there has been no serious momentum to replace the current Governor-General who is the representative of the Queen of England with a Barbadian Head of State. Many black Barbadians are opposed to it with some considering it an unnecessary distraction in the midst of wider socio-economic problems, while white Barbadians are overwhelmingly opposed to it. The price tag for the Government’s activities to observe the island’s fifty year anniversary was hefty, amounting to about 7 million Barbados dollars, and many Barbadians questioned the need to spend this amount in times of austerity. What I found the most objectionable was that at its commemoration of fifty years of independence from the UK, Prince Harry, representing his grandmother, was the focus of attention and commanded centre stage at the behest of the Government of Barbados.
Thus, fifty years after becoming independent, important institutions like its police force and prison service maintain the moniker “Her Majesty’s” in their titles. Furthermore, sovereign decisions such as accreditation of High Commissioners to/from other Commonwealth countries including even members of the Caribbean Community require the permission of the Queen of England. Although this is a formality, I find it offensive that because the Queen remains its Head of State, Barbados must ask for her approval to accredit a High Commissioner to a sister Caribbean island.
The pride in this colonial relationship is deep-rooted and may take another few generations to disappear. The generation that was an eyewitness to independence is definitely not the one to modify the status quo. I remember an occasion a few years ago when a UK delegation met a former Ambassador and me to solicit Barbados’ support for a UK candidate seeking election to a UN body. The subservience displayed to the UK by the Ambassador who was in his 60s and the pride with which he spoke about Barbados being a former colony was not only nauseating but also reflective of the attitudes I have recognised in so many people of his age group. Similar sentiments stressing the positive values Barbados inherited from its British colonial masters were emphasised in varying degrees by former and current Barbadian politicians and civil servants I had interviewed for my Master’s thesis. The thesis had examined how Barbados’ identity, shaped by its colonial relationship with the UK, influences its foreign policy.
The current generation’s allegiance to the British colonial relationship perseveres. I had a few colleagues who saw nothing wrong with Barbados writing to the Queen to obtain permission to give accreditation to a High Commissioner of another Caribbean country. Admittedly, this type of mind-set in younger persons is infuriating and it bothers me when I read the ignorant comments of persons in their 20s, 30s and 40s regarding Barbados becoming a Republic. Some of their arguments are economic and based on a shocking and absolute lack of knowledge of how a Republic works, for example, that Barbados will lose the financial assistance it receives and depends on. Others are farcical pseudo-political claims such as the Queen being the fulcrum on which Barbados’ stability is based and her removal would trigger the descent into chaos of Barbados akin to Jamaica, Trinidad and African countries. Then there are the sentimental and frankly pathetic musings about a supposedly glorious colonial past. One thing is certain- they are all rooted in a serious lack of pride in self.
Barbadians will be aghast at this assertion about lack of pride. After all, we have Crop Over, that ultimate annual display of culture and national pride. Yes, Crop Over, that ode to the days of plantation when the white slave masters would allow the enslaved to celebrate the end of the crop. The end of the crop, signalling bountiful profit for the planters and a few hours reprieve for the enslaved from their arduous labour. Crop Over, the excuse for debauchery where anything goes in the name of culture and anyone who dares raise an objection to people practically having sex in public or to the objectification of women that is normalised by Crop Over music is labelled a prude. Fifty years after independence, the Emancipation Day march and remembrance that culminates at the Emancipation statue struggles to attract people. In contrast, Crop Over events at the same time of the year are sold out affairs even with their exorbitant price tags in harsh economic times.
Yes national pride where fifty years after independence, the wearing by black people of their natural hair in a black majority country remains contentious. Fifty years after independence, black students can be singled out for “unruly hair styles” that are actually just normal natural black hairdos whereas white and Indo Barbadians sport their hair as they please without censure. Fifty years after independence, the Royal Barbados Police Force insists on a dress code for its officers whereby natural hairstyles of black people are banned and treated as offences subject to sanction. The irony in this is that in the UK such a policy does not exist! Neat, unruly, orderly and such type of words are used to demand compliance with standards of beauty wedded to European concepts and are masks for the belief that natural black hair is unacceptable.
The impression one may derive from what I have written is a Barbados plagued by racial strife. That is not my intention. Barbados has undeniably made socio-economic progress since independence with quantifiable gains in the areas of education and health. The island boasts an extremely high literacy rate and there is a growing middle class. Political stability is a hallmark of the island. Even so, the fact is that the conservative nature of Barbadians has also nurtured an environment where questions of race have failed to be confronted frontally, openly and honestly. The term social contract has been used by some to explain why an island with such a brutal past has not erupted into violence and instability. I argue that the social contract is in reality a tacit agreement between economic and political elites to preserve the status quo albeit in a modified form. Economic elites maintain their grip on the major cogs of the economy and even allow some new entrants, particularly from the small Indian community. These relative newcomers some of whom have amassed much wealth and apply their own form of economic dominance and manipulation, add another dimension to race relations on the island. Theirs, though, is a story that has to be told in a separate article. Black Barbadians hold political control and socio-economic advancements have benefitted black Barbadians for the most part. Even so, at its core, the construct of the island in a way that advantages whites endures. I believe strongly that this structure could have been dismantled after independence to bring about a truly transformed society functioning in the image of its people and that this could have been achieved without causing political instability. However, Barbadians in general and especially those with political authority are conservative so the social contract was the method purposely used as the island proceeded into the post-independence era.
Fifty years after independence, we have an island in economic ruin where the rich, overwhelmingly white and Indian, insulate themselves from economic hardship and all of its associated inconveniences. The much vaunted black middle class lives in a state of astronomical debt. Unemployment figures continue to climb steeply. A large proportion of the island’s land is owned by rich white foreigners and Barbadians pay stupendous rates if they wish to own a piece of the rock, as they refer to Barbados. Much of the coast has been destroyed by tourism based
133 responses to “Barbados: The Harsh Truth Behind the Symbolism of an Emancipation Statue”
RA1….I took a trip to Barbados in 2005 and wondered why Nelson’s statue was not at the bottom of the sea, where it will be of much better use…
….then I remembered the mind of the slave, not one government slave minister would have the balls or courage.
Forty-seven comments, twenty-four of them from a demented racist cretin. What a blog.
@Peter
This link does not answer your question, it is meant to be a jump off point.
http://www.barbadosnationaltrust.org
“Barbados will be next, the youth will rise up & dump Lord Nelson into the sea, where he belongs.”
@ ra1
This will not be achieved by going on facebook to post hate filled racist shiite and malicious “hear say” that only seeks to destroy the characters of the same black people they pretend to represent.
You are correct, Barbadians need to rise up and DEMAND that Nelson’s statue be removed and sent to the UK for display in one of their museums.
@ 45govt
Spot on!!!!!
Some of us understood that when Nelson was planted in the middle of our city it was done by Bajans/occupiers at the time. Decades later (today) Bajans on the island have to take decisions based on what is required to chart the best path. It is a fluid matter.
” Over the period 1794 to 1805, under Nelson’s leadership, the Royal Navy proved its supremacy over the French.
His most famous engagement, at Cape Trafalgar, saved Britain from threat of invasion by Napoleon, but it would be his last.
Before the battle on 21 October 1805, Nelson sent out the famous signal to his fleet ‘England expects that every man will do his duty’. He was killed by a French sniper a few hours later while leading the attack on the combined French and Spanish fleet.”
Move Nelson to Cattlewash.
The BUers who cower on the blog to spew their limited intellect nonsense need to practice how to navigate international social media, need to learn how to contribute, because you cannot match other already exposed bloggers in contributions, do not mean they should shut up to make you feel better about your limits.
how do you think the real racists are being brought down, not by jealous little bloggers like Art, or scared old racists like 45fraudster, they are being taken down by those who are not afraid to call real racists what they are.
i use my real name on facebook, i dare anyone of you on here to go on facebook and do the same,that includes Hal.
i should clarify..
i use my real name on facebook, i dare anyone of you on here to go on facebook and do the same, say the same things i say, interact and throw down with the worst types of racists like i do….i dare Hal and the other journalist Carl Moore.to go on facebook and say how they really feel about racists
i dont like cowards…if you want to see signifcant and revolutionary changes on the island or anywhere,, you cant be a coward…..no one admires cowards.
…. cowards have the island as a permanent slave society, it will take strong minds to beat that down, will those minds come forward, there are only a few on BU who may not run if they are called to stand up as men….Caswell is one for sure.
“You May Choose To Look The Other Way But You Can Never Say Again That You Did Not Know.”
― William Wilberforce
They came as Slaves: Human Cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. They came in the holds of overcrowded ships, packed in among cargo and animals, and those who survived the journey were bought and sold in chains to work as hard as their owners chose. They were taken to the Carribean, to the American colonies, and beyond. Sound familiar?
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade….
But are we talking about African slavery? These forced immigrants, deprived of all personal freedom, were Irish slaves, and their servitude started long before black slavery was common.
The Irish Slaves Were the First Slaves on the Island of Barbados for nearly 200 years Before the Africans Slaves Arrived!
In all, more than 50,000 ‘white slaves’ had been transported from Ireland to Barbados by the time the trade ended in 1657, many of them prisoners captured by Oliver Cromwell during the wars in Ireland and Scotland and following the Monmouth Rebellion. The white slaves became known as Redlegs, almost certainly a reference to the sunburn they picked up in the hot tropical sun.
All Barbadians born on this beautiful gemstone, of Barbadian heritage have ancestors who were slaves originally; the Chisel of Oppression Carves Us All Of The Same Stone. It is well to remember that Slavery in any shape form or colour whether from Ireland, Scotland and England or Africa is Anti-Christ, for where the Spirit of the lord is there is Liberty m 2 Corinthians 3: 17 and the opposite is Tyranny, Bondage and Slavery.
What most do not realize is that Serfdom still exist today in the guise of Socialism and prospers worldwide and we that are on the Isles of the sea are not exempt. We have to recognize the Culprit and Rise above the Tide including those who uphold his ideology of Divisiveness! … The Adversary was a liar from the Beginning of time, and this is Evils Game, Always was and Still Is. Racism is one of his most deceptive tools. Do Not Allow the Race Game to reign on your parade; you are far too valuable to fall pray of its Snares… Just the thoughts from a lady whose Ancestors were Slaves on Both sides of her lineage.
Do not be Side-tracked with the Issues, Recognize and Fix the Ideology!
We Are All Modern Day Slaves, White and Black, Pink or Blue to a System that is Stifling each of us Literally taking the Wind out of our Sales. A Word of advice from an Old Soul, Identify the Root Cause and the Issues Become Clear!
Under the Banner of Socialism we are All Slaves, understand that the Plan Is” CONTROL”. Socialism is a slow process of Rot, while promising everything and delivering nothing!!
This is Satan’s game, the Adversary plans to destroy Liberty and Freedom-Economic, Political, and Religious, and set in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and complete Tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize either him or his methods and he has been at it since the beginning of time”…
That is why I am trying my best to Awaken other to the Root Cause of the problem.
This Sanitation of History is by no means a Small thing to simply be ignored, it leaves coming Generations is absolute Ignorance to be manipulated to repeat the mistakes that we can learn from those who went before us.
Isn’t it Ironic that those in Barbados with an Ulterior Motive want to take down the Statue of Admiral Horatio Nelson who was the protector of the West Indy’s, who Barbadians felt was reminiscent of the one who Saved them for Without Nelson we wold have changed hands several time from Portage’s, French and Spanish. Nelson was stationed in the Caribbean in his youth. He whipped the French in 4 major battles Copenhagen, Port St. Vincent, The battle of the Nile and Trafalgar. Why would you remove his statue?
Instead Barbadians Celebrate the Emancipation Statue paid for by Government and they are the ones who are Taxing Barbadians into Slavery. People received their Freedom as it was Heralded as something Great they even Erected Statues to Celebrate Emancipation paid for by the Government, and then they proceed to make us Serfs. We have thrown off the Colonial Masters and now we have another one, Government and they are Celebrating Freedom with us while making us Slaves to the State!…That is the Ultimate Deception!!
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“The Foundation For ALL Tyrannies Is The Removal Of Free Agency”. The Adversary does not rest, his aim was and always to take away the Agency of man. ALL tyrannies whether under the banner of Communism, Nazism, Fascism, Marxism Leftism, Crony Capitalism, Socialism Progressive ism, et al, are only different varieties of the same thing even RADICAL Islamism. It is the Adversary’s Ideology, which has been around for generations, it’s all part of the same Tree and root system even a Godless Conspiracy. It has the same outcome, IE, creating Elitist where certain people are favoured and benefited. Names only change to suit the times, these entire Isms’ are under the influence of the Adversary, who was a Liar from the beginning of time…
It’s time to connect the dots and see who is really behind Socialism et al, as well as the color of every tyranny known to mankind. This is the Adversary’s game…. Always has been.
“The Foundation For ALL Tyrannies Is The Removal Of Free Agency”.
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WW&C
So what is your real name on face book. I dare you to tell BU household the real the truth
Angela Yardfowl…why dont you go on facebook and find it, i told you where it is….when ya find it, ya still cant do me a thing.
that is your assignment…ya have not had much to do lately.
Even the most illiterate, inbred racist in the US is calling for a genocide of blacks, jews and of course the little nuisance minorities in Barbados pretending to be white will not escape the wrath of these demons….cause at the end of the day, the only white is in the milk they drink.
…. a ton of white supremacists did some ancestry genetic testing in the last 10 years and did not like the results…lol
they are being riled up with hatred, if blacks want to remain stupid and backward and want to continue to fight down each other instead of protecting themselves from another culling, that is their bad….they will only be getting what they damn well deserve.
the jews are protecting themselves and each other.
It amazes me that those individuals who are EXTREMELY CRITICAL of BU, its facilitator and contributors, are the ones who, each day, posts the MOST contributions.
HOW DO YOU KNOW if ANYONE in this forum makes contributions to facebook or not?
Perhaps you have the uncanny psychic abilities of a “clairvoyant” to MATCH “real names” on facebook with the pseudonyms used on BU.
So, calling people slaves, using Peter Harris and his relatives as personal “whipping boys;” CUSSING those who do not share an opinion that is similar to yours, coming to this forum with unsubstantiated “malicious hear say” about other people, and because you “know how to navigate international social media,” is your idea of “SUPERIOR INTELLECT?”
You often come to this forum to give us the impression that, for someone who DOES NOT RESIDE in Barbados, you have ACCURATE, RELIABLE information relative to those people, whether black, white or Indian……… who perpetrate crimes against black Barbadians, involved in corruption, who stole from others, who are crocked lawyers, politicians, doctors, carpenters, motor mechanics, who are drug pushers etc.
Do not reserve your “real name” for facebook and “international social media” ONLY……..if you love black people as much as you say you do, obviously, you would not want them continuing to suffer as victims.
I DARE you not to “show up your own weak self”……….. IMPRESS us lesser mortals further by using FEARLESSLY using your “real name” to share that intelligence with the Royal Barbados Police Force, so as to assist in APPREHENDING all the crooks, perpetrators of crimes and their accomplices and bring them
I DARE you not to “show up your own weak self”……….. “don’t (act) like cowards…if you want to see significant and revolutionary changes on the island or anywhere”…………………
…………….IMPRESS us lesser mortals further by FEARLESSLY using your “real name” to share that intelligence with the Royal Barbados Police Force, so as to assist in APPREHENDING all the crooks, perpetrators of crimes and their accomplices and bring them to justice.
Art…i only read your first sentence, realize you did not read mine properly, so no need to finish reading your rant…even using unknown names, it`s hard to change writing styles, everyone knows when a bajan is engaging on a topic on facebook, they are rarely attacked, responses are too timid, no aggression, so they are basically left alone.
so now you would reduce, demean and degrade yourself to tell an outright lie on me that i always criticize BU….just because i called you out, with good cause….
like i tell racists, you need to grow a pair and stop looking for unnecessary attention, i did not call you a racist, i said that is what i tell racist, because i find them childish and unfinished….something like the way you just lied.
all the other stuff you posted i am sure is just white noise.
dont feel bad, i do the same to Angela, Alvin and Carson, i just read the first sentence or paragraph and ignore the rest cause ya can tell it`s a waste to read.
anyway, the topic is not about you,…
if the slaves of parliament would get their acts together, they would clearly see what`s on the horizon.
Art…ah caught ya last post…i said what i said already, many, many times, even wrote the police directly….so what`s your point…
… what happens on the island that causes you to complain on BU incessantly and consistently, does not impact my life in anyway….so what`s your point.
in a day or 2 you will be complaining once again about the ministers, the economy, crime, the business community, the thiefing minorities, the corrupt ministers, the yardfowls…..everything that affects you…and you will be doing all that complaining on BU…not on facebook….so what`s your point.
Here Lies the Problem with Rewriting and Erasing History…
It is well to remember that Slavery in any shape form or colour whether from Ireland, Scotland and England or Africa is Anti-Christ, for where the Spirit of the lord is there is Liberty and Freedom and the opposite is Tyranny, Bondage and Slavery.
This is not Black versus White, or Left versus Right or Jew versus Palestinian, this is a Good versus Evil, Freedom versus Tyranny and the culprit from the beginning of time has always been the Adversary. We have our eyes so clinched where they want us to in stirring up racism that we are forgetting the others that suffer Great Atrocities right now in real time, being slaughtered by the thousands. After the WWII genocide, we kept saying “never again”. But since then there has been Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and the Christians Middle Eastern territories. Even Saddam, as horrid as he was, never performed such atrocities. These people have lived there with their beliefs since the 5th century or earlier.
A Rose by another name will still smell as sweet in much the same way Slavery to a Slave is STILL SLAVERY!
The Irish Slaves Were the First Slaves on the Island of Barbados for nearly 200 years Before the Africans Slaves Arrived!
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Good men like old Wilberforce, they came far too late Far too late to save us from the fate….
Remembering the Invisible Irish in Barbados, Song “To Hell or Barbados We Were Sent “Damien Dempsey…
All the golden soft silk sand
That surrounds this pretty island
Must have seemed like prison walls, steely bars
In this playground of the rich
All the yachts and champagne lavished
I still see a lonely child watch the stars
All of all your evil deeds, many still condoned
You sent me far cross the sea to be owned
To Hell or Barbados, To Hell or Barbados
To Hell on Barbados we were sent
It’s a Heaven on this Earth
A Creator’s work of art
And the sun sets o’er the sea so divine
Then a WHIPLASH LICKS MY HEELS
AND MY SCORCHED SKIN BURST AND PEELS
THOUGH MY PEOPLE WERE NOT MADE FOR THESE BURNING FIELDS
All of all your evil deeds, many still condone
But your crime of slavery goes unknown
Good men like old Wilberforce, they came far too late
Far too late to save us from the fate
Of Hell or Barbados, Oh Hell or Barbados
To Hell or Barbados we went
To Hell or Barbados, To Hell or Barbados
To Hell on Barbados we were sent
Hold on, no no no no no no
Don’t you dare let go of my hand
But they prised us apart, ran a sword through my heart
Sent us on our way
Hold on, no no no no no no
Don’t you dare let go of my hand
But they prised us apart, ran a sword through my heart
Sent us on our way
Hold on, no no no no no no
Don’t you dare let go of my hand
But they prised us apart, ran a sword through my heart
Sent me on my way
To Hell or Barbados, To Hell or Barbados
To Hell on Barbados we went
To Hell or Barbados, To Hell on Barbados
To Hell on Barbados we went
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Wilberforce never tried to abolish African slavery in the Carbbean…
the irish were never slaves in the Caribbean or anywhere else, that is an outright lie, a lie some demented irish are also trying to perpetrate in the US..
the well written records in the UK states quite efficiently that british, scottish irish and am sure welsh and others who were either deemed criminals, rejects or just plain inferior were sent to penal colonies in the Caribbean and other places to serve sentences and as indentured servants, there is nowhere in that history that states the irish were ever slaves…
that lie should always be ignored by people in the Caribbean, particularly in Barbados..
Have you not seen the Ads on Ancestry how much of you living in Barbados do you think are from a part in Africa and How much of you do you think are from a part in Ireland?
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When we stand before God are you going to tell him to remove the parts that are in you from Ireland and only leave the parts that are in you from Africa? Everyone in Barbados whether they think they are white or whether they think they are Black have other Races in them.
So do you believe that you are who you Identify with for example if you are a man and want to identify as a woman are you then a woman? What Race was Adam? These are the Better Questions not what was stated. When you pray at night who do you pray to, what are the First few words that the Lord’s Prayer has given as a pattern to follow? What does that teach us?
And even if you believe in Evolution don’t they teach that we came from a common ancestor somewhere back then in the midst of Africa. Does that not make us all Africans? We have lived so long under false Ideologies(S) that sometimes we believe things that we shouldn’t and even when I tell you to stand over the Fray and See what is really happening the Deception of Satan in our lives in Each of our lives is Great. You must remember the Scriptures that says…
Ephesians 6:12King James Version (KJV)
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The Adversary is the Great Accuser and Divider and nowadays Racism is his Fondest Tool.
We are cautioned in the Scriptures, Isaiah 58: 9…Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Just like the Scripture I mentioned from Isaiah that we should remove the pointed finger, we All want Other People to Change and are Quick to Point out how Bad they are, but the Scriptures does not teach that. The Scriptures teach that we ourselves have to Change. Salvation is for the Individual, the Change must come by each individual Repenting and those who understand this Gospel Principle will be a light to their people. We look backward at History to learn lessons that is why the Scriptures are Priceless. Remember, Jesus is our Savior not our Condemner.
Believe and Understand that it is written “Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?” Why should we support the Spirit of Divisiveness?
So Are The Irish/Scottish Salves Less Worthy?
For some reason, history likes to call these Irish slaves as ‘indentured servants’. As if they were somehow considered better than African slaves. This can be considered an attempt at whitewashing the history of the Irish slave trade.
There does exist indentured servitude where two parties sign a contract for a limited amount of time. This is not what happened to the Irish from 1625 onward. They were sold as slaves, pure and simple.
In reality, they were considered by some to be lower than the blacks.
“…the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period,” writes Martin. “It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.”
African slaves were still relatively new, and were expensive to transport such a long distance (50 sterling in the late 1600’s). Irish slaves on the other hand, were relatively cheap in comparison (5 sterling).
If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce.
Because Irish slaves were so much cheaper, the loss of investment from torturing and killing them was not considered an effective deterrent. In an ironic twist, this caused some to recommend importing African slaves instead for humanitarian reasons.
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This is a VERY controversial topic! Many people from Ireland, Scotland even England were sold to many countries as slaves. Many were made many promises that if they would become indentured servants, after 7yrs they would be given land. What they didn’t realize is they were to be kept in debt from charging for food, lodging, and doctors and so on. Thus adding to what they owed and in such keeping them in debt to never be freed. The rest were prisoners or people against England.
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Angela yardfowl..Yes please !
Stil you have resisted to show proof of what you stated as using your real name. Has it ever occured to you that u are are a bold face liar and insitigator of halftruths laced with bombas slander and therefor you cannot use your real name but rather use your anonymity to protect yourself and also go by different monikers which David BU has called you out and which you have lied .
Over the course of my time spent on BU i have seen first hand the numerous times you have changed your monikers mostly likely to cover your tracts as a contributor on that smut rag Naked all but gone departure the blog that slimes people character in similiar fashion as you do on BU
Naime….speak for yourself…the only way blacks in Barbados will know their history is to do the genetic testing themselves, not by you telling them or claiming to know their ancestry for them..
i have done the test and have no irish genes, another part of europe but not irish, scottish, english or welsh, no use spreading fairytales…
every black person on the island should do genetic testing.
In the numbers game Brits transported 4,000,000 African Youths to Americas.
Europe transported 14,000,000 in total.
Africans made best slaves, asians would die in a year, whites would die in a couple of years, blacks could last 5 years or more.
In US at peak cotton production slaves cost $1,000 ($50,000 todays equivalent).
Women Slaves were forced to breed from 13 years and have up to 15 children born in slavery.
(Racist rapist Slave masters savoured breaking in sweet black pussy, the tighter the pum pum the sweeter the wine ).
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What race was Adam.Hard to say. Since there is no DNA to prove there was an Adam. Furthermore since adam was not born of a woman who had e experienced sexual intercourse by the male gender in order for biological reproduction to occur adam race would be null and void in respect to scientific proving.
Adam as the bible suggest person was formed from the dirt of the earth
Therefore scientific findings would refute soil as irrelevant to skin pigmentation to human race be it race or color
Angela Yardfowl…get a life, first you want proof from Mia…then you think you can hound me….
i have discoursed with the Blogmaster on facebook more than once, but if i see you, i would be too ashamed to let anyone know i know you…lol,,
there was no adam or eve, stop believing the lying man translated bible, that is not how life evolved.
This is what another commenter stated asked on the facebook link to this blog…..of course he dont see that more tourists go to the US than will ever visit Barbados and the statues glorifying slavery and racism are coming down anyway, but I see his point, if the crooks would stop stealing and pay their fair share of taxes, the island would not have to rely on each and every tourist for foreign, if the island had intelligent leaders….ditto,
“You take down Nelson, you loose tourists. Get the rich to pay their share of taxes. Collect Vat taxes from the merchants. Does Cow Williams pay taxes.”
The Following is especially for the Author of the Article Mohammed Degia … Deflection of one’s own History, by blaming that of others for Fame or Narrative!
Believe and Understand that it is written “Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?”
Why should we support the Spirit of Divisiveness?
“ATLANTIC JIHAD: The Untold Story of White Slavery
Whilst the Arabs have been acknowledged as a prime force in the early usage of slaves from Africa, very little has been written about their usage of White slaves, whether they were part of the Russian slave trade or those kidnapped by Arab pirates. However, in recent years, the research of some authors has been bringing this issue to light.
The origins of African slavery in the New World cannot be understood without some knowledge of the millennium of warfare between Christians and Muslims that took place in the Mediterranean and Atlantic and the piracy and kidnapping that went along with it. In 1627 pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa raided distant Iceland and enslaved nearly four hundred astonished residents. In 1617 Muslim pirates, having long enslaved Christians along the coasts of Spain, France, Italy, and even Ireland, captured 1,200 men and women in Portuguese Madeira. Down to the 1640s, there were many more English slaves in Muslim North Africa than African slaves under English control in the Caribbean. Indeed, a 1624 parliamentary proclamation estimated that the Barbary states held at least 1,500 English slaves, mostly sailors captured in the Mediterranean or Atlantic.
Millions European Christians were kidnapped and enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 — a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature — that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true, We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.
Slavery in North Africa has been ignored and minimized, in large part because it is on no one’s agenda to discuss what happened.
The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era, he said. Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were.
Between 1580 and 1680. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests nearly a million slaves would have been taken captive during this period. Using the same methodology, Davis has estimated as many as 475,000 additional slaves were taken in the previous and following centuries.
The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.
Enslavement was a very real possibility for anyone who traveled in the Mediterranean, or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland, from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas,
Pirates (called corsairs) from cities along the Barbary Coast in North Africa — cities such as Tunis and Algiers — would raid ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as seaside villages to capture men, women and children.
The impact of these attacks were devastating — France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships, and long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants. At its peak, the destruction and depopulation of some areas probably exceeded what European slavers would later inflict on the African interior.
We have lost the sense of how large enslavement could loom for those who lived around the Mediterranean and the threat they were under,” he said. “Slaves were still slaves, whether they are black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa”
The same can be said of all independent caribbean islands. From the Bahamas to T&T, the economic super structure in the region is still intact as the time of slavery, except for a few token black faces. Travel up and down the islands and you see the same recurring theme….a black ruling political class and white controlling economic class.
This perverse economic power asymmetry by a distinct racial minority, more than often, occur in majority black rule country. Why is this so? If this same phenomenon was to happen in a European country for example, nothing short of a revolution would have surely happened.
The evil of KKK.
“The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866. A year later a general organization of local Klans was established in Nashville in April, 1867. Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the American Civil War. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Immigrants, who they blamed for the election of Radical Republicans, were also targets of their hatred. Between 1868 and 1870 the Ku Klux Klan played an important role in restoring white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
At first the main objective of white supremacy organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the Constitutional Union Guards and the Knights of the White Camelia was to stop black people from voting. After white governments had been established in the South the Ku Klux Klan continued to undermine the power of blacks. Successful black businessmen were attacked and any attempt to form black protection groups such as trade unions was quickly dealt with.
Radical Republicans in Congress such as Benjamin Butler urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take action against the Ku Klux Klan. In 1870 he instigated an investigation into the organization and the following year a Grand Jury reported that: “There has existed since 1868, in many counties of the state, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire of the South, which embraces in its membership a large proportion of the white population of every profession and class. The Klan has a constitution and bylaws, which provides, among other things, that each member shall furnish himself with a pistol, a Ku Klux gown and a signal instrument. The operations of the Klan are executed in the night and are invariably directed against members of the Republican Party. The Klan is inflicting summary vengeance on the colored citizens of these citizens by breaking into their houses at the dead of night, dragging them from their beds, torturing them in the most inhuman manner, and in many instances murdering.”
Ku Klux Klan Act
Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act and it became law on 20th April, 1871. This gave the president the power to intervene in troubled states with the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in countries where disturbances occurred. However, because its objective of white supremacy in the South had been achieved, the organization practically disappeared.
The Ku Klux Klan was reformed in 1915 by William J. Simmons, a preacher influenced by Thomas Dixon’s book, The Ku Klux Klan (1905) and the film of the book, Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) became the main opponent of the Ku Klux Klan. To show that the members of the organization would not be intimidated, it held its 1920 annual conference in Atlanta, considered at the time to be one of the most active Ku Klux Klan areas in America.
Hiram W. Evans
After the First World War the Ku Klux Klan also became extremely hostile to Jews, Roman Catholics, socialists, communists and anybody they identified as foreigners. In November 1922 Hiram W. Evans became the Klan’s Imperial Wizard. Under his leadership the organization grew rapidly and in the 1920s Klansmen were elected to positions of political power. This included state officials in Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Oregon and Maine. By 1925 membership reached 4,000,000. Even on the rare occasions they were arrested for serious crimes, Klansmen were unlikely to be convicted by local Southern juries.
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Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony (1954)
After the conviction of the Klan leader, David C. Stephenson, for second-degree murder, and evidence of corruption by other members such as the governor of Indiana and the mayor of Indianapolis, membership fell to around 30,000. This trend continued during the Great Depression and the Second World War and in 1944 the organization. was disbanded.
KKK and the Civil Rights Movement
In the 1950s the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement resulted in a revival in Ku Klux Klan organizations. The most of important of these was the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led by Robert Shelton. In the Deep South considerable pressure was put on blacks by klansmen not to vote. An example of this was the state of Mississippi. By 1960, 42% of the population were black but only 2% were registered to vote. Lynching was still employed as a method of terrorizing the local black population.”
@fortyacresandamule
An excellent comment that explains a Caribbean nuance.
Nothing to See here folks, just move along!
On the Other Hand this is why the Left are so Adamant to Sanitize their History by Tearing down those Historic Statues.
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So what exactly is June Naime trying to argue?
…that white people are so albino-centric, materialistic and wicked, that they not only enslaved Blacks and others who looked different to themselves, but also other human beings looking EXACTLY like them?
Shiite man!! …you have to be talking about a special kind of satanic wickedness…..
…and it detracts NOTHING from the 400 years of systematic institutionalised degradation suffered by generations of Black people, …under the hands of generations of whites – SOLELY in the interest of their materialistic gains ….that have been passed on to the present generations of their descendants.
“Stirring up race and class conflict is the basis of all discussion of the Communist Party’s work in the South. The evil genius, Stalin, and the other megalomaniacal leaders in Moscow ordered the use of all racial, economic and social differences, no matter how small or insignificant, to start local fires of discontent, conflict and revolt.”
Chapter Three
RED PLOT TO USE NEGROES
MANNING JOHNSON
COLOR, COMMUNISM AND COMMON SENSE
1962
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Mr Blogmaster i thought U banned the blogger known as june naime?
Why do you allow serious blog topics like these to be polluted by the likes of Naime and WellWell?
“We with little knowing of the true history of Lord admiral Horatio Nelson he was the protector of the West Indy’s His port was the filthy Collar-era ridden Nelsons harbour in the island of Antigua he protected merchants ships and destroyed the Napoleonic dictatorship of Frances navy at will. We in Barbados had shot cannon ports in the hope the people docking wold pay us with materials we could use to protect our island. Without Nelson we wold have changed hands several time from Portage’s, French and Spanish Nelson was stationed in the Caribbean in his youth. He whipped the French in 4 major battles Copenhagen, Port St. Vincent, The battle of the Nile and Trafalgar.
Why wold you remove his statue. Neil Degases Tyson claims the true danger of today’s youth is not a lack of knowledge but misinformation excepted as irrevocable truth because they wish it was so. Disregard the facts and go with what you think would best fit their wish it was so. We blame everything on slavery well well look to Ghana, Pakistan Arab states for today’s slavery. The Jews, Africans, multitudes of religions Christians, Buddhism, Hindus on and on, the world is looking to the British to blame for the slave trade. Well it is true that the lord protector Oliver Cromwell exploited people and dealt in slavery Ops! That was the Irish, Britain was the first major power to abolish slavery in all of its colonies as few where in the British home land of Wales Ireland and Scotland.
However as the major player in the development of commerce and trade mainly farming in its territory it did exploit the trade in human slave labour readily provided by the Muslims of the east coast of Africa. If I was the descendant of a slave bought to this island paradise I would today be well pleased I was not living in East Africa with the crime and poverty or should we blame the British for that to well believe that too. The Belgian Congo, French Nigeria and on and on we go on mater not that your God has given you knowledge he has denied me believe that too. Leave him where he is. He owned no slave and did no transportation of slaves”.
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When you do not have Anything Worthwhile to Contribute you try to Shut Down the Conversation…
Nelson’s Trafalgar examines the man behind the legend, his affair with Lady Hamilton – one of the great romances of history, and the dark side of a hero whose exploits were described by his contemporaries as both ‘glorious’ and ‘a stain on the national honour’. Admiral Horatio Nelson is Britain’s greatest naval hero. His determination, daring and humanity became a legend even before his overwhelming victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar when he was elevated to the status of Godhead. Courageous, charismatic, passionate, ruthless, a true statesman – according to his admirers. Vain, self important, melancholic, irrational, a modern day suicide bomber – according to his critics.
Born in Norfolk, he experienced the death of his beloved mother at the age of nine, a loss he felt for the rest of his life. He went to sea at the age of 12, was a full captain at 21 and become overall command of British Naval forces in the West Indies by the time he was 28. He was one of Britain’s first national heroes receiving much adulation wherever he went. His victory over the French at the Battle of the Nile on 1791 established him as an immortal hero and he became known as ‘Nelson of the Nile’. It was at the Battle of the Nile where he first met Lady Hamilton, who he had an affair and then an illegitimate daughter with. His victories, however did not come without injury, most famously he lost the sight of his right eye, and his right arm was amputated during battle without the use of anaesthetic. He predicted his death at Trafalgar, and had a coffin specially made. When he was shot he said ‘I believe they’ve done it at last’. He survived his horrendous wounds for three and a half hours – just long enough to learn that victory had been won. He was 47 years old.
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BT no-one you know ever got an inheritance, what are you saying that the people on the island are more screwed up than the people who stayed on the continent
@ the blogger known as junenaime
What conversation? Your white supremacist ‘copy + paste’ jobs? Do you think they are adding any value to the ‘discussion’?
You are an simply idiot who knows how to use Google.
Man David why you relax the ban? You already how the blogger known as june naime feels about you and your kind.
Lord Horatio Nelson is credited with saving Barbados from sure destruction by French invaders in 1805, “This island has certainly never before, at least in the memory of anyone now living, been in such a perilous situation and had Lord Seaforth not declared the alarms and the French and Spanish fleets attacked Barbados as had been expected, Barbados might by today have been another province of France, at which time we might well have been taught by our conquerors what martial law is really all about.”
The rest is history. Lord Nelson to the rescue… The French fleet destroyed at Trafalgar. Barbados saved. Grateful citizens raise public subscription to erect a statue in his honour not the Government. You might remember that many of the older generation named their children Horatio and the name Nelson is a common Barbadian name. We must remember our Hero’s even though their memory becomes dim. Nelson was a Hero to England and the Statue of nelson in Trafalgar was erected before the one in England.
When we Erase History we will not learn from those who have gone before… The Left are famous for Rewriting and Erasing History. That is the Practice of Leftism not Conservatism!! The Idea of Conservatism is to Conserve, Preserve and Encourage that which is Good!
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“This is truly heart-breaking. These were my ancestors on my paternal grandfather’s side and on my mother side… as you know my Mum’s family name was O’Neale… cannot get more Irish than that!! None of this white slave history is ever taught or mentioned in our schools one has to wonder why. Still you do not hear the descendants of these forgotten folk whining and crying and demanding reparation and pulling down monuments. We simply get on with it. Suck it up ” let the dead past bury its dead” and get on with living in the present! But we too have our sad and unhappy history”.
Almost One Million Irish Slaves
At Risk of Being Scrubbed from History are They Less Worthy…
The history of the Irish slaves has long been suppressed, and a modern movement of Irish slavery denial has even gained mainstream acceptance.
By Baxter Dmitry
http://yournewswire.com/almost-one-million-irish-slaves-at-risk-of-being-scrubbed-from-history/
When they tek down Nelson they might replaced him with a another racist scumbug of European linkage. Only a couple weeks ago twenty thousanf bajans patted a white man on his back against there own interest and marched in the hot broling sun at his instrunctions in a disguise of helping bajans.
Barbadians love to bow at the whiteman feet so Nelson presence on this island would be adored forever
If a white scumbag by the name of Charles Herbert can fooled them in the twenty century because his love of money supersedes his love of country then there is no hope of freeing black barbadians from the chains mental slavery ever whuch most of them refused to have removed
History Repeating Itself Right Before our Eyes…
Bajan’s Wake Up Before Too Late!!
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“Slavery comes in Two Forms, Brutal and Legislatively Benevolent.
Today’s version taxes society in a so called attempt to be “equal” and “fair”–but this is not liberty….You are only equal in servitude, and this equality in servitude has never been achieved— and has only sustained degradation and poverty, as many American city’s illustrate today….. It is ONLY when a nation is equal in liberty and equal under the law that its citizens may be free to use their own merit and faculties to rise above their impoverished condition.
There will always be poverty, but poverty while living within the law of nature through unobstructed liberty enables the self-respect and self-responsibility that freedom requires–while government out of the necessity of sustaining its power must preserve poverty in perpetuity through bounties and benefits…. ultimately all citizens are enslaved in servitude to each other citizen through the power of politics. It is why all government entitlements and benefits which administer to individual needs and responsibilities WERE illegal in America—when at one time we followed the eternal truths set forth by the American Constitution and Declaration. The American Founders knew that money gave politicians power, and that power along with money used to provide citizens their personal needs would corrupt, degrade and enslave that society….
The American Constitution is the newest form for Government; all other forms of Government represent re-worded forms of Collectivism.
The American Constitution provided the Impetus for Dissolving Economic Slavery as well as Brutal Slavery”…
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The whole discussion about race and history is one big distraction. Let us translate:
white businessmen = non-elected persons abusing monopolies, financers of the silly season
black politicians = elected persons lacking any proper governance, in denial of the common good
black masses = 95% of the population without future or simply the rest, struggling to buy food and to find shelter
@ June naime
Check carefully and you will find that you have the same genes as John of BU…
Modern day ‘racist genes’ that, for lack of the traditional approach ‘vi et armis’, now come here, with convoluted shiite arguments, telling Black people bout how we are complaining too much about 400 years of butchery, rape, terror and attempted genocide by wunna white ancestors… a condition that would be continuing all like now if wunna could continue to find ways to make more money from it – than wunna currently make by bribing black Judases like the JAs we currently have in Parliament.
…bout how white people ‘had it hard too’… and the biggest joke of all … bout how wunna got in ‘Black’ genes too…
But ‘Black’ and ‘White’ is no longer about genes and skin colour. Too much RAPE, house niggers and brain-washing have taken place for it to be so simple…
it is now about albino-centric predispositions. For example, Froon may gotta black face, but he is ‘white as shiite’… as is Stinkliar…it is characterised by seeing everything in materialistic terms …and where the thinking is that ‘money’ can buy anything – and is worth everything – even your soul….
Barbados is a ‘white’ country … which is why people like you and John are so ‘at home’ here…
@ Lawson
The difference between the people on the Island, and those that stayed on the continent, is that whereas the former are brass bowls who HAD the potential to be REALLY GREAT, …the latter are a bunch of wicked Demons, who have managed to destroy that BLACK potential with their albino-centric brass bowlery.
So you are right about us being screwed….
Every Individual is Encouraged to Dream Big and Multiply the Gifts and Talents they have been Endowed by their Creator with! Remember the Parable of the Talents…those who multiplied their Talents were given more…those who refused to be Industrious from him it was taken away and given to the one who by his Diligence Prospered. Nowadays Socialism works in the Reverse taking from those who work and giving to those who do not calling it Social Justice… just another term for Legalized Robbery!
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I always tend to talk on the Root Cause of our ills, which produces all the issues we debate (weather intentionally or not).
When we recognize the Culprit the Mirage becomes Clear and we are no longer baffled and entangled in issues of their making leaving us puzzled. Socialism/Collectivism is Serfdom; it only benefits the Elitist resulting in Tyranny and Chaos as witnessed by what is ensuing in Venezuela under Full Blown Socialism! There are different Degrees of Socialism, but it is All Socialism with guaranteed results of failure. “To say a Little Socialism is Okay is like saying A little cancer is Okay”.
Why in the first place did it get so out of hand? Eventually the System Rots and every kind of corruption emerge. I am sympathetic to suffering but we have to come to grips with the Root Cause…SOCIALISM.
Capitalism was Not the Cause of the Situation in Venezuela!!! 15% of the Populace of Venezuela are Eating from the Garbage! No Medicine and Basic Amenities.
How do you think that Socialist Governments can get money to be Socialist, they First must Take from those that Work and Produce by their Ingenuity and promise it to those who Do Not Work hard and who Do Not Employ their Ingenuity. Socialism Promises Everything, Free Healthcare, Free Housing, Free Food, Security, nowadays there is talk of Guaranteed Income…going along, Free Primary Education, Free Secondary Education, Free University Education and Jobs. What no one ever tell you is that the Working Man has to Pay for ALL of it, the Government does not Earn any Income, they take it from others, Support themselves and then they give back very little of what was yours in the first place. Can you Refuse to pay National Insurance, or Duties, or Vat or the National Social Responsibility Tax (NRS Levy) or the Taxes on Gasoline, or the Taxes on Electricity and All the other Endless Taxes including your House and Land Tax?
Government does Not Work for you…you Exist to work for them!!
Socialism never, ever works, it Impoverishes, Dehumanizes and Kills people. Socialist Never Learn from History. They Say They Are All Different… Communism, Leninism, Stalin-ism, Maoism, Leftism, Progressive-ism or “Democratic Socialism”, They Aren’t, Names Only Change to Suit the Times!
Most of South America is under Socialist Governments…“The Goal of Socialism is Communism”. Vladimir Lenin. Until We Get This Straight we will always be beguiled…. “Socialism is Atheism Masquerading as Political Philosophy”.
We are on a Very Slippery Slope… IT IS NOT ABOUT HATING GOVERNMENT, IT IS ABOUT RESISTING THE IDEA THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS OUR MASTER AND SILENCE IS CONSENT!
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