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African Liberation Education 1

Submitted by Ras Jahaziel A captive people are not likely to recognize their captivity if they were born in captivity and have no memory of freedom. Nor are they likely to identify liberation as an urgent necessity… if they have been schooled and churched to see their landless bondage as normal. (That is why “The…

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Submitted by Ras Jahaziel

A captive people are not likely to recognize their captivity if they were born in captivity and have no memory of freedom.

Nor are they likely to identify liberation as an urgent necessity… if they have been schooled and churched to see their landless bondage as normal.

(That is why “The Manual of Slave Control” clearly spells out in its preamble: “the need to educate all X-Slaves with the myth that their captivity ended on the day of Emancipation, and to support this myth by keeping the X-Slaves constantly doped, domesticated, and entertained in a drunken stupor.”)

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81 responses to “African Liberation Education 1”

  1. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    I often wonder had we not been shackled by the psychological scars of our enslavement as a people of African extraction … where would we have been in terms of our social, political, economical, cultural, religious, educational, and moral development in the year 2018?

  2. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Now if there is one thing I must give Prime Minister Barrow credit for is his effort to impressed upon the youths of my generation the importance of looking at what we were being taught in our history class differently!

    He said to us and I can remember his very words quite vividly some three-decades later… that Christopher Columbus did not discover the Caribbean as we were being taught in our history class, but in the interest of passing our history test we should write it down anyway. Because how could he have discover a place where the Indians inhabited 300 years prior to European expansion…

  3. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    Lexicon – eating one another and chucking spears. As the black guy said as he settled into a 1st class BA seat at Lagos airport, “thank god for slavery or I would still be in this shithole”.

  4. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    Errol Barrow was a credit to Barbados. Not many you can say that about since. Certainly not the author of this drivel with his ersatz African name.

  5. PoorPeacefulandPolite Avatar
    PoorPeacefulandPolite

    Emancipation is a gradual process. Do you think your grandchildren will be as messed up as you are – or your grandfather was? Make your life count, pilgrim.

  6. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    The important fact that Ras Jahaziel omits is that the significant majority of humanity is in bondage no matter what their skin color or ethnicity. Average White people are duped into supporting those who hold them in psychological bondage… they vote against their own self interest in order to ensure that Black people remain worse off than they are. Yes they are stupid, but stupidity is not a moral failing just an intellectual weakness.

    So, for example, the legions of Trump support scum deserve my pity more than my contempt, no matter what the color of their skin. I need to understand scum in the sense that they are just a surface manifestation of evil that lurks underneath at a far deeper level.

    People like Trump or Orban or Bolsonaro are not the locus of evil themselves, they are just the playthings of yet deeper forces in contemporary capitalism.

  7. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @45govt
    Errol Barrow was vehemently hated by the White minority in Barbados while he was alive. It is only after he was long dead that he was reinvented as “a credit to Barbados.” Furthermore there are very many of his generation and since that we can say are a credit to Barbados. This type of historical manipulation is commonplace… the same has been done to Martin Luther King: oppressed, viciously attacked and ultimately murdered by the White community only to be reinvented later as a tool to belittle contemporary Black leaders by saying that they are no MLK.

  8. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @45govt
    You should take the time to look up the word ‘ersatz’… Jahaziel is a Biblical reference from ancient Hebrew, and Ras is an entirely Caribbean invention.

  9. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    PLT aka racist Trump Derangement Scum. I Know what the word ersatz means, having had an extensive and expensive education and certainly have no need of advice from some racist nobody like you. That is a fake name.
    Regarding Errol Barrow I knew him and liked him, and the cause of his disaffection with the white community was as I recall his iniquitous grab of the sugar receipts which the plantations were about to get after years of starvation prices. But don’t let the facts trouble your boiling anti-white hatred.
    You are a sad and insignificant little parasite, and doubtless keep company with that other tick, Commissiong. You bore everyone.

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ PLT

    “Errol Barrow was vehemently hated by the White minority.”

    Pure nonsense !
    Barrow maintained a well known relationship with the traditional white corporate elite.
    Barrow in 1974, brought the Public Order Act, to destroy the Black progressive nationalist movement in order to appease the whites.
    He also stated publicly that Eric Williams should have charged the leaders of the Black power movement in Trinidad with treason.
    This piece of legislation is one of the worst pieces of legislation in our post independence history.
    It is time that we stop trying to rewrite history .

  11. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @45govt
    I love White people, Black people and all other people. I am simply contemptuous of racism.

    You said that the name was ersatz African; I was simply educating you that you made an error.

    I knew Dipper as well… he was a talented, complex and flawed man. I have tremendous respect for him and I remember the times well enough to know that White people here hated him long before he came to power.

  12. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @William Skinner
    You are correct that Barrow had lots of buddies among the White elite… those relationships were built after he became Premier and then PM. He was under no illusion that those people would be currying favor with him unless he had power. He spoke quite openly in my company about the fact that he knew they would stab him in the back if they ever had any opportunity.

  13. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    William Skinner

    Why then in the latter part of Barrow’s life he preached vehemently to the youths of my generation regarding the detrimental impacted of the American culture upon our way of life? Instructing us ( the youths of my day ) to stay clear of its influence!!!

  14. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    William Skinner

    That does not sound like a man who wanted to appeased the white establishment in Washington during his tenure?

  15. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    @ Racist Trump Derangement Syndrome – I take leave to doubt everything and anything you say. In my dealings with Barrow he and I knew perfectly well there was NEVER going to be any quid pro quo. He was a nice man, and introduced me to shark steak in his favourite rum shop.
    You should get a life, and spend less time denigrating anyone who isn’t into Black Power. You are a sad spectacle.

  16. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @45govt
    You are not making sense… what quid pro quo is it that you are referring to? Is it the Public Order Act that is not quid pro quo? Is it his grab of the sugar receipts that is not quid pro quo?

  17. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Lexicon

    I debunked what PLT said.
    Now you tell me where in my contribution did I ever say anything about white people in Washington. I spoke specifically to the “ progressive Black nationalist “ in our country.
    Errol Barrow’s influence on this country cannot be denied but I know that everything I have written here is historically true.
    @ PLT
    Thanks for your honesty. Barrow lifted and positively helped in creating what we now call the idea of Barbados.

  18. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    William Skinner

    So what are you trying to convey regarding Barrow’s attitude towards the Black Nationalist Movement in Barbados? That he was black on the outside and white on the inside?

    Well, Sir Grantley Adams as a prominent lawyer in Barbados represented the white plantocracy against the downtrodden black masses and the public record can attested to what I am espousing here!

    Moreover, Sir Grantley Adams did know his worth… because it is well documented that during the 1940s… he would dropped off his wife ( a white woman) at a white segregated Yacht Club on Bay Street, and could go no further than the door.

  19. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @PLT,

    What is the idea of Barbados. Plse explain in a sentence.

  20. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    There is a missing ingredient in this discussion and that is that both EWB and Grantley Adams were pragmatists.They both would have heard from their parents’ mouths :” When one’s hand is in the lion’s mouth one tries to ease it out”.

    We have reached where we reached because of their shrewd leaderships.

  21. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    And they died and no one can attach to their names millionaire.

  22. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    LEXICON ARE YOU MARK FENTY AKA DOMPEY WID A NEW NAME?

  23. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Hal Austin
    William used that term; I’m not sure what he meant by it.

  24. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @PLT

    Reminds me of Dale Marshall claiming there is a Barbados development model. Whatever happened to that?

  25. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Grorgie Porgie

    I am not quite sure who you are talking about, but if you aren’t sure about the person in question … please direct your question to the Blogmaster…I am quite certain he has the IP number of person in question Sir.

  26. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ PLT

    @ Hal

    Dr Gonsalves,PM of St. Vincent, gave a lecture on the Ideology of Barbados. I think that was the origin of the concept. He attempted to classify the Barbadian characteristics. Fairly insightful ,I think.

  27. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    Thanks Vincent.

    https://searchlight.vc/searchlight/press-release/2018/05/29/the-idea-of-barbados/

  28. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @V|incent,

    Is that the recent one? I think it was reported in the local press. I am almost certain it was also mentioned on BU. Plse dig it out, it would be interesting having a second look at it again. The power of written speeches and not off the cuff waffle.

  29. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    Man I want some a dat good Vincie weed that Ralph was clearly using

  30. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Vincent Codrington

    What is exactly the ideology of Barbados?

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

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  32. David Avatar
    David

    The majority of Blacks in Barbados do not identify with a debate that they are locked in mental slavery. The enlightened few will not make progress to educate because the system is securely anchored in the establishment.

  33. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The majority of Blacks in Barbados do not identify with a debate that they are locked in mental slavery. The enlightened few will not make progress to educate because the system is securely anchored in the establishment.(Quote)

    What does this mean?

  34. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Now maybe I am simple-minded and in want of better comprehension, but I do believe that once an academic system has been erected on the critical thinking element … one is able to overcome a lot of the parental and societal indoctrination.

  35. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @Lexicon,

    Spot on. We must think people how to think (critical learning) and not what to think (learning by rote).

  36. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    teach

  37. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    David

    If as the British philosopher John Locke claims that the mind is a blank slate upon which experience is written ( tabula rasa) … then through the proper education … we are able to overcome a lot of what have been impressed upon by culture.

  38. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    I do not know the current educational system in Barbados, but when I went through it the system made every effort to suppress critical thinking. HC in my day equated critical thinking to insubordination.

  39. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    I have seen no evidence over the past year and a half that critical thinking plays any part in Bajan education or culture. Most of the discourse here on BU is entirely free of critical thinking.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    Agree Peter.

    We conform and assimulate.

  41. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    PLT is correct about those Trump supporters. Those poor fools deserve our sympathy. I realized that a while back and said as much. They vote against their own interests and cheer about it. Rampant, unchecked capitalism has concentrated almost all of the world’s wealth in the hands of the very, very few. Still, I do not envy the very, very few because I see their greed as an addiction. They can NEVER get enough. It satisfies them less and less so they try to amass more and more and the vicious cycle continues. Seems to me that most of HUMANKIND is mentally enslaved one way or the other. Humankind is a MESS!

  42. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Maybe you conform and assimilate but at Q.C my two best friends and I were labelled rebels and were the only three girls who didn’t become prefects.

  43. sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore) Avatar
    sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore)

    If you are on top of the dung heap with your noses blocked up and unable to smell, you may be very aggressive or guarded against the sanitation workers that want to eliminate the dung heap and spoil your view. A sad reality in Barbados is some sit on the top of the dung heap but other sit at the bottom with aspirations of reaping the top. because the view is so much better there. Its the view that we crave not better health; better health is secondary.

    thus our current thinking; we have accepted the dung as the status quo. anyone black brown white and mixed that tries to interfere with the dung heap will be battled and fought tooth and nail.

    So can we do better? Yes We Can, do enuff of us know better sadly it doesnot seem so. So we continue to climb to the top of the dung heap for the better view not realising that we all can be a better place(Maybe Hope) if we call just realised that the dung heap is not the place to be.

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ peterlawrencethompson least we are privileged to have at least one critical thinker on BU and that is you. lol

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Donna who wrote ” the only three girls who didn’t become prefects.”

    So all the other girls at Q C were prefects ?

    Every time you write you intrigue me.lol

  46. sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore) Avatar
    sirfuzzy (i was a sheep some years ago; not a sheep anymore)

    @ Donna November 2, 2018 5:28 PM

    Maybe you are too old or too young to remember STAR TREK. Or maybe you never were intersted in sci-fi pictureson the TV.

    But i can remember during the series that human encountered a species called the BORG.

    The borg motto or mantra was “assimilate or die”.. “You will be Assimilated” Maybe just maybe they had Borg at QC when you attended. You could or would not assimilate , thus you got no prefectship? lol

    What you experienced at QC is par for the course at all older grammar schools island-wide at least when i attended secondary school. We didn’t and still don’t realise the damage that thinking is continuing to do; unless u are a benefactor of such.

    But we live in Hope or David does 🙂

  47. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Donna

    “Humankind is mentally enslaved one way or the other”

    Continual self-inventory is one of the ways we can employ to keep our passions and desires from enslaving us … the Ancient Philosoher Socrates tells us that an unexamined life isn’t worth living…

  48. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ PLT

    You are welcome. Thanks for locating and uploading. I am not good at that technique.

    @ Hal Austin

    That is the correct lecture. Gunsie in my opinion is a bright chap. I am sure you would have experience his ekchanges with Tom Adams in the 1970s.

  49. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Hants,

    The only three girls in my year level.

  50. 45govt Avatar
    45govt

    Donna, you do write drivel. Do you claim that every girl at QC was a prefect except you and your wutless friends? Talk about more chiefs than Indians.

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