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CARIBBEAN PEOPLE’S DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS

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David Commisiong in his infinite wisdom removed BU from his distribution list, however, in the interest of sharing his statement for what it is worth in the prevailing climate the blogmaster will not allow himself to feel slighted…

Thanks to the BU family member for sharing.

BU Blogmaster

The peculiar race-based history of the Western Hemisphere has bequeathed to all the people and nations of our region of the “Caribbean and the Americas” the central mission of eradicating the scourge of anti-Black racism and developing societies in which the inherent dignity and worth of the black person is upheld and respected.
The people of the Caribbean region recognize therefore that the struggle against anti-Black racism in our Hemisphere is an inter-related one, and that we in the Caribbean are as invested in the USA, Brazilian, Colombian or Canadian components of that struggle, as these nations are invested in our Caribbean component of the struggle.
Thus, whenever we witness or become aware of even isolated or random acts of anti-Black racism anywhere in our Hemisphere, we cringe and recoil in anguish, for we know that failure to uphold the dignity and worth of the black person in any one nation imperils the entire hemispheric mission.
And much more so is the case when what we witness are not mere random incidents,
but acts that are suggestive of the continued existence of systemic, institutionalized anti-Black racism.
It is against this background therefore that we Caribbean people wish to express the deep sense of revulsion that we felt when we witnessed the televised images of the callous, heartless and totally unjustified killing of the African-American George Floyd by a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis in the USA.
We suspect and fear that Mr Floyd’s tragic death– one of a sequence of similar killings of unarmed black persons by white Police officers– is evidence of the continued existence of systemic anti-Black racism.
We would therefore wish to urge the Government and people of the USA — our sister nation of the Americas region — to redouble their efforts to confront and overcome this social evil.
I know that I speak for all right thinking Caribbean people when I say that we extend our profound sympathy to the distraught immediate family of Mr Floyd, and also to his extended African-American family who have been deeply hurt.
We would also wish to assure the Government and people of the USA that there are many organizations within our Caribbean region — a region that has confronted the scourge of anti-Black racism with some degree of success — that would readily share the insights that they have gained from our own struggle and that would be very willing to assist the US authorities in any way that they could.

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107 responses to “CARIBBEAN PEOPLE’S DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS”

  1. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Racism is serious business and the US House Judiciary is taking it very seriously..

    …. so why can’t a small island like Barbados that has been practicing this crime of racism against the populaiton for decades on end…..open their mouths and address oppressive anti-black systemic racism…..practiced consistently against the people..

    … so what makes dependent Barbados so special…why can’t they dismantle this modern day, human rights violating crime…

    https://www.facebook.com/time/videos/2666547823622704/?t=3

  2. John Avatar
    John

    Donna

    If you say Obama is both Black and White what colour would you say David Commissiong is?

  3. John Avatar
    John

    Donna
    June 10, 2020 2:49 AM

    By the way, Obama was black AND WHITE unless you suscribe to the ONE DROP rule that would also make YOU BLACK.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Just a reminder.

  4. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I would advise the WHOLE BARBADOS GOVERNMENT to read this article, they can’t say she is lying because we have been talking about this for years on end on BU, i remember when Commissiong was dancing around the subject like it was some game…

    A friend of mine read it and said…”She put on paper what we have accepted as “our norm”..I think we got caught up in a web of subdued racism even within our own black identities” UNQUOTE.

    how could any of this sound normal or right to the hundreds of lawyers in Barbados or the government ministers over the last 50 years….they all happily enabled and condoned this anti-black system racism against the Black majority and should be punished…….bastards…

    “All white Bajans should read this ASAP. Written by white Barbadian Annalee Davis who grew up on a plantation in St. John

    “On race and whiteness from the context of Barbados #1

    In this global #BlackLivesMatter moment, we are seeing a shift in conversations about race and it feels like a tipping point. White people in Barbados and the wider Caribbean don’t normally speak about whiteness in our context. Is it a generational shift in that younger people are less willing to live socially segregated or oppressed lives? I’m not sure, but it feels like the time to speak about whiteness and call out the more covert ways in which racism and white supremacy have affected our lives in this Small Island Developing State. And as some others have written about their own monologues, this could be more articulate, but I’ll throw my hat in the ring.

    I was raised as a white Bajan and benefited from the inherent benefits that whiteness endows. Like elsewhere, race is categorised by social indicators and in my case, those indicators included being raised on a sugar plantation in St. John, Barbados by people who identified as white. Although I have mixed-race ancestry, I grew up in a time of binaries when you were either white or black and I didn’t learn of my maternal family’s mixed race, indentured background till I was much older. (I’ll possibly write about those complexities in another post.)

    I’m not sure exactly when I became conscious of my own whiteness but I was quite young. It’s hard not to be aware of colour in a place like Barbados but I didn’t have a language to speak about racial & economic differences. I was curious why I and those working on the plantation inhabited socially separate lives. I tried to imagine what life would have been like on the land where I lived during the time of slavery and while I didn’t learn about Guyanese poet Martin Carter till decades later, his notion of tongueless whispering was something I intuitively wondered about as a child – could I hear history’s voices by placing my ear to the land?

    My private primary school was small and exclusively white. I sat the 11+ examination and went to Christ Church Foundation School where I first experienced being a minority in school as one of three white girls in a class of 30+ students. I made friends but struggled academically. My parents transferred me to The Ursuline Convent. I recall the headmistress challenging my mother, suggesting that if she wanted me to get a good education I should remain at Foundation, and if she wanted me to be a lady I should go to the Convent. Although it wasn’t stated, I think there were racial and class undertones to this discussion. The student body at the Convent was differently composed- approximately 60% white, 40% black, and a few expatriate students. Although our classrooms were racially integrated, when the school bell rang, we mostly retreated to the segregated lives we were accustomed to. Both white and black Bajans were complicit in leading segregated lives – it was easier than change but that’s embarrassing.

    While I belonged in Barbados in some ways – my family has been here continuously since 1648 – as a member of a white minority growing up in a newly independent nation, there was a simultaneous sense of ‘unbelonging’. I wanted to be part of the larger landscape but, as silly as it sounds, I didn’t know how to. I understood that sentiment decades later when I read Jean Rhys and recognised a similar longing in her Wide Sargasso Sea- I wasn’t the only one who felt this way.

    In 1980 I went to school in Ontario, Canada. I was curious if I might belong more easily in a white country? I certainly did not. That was an important lesson. Thinking I was white and being in a country with lots of white people did not mean that I belonged in any way, shape, or form. Many of my peers at school in Canada hailed from across the Anglophone Caribbean and it was there where I unexpectedly experienced my Caribbean self amongst White, Syrian, Chinese, French Creole, Black and Indo-Caribbean peers. I felt exhilarated to be part of a larger social space, radically different from the small white enclave in which I had grown up and decidedly grown apart from. I understood then that there was an impoverishment to my social world in Barbados – imagine, being part of a population of about 8,0000 white people and this was supposed to satisfy you intellectually, romantically, socially, culturally? Impossible, or impossible for me. There are many who live out their lives in small social white circles.

    Eventually choosing to become an artist and return to work in the field of culture in Barbados, a young independent black nation, was a double edge sword. While it created an alternate milieu from the confines of the environment I grew up in, it didn’t automatically confer belonging to the larger cultural and social milieu. How could it, given the transitional nature of the times, shifting from more than three centuries of British colonial rule to local black governance?

    Out of this context, and as an artist, I became concerned with how shared historical suffering reveals itself communally today. How do individuals and nations manage trauma and the desire for self-fulfillment in small places where social life and kinship are predominantly lived in separate social spheres and for which our lives are so much poorer? How could I operate in this setting? What was my role as an artist and as a white person?

    Later, marrying outside of the white Bajan milieu, having Anglo/Creole-Bajan, Indo-Trini-Hindu, Irish-Catholic children, and living in Trinidad for several years, exposed me to the Indo-Caribbean experience, further cracking open the early social insularity of my upbringing. I chose to raise my children differently and honour their plural selves. In Trinidad, my son went to a racially diverse school that observed Christian, Muslim, and Hindu religious events.

    When we returned to Barbados from Trinidad, the social apartheid was even starker to me. I chose their primary school carefully – different from my experience, it was the most racially integrated school on the island. My children were happy there and felt they belonged. The decision for them to attend government secondary school was important to me. They weren’t to be blanketed in private institutions for the next five years. While that transition was markedly different from their primary school, and they experienced race and class in challenging ways, I stand by my decision to foster their understanding of the larger, national space and who they are within that.

    White supremacy, capitalism, and the plantation are the foundation of Barbadian society, and racism has been and continues to be toxic to both Black and White Bajans. We need to call it when we see it and we need to talk about it in our segregated circles. While my own multi-layered history includes indentured labourers and mixed-race ancestors, I have benefitted most from my white settler colonial ancestry. And even though Barbados is the only country in the world where I am read as a white person (for example, I am brown in Jamaica, somewhat red in Trinidad, am from some Spanish speaking country when I am in the USA and no one is sure where I am from in the UK), I am white here in Barbados and fully aware of the historic injustices and contemporary manifestations of our ugly past. (I have been working through the term White Creole – also problematic and that will require possibly another post…)

    What I do know is that living racially segregated lives limits the fullness of ourselves. It limited my emotional development and social evolution as a young person. Opportunities like the one we have now at this moment to speak up and speak out don’t come along often. Participating in potentially awkward discussions about race, racism, white supremacy, and whiteness, in small postcolonial spaces like ours, within families like ours, working to shape more equitable societies and committing to anti-racist lifestyles, is vital to our collective well-being. I’ve tripped up so many times but I continue to learn, aim to be conscious of my own biases, to be sensitive to the trauma of plantation history which was so f*****g brutal in its relentless, centuries-long terrorisation and humiliation of tens of thousands of people.

    Every day, I see the mill wall from my studio where people were dehumanised. I am not removed from the reality of our past. I know what lies below this soil and my work is about the plantation in all its ugliness and its potential for transformation. The Empire tried to ruin intimacy between people of different races and in so doing fostered madness. White people today can choose to live different lives, to behave differently, to think differently, to love differently, and to stand up for equity and justice. White Barbados needs to have a conversation with itself. The time has come”

  5. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    This behaviour tells us everything we should want to know about Commissiong. It is the exact impression who have met him once or twice have said. Commissiong has a very high impression of himself, he thinks, for no obvious reason, that black Barbadians should listen to him, not tell him anything.
    It is the kind of behaviour that leads to despotism. I got this view of Commissiong a couple years ago when he came on BU defending the racism of the Castro brothers. He still has this obsession with Cuba – it is the Caribbean/Latin American coffee-coloured thing. I am sure he is not a racist, but racism comes in many colours.
    But this should not be a surprise. The New Barbadians will take over and drive us back in to a canal. I have said before that traditional black Barbadians and whites must reach a settlement. They may not be best friends, but if they do not then the New Barbadians – Indians, Pakistanis, Trinidadians, Grenadians, Guyanese – no matter where they came from, will eventually try to take control.
    Did it take two weeks for this crap to come out?

  6. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    “We would also wish to assure the Government and people of the USA that there are many organizations within our Caribbean region — a region that has confronted the scourge of anti-Black racism with some degree of success — that would readily share the insights that they have gained from our own struggle and that would be very willing to assist the US authorities in any way that they could.”

    Is this guy for real !!!???

  7. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    This is what i like about technology…..a whole blog by Commissiong expounding on the same corrupt racist minorities using the corrupt colonial system to rob taxpayers that is still ongoing under this present government…but he has no voice for that anymore…so when will his cousin Mia ” make a determined effort to uproot and eradicate the destructive remnants”…….and blah, blah, blah…for anyone who cares to read….a whole blog on what Mia is now saying she will not be bullied to address……via Kootchie Koo…

    https://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/outrageous-corrupt-government-contracts-are-killing-barbados

    “As we approach Barbados’ 50th year of Independence, I am calling on all patriotic Barbadians to join together and make a determined effort to uproot and eradicate the destructive remnants of the “Old Colonial System” that still exist in our supposedly independent nation.

    And one particularly odious remnant is that aspect of the “Old Colonial System” that traditionally permitted the social and business elite of Barbados to have compliant members of the political directorate grant them outrageously preferential business and commercial arrangements that allowed them to feed on the substance of the Barbadian State and on the mass of predominantly black labourers, consumers, and – in more recent times- taxpayers!

  8. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Just to be clear to yall, am not making any of this up, read the article yaself….

    see for yaself, the same business people Mia snitched on when it was time to fool the electorate, same corrupt racist business people she handed over the people’s contracts to…but accoring to Commissiong, ya must thank Mia for exposing the racists and all the corruption..

    “Yet another such contract is the so-called housing construction contract entered into between this current DLP administration and the corporate entity known as Housing Concepts SRL – also owned and/or managed by the said Mark Maloney and Bjorn Bjerkham.

    Under this contract, Housing Concepts SRL was leased a massive parcel of Government land at Coverley, Christ Church at a pepper-corn rent for the purpose of constructing houses for sale to the Barbadian people at prices ranging between $289,000.00 and $ 396,000.00!

    But what makes this contract truly remarkable is that our taxpayer-funded Government has entered into a legally binding contractual obligation to purchase from Housing Concepts SRL any house
    that the company is unable to sell to members of the public! Thus, once again, we taxpayers are left holding the bag!

    And -truth be told- I could go on and on detailing similarly outrageously preferential contracts that our compliant political directorate has conferred on a small group of elite white Barbadian business-people. It is no wonder therefore that our country now possesses a national debt that is virtually as large as our entire Gross National Product!

    We Barbadians should really thank Opposition Leader Mia Mottley for exposing the alarming details of this old colonial-type contractual arrangement.”

  9. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    TLSN…at least the US will get a good laugh…..lol

  10. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    i met Commissiong around 1983 when he almost knocked my gran over riding his little motorcycle on Wanstead Heights on his way to uni.

    i never liked the bloke from then. he talked bollocks then and he is talking bollocks now

  11. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    waru,

    if genuine, brave of that woman to write this. i always wondered what white people felt like being a minority with lost of money but limited in a lot of ways. she touched on some of it. i commend her

  12. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Hal
    According to the Blogmaster, Commissiong removed himself from the BU distribution list. This is interesting because at one stage he was a very frequent contributor. It appears that once you enter public life, your freedoms are curtailed. However Senator Caswell Franklyn still contributes. It is also interesting that many left leaning Comrades are firmly in the BLP camp. However I must say that Comrade Prescod is still associating himself with the masses and he carries the progressive message quite well.
    I also note that the People’s Empowerment Party is very quiet these days . It makes for very interesting observation.

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Greene

    Brits do not call white Bajans white. They call them creoles. They laugh at them. I have said before, I once worked with a guy who was married to a white Bajan.Her parents came over to spend time with them and he came in to work beside himself. He would point at me and say: Hal, they speak like you.
    On another occasion I was in Barbados with a friend and bumped in to a Scottish friend who worked for the Daily Mirror newspaper. His wife was involved at Holders Hill and we arranged to meet there.
    We met up at about 10am and started drinking Banks, as if we were in London. There was a black man and woman behind the bar, both aged in their late 30s to early 40s, and supervised by a white |Bajan (someone said her father was a doctor) who lived in London.
    I do not know what caused the row, but this white Bajan started shouting at the bar staff. After a time, my Scottish friend could not take it any longer and he tore in to the white Bajan, as he started some young girls from Kent also joined in. One drunken white Bajan man, who was trying to chat up the girls, they also turned on him. Me and my friend just kept quiet and let them have it out.
    One remark by one of the young Kent girls stood out. She turned to the drunk and told him: I hate white Bajans. It struck home. There are about 10000 white Bajans in the UK, mostly in London. Have you ever met one? When I was at the BBC one came in to the studio sniffing around. Eventually he said he was a Bajan. He left soon after to work in the South West.

  14. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ WURA-War-on-U,
    It would have been best for all concerned if he had refrained from issuing such a limp-wristed statement. This government is in a precarious position. It could be on the point of imploding.

  15. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    Trevor Prescod comes from a principled political tradition. Commissiong removed BU from his distribution list because some people challenged him. What audacity. There is also talk about Commissiong by some who were associated with the Pan-African Commission.
    I have mentioned his poor defence of the Castro brothers shortly after Diaz-Canel became President and promoted a number of black people. Commissiong tried to pass this off as sometime the Castros would have done eventually. The cheek. It took them from 1959 until Raul retired. Do you see how he prances around like he is chief cook and bottle washer to the Cuban nurses? He is playing a dangerous political game.

  16. Khaleel Kothdiwala Avatar
    Khaleel Kothdiwala

    “This government is in a precarious position. It could be on the point of imploding.”

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Without a doubt. And after it implodes and in the resultant election, De Peiza will will 20 seats and the PdP with 7. Your prescience is commendable. I don’t think any other would be able to come up with such a brilliant observation as yours above.

  17. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “government is in a precarious position. It could be on the point of imploding.”

    pretty much…and with that Scotland stunt…ha

    when ya see they sent out Koochie Koo instead of those old fowls to shit all over the blog, ya done know…strategy BACKFIRED…lol

  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Greene…the person did not say anything in the article that is not true…that is what i checked out first….Commissiong is the one lying his ass off as an Ambassador representing at taxpayer’s expense. Seems like the only truth he told is in that 2015 article about the colonial trash minorities, their corruption and thefts…….but he had this agenda to tell the truth for political reasons…just to get Mia elected so he can land a cushy job…as long as that happened…he is no longer the champion for the masses who still suffer the racism, oppression and apartheid while still being robbed blind by the same tiefing minorities aided and abetted by his cousin.

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    As my grandmother would say, “Deed nuh!”

    Wuhlaus! What help can the Caribbean offer the USA with respect to race relations and racial equality??????

    Wuhlaus muh belly!

  20. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    And as for police brutality and the judicial system …. when we gon have we own march round the police stations and government headquarters? We could start the march there and end at the US Embassy.

  21. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Don’t have a clue what Commissiong is. Don’t care either.

  22. John Avatar
    John

    Donna
    June 10, 2020 7:52 PM

    Don’t have a clue what Commissiong is. Don’t care either.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    There you go, colour shouldn’t matter.

    You are learning.

    Obama and Trump both had equal opportunity.

    Colour did not matter either.

    However, equality of outcomes will not occur.

    That’s why Grenville’s position is ridiculous.

    America offers opportunities to all.

    It doesn’t mean all will have the same outcomes.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    Every blog you have to find a way to bring Trump or Obama into it?

    >

  24. John Avatar
    John

    The overall college enrollment rate for 18- to 24-year-olds increased from 35 percent in 2000 to 41 percent in 2018. In 2018, the college enrollment rate was higher for 18- to 24-year-olds who were Asian (59 percent) than for 18- to 24-yearolds who were White (42 percent), Black (37 percent), and Hispanic (36 percent).

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Look at the opportunities of people going to college.

    There isn’t much difference between black and white.

    Asians however put both into the shade.

    Does that mean Asians have a greater privilege than Black or White?

    Should we be talking about Asian privilege?

    No, it just means Asians grasp their opportunities.

    https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cpb.pdf

  25. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    David Commisiong in his infinite wisdom removed BU from his distribution list,
    +++++++++++++
    Petty! Petty! Petty!!!
    The man couldn’t take the heat so he got out of the kitchen

  26. groslyn Avatar
    groslyn

    In sociology, I learnt that Barbados was defined as a plural society based on there being different races and ethnicities on the island.  What always stood out to me in the definition was that ‘they mix but do not combine’.  We live this but don’t even acknowledge it.

    My experience with racism is from an unusual perspective.  My partner was a darky with beautiful texture skin.  What I didn’t realized until near the end was that he had an issue with his colour and therefore have low morale and esteem. It meant that he catered or smooched white people.  It was shocking to see the difference in the man when that switch turned on.  There was no need for overt racism.  He was psychologically condition to believe in his inferiority and this extended downward to light skin blacks.  No good comes of putting people above/before you.

    I do not see colour.  I see character.  But what I’ve realized is that black people in Barbados loves the differentiation starting with your address, then school, parents job, family connections, and so on. In fact, some people are untouchable because of any number of the aforementioned variables.  In Barbados, the glass ceiling is not only placed there by whites but by our own race.  

    Though I am now coming to understand the depths of the systemic racism that thrives in the USA, I can state that social stratification in Barbados is very oppressive.  

    Those at the top of the pile whether they are newbies, noveau riche, or 2/3rd generation upper middle class use mockery to laugh at others.  I’ve noticed it being used constantly in this blog.  Some bring facts to support their position but most just their position and connection.  It’s tolerable here in Barbados but outside where there’s the dynamics of competitive businesses, it’s dumb and ignorant.  It’s why some people cannot live in Barbados at all or for a prolong time.

    How do you fight and conquer psychological conditioning.  The sure way is via education and not what is taught at present in the school system.  Unless the Barbados government tackle this issue head on, young black people will continue to rail and fight demons they don’t quite understand and sadly via violence.  It is heart rending that the information is available on the internet but social conditioning leads young people to music and music videos promoting disrespect, self-aggrandizement and immorality.  

    We have opted out of being analytical, dispassionate, impartial and fair minded. The elders squabble amongst themselves and the educated youth buy into the societal norm of mocking.

  27. David Avatar
    David

    Not petty, more to do with status and image now in government. BU is not a toe the line kind of entity and people in official roles fear the harm of negative opinion.

  28. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Don’t mind the Johnny, David!

    “Race shouldn’t matter!”

    Duh!

    THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO SAY TO THE WORLD!

    BUT IT DOES! THIS IS A FACT THAT CANNOT BE REFUTED.

    I myself discovered how much it mattered as a young child by watching the civil rights struggle in the USA on the BBC tv. At that time i was living in a ‘white house’ of my own and found it quite perplexing.

    But many of those who thought race mattered are not yet dead. It is hardly likely that they have changed their minds. Many of them are still resisting change. It is stupid to suggest that the resistance has not had the effect of slowing down the march to racial equality. It takes a few generations to do that. When the old farts die out it moves forward more swiftly. Laws change actions but not minds. Laws are internalized over generations and mindsets align with them within generations who know no other law.

    PS. I don’t care about Comissiong’s race because he is insignificant.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Donna

    The young people will change the world as they have done through the ages.

  30. John Avatar
    John

    PS. I don’t care about Comissiong’s race because he is insignificant.

    +++++++++++++++++++++

    Guess you are not one of these ALL LIVE MATTERS loonies.

  31. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Context, Johnny! Context!

  32. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    @ David, I wonder what was responsible for the shift in Mr. Commissiong’s views. It would have been better not to make a statement. He has painted a rosy picture of the Caribbean resolving the problems of its colonial past. The problems are still there and it would be interesting to read the solutions that he implies were used.

  33. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    It would indeed be interesting to hear those solutions.

    Note to self – don’t drink coffee at night!

  34. David Avatar
    David

    For whatever reason it seems Caricom, Barbados included, prefers to take a soft language approach to the issue. Are they intimidated by Trump knowing he is unpredictable?

  35. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “a region that has confronted the scourge of anti-Black racism with some degree of success .”

    what Commissong did yesterday or whenever with that press release was repulsive, deceitful and downright wicked….he knows a systemic racist system against the majority black population stayed in place for over 50 years post independence, still in place, with not one Black lawyer, himself included, making any effort worth talking about to end it, a cabal of lawyers in that Bar Association who have traversed and rotated through the parliament for decades successfully helped to keep the thefts from the people, racism/segregation and oppression in place deliberately and maliciously to fill their own pockets…..just like they are all doing now, including Commissiong…and he got the goddamn nerve to put out a press release LYING ABOUT IT…telling himself he is mocking US…forgetting he put out a big blog and not only one, there are other blogs he put out there regarding this same subject.

    while everyone was calling him a fraud for years, others including myself thought he had the best interest of the Black population, had their backs, now we know he is just as fraudulent as everyone has been saying for years…so glad he exposed himself..i knew there was a reason i had to hold on to that Commissong blog.

  36. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Blacks in America are descendants of the same Africans that were carried away on Slave ships and kept to work in bondage in the Caribbean plantations which is the sole reason why you are where you are in this time. Your purpose in life may be to right the wrongs of past 400 years of slavery and should link up with American English and Caribbean in The African Diaspora if ready for the challenge. Bajans are scholarly subject matter experts in Slave trade and the timing is right to push for justice and financial recompense for the business of colonialism global trade capitalism and industrialised slavery of the Atlantic Slave Trade triangle. Now is the first time in History where you case may get heard and not dismissed due to culture of systemic endemic institutional racism.
    David of the Underground Barbados Chapter should try to get Hilary Beckles to write an article and pause for the cause and get the ball rolling.

  37. David Avatar
    David

    The question which rises to the top of mind every time- what has Barbados done in the last two weeks to materially add to the BLM?

  38. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    @ David
    A parallel school of thought you may not have heard of before was stated by Black Panthers in 70’s
    where the African nation’s were quiet about the injustices to blacks in America during civil rights era
    due to the fact they were financial receiving aid from USA and would have lost monies if they spoke out

  39. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @David June 11, 2020 4:31 AM
    You accused John of always bringing trump into the conversation. It would seem you are also guilty of the same.

  40. David Avatar
    David

    @Dr. Lucas

    You would dare to compare the number of times the blogmaster mentions Trump compared to John. Take off your blinkers, better still- turnoff the counter!

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    WURA-War-on-U

    “Douglas Trotman $1.5 million has been flagged … with $800K paid to a person without an institution being made aware.
    Give us some honesty…let’s recover some funds for the country”

    This is all the likes of Commissong and his ilk are ever interested in, talk a good game when they are not close enough to the pension fund and treasury…..somehow they are always pretend saviors of the masses when their pockets are empty…but as long as they are getting a piece of the corrupt pie then the masses are on their own.

    ….the above is a comment part of an exposure on FB about the Cahill scam with DLP.. that was .also in Mia’s big red bad of evidence of corruption to be prosecuted, last we heard, red bag got lost and the weary taxpaying majority are being sued by the Cahill scam with the dirty lawyers of the parliament and the bar leading the charge…because for some corrupt reason every contract they sign on behalf of the people ,, the people ALWAYS END UP BEING SUED FOR TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS….and are always the ones ending up in abject poverty while all the lawyers and ministers become BOASTING MILLIONAIRES….both them and the corrupt racists…..i don’t believe any of those thieves are interested in giving back a dime of the stolen taxpayer’s money or the billions of dollars they all stole and laundered OFFHSORE either…

  42. John Avatar
    John

    Letter from an Archbishop

  43. John Avatar
    John

    “President Donald Trump has responded to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s open letter to him published on Sunday.
    “So honored by Archbishop Viganò’s incredible letter to me,” President Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening. “I hope everyone, religious or not, reads it!””

    https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/president-trump-tweets-thanks-to-archbishop-vigano

  44. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Barbados is following the white narrative to be like Martin Luther King Junior and not Huey Newton

  45. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Sometimes in politics folly poli±tricks people have to work with the enemies of your enemies even though they are just as bad as them to create shifts in balances of power, such as MLK working with Republicans to change down South, and Malcolm X and Nation of Islam working with KKK for repatriation movements and separate black states up North.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaCNEw-D8SQ

  46. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr38FYJ2UO4

  47. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

  48. David Avatar
    David

    Let us admit the Caribbean voice is token but it does not relieve the region of a moral responsibility and obligation to speak loudly about the issue and align with #BLM. It will be interesting to watch the second wave of protests when American/European sports resume.

    Why?

    Many leading players are BLACK.

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Nelson statue could be put on a barge and towed to a dive site off shore.

    An alternative site could be Cattlewash.

    Black Bajan psychological health matters.

    buh doan mind me. I live in Canada where we are focused on removing statues of racists.
    Maybe rename some streets too.

  50. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    @ David, I wonder what was responsible for the shift in Mr. Commissiong’s views. It would have been better not to make a statement. He has painted a rosy picture of the Caribbean resolving the problems of its colonial past. The problems are still there and it would be interesting to read the solutions that he implies were used.

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