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Submitted by JS Demba for AFRICAN HERITAGE UNIVERSE

Why pick on China?

Who in the world respects Black people?         

The English? No!                   

The French? No!                             

The Americans? No!                                         

Germans? No!

Canadians? No!                                                               

Ukrainians? No!                                                                         

Australians? No!                                                                                     

Filipinos? No!                                                                                               

Russians? No!                                                                                                       

Arabs? No!                                                                                                               

Anyone? No!                                                                                                                       

Blacks? Certainly not!!!

Quite apart from the fact that “Black” and “White” are artificial constructs based on bogus premises and stupid stereotypes (which distort our existential authenticity as much as it does theirs) the simple truth is: all we have to do is respect ourselves. REPEAT: ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS RESPECT OURSELVES! 

Respecting ourselves, truly respecting ourselves (not a stand-alone phenomenon, but one that is accompanied by self-esteem, self-belief, self-validation, self-actualization and, most importantly, self-love) is a mammoth undertaking for any people who have had a comparable history to ours. This turn of phrase is laughable for its emptiness, since no others have; not by a long shot. In short, nothing to compare! The task at hand is uniquely ours. The task at hand is two-fold. One. Demand & collect trillions of dollars in reparations from Arabia & the West for 14 centuries of material enslavement.   Two. Regain our rightful minds. This task is to effect our own rebirth and cease to be what Professor Thomas has aptly termed natally alienated and morally imbecilic. Admittedly, this is no easy task. One generation of enslavement is bad enough. Fourteen centuries of inter-generational dehumanization is deadly. But rise from the dead, we must! 

To every poison there is an antidote. Ours likely exists in our midst, hiding in plain sight. In fact our problem is not one of discovery but legitimization. Legit # 1: recognizing that we have a problem in the first place. Legit # 2: desiring its resolution. Legit # 3: actually taking the medicine. This is what we owe ourselves, our Ancestors and our children’s children. Yes, we owe it to ourselves! (What they owe us is trillions in reparations).  It is entirely likely that a handful among us have undergone this process and effected our rebirth. Speaking personally, we know of only a few; a precious few. And, at the very top of this very short list stands such luminaries as Mirambo, Nzinga, Sandy, Rodney, Azikiwe, Kaunda, L’overture, Hypatia, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Imhotep, Toure, Shaka, Diop, Nyerere, Garvey, Zumbi dos Palmares, Jomo Kenyatta,  av gbhnd, hiding in plain sight from most of our blinkered plant-African brothers and sisters, Molefe Kete Asante. Thank you Molefe and your illustrious associates for swelling our Ancestors’ chests with pride!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!So, let’s not pick on the Chinese or any other group. Let us simply respect ourselves, truly respect ourselves and be the self-validating people God intended us to be. This must be the basis upon which we relate to ourselves. And this, in turn, is the only basis upon which we should countenance transactions with  others; be they large or small, friendly or hostile, material or spiritual.

NM5. Ashe!

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344 responses to “Who in the World Respects Black People?”

  1. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    @ Et al
    Was very delighted to read in today’s Nation that small black contractor, Mark Maloney, is now partnering with the NHC in a $200 million housing venture. He is the same small black contractor who partnered with the last administration to build at Coverley and other places. Maloney is a shinning example of how the BLPDLP looks out for small black contractors/business people.

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    WASN’T THIS SAME BLACK CONTRACTOR MARK MALONEY SUPPOSED TO BE PROSECUTED AND PUT IN DODDS PRISON BY MIA MOTTLEY FOR ILLEGAL ACTS UNDER THE DLP GOVERNMENT?

    GOOD TO SEE BLACK GOVERNMENT FORGIVING ANOTHER BLACK MAN.

    THERE IS HOPE FOR THE 2 x 3 ISLAND.

    LOL

  2. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “Oops buses that are running empty. Garbage trucks having nowhere to dispose the tons of garbage.”

    The usual political nonsense. You’re always on about “buses running empty.” Provide BU with proof to substantiate your claims.

    I could understand if you’re arguing ‘government’ INCREASED Transport Board’s fleet by purchasing 35 buses and they’re running empty.

    But, they were purchased to replace 35 of the over 150 buses that were rendered useless under former Transport Minister, Michael Lashley. Imagine hiring a consultant at $22,000 per month and the daily availability of buses decreased from 80 units per day to 35?

    The new garbage trucks did not increase SSA’s fleet, but replaced trucks that were rendered useless under Environment Minister, Denis Lowe.
    Wouldn’t the new garbage trucks be disposing garbage the same place the trucks they replaced used to dispose it?

  3. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Miller
    I am no opposition for no political party
    I voiced my own concerns
    Not in no one’s pocket and that is the way I like it

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

    Nothing to see there re UK putting them on money laundering list, it’s just their DECADES of EVIL SHIT….catching up with them, it’s called KARMA…

  5. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ angela cox May 13, 2021 9:45 AM

    “Ac” the ‘dc’, you first have to convince you ‘new’ boyfriend Artax about that one before trying to lie to the miller.

    Your bugbear MAM, in her ‘AM’ (anti-Mal[m]oney) salad days used to peddle the same load of BS of not being in anyone’s pockets before becoming ‘PM’ in her ‘Pro-money’ turncoat days.

  6. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Baje
    When it was claimed that Maloney should not have gotten so many millions under their twin, we the fools believed it meant that he should be getting less.
    It really meant he should be getting more. Oh well……..
    Don’t forget their first cousin took up the National Insurance money and put in another black man COW property at Apes Hill. In the meantime they allowed the National Stadium to fall into ruin.
    These two parties have nothing but utter contempt for white people. That’s why Blacks are doing so well. Just yesterday, there were dozens of white workers protesting that they are being denied severance. Theses two parties will never allow that to be done to black people. They look out for us. I am now hearing that white people in the rural areas can’t get water.
    After the ball was over, Mary placed her wooden legs against the wall/ Oh what has become of my Mary after the ball….
    (Apologies to the Merrymen)

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    The blogmaster holds no brief for Maloney but in the interest of balance concerning the project under discussion, Preconco is providing the financing and government is to be paid for the land when houses are purchased.

    Project to get middle-income home earners house and land kicks off: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/13/project-to-get-middle-income-home-earners-house-and-land-kicks-off/

  8. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ David
    Like I said it is great to see a Black man like Mark Maloney , who apparently escaped from Dodds doing so well under both parties.
    It is also great to see that no black person / workers were among those protesting about their not getting severance in yesterday’s papers.
    No long debate about this from me. All is well my Brother.
    NB: Apologies about misrepresenting the Apes Hill information. No money was given to Apes Hill. That money was actually used by the last administration to completely refurbish the National Stadium. It is now considered the gem of stadia in the region.
    Apes Hill has fallen into an eyesore infested by rats and other vermin. It can’t even get a buyer.

  9. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    @ William Skinner

    YOU ARE GOING TO KILL THEM WITH THEIR SENSE OF WARPED REALITY.

    NO ONE CAN BE SO BRAINWASHED.

    MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE WATER (FOR THOSE WHO CAN GET IT) ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND.

  10. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    yīn 陰 “black side” and yáng 陽 “white side”
    yang (as the sun principle) is considered superior to “yin” (the dark principle)
    ☰ is heavily yang, while ☷ is heavily yin

    BU appears to be more Yin and woman seem to rule men as they possess more Yang and the men appear to be the bitches

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    Both parties abuse the system. Most trade unions in Barbados renegade on effectively representing workers. In the prevailing environment workers will be abused. The work continues as it does everywhere:

  12. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Here is something for the blp apologist to chew on

    Sylvan Greenidge – FB
    ·
    Where is Clyde Mascoll in the midst of this economic crisis as reported by the Central Bank?
    Is Senator Moe in Barbados and still drawing taxpayers’ money?
    Where is Dottin in light of the continuing spate of gun violence?
    Is Billie still earning a salary from the government’s purse?
    Where is that white 747 jet that was parked at the Airport, registered in Barbados, paid for by the taxpayers of Barbados, and bearing the Barbados flag on its tail?
    Who now runs GAIA Inc.?
    Who owns the electric buses on our roads and how much is the government paying for them?
    Who owns the building where parliamentary sessions are now being held and what is the cost to the taxpayers of Barbados?
    What is there for Barbados to show for the billions borrowed by this BLP government since May 2018?
    What is the cost-benefit to Barbadians of the establishment of the Department of Propaganda? Nyobi D. Naziah
    Brilliant may I please just add one more. Have the three recently announced new diplomats taken up their post overseas yet? (Just asking because one who happens to be a neighbor I still see every day) appears there’s a lot of Gline Clarke who can’t get a flight out.

  13. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Who is going to respect a bunch of small time thieves, robbing the people who ELECT THEM, pay them a salary and leaving the populations in generational poverty for personal gain..

    “ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Three former government ministers, including the leader of the main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP), Harold Lovell, will re-appear in the High Court on June 14 on charges relating to the donation of three buses to the Antigua and Barbuda government.

    Apart from Lovell, the otters charged are former education minister Dr Jacqui Quinn and former deputy prime minister Wilmoth Daniel.

    They are accused of corruption, conversion and embezzlement in relation to three Daewoo buses worth over EC$600 000 (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) that were donated to the former UPP administration by the government of South Korea.

    The three former ministers have been accused of converting the buses for their personal use and had them registered at the Antigua and Barbuda Transport Board in their names, while they were in public office.

    When they appeared before Justice Colin Williams on Wednesday, all three, represented by attorney Leon Chakue Symister, all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    The case was first dismissed in 2017 by Magistrate Conliffe Clarke, but in 2019, Director of Public Prosecutions Anthony Armstrong refiled the case on an issue of improper application of procedure.

    The matter was then heard by Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh, who ruled that there was enough prima facie evidence against the three accused, and, in June, 2020, she committed the matter to the High Court. (CMC).”

  14. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    Where is Clyde Mascoll in the midst of this economic crisis as reported by the Central Bank?
    Is Senator Moe in Barbados and still drawing taxpayers’ money?
    Where is Dottin in light of the continuing spate of gun violence?
    Is Billie still earning a salary from the government’s purse?
    Where is that white 747 jet that was parked at the Airport, registered in Barbados, paid for by the taxpayers of Barbados, and bearing the Barbados flag on its tail?
    Who now runs GAIA Inc.?
    Who owns the electric buses on our roads and how much is the government paying for them?
    Who owns the building where parliamentary sessions are now being held and what is the cost to the taxpayers of Barbados?
    What is there for Barbados to show for the billions borrowed by this BLP government since May 2018?
    What is the cost-benefit to Barbadians of the establishment of the Department of Propaganda? Nyobi D. Naziah

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    IS THIS THE DLP IN POWER?

  15. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Cuss me all yuh want calling me RH idiot till hell freezes over
    This present govt has done nothing to help country and the citizen struggling to make ends meet
    Garbage trucks and buses at this very low time in the economy cannot drive the economy out a the one way track to economic destruction
    nether can demolishing buildings to build more parks
    Govt keeps putting cart before horse while the economy fast track at breakneck speed over the fiscal cliff

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    ah wonder if the fowl Slave is still taking bets, i remember that they offered me in the last few weeks, twice, well we are on, let me know when ya ready..

  17. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    ANOTHER BLACK COMPANY LIKE SAGICOR DESPITE THE CURRENT COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS RECORDED INCREASED PROFITS SUPPORTED BY THE MAJORITY WHITE POPULATION ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND.

    Massy group profits continue to climb

    Yet another regional conglomerate operating in Barbados is registering significant profit growth, even as the COVID-19 pandemic depresses Caribbean economies.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/13/massy-group-profits-continue-to-climb/

  18. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    THE 2 x 3 ISLAND IS A MODEL TO REST OF THE WORLD.

    98% OF THE LOCAL BLACK BUSINESSES THRIVE SUPPORTED BY THE MAJORITY WHITE & INDIAN POPULATION AND ALSO SUPPORTED BY THEIR BLACK BLP GOVERNMENT IN 2021 IN THEIR MONEY MAKING PROJECTS.

    THAT SHOULD BE APPLAUDED

    @ William Skinner, I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE ONTO SOMETHING.

    THANKS FOR HIGHLIGHTING AND SHARING GLOBALLY.

  19. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Have we reached peak BU and it all goes downhill from here. R.I.P. BU, or, is it just a quiet day
    Everything is relative. BLP is shit, but DLP is shit shit shit shit.

  20. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David May 13, 2021 10:35 AM

    (Quote):
    Maloney explained that through the private sector partnership, the project is being funded by his company, while the Government will receive money for the land as homes are sold. (Unquote).
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    As a major player in the arena of the burgeoning “Fifth Estate”, would you conclude from the above statement that Maloney has shifted his money from the Hyatt erection to Preconco housing solutions?

    Given this sudden focus on housing solutions, don’t you think its high time the Media delve into the status of the Hyatt project which has been lingering in the pipeline for over 5 years?

    Why has it gone off the radar of the current administration with its bevy of consultants?

    Why is this game-changing forex earning project no longer a ‘hot’ item mentioned in the country’s economic growth projections from the Guv of the CBB as was done in the past?

  21. Hugh Thornhill Avatar
    Hugh Thornhill

    @ Miller,

    Maloney is playing the long game. He knows that the BLP will win the next election.

    He is now an untouchable for the next six years.

    Do these new houses he is building meet GP11’s standards? Hurricanes Earthquakes, Ash ?

  22. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ et al
    The trade unions in Barbados have threatened to shut down the country if the white hotel workers are not given their severance in 72 hours. The labour minister is inflamed and has said that such exploitation against the majority race in the country will not be tolerated.
    A well placed source said they cannot imagine how the Black minority can be living so well with full employment while the white majority continues to suffer.
    However it is known that most minorities strive on the island. So therefore it is no surprise that the black minority is controlling the economy while the white majority cannot get their basic rights taken seriously.
    As is well known the government has 29 white MPs and the one seat leader of the Opposition is also white.
    Many international and global organizations have praised the way the government has enforced more rights for the Black minority while ignoring the plight of the white majority.
    Several countries are now studying this excellent model and the high level of race relations in the country.
    In a related story, a white couple from
    a district in the city is facing eviction after both lost their jobs. In a front page story, they said feeding their children is almost now impossible.
    It is expected that a well known charity operated by some minority blacks will come to their rescue.

  23. Hugh Thornhill Avatar
    Hugh Thornhill

    Remember when the BLP were complaining about the billion dollars in contracts going to one man ?

  24. Hugh Thornhill Avatar
    Hugh Thornhill

    Main contractor. Sub-contractors.

  25. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Heard a man dressed as a woman held up a bank at gun point….the PEOPLE ARE STARVING.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Is it Maloney money or Bjerkham.

  27. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Yeah…and someone(s) should GO TO PRISON.

    5 OR 6 BILLION DOLLARS missing from an economy, is not CHUMP CHANGE.

  28. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    I won’t call you a “RH idiot,” but, you’re deserving of the name, if you believe any political administration, whether BLP or DLP, purchase garbage trucks or buses as a means of stimulating the economy.

    The BLP supporters see it as something to celebrate, while the DLP supporters, such you, see it as something to oppose just for the sake of opposing………. rather than seeing the purchases as an ‘obligatory requirement’ by any ruling administration.

    Ironically, criticism of the economy under the former administration were met with responses from the DLP that the island is still being provided with social services…… responses YOU agreed with.

    Now, you want to associate the current administration’s replacing old garbage trucks and buses with new vehicles…… with “driving the economy.”

    It’s a silly, nonsensical argument.

    Therefore, if we were to follow your argument, then, purchasing new police vehicles, groceries for school meals, pharmaceuticals for the National Drug Service or providing students with devices to facilitate online tuition, should not be undertaken because such purchases “cannot drive the economy.”

  29. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Look what others are saying about this govt

    Because of the shite did to the hotel workers when our government got up in 2020 and change the severance payment bill that disinfranchised the workers for the Rich foreign and other hotel owners the ramifications can still be felt
    The so call backbone of the Country has been home since March 2020 with out a stimulus check
    Other entities got stimulus checks
    people that was working for over $1000000 yearly getting $2000 monthly from the NIS, all this is ok with me because I don’t know their financial situation
    Plus employees need every help they can get
    But hotel employees home with out severance pay owning to them by the Barbados government and foreign hotel owners
    no jobs available as yet
    every hotel worker need to stand home when the Tourism season start back
    But we all brek, and that is what they did purposely
    When the workers go back they going back to 6 months contracts
    Where you pay in NIS, but can’t get vacation, sick benefit. unemployment or severance
    This was planned!
    black people are being put back to a time of servitude, with the basic things to help them survive
    while our Government continue to help out the rich ,while ignoring the plight of the poor
    Giving a basket of food stuff without any meat can’t pay rent, or a high water and light bill
    Giving an insulting basket ( insulting) because when the rich want help they get millions in dollars that they don’t ever pay back
    While poor black people get baskets because negroes dont know how to spend money!
    Now that those basket gone weeks ago, ( you all aint know they were suppose to last you a year,you greedy people should have pinch those thing!)
    baskets that the money were taken from taxes you pay
    The whole world saw Saint bountiful giving out baskets so she don’t care one kuant bout you, on the international stage she is one of the greatest people every walk the world stage
    You were used and will continue to be used till Barbados become a Republic!

    Mary p why

  30. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I hope to see those scam houses GIVEN TO THE BLACK POPULATION FOR FREE…to replace THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY LOST, through DBLP and minority criminals…. crimes and corruption.

  31. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David May 13, 2021 2:27 PM

    Money for which project?

    The old Hyatt ‘proposed’ erection or the latter-day housing joint venture with the NHC?

    BTW, whose money is alleged to be behind the Blue Horizon phoenix?

    Or has the same cowboy construction magnate backed away from the hotel business like David Ames with his Harlequin pack of cards?

  32. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What were they saying about the DLP?

    Can’t we agree that our political leaders have failed?

    Neither the DLP nor the BLP has governed for the majority of the people. Petty politicking in the pursuit of personal goals has been their currency.

    It has brought this country to a place where the people are finally sick of them. Only a few yardfowls still respect them. Most people I know generally steupse at their mouthings.

    We have a bunch of people who talk about corruption, say they are going to deal with it but behave as though they have to lobby somebody else to do it.

    Why can’t they even pass the laws to make it possible?

    The obvious answer is because they would be putting themselves in jeopardy.

    If we keep making this a Bee versus Dee issue we miss the whole point.

    Can’t we simply address the issues as they stand from a non-partisan perspective?

    To do anything else makes us part of the problem.

  33. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Making money off what they stole, while our people suffer.

    “Global Opinions
    Opinion: If U.S. museums say Black Lives Matter, then they should return Africa’s stolen art
    Image without a caption
    Three pieces of Benin Bronzes are displayed at Museum for Art and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2018. (Daniel Bockwoldt/AP)

    Opinion by
    Karen Attiah
    Global Opinions editor
    May 12, 2021 at 3:35 p.m. AST
    In the 2nd century B.C., Greek historian Polybius warned mighty Rome and other powerful states against plundering cultural objects from the peoples that it conquered. He cautioned “those who take upon themselves to rule over others” that “they may not imagine that, when they pillage cities, the misfortunes of others are an honor to their own country.”

    Now, after global protests over white supremacy and the vestiges of slavery and colonialism, a number of museums have announced that they will repatriate items looted from Africa back to the continent.

    In April, Germany announced that Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum would be returning hundreds of artifacts looted in the 19th century from what was the Kingdom of Benin back to Nigeria. Other European nations and museums are beginning to do the same: In March, Scotland’s University of Aberdeen said that it would send a Benin Bronze back to Nigeria. And last year, France indicated the return of artifacts stolen from West Africa. However, the government of Britain, the country that was responsible for the 1897 raid on Benin City, has by law prevented national institutions from returning looted items.

    That a number of European institutions are finally taking heed of what African scholars and activists have been demanding for decades is a welcome step. Alas, much less attention has been paid to the responsibility of U.S. institutions that choose to keep objects that were looted from African countries.

    So far, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have not commented on whether their institutions will return the artifacts that were plundered from the Kingdom of Benin, though the Smithsonian has said it is convening a working group to discuss its policy on looted art. The National Museum of African Art in D.C. has 42 objects from Benin; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has at least 160 objects that can be traced back to Benin City.

    Institutions such as the Smithsonian and the Met claim to want to start dialogue about culture and history. After the murder of George Floyd last year in Minneapolis, both released statements about combating systemic racism. The Met invested in antiracism training for its staff and said that it was committed to “new approaches” in “how we build, study, and oversee our collection and program.” So then why the silence and institutional foot-dragging on questions of returning looted art back to the countries that request and want them back?

    In 1897, the Kingdom of Benin was an advanced society. A British official named James Phillips traveled to Nigeria to meet with its oba, or ruler. (Some reports say he had asked his British superiors for permission to overthrow the oba, but he did not get the green light.) Phillips never returned.

    In an act of vengeance, the British Army sent 1,200 troops to plunder and raid the city. The soldiers took anything of value they could get their hands on, including objects from the royal palace, and brought them back to Britain to be given to Queen Victoria and sold to museums and other private collections. Today, Benin City has very few of the original objects taken from the raid, while thousands of those objects still remain outside.

    Nigerians and those from Benin City have spoken out about the bitterness and anger they feel at the historical insult of seeing what was theirs being kept in the institutions of the countries that subjugated them long ago.

    For a long time, Western curators patronizingly argued that African countries could not take care of their own cultural objects — an absurd argument, as if those objects did not exist for generations in those climates before the arrival of the Europeans. Today, Benin City is constructing a new museum, which will serve as home to the repatriated objects. The museum is slated to open in 2023, and Nigerian curators, artists and activists will work with their Western counterparts to return the items.

    With the advent of digital technology and the ability of artisans to create replicas, there is little reason to keep so many looted originals away from the places they were created. At this point in history, keeping these objects in Western museums amounts to holding on to mementos of subjugation and colonial nostalgia, all while gaslighting Africans by claiming these objects need to stay “safe” in the West. Considering that these museums have been accused of discrimination and failing to hire and promote Black and African curators and staffers, perhaps they aren’t qualified to lead discussions about keeping Black history and culture safe.

    U.S. museums need to step up and begin honest efforts to return looted treasures back to their African homes. If Black Lives Matter to American museums, then restoring the dignity of the Black empires and their descendants need to matter, too.”

  34. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    The economy stupid
    People pockets empty
    Small business catching hell
    One trick pony days done

  35. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Govt policies
    Bert
    Best
    Boss
    Hope
    So far none of the first three has accomplished anything for the bajan household

  36. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    https://youtu.be/T63FoYGC0_0

    🎵When people suffering is dis country uh cyan party🎶

    Is the one trick pony game over for the Dees as well as the Bees?

  37. rickross Avatar
    rickross

    @ Miller.
    What is European DNA?
    There is no such thing as European DNA.
    Please do some research & come back & clarify your statements.

  38. rickross Avatar
    rickross

    @ Miller.
    What is European DNA?
    There is no such thing as European DNA.
    Please do some research & come back & clarify your statements.

  39. rickross Avatar
    rickross

    @ Miller.
    The Nonsense of White Genes:
    Washington Post: Friday, May 1, 2009
    Study Finds Africans More Genetically Diverse Than Other Populations:
    The first anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, and all humans today are their direct descendants….

    Africans are more genetically diverse than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined, according to a sweeping study…

    Actually, modern humans evolved earlier (400,000 years ago.)

    As the evidence clearly indicates, ALL humans are African, therefore ALL human genetics (DNA) is African. Logically then, ALL human haplogroups MUST be found in Africa!

    Caucasian (Albino ) people try to embed three thoughts into our minds:
    1) That they are unique, a completely separate branch of the Human Tree, a different “Race” if you will: and certainly NOT Albinos.
    2) They ARE Native to Europe.
    3) They were the “Original” people of Mans Ancient Civilizations.
    * All of which are of course total and utter nonsense.

    First and foremost: There is no such a thing as “White” genes! The reason for that is because a natural Modern Human is a “Black Skinned” African who evolved from earlier Homo-sapiens from about 400,000 years ago. Albinos, such as the European, evolved just 8,000 to 12,000 years ago, as a result of them foolishly breeding among themselves (which can only produce other Albinos), rather than as normally done – with a healthy Black only, which will produce mulattoes of various shades.

    The point being that the ONLY difference between original Black genes, and White (Albino) genes:
    are the following genetic mutations which cause “WHITE SKIN” (Albinism):
    TYR Gene – The official name of this gene is “tyrosinase.” – it causes Oculocutaneous albinism type I (OCA1)
    OCA2 gene (formerly called the P gene) – The official name of this gene is “oculocutaneous albinism II.”
    TYRP1 gene – The official name of this gene is “tyrosinase-related protein 1.” It causes Oculocutaneous albinism type 3 (OCA3)
    SLC45A2 gene – The official name of this gene is “solute carrier family 45, member 2.” It causes Oculocutaneous albinism type 4 (OCA4)

    SLC24A5 – gene has been associated with differences in skin pigmentation.

    As a point of fact: when Albino scientists examine an ancient skeleton to determine if it was Black or White, they look for one of two genes: The SLC24A5 gene, or the SLC45A2 gene, BOTH of which are “ALBINISM” genes. So Albino scientist know they are indeed Albinos, but they admit it to no one.
    Also, it comes as no surprise that “NO” – “NONE” ancient White/Albino skeletons have ever been found in Europe. That is because European White people (Albinos) are originally from Central Asia.

  40. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Rastafari family bitten twice by The System
    Today’s Editorial
    We must state upfront we do not condone illegal squatting. But we understand how and why people, ofttimes encouraged by politicians, find themselves in this precarious situation.
    Successive governments have failed to provide low-income housing at the same pace as the demand. While we have a history of living in extended families, the feeling of independence becomes crucial especially as our citizenry seek to build their own families.
    Earlier this year during the Estimates debate, former Minister of Housing George Payne accused his Government of moving away from its primary role of providing housing for the poor.
    Only this week at the groundbreaking of a housing project in Christ Church, Prime Minister Mia Mottley declared that solutions were coming for low income earners. and we anxiously await the delivery of her pledge.
    The PM said: “There is a category of persons in this country who does not earn $2,000 easily, or even if they do, does not earn in a sustained way such that the bank or the credit union is going to take comfort in giving them a mortgage. This country must see them…”
    As it relates to some in the Rastafari faith, living in a natural habitat as well as operating as a community away from “the system” they see as oppressive, is a must.
    So it was jarring to discover that an area in The Pine Basin where a Rastafari community has called home for over 40 years was being “uprooted” by the Ministry of Transport and Works.
    We are fully aware that Government does not need permission to develop or use its own land. That is not our issue. But as an administration that continually prides itself in being of the people and for the people, the lack of engagement with the Rastafari community leaves much to be desired.
    Reports indicate that the head of a household of four, Ras Ijuijah, said they were living in the area for over 30 years.
    The elder said: “I was on the verge of rebuilding because it was leaking so I gathered wood with the intentions to rebuild. After I came I started to resurrect the gardens, cleaning it up, just one day I come and see the bulldozer wipe out all of I history.
    “All I fruit trees, all gone. Since I have been here I never showed the ministry any disrespect. I never gave them any trouble. They went and deal in a more respectful way with the people up at the airport. I didn’t even know they was gine do this, they didn’t tell I anything.”
    St Michael East MP Trevor Prescod, who has chastised his Government, was visibly upset when he spoke to Barbados TODAY.
    The irate MP said: “They are not nuisances. They didn’t come down here and disrupt the entire social and physical environment down here.
    “Nobody over the years has ever indicated they were offended, now all of a sudden a Government that is taking a direction on economic enfranchisement and reparation come in the bottom totally disrespecting the Rastafari family.
    “They never engaged in any conversation but sent in a bulldozer to push down all the trees down here. Disrupt the entire group, you can’t expect Prescod to be silent.”
    A bland statement Thursday from the Ministry of Transport sought to explain the bulldozing but did not directly address the concerns of Ras Ijuijah or MP Prescod with respect to lack of notice and dialogue.
    The release mainly stated the purpose of the bulldozing and as though the Rastafari community had been invisible, it did not address the disruption to their lives.
    The statement read in part: “The Ministry of Transport, Works and Water Resources is strongly refuting the claims made . . . where a family occupying an area of land directly behind the Ministry’s headquarters in The Pine is ‘questioning the bulldozing of their home and destruction of full-grown fruit trees’. For the past two weeks personnel have been clearing the watercourse in The Pine Basin as part of the flood mitigation programme.”
    The statement went on to speak to Government’s commitment to mitigating against flooding, clearing watercourses, constructing retention and detention ponds to control stormwater flow and the like.
    Interestingly, since the Rastafari family has been at the location for more than three decades, the statement did not indicate why it took three decades to address a problem it suggested was at the root of the ministry’s action.
    Ironically, these folk are no strangers to the Government. The Rastafari family, led by Ras Ijuijah, were brought to the public’s eye in 2013 when they refused to send their children to school and opted for homeschooling instead. It was a matter that reached the law courts and the family elders’ actions were vindicated when three years later, Government’s case against them was dismissed.
    We can understand why Ras Ijuijah would take great issue with what transpired on Wednesday. He is now facing another challenge to his family life created by The System.
    We hope an amicable resolution can be found in this latest saga.

  41. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Knowing how some people in the often Uncivil Service operate I believe the Rasta’s account.

    It may very well be that they needed to do maintenance work in the area. What was neglected for decades may have finally received deserved attention. But if the people have been squatting for so many years without any action I think it is cruel to suddenly turn up with a bulldozer.

    If underprivileged young men turned Rasta and planted their own fruit trees, treated marijuana as a sacrament and lived simply crime rates would not be so high.

    Some solution should have been sought that did not cause unnecessary trauma.

    “Come let us reason together!”

  42. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Donna, I agree with you–simple reasoning and an amicable arrangement, unless that was tried to no avail.

  43. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    When they have reached this level of CONSCIOUSNESS and independent thought, then they will know they have truly arrived and can DEMAND RESPECT from everyone, until then the leaders are cowardly, materialistic JOKERS….see them FAKE leaders.

    https://youtu.be/qRTmXV8zozQ

  44. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ rickross May 14, 2021 12:46 AM
    “@ Miller.
    What is European DNA?
    There is no such thing as European DNA.
    Please do some research & come back & clarify your statements.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You are ‘correct’. Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as ‘European DNA’.

    It was simply used to refer to the biological outcome of the sexual rape perpetrated by melanin-deficient “European-descended” males against African women during the period of chattel slavery in the Caribbean.

    I should have said ‘Neanderthal DNA’- with a bit of ‘Denisovan’ thrown in for some Eurasian measure- and would have been closer to the melanin-deficient target or ‘farther’ down the evolutionary cul-de-sac.

    BTW, what has become of the Sun brother ‘Akhenaton’?

  45. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Yeap immoral and uncouthed actions by govt to its own citizens
    A govt lead by a PM who extended humanitarian arms wide open to the the big cruise line conglomerates
    Needles to say that industry is made up of the richness of the white majority
    The disrespect and low level of disdain for the black man whose livelihood was destroyed without warning should be a footnote which sends a strong message to the black people living on the island of Barbados which says yuh ain’t worth sh..it

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Who taught you to HATE and DISRESPECT yourself, who continues TO REENFORCE those crimes against you and refuse to assist in the reversal, look no further than your CORRUPT PARLIAMENT.

    https://youtu.be/kboP3AWCTkA

  47. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Enuff May 14, 2021 7:06 AM

    We have noted your deafening silence to the award of the NHC JV housing contract to a man once considered ‘persona non grata’ in the eyes of your leader.

    Isn’t the financial river of this ex-leper already overflowing with ‘bigger’ high-rise projects when there remains a heap of capable contractors to spread the work and money around?

    What has become of the mantra that many (small) hands make light work in order to save Barbados from economic meltdown and social upheaval?

  48. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    I dig the works of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz aka Malcolm X aka Malcolm Little and also the daughter of Malcolm, Gamilah Shabazz

  49. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    2 Black 2 Strong

  50. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Malcolm X Legacy with Shabazz Sisters

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