There is the saying often posted in this space that the price of freedom (democracy) is eternal vigilance. A necessary component to safeguarding our freedom (democracy) is a relevant media. An extract from The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach authored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) states:-
A free, objective, skilled media is an essential component of any democratic society. On the one hand, it provides the information which the polity require to make responsible, informed decisions. On the other, it performs a “checking function” ensuring that elected officials uphold their oaths of office and campaign promises and that they carry out the wishes of the electorate.
The blogmaster is reminded everyday since March 2007 when Barbados Underground (BU) went live on the WordPress platform the importance of a relevant media. We recall the VOB Sunday Brasstacks show when social commentator and retired hotelier Adrian Loveridge was forced to contribute to the program from a separate studio because it was the condition for the participation of former Minister of Tourism Noel Lynch.
During one of last week’s VOB’s Brasstacks shows the blogmaster was again reminded of the naked manipulation of traditional media by a caller (was it you William?) who questioned the Nation Publishing company’s decision to anoint Khaleel Kothdiwala a columnist to replace Dr. Kristina Hinds. The caller’s simple and well articulated logic was – with the BLP in total control of the Lower House, why select Khaleel who is a BLP card carrying member. It does not mean Khaleel lacks the capacity to share a perspective on a myriad topics, however, making Khaleel a columnist ensured the leading publishing house in the country slammed the door on an opportunity to improve vigilance in our democracy.
This is not a personal attack on Khaleel, he obviously is an intelligent young man who is committed to be a BLP sponsored politician. And it is his right, to align with a political party of his choice. This is an attack on the Nation Publishing for allowing itself to be manipulated directly or indirectly into making Khaleel a columnist. We may speculate this is the Nation Publishing being opportunistic by contracting a young man whose star is rising or that ‘someone’ made a telephone call.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Source: Nation
African Diaspora
We call it Infamy
I have not seen a definitive breakdown in total numbers of slaves from shipping to breeding of mothering slaves for over 20 generations
A back calculation could be determined from slave descendants birth records
Reparations Plan
https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-plan/
Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall / The Wailing Souls
Yes! Whoa now, whoa now, whoa now!
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Babylon trying to find a solution
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Yeah!
Economics has got them in desperation
Dis ya modern famine
And poverty is causing dangerous political tension
Dis ya modern famine
Depression is down in the land
Dis ya modern famine
And inflation is holding down strong, strong, strong
Shi dup, shi dup
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Babylon trying to find a solution
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Yeah!
False rulers, we know them
Dis ya modern famine
Speaking about human rights
Dis ya modern famine
Yet they deal with pure dishonesty
Dis ya modern famine
And the people, they still can’t walk the streets as they like
Shi dup, shi dup
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Babylon trying to find a solution
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Yeah! Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
Economics has got them in desperation
Dis ya modern famine
And poverty is causing dangerous political tension
Dis ya modern famine
Depression is down in the land
Dis ya modern famine
And inflation is holding down strong, strong, strong
Shi dup, shi dup
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
Whoa yeah, now, now!
Babylon back is against the wall
Babylon trying to find a solution
Kingdom rise an’ kingdom fall
KK wrote on BU even though it was clear he was being misled by political pimps, by deceitful politicians. I was very concerned from the beginning that the poison he was indoctrinated to spew would taint young minds….no one else was bothered by this..
i take it the replacement of the other writer is the real issue here. Nation has always been known to be a mouthpiece for whichever government of the day was usurping the people’s elective power to mislead voters and cover multiple political and minority crimes against said people………no different to the BLP mouthpieces found on BU…
Khaleel was offered a position in the Senate, which the Senate squashed a necessary constitutional amendment for him to represent. Giving the youthman a voice in a newspaper would be a baptism of fire to prove whether the Senate was ignorant backward and regressive or justified in it’s rejection. To be a mixed race minority or muslim is not a crime. Shallow minded thinking is sipping the cup of ignorance.
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Why must some of you always do the predictable? The focus of the posting is to highlight the important role of media in Barbados and elsewhere.
It is common knowledge that the Nation is the BLP mouthpiece but what better way to curry favor with the PM than to give her blue eyed baby a regular gig as a columnist thus what we missed in the Senate we can read in the daily rag.
As for Dr. Hinds you were a tad too critical of the powers that be and your wings had to be clipped, remember the PM said that they will provide the Opposition and that’s the way it is.
@Sargeant
There is something else you could have mentioned.
When Caswell was appointed to the Senate he was forced to resign as columnist of the Nation. Apparently the Nation has a policy of now allowing members of the house of assembly to be columnists. It is interesting the explanation given by Dr. Hinds for giving up being a Nation columnist.
We live in interesting times.
The Nation is a Trini Trojan horse, whose role is to keep Bajans foolish and subservient with slave-minded propaganda…
They have done a great job in fooling 99.9% of the brass bowls 100% of the time..
..BUT NOT stinking Bushie.
Why must some of you always do the predictable?
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Bushie was wondering if your delete button break off…..
@Bush Tea
As you are aware the blogmaster is lazy to delete comments but will do when necessary.
Jah Give Us Life [Don’t Feel No Way] (12″ Mix)
@ Sargeant
The Nation (One Caribbean Network) don’t support the BLP per se…
They support ANYTHING that promotes THEIR Trini agenda.
It happens that the stupid BLP policies since Tom Adams, of borrowing and looking OUTSIDE for every shiite is EXACTY in line with their agenda to destroy Barbados…or rather brassbadians..
OCM promotes ANYTHING that downgrades Barbadian pride. This is why they LOVE Petra Wicky, and why the moderators on brass tacks all sound so paipsy… Just the thought that their ‘go to cuntsultant’ spends the nights under French dictatorship makes Bushie shame as shiite..
…and Walter could REALLY stay in Atlanta too, someone obviously had a chat with him about his initial dig into radical vaccine accountability. He has been doing himself NO Favors since then…. it is like he needs the couple dollars…
Steupsss
Caswell is a MAN among brass bowls in Barbados. He is the same when poor, rich, senatorial or unlettered.
@ David
Why the hell don’t you ask Caswell to do a regular column on BU?
He won’t pay Bushie any mind (cause the bushman knows too much of his business 🙂 ) but he will listen to you…
BU can be even BIGGER than the shiite Nation…
@Bush Tea
Caswell is not an idiot and he know he is always welcome to post to BU and other mediums.
@555
I was not planning to mention KK in any comment on this post, but I was expecting you to bring his race into it and you did. On that matter, you are predictable and known.
It is sad how your view of him is so limited. For that comment you can have the last word.
Journey to Golden
Just Checkin’
Just Checkin’ Re-WERC
The first thing that jumped out in this article was mention of USAID. One must bear in mind that the US or its sponsored agencies will say one thing and do another.
There can be truth and value in what is stated, but, from the US outlook these are sweet nothings that must be whispered in our ears.
Working my way down to paragraph 2.
Those who would tell you of the ‘Role of Media in a Democracy’ supports the most brutal dictators when it suits their purpose. Needless to say, brutal dictators do not support a democracy or a free press.
Caswell is not an idiot
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In that regard, he stands out in Brassbados.
HOWEVER, he HAS to be fed up and FRUSTRATED… having to deal with such BBs.
Recall a fella called Moses was so pissed that he smashed the commandments?
Just have a likkle chat with the fella near to a ‘burning bush’ nuh man….
@Bush Tea
Again the follow through- in our system of democracy there is a big role for the people read John Citizens.
((Your)) Heart is worn inside
((But)) Love can change your mind
When you sing this song
Love will sing along
DA DA′n DA, DA DA’n DA
DA DA′n DA, DA DA’n DA
DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
DA DA′n DA
Ease your pain, be light
End all of your strife
When you sing this song
Love will sing along
DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
DA DA’n DA, DA DA DA DA
“Da Da’n Da” is a medicinal melody that simply speaks to the heart healing power of MUSIC. When life’s ailments get you down, sing a little diddy and turn things around!
DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
DA DA′n DA, DA DA DA DA
OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH
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DA DA’n DA, DA DA′n DA
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Snarky Puppy feat Chantae Cann – Free Your Dreams (Family Dinner – Volume One)
My one KK comment.
If it wasn’t KK, then it would have been some other lackey who have hidden his flag and party card.
NTSH
CHANTAE CANN
Craters Lyrics (feat. PJ Morton)
Verse I:
Like craters on the moon
Your love has made its mark
When ya crashed into my heart
You hit me like a shooting star
I’m crazy over you
Can’t you see it in the sparks
Shines brightly in the dark
The universe knows who we are
Chorus:
I can’t get away from you
Can’t keep me away from you
We belong together like craters on the moon
Craters on the moon
Verse II:
You must be from Mars
Somewhere beyond the sky
When I’m with you I can fly high
Just one look into your eyes
I can see the stars
Blazing like a fire
Your beautiful inspires
Me to be right where you are
Chorus:
I can’t get away from you
Can’t keep me away from you
We belong together like craters on the moon
Craters on the moon
I can’t get away from you
Can’t keep me away from you
We belong together like craters on the moon
Craters on the moon
Vamp:
I can see the stars
With you (repeat)
Do the papes need to consult the raggedly unwashed lumpenproletariat when they recruit their staff
For the Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc8cY4LLXu0
“our system of democracy’
LOL ha ha ha
Boss, sometime you are SO funny!!
The ‘role for the people’ is to pay taxes and keep their donkeys quiet.
They are also useful consumers – although this has to be weighed against the lotta excrement produced… both literally and verbally.
John Citizen shiite!!! …yuh mean Jack Sheep. 🙂
“If it wasn’t KK, then it would have been some other lackey who have hidden his flag and party card.
NTSH”
my point exactly, and that can be said of EVERY LOCAL MEDIA except mine…i don’t do coverups…..so we can’t overlook any other platform that does, you don’t get to cherry-pick what you want to keep hidden from the people because of political inbreeding and then claim ya educating them….ya either in OR YA OUT…
@ David BU
Is it not undemocratic for the opening post to suggest that the Nation Newspaper seeks the approval of its author in selecting its columnists?All columnists have cognitive biases. It is a column. The personal view of the writer. Are we trying a new version of dictatorship ? Khalid writes clearly and intelligently. Can one ask more of a newspaper columnist. ?
@Vincent
Is this what the blogmaster suggested.
@ David
It was not me who called Brasstacks. Lol.
@WURA
“no different to the BLP mouthpieces found on BU…”
You are more than correct !
A few weeks ago , on this same BU, I mentioned that the media was sucking up to Mia. Apologizing before asking her serious questions.
I was told that I should have checked the Advocate’s bias to the DLP.
Like I often say: tell a Bajan ,the roads bad ;he would ask yuh if yuh evah went to some other island and see dey bad words.
@ David again
I don’t care if Mia amends the Constitution and make Mr. Kothdiwala the next president . Won’t surprise me one bit.. And if Ronnie does it one day with one of his faithfuls, it won’t surprise me either.
Same bs different day.
All I do these days is laugh at the apologists , who come here with more egg on their faces and trying their best to pretend that they ain’t embarrassed by the pure shite that going on.
And if it were the Dees it would be the same thing.
And @. Bushie makes that clear every day. Just a frigging pony show.
The same paper the Blogmaster criticizing,is the very same paper , that the columns and columnists , being promoted on BU.
Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???
Peace.
@William
You are saying because the blogmaster share views of a few columnist on BU it means what?
@William
The same newspaper you subscribe and sometimes quote from?
“The same paper the Blogmaster criticizing,is the very same paper , that the columns and columnists , being promoted on BU.
Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???”
i didn’t even want to highlight that, people might tink i pickin pon dem bozie….lol
although I beat up on Nationnews myself, this time, outside of replacing someone more experienced with someone now learning the ropes, unless we are not being told everything….i did not see the need for the finger pointing..
These will never like AOP, i never practice being a suck up artist, there is no integrity in that, and in the international world, despite all the warts out there…people tend to respect integrity..
noticed that politicians are treated as though they will break if you ask hard questions, they depend on cowardly reporters and journalists, am still waiting for Barbados local media to grow some balls..
ya done know not a fella int coming to be interviewed by me….
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Scratch & His Rainbow Throne
Although Lee Perry never released a solo album in the 1970s other than Roast Fish Collie Weed And Cornbread, his work as a singer from this era can be very heavy. Mick Sleeper selects some of the best tunes with Scratch behind the microphone.
Scratch & His Rainbow Throne
Death Before Dishonour – Lee Perry & The Black Disciples
Justice To The People – Lee Perry
Black Man Time – Lee Perry
Ghetto Sidewalk – Lee Perry
Nuh Fe Run It Down – Lee Perry
Standing On The Hill – Lee Perry
Rainbow Throne – Lee Perry
Babylon A Fall – Lee Perry
In This Iwa – Lee Perry
Disco Devil – Lee Perry & Full Experience
Chase Them – Lee Perry
Happy Birthday Jamaica – Lee Perry
Eradication Squad – Lee Perry & The Majestics
Upsetting Version Galore
As any reggae fan knows, it is common practice in Jamaican music for producers to use the same rhythm track more than once. Lee Perry did this perhaps better than any other producer, creating something new and fresh with his versions instead of just a carbon copy. This episode features some killer rhythm showers featuring some of Scratch’s best-known rhythms including “Beat Down Babylon”, “Words Of My Mouth”, “Tighten Up” and more.
Upsetting Version Galore
Tighten Up – Inspirations
Tighten Up Skank – Dillinger
Cane River Rock – Upsetters
Riverside Rock – Upsetters
Beat Down Babylon – Junior Byles
Informer Men – Junior Byles & Jah T
Tribal War – U Roy Junior
Freedom Fighter – Bunny & Ricky
Iron Wolf – Upsetters
Bet You Don’t Know – Chenley Duffus
Philistines On The Land – Junior Murvin
Bingo Kid – Upsetters
Soldier And Police War – Jah Lion
Bad Weed – Junior Murvin
Grumbling Dub – Upsetters
Babylon Thief Dub – Upsetters
Fire Fe De Vatican – Max Romeo
Earth Is The Lord – Jah Lion
Stop The War Ina Babylon – James Booms
Black Vest – Upsetters
Words Of My Mouth – Gatherers
Words – Lee Perry
Wisdom – Jah Lion
Little Flute Chant – Upsetters
I really don’t see the point in attending schools of journalism and then BARRED from asking journalistic questions….or BROWBEATEN into LYING TO and misleading the public…or blacklisted and set up when you don’t comply with the demonic political games…
Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???
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William …thanks for that perspective.
Cause here was Bushie gloating that, with BU printing the columns …AND with the opportunity to have full and frank discussion on them here, David was juckking the Trojan horse in the eye (or the other end…) for a change.
All we need now is for WISE advertisers to choose to advertise on BU… 🙂
…and for David to figure out how to take the money and pay Caswell and Baffy… for their contributions.
@Bush Tea
You do have your moments.
William….btw….in George Lammings book there is this character “Slime”…well, would you know it, it was recently revealed WHO this real life character descents in the parliament are…..real “SLIME”……yall got generations of slime.
they keep electing the same families with a vicious legacy and then complain how dirty they are….how could they be any different…it’s in their DNA..stop electing them….now that you know the parliament is CURSED with revolving family trees..
did i not tell them that place was haunted, first with the ghosts of demonic slave masters and then with the dregs of the earth from the negro tree…
Greeting Music Lover
This is Upsetting
OK OK Lets Take It From Here
Tighten Up
Tighten Up Skank
“Why buy the Nation, when you can read all its columns on BU ???”
It is nice to know what you are going read in advance in your daily news
Like the Afrikan Duopoly for Morons
I did not make this up…
On Thursday, at London’s ThundCrit cycling event, two biological males identifying as women took first and second place and then celebrated their “achievement” by kissing on the podium as the third-place winner, an actual female, held her baby.
I get all the news I need from the Weather Report
Theo…it’s all a pappyshow, do you remember the female athlete from South Africa Semenya that the olympic committee has TERRORIZED for years because of her appearance…they even claimed she is a hermaphrodite, although she offered to show them her feminine parts, and they refused….because they don’t want the narrative to change…
but you see what they are doing….allowing males PRETENDING TO BE FEMALES to compete with real women…
@ David Bu at 11;18 AM
I read the caption which suggest that the Nation should do better , And the reference to an appointment as a columnist. I am happy to learn that i was mistaken about the intent of the post.
@Vincent
After reading the caption added to the content, what was your conclusion?
David
Senator Hinds is in the senate and a moderator on Brasstacks, which is carried on VoB–a sister company of the Nation. How does replacing her with KK a threat to democracy? I always thought democracy thrived where ALL opinions contend. Walter Blackman is also on Brasstacks, a man that according this same BU Blog declared an interest in contesting SME for the DLP in 2018. Michelle Russell has a column in the Nation’s Sunday Sun, she’s currently on the legal team representing Adriel Brathwaite and the Constitutional motion he filed. Her lead Garth Patterson regularly now has columns he both newspapers. In a healthy democracy should only those oppose/not aligned to government have columns or moderate talk shows? The argument about controlling the Lower House is also flawed. Firstly, parliamentary debates, Brasstacks and a newspaper column ain’t the same, as it is a known fact that more people listen to Brasstacks and read the Nation than listen to parliament. Secondly, in the context of public access there’s no difference between the Upper and Lower houses, So one can therefore similarly argue that if Senator Hinds is in the Upper House, why does she need a column? A mature society accepts rather than constantly frowns on a talk show host, columnist or BU poster’s political affiliation. Is it not better to know a columnist’ agenda if we’re preaching objectivity and transparency? Giving KK, who is 18 and a known member of the BLP is democracy at work. Ah bet yuh these people that talking love MSNBC or Fox. We need to grow up!
@enuff
Seriously?
@ David Bu
I expected the content to elaborate on the caption. I take your word that the caption does not reflect your intent.
My personal conclusion is confusion. But maybe it is not one of my better days for comprehending.
Nation Publishing MUST Do Better
Barbados Underground MUST Do Better
Publishers write any damn thing they want
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Brain Washing
Ooh-ooh
Old Mr. Joe, he build a house away
On top of some hill
Old Mr. Joe knew he had to go, so he
He got right down and wrote bank will
He say now, here’s to mother hen
And her chicken, Lord have mercy now
Master, will you take a roll in the mud
Like you know you should?
The old barnyard, the old barnyard
Birds and the chick, ooh-wee
Who’s got to watch out for brother mongoose
With his top hap and walking-stick?
It’s just the poor’s brain washing
(Poor’s ..) They told me a long time ago,
It’s just the poor’s brain washing, ooh-wee
(Poor’s brain washing) Now look at a thing like this
Cinderella and her long lost fellow
In the midnight hour, she lost her silver slipper
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
While Jack and Jill had themselves a fall
It’s just the poor’s (.. brain washing)
And I don’t need it no longer (.. washing)
It’s just the poor’s brain washing
Coming through to a poor man’s child, ooh-wee, look at this
Little Miss Muffet she sat on a tuffet
While Little Red Riding Hood delivered her grandmom’s food
Ooh-wee ooh-wee
Ooh-wee, look at one more thing like this
The cow jumping over the moon
While the dish got jealous, he grabbed the handy spoon
It’s just the poor’s brain washing
And I don’t need it no longer, I don’t want it no longer
I don’t need it no longer (.. washing)
And I don’t care for no more brain washing (.. washing)
“I was not planning to mention KK in any comment on this post, but I was expecting you to bring his race into it and you did. On that matter, you are predictable and known.
It is sad how your view of him is so limited. For that comment you can have the last word.”
Nigger Please
Black Bastards Deluxe Edition
Casting pearls before Swine
KK should not bother with Politics in Barbados
Never make a politician (aaa-aaah) grant you a favour
They will always want (aaa-aaah) to control you forever
so if a fire make it burn (make it burn, make it burn)
and if a blood make it run (make it run, run, run)
Rasta up on top (aaa-aaah) can’t you see (doo-doo-doo-doo)
So you can’t predict the flock, Eh eh (doo-doo-doo-doo)
Bob Marley & the Wailers Revolution
I see that you are not below using the n word.
Funny that those who cast stones live in a glass house.
if someone accuses you of something
you may as well do it
you view and others on BU has been consistent about KK from day one
@David, LOL yes indeed the BushMan does incite moments of pure WTBadword 🤣😎!
“spending nights under French dictatorship” was surely such an example!
But I am a lil amused and bemused that your mentor labels the Nation as a ‘Trini Trojan Horse’.
I have to imagine that this BushBath reasoning was long held by him because way back then prior to the OCM merger the Nation was a close partner to the TnT Express and had their paper printed there on a few occasions when there were problems here.
@BushTea, I say that to note that you would have known or perceived that our Trini brethren were trying “to keep Bajans foolish and subservient with slave-minded propaganda” for many years now so why did you not mount a serious rebellion … or did you!
These mild rumblings now that the die has surely been cast with their effective take-over is warmed over “stinking” nothings, not so! 😎🤦🏾♂️
BTW @David, surely if we do an audit bureau review of Nation readership I suspect one would find that who they select to write columns is rather insignificant to that readership bottomline, not so!
They are too many avenues to read and comment on those with bold opinions that this matter of KK as a columnist is quite irrelevant and immaterial!
Just saying.
I gone.
@Dee Word
How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?
Under 21 + Over 21
1 seat in Senate to represent Barbados youth Under 21
would only apply for one term until the Senator reaches 21
and would only be a casting vote in event of a tie in Upper House
Last/last
I agree my view has been consistent and will remain so.
However, it does not match what you think my view is. Stop mind reading and you will find out what your own views are.
“I agree my view has been consistent and will remain so.
However, it does not match what you think my view is”
My own view is I never did like you
you engage like scum do
“How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?”
Newspapers tell journalists what to write and how to write it
staff have to toe the line and produce the spin as directed
meeting the deadlines for their paycheque
Does it matter if you like me or not?
Well if I engage you like scum do, then perhaps I am dealing with scum.
You say a lot of nasty racist things here and then want to shout racism when someone makes a political comment on a political actor. But I believed you have already exposed your own ass.
1/x
What was your previous racist comment about blacks.. it had something to do about reading..
I have called out You, Waru and Wiiliam out for your racist views about Asians and KK on Bu
the youth is better than you and your children who god bless let no man curse
KiKi why don’t you find a nice coolie blog to troll?
“KiKi why don’t you find a nice coolie blog to troll?”
what is a Coolie? David?
Recommended reading for people of colour*
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(*) You should read the Intro of the first book as a must it is powerful as fuck
2/x
Let me ask you four questions
(1) Given that you have use the n word, would you use it to describe KK black parent?
(2.a) Are you one of those Asians who embraces a black mixed child only if it is doing well?
(2.b) Would you be one of those who taunted and insulted Kamala in her youth but became claimed her after she was nominated for VP.?
(3) Given your knowledge of blacks and their reading habits, do you believe that his black parent read to him or was all of the reading work shouldered by the Asian parent
(4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent
We are probably as proud of the youth as you are. We make no distinction of his black side or of his Asian side, but you seem fixated on the part of him that is Asian. Accept the whole person. You need to call yourself out before calling out others, You have continually made many racist statement here, but most prefer just to ignore you.
Called out or called in, I will comment on KK as I se fit,
I’ll Be Back Again
@David, re “How does your last paragraph excuse a media house from taking the best ethical journalistic decisions?”
I see nothing unethical about the Nation’s decision on their columnists per KK. I agree broadly and specifically with the position of @Codington: 1) broadly that an opinion writer is by trade going to have a bias and in MOST cases is 2) hired to espouse that very clear bias.
The inference made in the piece above is that 1) the Nation publisher was mandated to offer KK that column and 2) they are in some way reducing the voice of opposition to this admin. I cannot speak to either of those allegations but based on my prior close attention to such media matters and too the pervasiveness of social media I deem both of them as IRRELEVANT to our current world.
There has ALWAYS been room for opposition views on the Nation’s editorial/opinion pages so I would be shocked if there are no strong DLP nor other party hacks allowed to give voice to their views these days.
But moreover, as I noted, the over exposure of FB, Instagram, TikToc, websites, podcasts, talk radio etc makes the who’s who of traditional media columnists a NON issue, IMHO.
I put it to you, brother that if, for example, ‘Muff’ Holder was a prominent columnist today that he would be taken to task comprehensively by netziens in a way he was NEVER assailed back then…. because people would be mouthing off all across the spectrum noted. Back then u had to get a letter to the editor published to battle him and of course he would smack u down with his depth of data and books … now sir the data retrieval and research available to us all makes him and folks like him less IMPACTFUL, more easily challenged and often shouted down..
This KK brother is a liliputian in comparison so who cares (other than him and his peeps) that he gets to display his smarts and opinions every week in the Nation!
If you can find me 10 bloggers here who do then I will stand down 🤣😎!
@David, this post deals with a media house being tasked to offer better reportage on their opinion pages but the bottom line demands that also be done on the news pages.
In that vein I want to speak to how this pervasive social media 24-7, very personal and intrusive environment causes the traditional media houses like the Nation to offer too much SENSATIONAL reporting!
Fah sure, this is NOT a new phenomena but it’s much more damaging now because it so quickly has a VERY LARGE reach.
Exhibit, this headline: “Uvalde funeral attendant who encountered gunman says he tried to go after shooter, was held back”
This is an NBC headline … and it’s ABSIRDLY misleading, ridiculous and sensational in the most damaging way!
That sir in my view is the very epitome of unethical journalism. 1) it encourages a false narrative that this man could have saved those 19 kids and teachers killed but was stopped by the authorities; 2) it suggests the cops on site were not executing their responsibilities effectively and 3) it fosters this mentality of vigilante justice: I have a gun too and will kill u if you try any of these attacks in my neighborhood!
This is dangerous and very inaccurate inference of what was actually possible. We are all the worst for this type of scandalous reporting.
There are too many mediums to be satisfied and thus there is too MUCH erroneous, half true and often times absolute BS used to fill the spaces.
We need to be more discerning and wrap our heads around what are the ethical standards truly being breached and plunging us down a very perilous slope!
I gone.
“(2) (2.a) Are you one of those Asians who embraces a black mixed child only if it is doing well?”
I have never ever met an asian like that
I assume you have never ever known any asian as friends and family from previous lack of response if you had
“(3) Given your knowledge of blacks and their reading habits”
that was a joke like you and lawson like to crack
if it hurt you and you want to make a big deal about it so what
“(4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent”
50-50
“We are probably as proud of the youth as you are.”
I read the bad minded comments and call out the bad minded people
treat him same way you would want your own child to be treated
“(4) Do you have any idea of where KK got his brains from, both parents or just the Asian parent”
where did the anti-Kaleel bandwagon get their bias and hate from
they said that there are other black black children who deserve to be ambassador
but senate said they didn’t want any youths and change in law instead as their solution
ambassador s/b senator
even in racist countries they know discriminating against youths is wrong
and in racist countries they know they can’t stop minorities being successful
slave plantation colonies with indian plantation workers are behind racist places
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No Black person living in the area of the world referred to as the United States of America should discourse on racism or deny the conspiratorial dimensions of the local and global system of racism until he/she has read Racial Matters completely.
All non-white people (black, brown, red and yellow) should read and discuss the implications of the book, Racial Matters; the implications for themselves as individuals and the implications for their collective should be discussed in depth.
Then, all non-white people should view the docudrama videotape, The Wannsee Conference (which can be rented), to observe exactly how a white supremacy government calmly sits and plans the destruction of a people that it classifies as
non-white.
The Wannsee Conference took place in Germany, in 1941, to finalize the plans for the destruction of 11,000,000 Semites (non-whites) of the Jewish religion.
The German white supremacists succeeded in killing six million.
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First and last warning before this post is closed.
Ambition
Is the Republic of Barbados dead already
National Hero Rihanna’s singing talent was not promoted in or by Barbados, but her career was developed and built by the Black American Underground Hip Hop Pedagogy Scene.
The token seat in Senate for the youth politician would have opened the door to spot and nurture youth talent in local politics for the future, but the crusty Senate cock blocked it and he couldn’t penetrate.
Up Front (12″ Mix)
I’ll Be On My Way
COINTELPRO, FBI Counterintelligence, Covert Operations, Black Bag Jobs, Church Committee
COINTELPRO Sources
“I have called out You, Waru and Wiiliam out for your racist views about Asians and KK on Bu”
a old racist like you pretending to call out people….because you DON’T WANT US CALLING OUT ASIAN RACISM against Afrikan peoples……well too bad, ah got it nicely OUTLINED in my first book….can’t unwrite it…
yall are not special and would not even exist HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR AFRIKANS…
and got the delusional belief he can get here and twist everything Marley, Nana Welsing and others say to suit his narrow asian agenda….
..I had the pleasure of lisening to Dr. Julius Marley, Garvey’s son, yesterday, and these types of saboteurs existed back then in his father’s days…they never go away and are to be sidelined and IGNORED…
Pacha…it was worth it to hear Garvey’s son tell us the plain UNVARNISHED truth…and he interacted very well with those present…
I expect that the Nation knew exactly what it was doing. I doubt that it was being manipulated. I expect that it enjoys being a “suck-up” to the political class whichever party is in office.
@African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved June 5, 2022 6:10 AM
“KK wrote on BU even though it was clear he was being misled by political pimps, by deceitful politicians.”
I doubt very much that KK is being misled. I expect that he knows exactly what he is doing.
@Bush Tea June 5, 2022 7:29 AM “…makes Bushie shame as shiite.”
Take my simple advice.
NEVER be ashamed unless YOU have done something wrong.
“I doubt very much that KK is being misled. I expect that he knows exactly what he is doing.”
…
no he don’t, it’s just a continuation of colonial political indoctrination into ANOTHER GENERATION…of very UNAWARE young people….an ONGOING CRIME against Black youth…
@TheOGazerts June 5, 2022 7:33 AM “…but I was expecting you to bring his race into it.”
What race.
His mother is a woman black like me.
2 of his grandparents are people black like me, One Bajan born just like you and me, and the other Jamaican born I think,
You really haven’t answer the questions. Obfuscation and lies.
Political comments about KK were classed as racist comments about KK and then as racist comments about all Asians and now I am making racist jokes against Blacks. Who is next?
That is what happens when your main plank is a lie. You have to embellish to continue the story.
Political KK is fair game. There is no free pass.
let me rephrase a word, because i was enlightened to a certain fact yesterday…
.an ONGOING CRIME against AFRIKAN youth…
Kiki has an asian agenda….that is the bottomline….and no conscious person has to entertain it…
“a old racist like you pretending to call out people….because you DON’T WANT US CALLING OUT ASIAN RACISM against Afrikan peoples”
Divide and Rule to Conquer Modus Operendus
Black Slave Descendants Versus Indian “Coolie” Plantation workers
You obviously never read Welsing’s works or learned her lessons as she does not discriminate against browns like you
Nor have you ever listened in depth to Robert Nesta Marley’s lyrical messages as he does not discriminate either
Nor have you listened to Selassie’s message to League of Nations
Kiki has an asian agenda…
we know you are well ignorant everyday in every way
but being an old woman who feels poorly you are excused for your lower energy thinking
@African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved June 5, 2022 8:46 AM
“…EVERY LOCAL MEDIA except mine.”
LOL!!!
“Political comments about KK were classed as racist …”
were you against KK becoming a Senator or were you against youths becoming a Senator
I was against neither
I was against paranoid arguments narratives conspiracies against minorities
555dubstreet June 5, 2022 8:38 AM “Do the papes need to consult the raggedly unwashed lumpenproletariat when they recruit their staff”
Who you calling raggedly unwashed lumpenproletariat?
Be off do.
Lumpenproletariat refers – primarily in Marxist theory – to the underclass devoid of class … Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American radical groups, most notably the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, have sought to mobilize the Lumpenproletariat. .
Anyway the point is Newspapers recruiting people who you may not like is par for the course and out of your hands
They even flip people who did have a conscious conscience like an old anti-racist campaigner Trevor Phillips working for the Times as a black faced apologist for current Conservatives new wave forms of racism anti-black-lives-matter etc, at the end of a career it is all about the retirement fund monies
Principal rules over the principles, selling out for the big bucks.
@Enuff June 5, 2022 12:20 PM “Ah bet yuh these people that talking love MSNBC or Fox. We need to grow up!”
I watched Fox once for about half an hour. Never again. I don’t even know what is MSNBC.
What is MSNBC???
Like he ain’t got enough issues in Sri Lanka to deal with, thinks he can tell Afrikan people what to think and say…just ignore, i do a lot of scrolling…
“MSNBC is an American news -based pay television cable channel based in New York City. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal (a subsidiary of Comcast )”
a little better than FOX…..but i make sure to stay away from conventional news….and only use some content……those places are owned…therefore, the narrative is not wholly suitable for Afrikans…
Nigga Please.. is a phrase that means you are talking crap
Nigga Please.. is also the second solo studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Like he ain’t got enough issues in Sri Lanka to deal with
An argument based on race such as you are African is called irrelevant
1 GBP = 450.078 LKR means houses are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy
Source: Nation
Oh dear! As I said before……
At least some clear-thinking persons get my point.
Enuff June 5, 2022 12:20 PM
“Walter Blackman is also on Brasstacks, a man that according this same BU Blog declared an interest in contesting SME for the DLP in 2018.”
Enuff,
I have grown quite accustomed to you unwittingly using the various fallacies that are encountered in argument and debate. Here, you are using the non-sequitur fallacy, but you are not aware of it. Therefore, I forgive you.
Yes, I used the constitutional privilege accorded to every Barbadian to join a political party of his/her choosing, and to choose to run for public office. I felt that I had the training, specialized knowledge, confidence and ability to effectively represent the people of St. Michael East and to bring progressive change to governance in Barbados. I did not have to seek your permission.
Yes, I chose to be a moderator on Down to Brass tacks. I felt that I had a wide enough grasp of national issues to engage Barbadians of all walks of life and intellectual ability in meaningful conversation, and to offer solutions to national problems. I did not have to seek your permission.
Are you arguing that I had no right to make one or both of those decisions?
Are you arguing that my desire to represent the people of St. Michael East for the DLP has negatively affected my performance as a moderator? If so, you need to bring more facts.
Let me offer you a word of advice.
Mark Maloney was contemptuously referred to as “the billionaire boy who will no longer get government contracts if the government is changed” and Chris Sinckler was characterized as an incompetent, bungling ignoramus who had failed the 11-Plus exam, and who had brought disaster to Barbadians and the economy of Barbados.
Please enlighten BU readers about what has happened to these two “characters” since May 24, 2018.
That exercise should keep you busy for a while.
Have our journalists ever carried out research on the similarities shared between Barbados and an African country often compared to Barbados: South Africa.
How many Influential Gupta types have we had in Barbados since its independence?
I would say quite a few. Some of you can continue to revel in nonsense. None of you will be able to camouflage the awful reality that Barbados has been a captured state for many, many decades.
Keep up the pretence and the petty point scoring in la la land. Hail Mia!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61713832
Bush TeaJune 5, 2022 7:29 AM
“Walter could REALLY stay in Atlanta too, someone obviously had a chat with him about his initial dig into radical vaccine accountability. He has been doing himself NO Favors since then…. it is like he needs the couple dollars”
Bush Tea,
Of course you know that my treatment of you would be “radically” (pun intended) different from my treatment of Enuff. It would be naturally softer because of “the Waterford effect.” In this particular case, I recommend that you get up, but do not get on..
I see Enuff as a blinkered BLP yard fowl. No quarters asked. None given. He now has the right to cuss me as he sees fit, and I hope he does just that to his heart’s content. He should remember though, that a wise man can play the part of a fool, but a fool cannot play the part of a wise man.
Pachamama has long taught me how to giggle whilst being cussed. Talking about Pachamama, did you see that numbskull using “demure” as a verb in one of his comments, when in actual fact it is an adjective? I have given up on him/her/them when it comes to the proper use of English.. One year at Combermere, with Captain Perkins teaching him/her/it English, would have worked wonders for Pacha. Alas, no remedial action can be taken at this point. Pachamama would not want to admit it, but he/she/it is irretrievably lost when it comes to the use of the English Language. Do you think the use of Russian would serve him/her/it/them better?..
Now back to you.
You deserve to be lathered in cuss, but I will show some restraint.
BU readers and bloggers were led to believe that you had landed a government pick. For years, we heard nothing from you, so we concluded that the few dollars you were getting from Mia were enough .to purchase your silence on one hand, and pay your bills on the next.
Fair enough.
Crisis after crisis materialized, but no word from Bush Tea. Then all of a sudden, you reappeared as if nothing had happened. Do you think that BU readers and bloggers are stupid?.
I am in New York now, and will be headed to Atlanta in a few days. Are you telling me that I should stay in Atlanta? Really? I will stay in Atlanta as long as I wish, and will come to Barbados whenever I wish. I do not have to ask your permission. As the song says, “You better steer yuhself”.
However, I must express great disappointment and dismay at the level of stupidity you are displaying with respect to the Astrazeneca vaccine procurement scandal. I am a moderator, so I cannot give anyone the impression that the Astrazeneca Vaccine Procurement Scandal .is an item on my personal political agenda. After reading the various articles in the press, I have analyzed the situation and agree that Barbadians only needed 300,000 vaccines at US$3 per dose. That means that Barbadian taxpayers should have been asked to only pay US$900,000 for the Astrazeneca vaccine.
Instead, we have a situation where the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health & Wellness (the Accounting head of the Ministry) wrote Astrazeneca and told them that she was ordering 1 million doses of the vaccine, and the million doses will be for the exclusive use of Barbadians and will not be resold.
Meanwhile, the PM of Barbados, from an interview in NY, said that Barbadians will have to pay US$24 per vaccine dose. Although Astrazeneca said that they will only be dealing with governments or COVAX to limit the profitability of the vaccine , the Government of Barbados asked them to deal with Radical Investments Ltd., a foreign company owned by Mark Maloney. So straight away, Barbadian taxpayers were being asked to pay US$24 million for Astrazeneca vaccines that should have only cost US$900,000.. The Minister of Health & Wellness said that he did not know that Radical Investments Ltd. as a company existed, so he would be bringing his political career to a sudden and unexpected end.
Barbados only needed 300,000 vaccines, so the extra 700,000 vaccines that Barbadian taxpayers would have paid for, based on the order placed by the PS of Health & Wellness, were now to be sold to St. Lucia and the Bahamas at US$27 per dose. The amount of money destined to pass through the hands of Radical Investments Ltd., owned by Mark Maloney, amounted to US$42.9 million. This is the heart of the Astrazeneca vaccine procurement scandal. The plot was hatched in secrecy, and everything would have worked like a dream if Mark Maloney had not been robbed by the “3-card men”, and forced to produce documents in a USA court..
The Government of Barbados, so far, has been unable to provide a credible defense against the scandalous allegations.
Now, in order to ventilate and discuss this matter further, I would have needed a caller to call the Brasstacks program and initiate discussion on the matter. That caller could have been you. Unfortunately, instead, you chose to sit on your backside and criticize me. Useless, lazy, dim-witted Bush Tea.
So far, you have wasted your time, my cursed friend. The opportunity is still there, though. Let us see if you can seize it. Call Brass Tacks and raise the issue. Or is that too much for your lazy backside to handle?
Feel free to cuss me if you want. I simply do not care.
The Slave Plantation of Barbados could not access the Product and were forced to go to Black Market Distro to save it’s Beasts of Burden aka African Dunces
Jacob Miller – 80,000 Careless Ethiopians
This lyric contains biblical references. [Matthew 20:16]; [Matt. 22:14]
“So it is. Everyone who is now last will be first, and everyone who is first will be last.”
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
I-dren and sistren, sight up Jah Ras, Jah Rastafari!
Even the childs on their mothers’ breasts
Are sightin’ up, are sightin’ up Jah Rastafari
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
And it came to pass in the eleventh year
In the first month of the seventh day
The words of Jah came to us, saying
I shall say unto the north: “Give up!”
And to the south: “Keep not back!”
Send the chosen sons from afar
And his daughters from the ends of the earth
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
A living God
25,000 ?? shall gather
Oh, O the ?? my God
Jah Almighty living God
And it came to pass in the eleventh year
In the first month of the seventh day
The words of Jah came to us, saying
I shall say unto the north: “Give up!”
And to the south: “Keep not back!”
Send the chosen sons from afar
And his daughters from the ends of the earth
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
80,000 careless Ethiopians, shall go down in Babylon
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
Many are called but few shall be chosen, to go to Mount Zion
Oh, all the licks that I have received
I feel it all over me
Even the blind cannot see – it’s feeling the pressure from Babylon
Oh, I am feeling all the pain from Babylon
Licks that I have received all over
Their faces so ugly
They look just like the devil in the deep blue sea
O Jah, O Jah, O Jah..
Better Analysis (than the Blackman)
2 doses are required
or 3-4 for elderly and immuno compromised
300,000 x 2 = 600,000
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“Have our journalists ever carried out research on the similarities shared between Barbados and an African country often compared to Barbados: South Africa.”
they started remodeling the island to an apartheid system boer pig system under Barrow which was completed under Adams…all of them TRAITORS and SLAVES to status and shite titles…..for all the good it did them…
“How many Influential Gupta types have we had in Barbados since its independence?”
ah bunch of small island minority thieves who have had help from the DNA tainted black traitors for 90 YEARS in corruption and theft of everything from the Afrikan population…now believing they can penetrate Afrika they hate and the Afrikans they hate even more……
look at the present clowns….no one is impressed by them except fowls, pimps and Slaves…but yet they race across the world stage believing they are conquering intelligent minds with useless titles and nonsense accolades…..that is all they are, shallow and empty…just like their sheeple supporters…
“I see Enuff as a blinkered BLP yard fowl. No quarters asked. None given. He now has the right to cuss me as he sees fit, and I hope he does just that to his heart’s content. He should remember though, that a wise man can play the part of a fool, but a fool cannot play the part of a wise man.”
wuhloss…tell the little billionaire errand boy yardfowl/FOOL do…lol
“Barbados only needed 300,000 vaccines, so the extra 700,000 vaccines that Barbadian taxpayers would have paid for, based on the order placed by the PS of Health & Wellness, were now to be sold to St. Lucia and the Bahamas at US$27 per dose. The amount of money destined to pass through the hands of Radical Investments Ltd., owned by Mark Maloney, amounted to US$42.9 million. ”
Ah take it that neither Astrazeneca or any other big pharma entity want anything to do with the Barbados government at any level…outside of procuring vaccines through them and not throw thieves…
then after the SCAM was a success, ya would hear the IGNORANT fowls and fools on here gushing about what an intelligent untouchable businessman Mrs. Maloney corrupt fraud of a husband is…..that is how the minorities have RIPPED OFF THE TREASURY FOR DECADES….and the pension fund, then claim with the help of STUPID traitors, even stupider black people about they are the best business people in world…A GANG OF THIEVES…
Oh shiiite!
Guess some “sages” do not know the meaning of the word “MODERATOR”.
MURDAAAAAAAAH!
De whacker get whacked!
“by TONY BEST OPEN BARBADOS’ DOOR OF opportunity to more members of the Bajan diaspora but be very careful when it comes to overseas voting.”
no one takes Tony Best seriously…..the diaspora knows all about him..
“Crisis after crisis materialized, but no word from Bush Tea. Then all of a sudden, you reappeared as if nothing had happened. Do you think that BU readers and bloggers are stupid?.”
Bushman…word of advice…..things are known about this blog…so do the right thing…
Jah Guide, Moja Nya
Little Roy-Peace And Harmony (aka Tribal War), Bullwackie’s All Stars-Tribal Dub
Jah Son Invasion
Jah Is My Only Guide
But is it not satisfying TO ME…that after all the YEARS AND YEARS of posting what they have really done on the island and the dirty little BU fowls calling us LIARS everyday ….that in this timespan….they themselves are the ones WHO FINALLY EXPOSED THEMSELVES for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE………MURDAHHH!!!…effectively turning all BU YARDFOWLS INTO DANGEROUS LIARS….
just because they could not resist the vaccine scam……🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣