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10 responses to “THE SLAVERY-POVERTY INHERITORS”
555dubstreet
Man of the Living – King Of Kings
Whoa!
I no check fi no dead!
‘Cause everywhere I go, dem jus’ a fight I so
Dem a tell I say.. my God is dead
But I a tell dem say, I man a Natty Dread
I’m a man of the living and not of the dead
Jah is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords
The conquering Lion of Judah
He is the Light of the world
The Creator
The conquering Lion of Judah
I no check fi a dead!
I a Natty Dread!
Jah is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords
The conquering Lion of Judah
He is the Light of the world
The Creator
The conquering Lion of Judah
‘Cause everywhere I go, dem jus’ a fight I so
Dem a tell I say.. my God is dead
But I a tell dem say, I man a Natty Dread
I’m a man of the living and not of the dead
I a Natty Dread!
Whoa, and a check fi no dead!
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TLSN
Why is Barbados turning to France when Francophone Africa is chasing out these white devils. Whilst in Guadeloupe and belatedly Martinique they have been protesting against French occupation within their region.
Can someone read the room and remind Mia that France is a pariah state in the eyes of many Francophone blacks.
This story was never so simple. It’s time weeee move away from the simplicity and embrace the dynamics of complexities.
The simple cannot, for example, explain how those above have been so described, as a complete account when one looks at the evidence over all over major slave holding countries.
That evidence, for example, shows that in almost all the old state capitals within the United States that Afrikans built them all. That their enslavers had no engineering capabilities, that even after slavery and because they lack such competencies, even then, the KKK was formed as a response to the fear that highly skilled Afrikans would have replaced the masses of White people whose sole currency, skin colour, was then of reduced value after it was such an essential ingredient within a system of anti-revolutionary class collaboration.
Meaning, that a major driver of the war against Afrika and Afrikan peoples everywhere, which continues to this day, was the determination of Europeans to find nation builders. Specifically, they sought those with Kemetic ancestry, largely desplaced to West Afrikan regions after the fall of Kemet.
Of course, there are many other factors supporting this broader look at the institutional frameworks of global slavery. These frameworks were never and are not now ever linear.
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Pachamama
Goodbye Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.
¡Walk well!
For you have made an unforgettable contribution to all of humanity through a life of sacred struggle, transitioned by your martyrdom.
A contribution which shall continue to torment our enemies.
You have certainly achieved that everlasting life as exemplied within all beings throughout the universes.
Born in a “political family” in Palestine, Linda Sobeh Ali grew up amidst the age-old, on-going conflict between her country and Israel.
“I started very early in Al Fatah Party, the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) when I was about 11 years old,” Palestine’s first Ambassador to be accredited to Barbados revealed last week, days after presenting her credentials to Barbados’ President, The Most Honourable Dame Sandra Mason.
She officially assumed the diplomatic position after a long period of working to achieve recognition of Palestine by the entire Caribbean region.
“I was appointed to Venezuela for eight years and during my tenure in Venezuela, when I started seeking the recognition of the Caribbean, none of the Caribbean states had recognised Palestine. It took us a long period, but finally, mission accomplished. Every country in the Caribbean recognises Palestine,” Ambassador Sobeh Ali told the Sunday Sun.
It was in April of 2024 that Barbados’ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, announced that Barbados would be establishing diplomatic relations with Palestine.
At that time, the Palestinian envoy had already been accredited to Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Guyana, Suriname, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St Kitts and St Lucia, among the 13 countries in the region where she holds diplomatic status, as well as CARICOM and the Association of the Caribbean States.
Never-ending conflict Her desire to serve her country at the diplomatic level was born in childhood, as she witnessed never-ending conflict and political turmoil. At that early stage, her parents and other adults in the PLO, struggling for recognition of Palestine’s statehood and agitating for a measure of peace as well as political stability in the country, sought to cultivate a sense of nationhood in young Palestinians.
“I was raised under occupation,” the Palestine envoy shared, adding: “They would take us the little youth, the little children, to sing and raise the flags.”
Ambassador Sobeh Ali, wife, mother of two and a grandmother, was twice elected in the US as the Palestinian American Congress chairperson between 2001 and 2006. She returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Palestine as Chief of Staff before being appointed “General Delegate” or Charge d’Affaires at Palestine’s General Delegation (Embassy) in Canada.
She was subsequently appointed Palestine’s envoy in Venezuela. That is when she “started seeking the recognition of the Caribbean” since none of the Caribbean states had at that time, formally recognised Palestine. That was 13 years ago.
Why was it important for Palestine to have this diplomatic relationship with the Caribbean?
“First of all, we always look to have partnership, brotherhood and sisterhood with nation countries that
Palestine’s first Ambassador to Barbados, Linda Sobeh Ali. (Picture by Shanice King.)
Caribbean ‘understands the struggle’
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have suffered; that understand our struggle; that went through occupation; that went through slavery; that went through oppression and the Caribbean understands exactly what we went through.” Ambassador Sobeh Ali replied.
“The Caribbean countries and the Caribbean people understand the struggle and understand what it is to be under slavery, under colonialism and we are going through all that. Plus, there is the support that we started receiving all these years during our struggle, not when they started recognising us, by the way, but years before that the Caribbean was voting in favour of Palestine.”
She added: “When I arrived in Venezuela, I started seeking and preparing the files on each country and telling my government, ‘since they are always with us without recognising us, we need to seek recognition; we need to be next to them’ and that is why we are cultivating our bilateral relationship – our relation in health, our relation in agriculture also.”
Headed mission
Ambassador Sobeh recalled Palestine’s assistance to Dominica in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. “We were the first airplane to land and I was the woman that was heading that mission in the big helicopter. We were the first to clean the airport and everyone was like, ‘Why are you here? What brought you guys from so far’?
“We said, ‘We just want to thank the Caribbean for their stand with us. We want to thank them for defending our cause in all international arenas and whenever we need the vote and whenever we need the backup’.”
Palestine rendered similar assistance to Grenada after Hurricane Beryl.
The ambassador explained: “We happened to be in Grenada with a large medical mission coming to do surgeries and we did them free of charge.
“We do cornea transplants; we do kidney, heart, and so on. Normally, we come with ten surgeons and it happened that Hurricane Beryl hit, and still within all the chaos that was in Grenada, our doctors were able to do a hundred or so surgeries in the days that we stayed there.”
Yet, she insisted Palestine “is not expecting anything other than what was given to us – the support, the voting,” in return for anything done by Palestine for the Caribbean.
“We are not coming to ask for anything, we are coming to say thank you.”
What should the Caribbean expect from Palestine? “Cooperation through the Palestine International Cooperation Agency; agricultural training; youth training; health in all aspects, from bringing doctors to do surgeries, to doctors visiting seniors in the provinces, the very rural ones; working on hospitality.
“We have a lot of tourism in Palestine . . . . We can do a lot of training; setting up what Barbados, for example, needs to work on food stability and the food basket. We are transferring the know-how, and at the same time, we will benefit from the know-how and some training from whatever the Caribbean countries are good at.”
Several Barbadians turned out at the Clement Payne Centre on Crumpton Street Tuesday night to hear the Palestine ambassador speak. She was heartened, she said, by the composition of that audience, noting that “all faiths in Barbados were present.”
She suggested it was an encouraging sight since “in Palestine, we are a melting pot” with Jews who “do not recognise the State of Israel living in harmony with Palestinians, “despite that we do recognise the State of Israel”.
The US President Donald Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” later describing his vision for the area as a new “Riviera”.
However, the ambassador insisted that “Palestine is not for sale and Palestinians will not leave our country. She urged “all the international community and the government to stand for Palestine”, and contended, “The people of Palestine don’t need to leave it to make a Riviera for anyone.”
Ambassador Sobeh Ali also lamented that she had suffered personal loss of family members as well as friends and family members of diplomatic associates, in the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel in which thousands of Palestinian lives have been lost as a result of the bombing by Israel.
However, on this visit to Barbados, she temporarily put aside her pain and anguish.
“I am here to enjoy the fruits of the recognition, which is presenting my credentials as the very first ambassador of the State of Palestine to Barbados.”
Palestine Ambassador to Barbados, Linda Sobeh Ali
(right) accepting a gift from Barbadian businessman Sabir Nakhuda, during the Ambassador’s meeting with a cross
section of Barbadians at the Clement Payne Centre last week. (Picture by Reco Moore.)
The fight for reparations is doomed to fail unless everyone gets on board and recognises the differing mindsets between generations.
“And if you look at generational shifts, there are differences between and among generations of those who are owed reparations on how to go about reparations. And if you don’t acknowledge that, without trivialising the point that you’re making, we’re going to implode before we even start,” said Dr William Chandler.
He was speaking during a “meet the artists” event on Wednesday as part of the Caribbean Reparations Visual Arts Exhibition project at the Queen’s Park Gallery, The City.
Chandler, a member of the Parliamentary Reform Commission, said one issue of contention was getting an apology from the nations responsible for slavery. He said the older generation was adamant that an apology had to be made as part of reparations while younger people questioned if this was necessary.
“I’m not advocating to get rid of the apology on the list or to keep it on but I’m saying, these aren’t even conversations that we’re really having among ourselves about the strategy we use to obtain reparations in the first place.
“The reparations fight is so emotional that you have to ask yourself, what are the parameters that we’re going to give ourselves to be able to formulate a policy towards getting reparations?” Chandler said it was imperative to have an action plan, adding he disliked hearing comments such as Barbados was “putting things in place”. “What does that actually mean? Policy is something you devise after a long time of pondering and debate, they’re actionable steps. And when you carry those actionable steps, you know the results that you want to take.
“We’re not there yet and I don’t think we’re going to be there until people like you bring us to that point. And to bring us to that point, you have to organise outside of the official Government structures through civil society so that we can get to the point in the Government structures of feeling as though there is some level of wrongs to be able to get these things called reparations,” he said.
The event included some of the artists who were taking part in the exhibition speaking about their work. The pieces represented a wide variety of styles from acrylics, sculptures, paintings and jewellery and depicted longing, hope, curiosity, imagination, transformation, hardship, sacrifice and identity.
Producer of the exhibition, Andrea King, said it was one of the most wellattended and interactive sessions ever held. King, director of Culture & Arts for Love & Living, said the artists really engaged on the topic of reparations when usually they were reluctant to talk about their work.
The exhibition ended yesterday.(CA)
Source: Nation
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555dubstreet
An apology l should be considered when you are planning on pleading guilty to criminal offences, as it acts as a medium to convey one’s understanding of the seriousness and repercussions of their actions.
Rehabilitation is the process of re-educating those who have committed a crime and preparing them to re-enter society. Criminal rehabilitation is a crucial aspect of our criminal justice system. It’s based on the belief that individuals who commit crimes should be given the opportunity to change their behaviour and become productive members of society.
How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist
Brendan grew up in an affluent Chicago suburb in an Irish Catholic family. He leaned liberal in high school but got sucked into white nationalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he joined a fraternity mostly composed of conservative Republican men, began reading antisemitic conspiracy books, and fell down a rabbit hole of racist, sexist content online. Brendan was further emboldened by the populist rhetoric of Donald Trump during his presidential campaign. “His speech talking about Mexicans being rapists, the fixation on the border wall and deporting everyone, the Muslim ban – I didn’t really get white nationalism until Trump started running for president,” Brendan said.
But could MDMA transform people’s beliefs too? MDMA does not seem to be able to magically rid people of prejudice, bigotry, or hate on its own. But some researchers have begun to wonder if it could be an effective tool for pushing people who are already somehow primed to reconsider their ideology toward a new way of seeing things. While MDMA cannot fix societal-level drivers of prejudice and disconnection, on an individual basis it can make a difference. In certain cases, the drug may even be able to help people see through the fog of discrimination and fear that divides so many of us.
If “extremist views [are] fueled by fear, anger and cognitive biases”, the researchers posed, “might these be targets of pharmacological intervention”?
He also has not completely abandoned his bigoted ideology, and is not sure that will ever be possible. “There are moments when I have racist or antisemitic thoughts, definitely,” he said. “But now I can recognise that those kinds of thought patterns are harming me more than anyone else.”
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