Submitted by Observing
After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Malcolm X used the infamous phrase “chickens coming home to roost.” This was the beginning of the end of his relationship with the Nation of Islam and the slow walk towards his eventual assassination. In Barbados we have had a spate of violent crime, gun crime, and wanton reckless crime which is “foreign” to our traditional Barbadian culture, but is now seemingly normal. Two MPs seem to have arisen from their slumber to announce that we are “on the brink.” Nary a word from the AG, nary a word from the Minister responsible for Crime Prevention, nary a word from the Former Commissioner now consultant on crime, nary a word from the former Minister responsible for Crime Prevention, nary a word from the MPs in whose constituencies these incidents are happening. Should we be surprised. Definitely not. But they will come and ask for our votes.
What we are witnessing in Barbados, is simply a case of chickens coming home to roost.
Chickens will always come home to roost when:
- Big ups, caucasians and Indians get off scotch free after being publicly caught red handed
- Marijuana use is normalized no matter where you go
- Abuse of all sorts goes unreported, untreated and ignored
- Politicians blatantly steal, pilfer or misdirect funds right in front of our eyes
- Lawyers, the guardians of the legal gates are locked up repeatedly
- It takes 7-10 years for the “average” man to get justice, yet a “particular” rape case and a coroner’s inquest can be dispatched within months
- 16 year olds are kicked out of school with no certificate, no hope and no direction
- School aged children are allowed to dress and groom themselves as they like
- Police can slap a man in public…on video…and no statement be made to this day
- Politicians have to pay criminals to keep the peace that said criminals disrupted
- Sitting politicians become subject of criminal probes and former politicians get locked up overseas
- Known drug dealers are invited to and welcomed inside Parliament
- The head of a Crime Commission has to resign because it has no focus
- The new head of Crime Prevention, has nothing to bring to the table, other than talk
- Education transformation takes 8 years…just to get started…while schools and stakeholders struggle
- Cost of living outpaces salaries year on year on year on year
- All we hear is talk talk talk talk and promises promises promises
- $4 million in weed and $3/4 million cocaine can be “found” on this small rock
- A certain colour easily brings in synthetic drugs and another colour gets hooked on it
- Tint is pushed as the source of the “problem”
- We claim to be “Christian” then publicly celebrate “unchristian” lives
- A sitting MP can allegedly lie in court on another sitting MP
- Our prime leaders can tell us lies straight to our faces even though we know better
- A leadership culture of bombast and bullying becomes the norm
- Twerking, bubbling, and boobs becomes our culture
- Two caw blehs and a rashole represent national discourse
- We feign disgust over the Trojan Riddim but continue on merrily once the dust has settled
- Our leaders tell us do as I say, not as I do
- Police in a sea of red are told via phone call to “stand down” when executing their duties
- Those of us who no better, turn a blind eye and zip our lips even when the writing is on the wall…that’s when the chickens come home to roost.
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