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The video mirrors the lowly blogmaster’s perspective about how colonialism and slavery seem to have condemned Blacks to the bottom of the global social hierarchy. Almost two hundreds years since the emancipation of slavery and Black people continue to struggle with establishment thinking.

In Barbados, Black people make up roughly 90% of the population, yet by most accounts the remaining groups continue to hold economic power. This imbalance is one of the uncomfortable truths we often avoid confronting, even though we have mastered tolerating each other..

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10 responses to “Black people continue to face lower social standing in the global hierarchy”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    True, generally.

    However, and there must always be a however.

    A lot of times we fail to take power when we can.

    For example, there are many here, on this very portal, who even blatantly and persistently, refuse to assume the power which comes from the long history of the 90 percentile.

    Instead, the only thing these toobabs, as our Senegalese friends call them, want to know and be conservators of, is the very slavery, colonial, imperialism which are intent on continuing those very oppressive systems.

    Now is the time for either death or a real sovereignty.

  2. Musicism Avatar
    Musicism

    Black Musicians* are pulling out of Trump’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations for USA as they were tricked by their Agents and claim they ‘don’t f*ck with Trump’
    (*) Several White Musicians too

  3. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    AS IT WAS IN THE DAYZ OF *NOE* & AS IT WAS IN THE DAYZ OF *LOT*: SUDDEN DESTRUCTION CAME

    #TheTimeIsAtHand

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The “Global hierachy” is collapsing rapidly. Instead of trying to achieve anything in it weee should be doing everything possible to hasten its demise.

    When East Germans, circa 1989, started, like rats on a sinking ship, seeking any and all means to go to West Germany was the first clear signal of the internal collapse of the USSR.

    Of course, those events came to a natural conclusion circa 1991 with the dissolusionment of the Soviet Bloc.

    Similar sets of internal forces are applying extreme pressures within the United Sates. These massive contradictions will continue until the means achieve desired ends.

    Externally, the United States is finding it difficult, like all empires have at some point in time, to maintain it’s nearly 800 military bases in the far reaches of emperium.

    Internally, the United States is trapped within patterns of budgetary expenditures with all kinds of special interests so addicted to the suckling on teets that it’s driving the milk cow to death.

    Even as these internal contradictions, presided over by the most amoral political elites known to man, keep going from bad to worse, we hear a never-should-have-been president swears to increase the military budget to 1.5 trillion. More than the top 10 militares in the world. But still can’t beat nobody, for that was never it’s purpose.

    Well, the USSR in similar circumstances, had to run out of Afghanistan in the middle of the night. So too was the USA only a few years ago.

    And weee may go on ad infinitum!

    Maybe history is ryhming. Maybe by 2029 we will begin to see the social order at the centre starting to collapse as well. Maybe we’ll witness Americans flooding into México. Flooding into Canada. Boat people flooding the Caribbean island.

    Maybe?

  5. Can't Penetrate Avatar
    Can’t Penetrate

    White people are too greedy and want it all.
    Black people cannot have a slice of the cake that they helped to bake.

    Human Rights, Truth and Rights.
    Trump’s false narrative is black history should be cancelled, there is no prejudice and racism nowadays, it would psychologically affect white children to learn about their foreparents crimes against humanity, instead of beng enlightened and fighting for equality it is better to hide the truth so it never sees the light.

    The force against black people penetrating still continues,
    they are like the shadow people of apartheid South Africa who are not seen.

  6. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    MLK after getting certain civil rights demands accepted, at law.

    Is on record as having said words such – “I think we’ve succeeded in integrating our people into a burning house”.

    Burn baby burn!

    King was right then, as is now. Thus, for Black people anywhere to still fall for this integration trap, as it was then and still is, under the rubric of a social classism says we’ve learnt nothing over the last 75 years and more, about ourselves, about the nature of our open enemies.

  7. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    “The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
    We don’t need no water
    Let the mf burn!”

  8. Dirt Farmer Avatar
    Dirt Farmer

    Oh Donna, what vulgarity. De devil wrote that. You’re not capable of such !

  9. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Dirt Farmer,

    Quoting a very popular song from back in the day. Not part of my regular vocabulary but yes, I am capable of pushing the envelope and challenging the sensibilities of some of you who focus more on the “vulgar words” spoken by women than the dastardly deeds perpetrated by men.

  10. Dirt Farmer Avatar
    Dirt Farmer

    Donna hits at dem men’s who avoid direct dialogue with the sneaky self.

    Duck, you wilts.

    Murderahhhhhhhh Donna Murderahhhhhhhh!

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