We Cannot Ignore The Emerging Caribbean Civilization

 

Spokesman for Savvy on the Bay, Sarah Taylor, pointing out where the excavator had begun digging on their property. 
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    By William Skinner
    However, history is the greatest teacher, and when one has been exposed, to some of the most genuine progressive Caribbean minds, of the last six decades, their perspective tends to look inward because nothing that is happening now on the global scene would hold any deep fascination . Most of it was predicted by progressive thinkers at least one hundred years or more ago.
    Many of the academics today are still grounded in irrelevant eurocentric thinking and we find ourselves promoting and reading so-called scholars , who are very cleverly regurgitating what was written long before they graduated from university.
    When stripped of all the fancy talk , the truth remains that those who condemn the emerging Caribbean civilzation are still, intellectually speaking, slaves. Unfortunately they have abandon Marley for eurocentricity.
    So, we will seriously continue to deal with the systematic socio economic destruction of the Caribbean, by a visionless group of leaders, who have abandoned their historical legacy and mission, to enfranchise their people, and complete the Independence experiment.
    It may not sound as romantic and be inundated with cliches but we certainly will not contribute to the enslavement of our people twice because the new slave master looks a bit different or pretends that he is the enemy of our enemy. They are all friends and they will not abandon theirs to defend ours. Simple as that. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me

  3. The problem is that we want to locate everything in some fascinating intellectual/ academic exercise. That is more suitable for nurturing those who are essentially uninformed or not schooled in “rigorous” debate. Anyone faintly familiar with Naom Chomsky for the past twenty five years , would know exactly what the globalists are saying today about neo-liberalism and so on.

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