Thursday, July 31, 2014

Blacks living in the past

47 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your statement is loaded with ambiguities. You are sending mixed signals here. There is just too much noise in what you are trying to say. Perhaps, you too are not very clear to your very own self, what it is you stand for.

Anonymous said...

I totally agree with 6:53. Whilst he is sayin blacks are fighting each other down, he is slamming them in many ways himself...talk about pot calling kettle black

Anonymous said...

Public self-flagellation and loathing may provide a degree of satisfaction for those that value such practices, but given the occasion, self-celebration is probably more productive. I'm still standing is the message. Pass it on!

Anonymous said...

Geert Hofstede's 5 dimensions of culture is instructive in helping us understanding the confused mind of the writer. The "Long Term Orientation" and "power Distace" dimensions appear to be the most relevant.

We in Saint Lucia are the descendants of plantation chattel who, when given the opportunity sought to simply protect one group of slavers the French from another, the British. Those people never thought of attempting to grab the opportunity for own independence and freedom. They accepted as a given, the "power distance", i.e., accept that you are nothing be anything else but a slave, that was imposed on them.

Coming from Africa, the brethren again kept the same values of the tribal hierarchical social order. The tribal leader dictates the pace of change in society, and no one was to flout the rules of the male-dominated leader and council. In other words, all the traditions of the past are to be upheld and retained. Today, we with our tribal politics observe this very same dysfunctional "long term orientation". Today the rains have disrupted the celebration of this looking-back-in-the-mirror and cursing our luck, as the principal guide to our future with that was to be marked by this planned dumb parade.

Son-of-man said...

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What an ignorant brainwashed Negro Slave of White Supremacy.

Forget your history, he says. Could you imagine a Jew telling Jews to forget the Concentration Camps and Gas Chambers or Death Camps??

100,000,000 yes millions of Africans were fed to Sharks in the Middle Passage and this shameless buffoon tells you, Go back to the Roman Empire, where they "really had slaves" - in other words you Lucians were not "Really" slaves, so why do you want Reparations From the Countries who got rich from your blood and sweat of your parents, that was in the past.

See, in Rome the Slaves knew their own language, but you know nothing of yours. The Roman slaves knew their Names, but yours is Francois, and Elizabeth, and you Religion is White man worship, so thank God you were a slave.

Rochelle I must commend your skills as an Archeologist to unearth such relics. Where do they get this type of disgraceful abominations from? what's his slave name Cyril?

Here's something this ignorant embarrassment should know about the money made from the enslavement of his grand parent. I also included a picture of Lucian Slaves at Ballenbouche Estate.

David Cameron

The family of the current Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron, benefited from the enslavement of African people. According to Dr. Nick Draper of University College London, as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons inherited part or all of their fortunes from the slave economy. As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the U.K. still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery they have inherited; Queen Elizabeth-II and the so-called Royals are the highest ranking Pirates .  In addition to benefiting from slavery while it was legal in the British empire, Cameron’s ancestors were given £4,101, equal to more than £3 million today ($4.7 million dollars), for the 202 black people they enslaved on the Grange Sugar Estate in Jamaica.


Samantha Cameron

The Ballenbouche Estate in St Lucia,  was linked to the prominent businessman,William Jolliffe.He received £4,000 in compensation for 164 slaves, or around £3.25million in today’s money. The Prime Minister of Britain’s wife - Samantha Cameron is a descendant of  William Jolliffe. William Jolliffe was a slave owner who received millions from the British government following abolition, researchers have discovered.
African slaves were brought to St Lucia in the 1700s and the Ballenbouche Estate, a sugar plantation, was probably established in the 1740s.


Pictures of Lucian Slaves:


http://www.damajority.com/the-ballenbouche-estate-in-st-lucia-former-owner-is-an-ancestor-of-britans-1st-lady-history/



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Son-of-man said...

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How does this buffoon become Emancipation Coordinator?

I have a special message in this video for this Uncle Tom Sambo:

Cyril you Owe the Slave Master Reparations for making you and you parents SLAVES.

BLACK CHRISTIANS UNCLE TOMS



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwUA3CHumk for making you a slave.


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Anonymous said...

....something went terribly wrong in translation. But what I strongly take issue with is the tendency to blame WOMEN for every perceived ills in St.Lucian society: murder,rape ,abuse,non- child support; you name it....it's WOMEN's fault!.. Now this delusion prick is after their hair style.

Donallie Charlemagne said...

I agree with this piece to a degree. While it is wise that we forgive and move on, I believe it is imperative that we not forget our history. For if we forget we are bound to remain in mental Captivity. We are BLACK and there's nothing we can do about it; except be Proud of who we are.

We need to learn to uplift one another as a people. It is true we tend to blame everyone else for our issues instead of examining ourselves. It starts with each individual. Lets begin with our own internal dialogue. Only then will we see any change.

Anonymous said...

....let me get this right:cyril saltibus is a delusional prick!

Anonymous said...

Idiotic Saint Lucians are free to celebrate the granting of freedom on the day the robbers decided it was time to do so. I will have none of that.

That is so damn shameful and diminishing. Little wonder so many black people have been reinforcing this hand-me down inferiority complex for centuries.

I would ban the holiday altogether, and attach it to another day of the year. Emancipation day my foot.

Anonymous said...

...above: but you keep on celebrating: July 4th and Thanksgiving Day..don't you?

Son-of-man said...

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God is a Naked White man, his mother is White, and the Angels are White - Satan is a Black African with horns under the feet of the White Angel as you exit the church on the left at Micoud Street.


In Cyril's words: "most guys prefer to be with white women"??

Are you black men this mentally ill? this is what praying to a naked white man has done to your subconscious mind.

All you sick Negroes can dream about is a pale skin, no soul, Miss Daisy??
You hate yourself and your beautiful Black woman, and see your own kind as worthless; God is White, and you do not look like god. Who taught you to hate your own kind - you sick mis-educated, self-hating Negroes, kneeling and praying/begging a naked Caucasian for crumbs. Hanging the cross, the symbol of death, with a dead white man around your NECKS, while your women, from Mary Francis to Susie give all their love to the Naked Caucasian, so none of you black men are eligible bachelors.

These Negroes hate themselves, the Negress hates her beautiful hair putting radio active waste chemicals in her beautiful hair to look like the Caucasian, and the more fake Cooley hair she wears, and the more she bleaches her skin, the more these mad Negroes fall in love with her fake behind. you Negroes are like roaches, that is the reason you have made Chastanet your Massa in UWP, please don't tell me it is because of his brilliance? the guy is an embarrassment incapable of uttering a compound phrase.

Son-of-man said...

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Muhammad Ali ask: Why is the chocolate cake called Devil's Cake.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LvNDn1eBNw



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Anonymous said...

Honestly, I think Mr. Saltibus is just being a provocateur and does not really believe his gibberish. If he does believe his mendacious propaganda I would conclude that he is one of the most ill-informed black man I have read in the past twenty years. I do not think his statement warrants a rebuttal but I would suggest the following books: Black skin, white mask by Frantz Fanon; The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch by Alvin Morrow; Race Matters by Dr. Cornel West.

Anonymous said...

....add to this list :Huchkleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Native son by Richard Wright.The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.And some common sense.All these guys do is to put Lucians down.They are devoid of any fucking solutions!

Anonymous said...

Read it for yourself. See what you can make of it:

Going straight to the sub-heading entitled: "Little Africa".

Here's the link:

http://revcom.us/a/v21/1040-049/1043/tulsa.htm


Anonymous said...

This senile SOB Rick Wayne, is one of the biggest perpetrators...ask your buddy Arnold,how to creat jobs;..Rick!

Anonymous said...

..hi Rick; why did your lazy ass choose to emulate the National Enquirer's model as oppose to what your buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger did in Califonia?

Anonymous said...

He is a slave - his mind is still trapped in the "yes master syndrome- yes master- we sick master."

and to think he is a director of a national trust of a country.

house negro at his best. Reparation is a must.

Anonymous said...

August 1, 2014 at 6:37 PM

I had heard of the Rosewood Florida event but Tulsa not. Great information, wow.

Anonymous said...

This man Saltibus should first educate himself before he elects to speak on such matters. He does not understand the psychological conditioning of slavery and colonialism. He has absolutely no understanding of history, He does not factor in colonialism and neocolonialism in support of a proper understanding of what black people have been through for generations and are still going through. There is still the unfinished business of reparations. The Jews received reparations and yes they still commemorate not only the more recent holocaust but their alleged enslavement in Egypt over 4000 years ago. Are the Jews living in the past by electing to deal with their history? Mr Saltibus is presumptuous and presumption should be made of sterner stuff. Either he is sucking up to his white masters or else he is simply ignorant.

Anonymous said...

8:04 +SOM +4:58

That' hitting the nail on the head with ctations to boot!

Salty-bust went bust when he referenced ROME. A Blue black Nubian could earn (excellent service- especially associated with support of the professional class.)his /her freedom or earn enough trough industrious fortitude to buy it and live freely in Rome

On the other hand the Euro looking or African looking children of George Washington's or Thomas Jefferson"'- remained slaves till the decision of theCivil War

IT is an accepted economic fact that the free labor of African slaves propelled the shaky upstart that would become an empire.

Also, without that economic migt and rapid riches from it- European states could have consolidated militarily to divide the young nation. War of 1812 was a unilateral bid -imagine if Spain and others had joined in.

Thanks to France and Germany for betting n the winning side

Back to African slaves of the New World

The writer should have themed his article on Financial REPARATIONS as fitting respect for the rape of Africa, the ordeals of the Middle passage , the gross inhumanity and THE PROFITS MADE that ensured the growth prosperity of the empire to add insult to injury -Mr Saltyboss questions the healing powers of our heritage to cope and move on?

That process began in slavery for many -please revisit STILL I RISE by Mayou Angelou

Son-of-man said...

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4:58,

I read "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander exposing the diabolical practices of Caucasians with their so-called War on Drugs, which has decimated the Black Families in this "Land of the Free", that has the dubious distinction of being the only Country in the World responsible for incarcerating the largest percentage of a minority population, in Mass Incarceration of Black people. After reading The New Jim Crow, I am sickened at the sight of Bill Clinton and for that matter any mention of the Clinton's name.

I lent someone that book and it's time to get it back - the injustices are captured in the numerical facts.

It is a breath of fresh air to be in the company of the enlightened and knowledgeable people of this blog.

Surah Al-Anbiya

We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them for a (mere) play[]. (16)
Had We intended to take a pastime (i.e. a wife or a son), We could surely have taken it from Us, if We were going to do (that). (17)
Nay, We fling (send down) the truth (this Qur'ân) against the falsehood (disbelief), so it destroys it, and behold, it (falsehood) is vanished. And woe to you for that (lie) which you ascribe (to Allâh by uttering that Allâh has a wife and a son). (18)
To Him belongs whosoever is in the heavens and on earth. And those who are near Him (i.e. the angels) are not too proud to worship Him, nor are they weary (of His worship). (19)
They (i.e. the angels) glorify His Praises night and day, (and) they never slacken (to do so) (20)


Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

Son-of-man said...

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Rochelle,

THE SON OF GOD APPEARS IN U.S.A. TO EXPLAIN IN THE VIDEO BELOW, WHY CYRIL SALTIBUS AND LINUS CLOVIS SHOULD BE PUT BACK ON THE SLAVE PLANTATIONS PICKING COTTON.

It's a Laugh, but it's not funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6rjsF0HJU


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Anonymous said...

He does make good points, namely that its time to look outward rather than using events which no one living participated. It is sad to see the youths embracing US thug culture.

He is also right that affixing 'black' to everything increases the separateness, which would be decried if the whites did it.

MR. "T" said...

SON OF MAN!

how are U my brother?

in order 4 those who have been misled 2 begin 2 c correctly they must have a clear analytical understanding of the origin strategies, mechanisms purpose and method of the device that has blinded them in the first place.

"Adolf Hitler is a saint in heaven"

Son-of-man said...

People:

Examine the hollowness of the argument in the statement above at 4:38; quote,

"He (Cyril) is also right that affixing 'black' to everything increases the separateness, which would be decried if the whites did it."

I submit that the most influential things in the the lives of the human being are Politics and Religion (P & R). What a person eats, drinks, smokes, kills, marries, sells etc. is determined by the two, P & R. Where you can live, urinate, spit, dress, etc are governed by the two. I unequivocally state that "White" has been prefixed subliminally to every criterion of success - from "good/nice" hair and nice nose to where you will go after death.

One does not have to verbalize the "most beautiful woman" is the White Woman, since we have been given her image and the attributes associated with her in the "Litany of the Virgin Mary".

When the word God is mentioned, it invokes a certain image in your mind, and that image is a pale skinned Caucasian man who is almighty, Most Loving, Most Kind, All-Powerful etc; I do not have to prefix White to God, to convey the message of White supremacy.

This applies to Hollywood awards, Beauty Pageants, down to the politics of the Legal systems. Therefore one sees that the statement, - “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” - did not apply to Black people since they were considered property and not fully human by a Race of Savages. Allow me to digress here.


During the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Delegates to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the issue of how to count slaves split the delegates into two groups. The Northerners/Union, who we are told fought to free the slaves, regarded slaves as property who should receive no representation. Southerners/Confederates, who we are told were against freedom for slaves, demanded that Blacks be counted as equal with whites. The compromise clearly reflected the strength of the pro-slavery forces at the convention. The “Three-fifths Compromise” allowed a state to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House.

Rather than halting or slowing the importation of slaves in the south, slavery had been given a new life — a political life. Even when the law stopped the importing of new slaves in 1808, the south continued to increase its overall political status and electoral votes by adding and breeding slaves illegally. The Three-fifths Compromise would not be challenged again until the Dred Scott case in 1856, where the issue of a Black person had no rights that a Caucasian was bound to respect.

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney issued what is widely regarded as the worst Supreme Court opinion ever. He noted that the question before the Court was whether African Americans are citizens of the United States and thus able to file suit in federal court. His analysis of that issue is couched in abjectly racist language:

[African Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it.

Son-of-man said...

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Here's a Picture of the Most Beautiful Queen of the Universe - She is a White Woman - this is the reason Cyril goes on the internet to look for white women that all you brain damaged Negroes Lust and dream about to validate your position as an inferior Slave.


http://bonumverumpulchrum.blogspot.com/2009/12/litany-of-blessed-virgin-mary.html



Here are her attributes which none of you beautiful Black women with your majestic voice, soft and beautiful hair, full and beautiful lips, chocolate and golden skin and your diamond beauty possess???

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?


but NOOOO - it's the no-rhythm, clumsy, pink people who are Queen of Negroes. Now repeat after me:

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary,
pray for us.
Holy Mother of God,
pray for us.
Holy Virgin of virgins,
pray for us.
Mother of Christ,
pray for us.
Mother of divine grace,
pray for us.
Mother most pure,
pray for us.
Mother most chaste,
pray for us.
Mother inviolate,
pray for us.
Mother undefiled,
pray for us.
amiable,
pray for us.
Mother most admirable,
pray for us.
Mother of good counsel,
pray for us.
Mother of our Creator,
pray for us.
Mother of our Savior,
pray for us.
Virgin most prudent,
pray for us.
Virgin most venerable,
pray for us.
Virgin most renowned,
pray for us.
Virgin most powerful,
pray for us.
Virgin most merciful,
pray for us.
Virgin most faithful,
pray for us.
Mirror of justice,
pray for us.
Seat of wisdom,
pray for us.
Cause of our joy,
pray for us.
Spiritual vessel,
pray for us.
Vessel of honor,
pray for us.
Singular vessel of devotion,
pray for us.
Mystical rose,
pray for us.
Tower of David,
pray for us.
Tower of ivory,
pray for us.
House of gold,
pray for us.
Ark of the Covenant,
pray for us.
Gate of Heaven,
pray for us.
Morning star,
pray for us.
Health of the sick,
pray for us.
Refuge of sinners,
pray for us.
Comforter of the afflicted,
pray for us.
Help of Christians,
pray for us.
Queen of angels,
pray for us.
Queen of patriarchs,
pray for us.
Queen of prophets,
pray for us.
Queen of apostles,
pray for us.
Queen of martyrs,
pray for us.
Queen of confessors,
pray for us.
Queen of virgins,
pray for us.
Queen of all saints,
pray for us.
Queen conceived without Original Sin,
pray for us.
Queen assumed into Heaven,
pray for us.
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
pray for us.
Queen of peace,

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we Thy Servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, be delivered from present sorrow and unjoy enternal happiness. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.


In case you need to see what she looks like, here! but as you scroll/look, you will see your black self with horns being kicked in the face.


http://bonumverumpulchrum.blogspot.com/2009/12/litany-of-blessed-virgin-mary.html



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DR. OPTICAL. said...

SON OF MAN!
REMEMBER
THIS HOUSE SLAVE CYRIL IS/WAS the queen's repressive/representative house hand. he have 2 drink the poison and take the bullet 4 his master.
if his father ever read this bull coming from this swell-headed nigger I can assure U his answer 2 this remark will b: My son Cyril the "dog"

Anonymous said...

Dr. Optical:

who is his father, I hope it's not Sabath from Soufriere?

DR. OPTICAL said...

@ 9:07

U hit the bull in the groove.

Anonymous said...

Dr. Optical,

This guy is my close cousin. My aunt Jane Saltibus, Bees, of Laresouse is my mother's sister. His mother's name's Nelie. Sabath his father worked Electricity Services. This dude is close family.

Son of man.

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Anonymous said...

@Aug 01, 8:04 AM, Caribbean people do not understand their culture. They are led to think that it is all about what happens below the waist-line, in the calypso tents, and in the creole advertisements.
A culture anchored in the past like the Islamic cultures is unprogressive and is sure to result in mayhem, as that which is convulsing the Islamic world today. The wise will not hold their breaths in any expectation of positive change. See how these societies are imploding as is Saint Lucia today. We kid ourselves when we think otherwise.
Note our very close ties with socialist Venezuela and ALBA. Note too, which intransigent and implacable Islamic government and culture was in cahoots with Venezuela just before the death of Chavez.

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Anonymous said...

Commenting in these articles becomes a waste of time. Seriously why is this mumbo jumbo tolerated? Not interested in whose imaginary friend is better etc.

Son-of-man said...

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4:58

After reading ""The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander, I expect this story would not surprise you, but since the Clintons were mentioned yesterday I thought it worthy of mention to underscore my disdain for this criminal family.


Bill and Hillary Clinton are coming under fire today after State Department documents showed that officials rubber-stamped the former president’s expansive and sometimes high-priced overseas speaking engagements while his wife was in charge of foreign policy with many of those nations.

“These documents are a bombshell and show how the Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Judicial Watch and the Washington Examiner teamed to seek and publish those documents today.

the full story:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/charge-clintons-turned-the-state-department-into-a-racket-to-line-their-own-pockets/article/2551448

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Anonymous said...

As Mr. Saltibus quite rightly observed, and as evidenced in the mindless regurgitation of the purely liberation literature of the 1960s and earlier, Blacks are culturally bonded and moored to their past. Tribal institutions (in the broadest sense of the word institutions) and their related culturally shared values are the way of life.

Warped thinking tied to their bounded rationality, these commentators up there honestly think that they are making a whole lot of sense and progress, by metaphorically driving forward with their eyes fully transfixed on the rearview mirror.

This aptly describes all the nations and cultures that are stuck in honouring conditions of a past that does not exist in the present; that does not inform on how to deal with the challenges of the present; and that which keeps them hidebound, slaving on ideas like this the emancipation treadmill.

Hardly anybody is saying that it is time to get off. It is religion. Now try getting development out of that.

The evidence is insurmountable as seen in the tribal intertwined social/political cultures of: Saudi Arabia (saved by oil deposits), Nigeria, Chad, Afghanistan and Saint Lucia.

In Saint Lucia, we still want to be led by holdovers from our slave past. We love to shirk personal responsibility. Just vote for someone for a chicken leg and all will be taken care of as in our slave past.

Historically, we chose slavery instead of freedom by protecting the French slavers from the British. We did not choose freedom or independence. That is our cultural past. That is our cultural present. We never had the inspiration to go it alone like the Haitians did.

Therefore, irrespective of the level of failure, tribal political culture accepts the shared value of a leader for life. See: Castro's Cuba; Venezuela's Chavez; and Saint Lucia's Kenny Anthony.

Son-of-man said...

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Your History did Not Start With Columbus in 1492 – You are the people who took Caucasian Europe out of “THE DARK AGES”

The study of the African presence in history, whether in the African Diaspora or Africa itself, is a richly rewarding endeavour. In this study we realize that slavery alone is not African history and that African history is everybody’s history. The history of African people — Black people — is rich and comprehensive, inspiring and, often, little known. Nowhere is this more the case than the African presence in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the African Moors, as early as the Middle Ages and as late as the 17th century, were “commonly supposed to be black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for Negro.”

Early in the eighth century, after a grim and extended resistance to the Arab invasions of North Africa, the Moors joined the triumphant surge of Islam. Following this, they crossed over from Morocco over to the Iberian Peninsula where their swift victories and remarkable feats soon became the substance of legends.
In July 710, Tariq, with 400 foot soldiers and 100 horses, all Berbers, successfully carried out a mission in southern Iberia. Tariq, an important port city in southern Spain, is named after him.

It is clear, however, that the conquest of Spain was undertaken upon the initiative of Tariq ibn Ziyad. Tariq was in command of an army of at least 10,000 men.

In 711, the bold Tariq crossed the straits and disembarked near a rock promontory, which from that day since has borne his name — Djabal(mountain) Tariq (“Tariq’s Mountain”), or Gibraltar. In August 711, Tariq won paramount victory over the opposing European army. On the eve of the battle, Tariq is alleged to have roused his troops with the following words:

“My brethren, the enemy is before you, the sea is behind; whither would ye fly? Follow your general; I am resolved either to lose my life or to trample on the prostrate king of the Romans.”

Wasting no time to relish his victory, Tariq pushed on with his dashing and seemingly tireless Moorish cavalry to the Spanish city of Toledo. Within a month’s time, General Tariq ibn Ziyad had effectively terminated European dominance of the Iberian Peninsula.

In the aftermath of these brilliant struggles, thousands of Moors flooded into the Iberian Peninsula. Tariq himself, at the conclusion of his illustrious military career, retired to the distant East, we are informed, to spread the teachings of Islam.

KNOW YOUR HISTORY: BOB MARLEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXzGL1JAlCc


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Anonymous said...

With this kind of glorious history what's wrong with the past?

Anonymous said...

@ August 3, 2014 at 12:06 PM, What is the value of all the crap you have been posting if it does not in any form or fashion raise our standard of living?

Please don't bore us to death. Give us the shortest version.

Anonymous said...

Gale @ 1:43

Are you capable of contributing anything to this discussion other than what SOM has described as your signature profanity and bad odour?

It would behove you to practice your sodomy and transvestite lifestyle under the cover of atheism, without publishing your ignorant, lowlife, and degenerate lifestyle as you accelerate to Hell, a fitting recompense for bad breath and your sexual-organs mutilation.

Anonymous said...

There is only one writer in this forum with a one-track mind to proselytize for a belief system that rewards its murderous primitive lowlifes with sex for all eternity. It comes with the primate lifestyle of genital mutilation of their females, perpetual revenge, taking out other tribes and sects of their religion as target practice, severing the hands and legs of their perps in the public square as their system of justice. That is shamelessly being offered as defendable culture.

So, as a result, we have all over in this forum, random but incessant squirts of verbal diarrhea.

Son-of-man said...

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Contrary to popular belief, African people have been in the Americas for tens of thousands of years. In the territory called the United States we have been here at least 51,700 years and in South America for at least 56,000 years. Please read the book "The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence" by Dr. David Imhotep.

"It is often taught that Black people first arrived in the Americas during the slave trade. But that history is in the process of being rewritten as archaeologists continue to find evidence that Black people occupied the American content before the Bering Strait was crossed by Mongolian Asians.

According to the BBC documentary series Ancient Voices and some scholars, these peoples were the Black aboriginal people of Australia and Melanesia. They were later massacred by the invaders from Asia."

Anonymous said...

Some people go to considerable lengths to raise trivia to even greater nonutility. Since, this debate about who arrived first in the Americas, cannot be parleyed into any kind of exchange for goods and services at the supermarket check out, what the heck do I do with it? Why the hell do I need it? For a nerdy TV game, maybe?

You have to be suffering from extremely low self-esteem, if that ever helps to prop up your pathetic and gross self-pity.

Anonymous said...

Could somebody please give that silly attention-seeking negro a brain scan? And while you're at it please send whoever thought this worthy of publication to rehab. Mr Saltibus obviously thinks he is smart, even while he exhibits all the symptoms of mental slavery.