Thursday, September 5, 2013

A Discussion of Race Remains Relevant in St. Lucia

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see the issue being revisited, but time with much greater authority and the inclusion of sources such as Basil Davidson. There is a lot of work ahead.

The born and bred Africans themselves have not yet come to terms with the enslavement of their own, nor the sale of their own to white slavers.

Nothing along the lines of the reconciliation and healing exercise that was attempted in South Africa has spread along to other geographical areas on the African continent.

But alas! Saint Lucians are not the type of people who have displayed any type of intellectual curiousity in any subject, save the few who have travelled and have studied the related social issues.

I can understand Mr. Pierre's frustration. He is seeing a real erosion of small gains being swallowed up by economic recolonization. Here we have a predatory merchant class with a Trojan Horse candidate, as a proxy for a successful father as the expected liberator of the people.

Just like with the UWP grabbament, the so-called government, and the OECS Court of Appeals Tuxedo Villa Affair, when party ministers went about grabbing monies from the public purse, the fox is boldly being cheered on, giving full leeway and access to 'guard' the henhouse.

September 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM
OPTICAL said...

@ above u are very brain------wash!!!!
the white man put his evil and vicious forces of defence into your empty head and u are writing his nanny-----bed---time story.

"Africans enslave his brothers and sold them to white slavers".

tell me did the Africans sold his brother's to your ancestors?

September 7, 2013 at 2:13 PM
McKendal said...

Thankfully we get a sober, cogent and intelligent perspective on the race situation in St Lucia. What has struck me foremost in Nkrumah Lucien's article are the fact that we have in this country, as well as in the wider Caribbean, refused to engage the issues of race, racism and white privilege and the egregious self hate and hankering after whiteness that so afflicts large sections of our black population; and secondly the fact that our politicians will generally avoid dealing with these issues except for the self serving purpose of expediency. Small wonder that our schools still teach our history from the perspective of our colonizers and enslavers; small wonder that Emancipation Day is treated with such blatant lack of seriousness or respect: small wonder that in this country no monument honours the millions who suffered and died over centuries of African enslavement or the extermination of the indigenous population. The vestiges of that past are with us today. The institutionalized relationship between race and class with blacks relegated to the very bottom is a legacy of that history of slavery and colonialism. I am grateful to Mr Lucien for pointing that out.

September 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM

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