Fires burning, searing deeply
Consuming your being
The fiber of your whole existence
Being torn apart, ripped away
Destroying all youthful hopes [Read the rest of this entry...]

Africa you have the nerve to accuse Europe?
Africa why don’t you just be quiet and shut up!
Africa you are the colonized
Africa you are the bastardized
Africa you are the one that was euthanized [Read the rest of this entry...]

You do not hear the cries
Nor do you picture the eyes
Of your great great grandmothers
And your great great grandfathers
As they howl in the stinking holes
As the blood leaks from their souls
Of slave ships whipped by the waves of the Atlantic
No, my ancestors were not cruising on the South Pacific

You plundered Africa, Asia, Hispaniola, and the Caribbean
Took all our wealth you didn’t give us none
Trampled all  over the Native American
Now you want us to sing praises to George Washington [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yes, I got white friends; but I sho nuff love me my black people.  Ah loves de energy, ah loves de rhythmn, ah loves me de sweat of my own black people.  Yeah folks, Yaasantewaa Ahyase is at the Jazz Mobile concert at Grant’s Tomb near Riverside Drive.  The sweet soothing sound of jazz is playing in the background.  Ah loves to see little black children running around free.  Ah loves to see de smiles on black faces.  Ah just loves to see mah people walking around.  Isn’t it a wonderful thing that we ain’t enslaved no more.  We’s just walking and strutting and sittting and talking and laughing and singing and dancing.  Whoopee!

I appreciate the advances in race relations.
I appreciate that Blacks and Whites can marry and have children
Without white women falsely crying rape
And without black women really being raped whenever massa wanted some. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Competition vs. Cooperation in the Caribbean

Why should Caribbean countries be competing amongst themselves for tourist dollars or foreign investment.  Of course we would want the best for each territory.  For example, it’s a good thing if foreigners enjoy Bahamian, Bajan, or the Cayman Islands beaches.  However, it is not a good thing when the economies of  entire countries are based almost solely on tourist dollars.  Nor on off-shore banking dollars for that matter.

It’s okay to be attractive without selling yourself. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Economic and Political Unity needed

Now that we know that we basically have a common origin, we can see the senselessness in our not being united.   Each current-day Caribbean country should be interested in Political and Economic Unity, not only through the realization of our common origin, but also because at the present time we are so economically and politically weak as seen from the global international stage. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Black people of Caribbean descent know very well that we were not indigenous to the Caribbean.  Our descent is really from our African foremothers and forefathers who managed to make it across the Middle Passage.

When some of us mention or acknowledge this fact, some others have said, “Why are you talking about Africa”, [Read the rest of this entry...]

Welcome to the inauguration of this website!  It has been a long time coming

On the right you will see a copy of the book, “Colonialism’s Children”.  The entities dealt with in this book are countries; specifically previously colonized countries, where most of the inhabitants are people of color, non-European, African; otherwise known as 3rd world or developing countries.  (more recently, with growing proof and acknowledgement that African people and people of color were the first inhabitants on this earth, some refer to this 3rd world as 1st world.) [Read the rest of this entry...]

They said it couldn’t be done, but Barack and Michelle Obama did enter the White House.   Black people are in the White House.  Wonder what the founding fathers are saying?

Madison, Hamilton, Jay, Jefferson, Washington, Framers, what are we to do?  How could the Union be perfect if Blacks are only three-fifths (3/5ths) of a person? [Read the rest of this entry...]