AFRICANS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH ABOUT SLAVERY

Every day you wake up and most times you have no idea what the day will bring; what opportunities, what challenges, what people will you meet? Today was one of those days when you wake up and then suddenly you meet someone who falls right in line with your peace.

Meet Vitus, a young poet from Accra Ghana , who I just met through social media. I will not go into how I met him but after speaking for a little I thought I had to share his work . In the above video #Vitusspeakz addresses the incessant complains of Africans about the impact slavery had on them in this two minute spoken word masterpiece.

I urge you to go follow him. If you are looking for reminders , positive reminders, then he is your man. Here’s to promoting another black brother, dedicated to making life, your life, a place of beauty.

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THE FIRST RASTA- STORY OF LENNOX HOWELL

If you haven’t seen this documentary on @LennoxHowell , the First Rasta in Jamaica then you are short changing yourself of some critical history. Its a fascinating Story that sadly not a lot of Jamaicans know as our history is whitewashed.

In many respects Jamaica🇯🇲 is , despite it’s so called symbolic Independence, a nation on a constant struggle to determine how can an island, stocked with different peoples from all over the World come together as a nation and find commonality in creating a successful and thriving economic life that is significantly different to what they were forcibly asked to do.

EMANCIPATION only meant the legal right of people who were SLAVES to refuse to work with the Gun placed by their head. It didn’t mean suddenly the same people were now economically on par with their former bosses _ The history of Leonard Howell, the First Rastafarian is one that opens the doors to our dramatic and sordid history of how a people, scattered and hammered in humanity is still figuring a #System that still hovers over their heads like a dark cloud. _

We have a far way to go. A leader will have to emerge and free us from the mental slavery that has never been emancipated, to allow US to see our future as ONE people with ONE mission.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1957- JAMAICA’S 9/11

September 1, 1957.
Jamaica was still a prized colony in the assets of the British Empire. The island had profited well for the Brits. Sugar was king and the sales of the product made a lot of people millionaires at the time. The status quo was healthy for the rich and whites. It was necessary to maintain.
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One of the social facilities in place at the time was the very popular railway system. It was the only mass transit system thst moved both black and white people across the island, the coaches however still maintained the status quo with white cats to the front and the black ones to the rear.
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It was a Sunday and it was the big religious day. The Roman Catholic church had its role to play in the indoctrination of black people and they were successful at it. The train was over subscribed that day as there was a retreat organized by the church in Montego Bay. Black people donned their Sunday best and took the trip of a lifetime, all across to the other side of the island. As fate would have it, some of them would not return home.
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On the way back to Kingston the train crashed leaving over 200 dead and hundreds injured. It was technically Jamaica’s first 9/11 except it was 9/57. Grief, shock and despair loomed over the island for days. Mass graves were made for the dead, and it took months for the investigation to be completed. In the end the investigation revealed tampered brakes to be one of the reasons as well as a bad managed train system.