August 5, 2022
Our Caribbean leaders are so empty and bourgeoisie at times that it is sad to watch them at times. Their long running hot ticket item is building ties with countries on the African continent. While this is noble, but lest we forget they are the descendants of the people that initially sold us to slavery. Their forefathers are the reason why we are here and the reason we don’t know what our home on their continent looks like.
While I empathize with the African plight, in no way, shape or form, am I not cognizant of what spat us out of our own home. Even to this day, dictators on the continent run rampant and either outright sell their “brothers and sisters” to slavery to the Arabs, or they leave them so broken and destitute that they have to brave the trek to Europe to at least be a bathroom attendant. Yup, they are doing it to each other to this day!
So, pray tell, what can we learn from them when God has blessed us in these Caribbean islands? In this glorious New World after our “brothers and sisters” sold us out so freely and willingly? It is likely they are looking for something in particular. Great job they did on the continent haven’t they? It’s a beacon of development and strength. *sarcasm*
Meanwhile in the Caribbean, things are just fine here. The descendants of slavery are so strong, we even put our slave masters out of these islands after time. We ain’t that bad, you know? We don’t need no back-to-Africa mumbo jumbo.
I know, I know, you pine to know where you have come from. Me too. I want to know if I am Zulu, Maasai, Igbo or Fulani too. But I am not enamoured with the idea to think that we can all sit down and sing kumbayah and invite the descendants of the ones that sold us back to my table to eat anything until they have repented- every last one of them. There was a reason why God allowed us to be sold and a reason why we are in this New World. Open your eyes!