Price for Failure

There can be no doubt; Black people are paying the price for failure. They failed to protect their human resources. They failed to protect the natural resources of their indigenous homeland. Their inability to protect themselves led to enforced migration, colonization, slavery and the seemingly never-ending holocaust. It seems an uphill task with little or no measure of success. Their overall, behavioural pattern can best be described as crabs in the barrel syndrome. The enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy of different and/or differing ethnic groupings. It is simply frightening the theology of self-liberation has been replaced by material self-worth and dependence on other ethnic groups and the language of political correctness. In this epoch, our people are caught-up with defeatist attitudes and practices. Consumerism and dollarism reign supremely. They present major stumbling blocks to socioeconomic and political development.

The scramble for Africa continues. East Indians and Chinese are making their presence known. The twentieth-first century edition of the scramble for Africa will not be totally dominated by Europeans. However, the so-called Africans are not exploiting the natural resources of the continent for the benefit of the people of Africa. The corrupt political and military leadership continues to rape their nations. They utilize their nations' finances as it was their personal bank accounts.
Black people are caught up with catch phrases - such as Money over arrogant women and patterns of behaviour our ancestors will not, and cannot comprehend. Harriet Tubman, Antonio Maceo, and the freedom loving people of the past would be appalled at the continued denigradation of our people. It is clear the era of paramountcy of the Party was obviously as terrible an episode to our people as any period under European colonial authority. The mere fact members of the ruling class are, and were members of the struggling class dampened the spirit of militant reaction to repressive measures enacted by the occupants of the highest offices in the land. One wonders when will our people realize and react and over turn conditions that are not in the best interest of the labouring class.
Obviously, politicians are the world's best gangsters. They are great con-artists. They send your babies to kill other people. The cemeteries are filled with the remains of the young. They are mostly less than thirty years of age. However, politicians get richer - and to top it off - declares each other National heroes. They use words and phrases - crying patriotism and threat to national security, national interest, way of life and democracy. Well you ought to be aware of the language of death and destruction by now. For it is parroted by those who benefit from the impacts of war.

Year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium, millions, perhaps billions of people suffer and die because of greed of the ruling class. Yet, militant action is rarely utilized to change the process and the outcome.
Whenever, conscious people expose truth; they are crucified. Christians revere the biblical Jesus Christ.

There were three major violent clashes between Africans and the Portuguese. They were 1848 on the East bank of the Berbice River, February 1856 and March 1889 in Demerara.
There were numerous riots, and strikes on the sugar plantations. The East Indian labourers caught share hell. I am positive; none were celebrating May 5, 1838 as Day of Arrival. The colonial authorities were simply using the threat of death to force the labourers to accept the horrendous conditions of labour. Hundreds of workers were murdered, and injured as results of violent acts perpetuated against them on the orders of police officers. The majority of the lower ranks were Africans, mostly from Barbados. One wonders what the total number of east Indians slaughtered and wounded on the sugar estates between 1869 and 1978 really is.
There were events of ethnic violence between Africans and every group found in Guyana except Chinese. The Native Americans were used to police African slaves. They were also employed in seek and destroy missions against Africans who ran-away from the plantations and established their own communities. Amongst the usual tactics was to burn the rice cultivation of the Africans. I wonder who brought #79 rice to Guiana. I prefer that type of rice. I don't love star bonnet and blue bonnet.

The problems between the Africans and the Portuguese can be easily traced to preferential attitude of the colonial government and the sugar planters. It is beyond my rationale - how people are so indoctrinated into believing the Portuguese in Guyana are not Europeans. Every occasion I look at a map of Europe I observe Portugal in the southern region of the continent. However, most Guyanese copycats the colonials who list the Portuguese separately from Europeans. The problems of 1848 and March 1889 were ignited by confrontation between Portuguese shopkeepers and young Black males. That is certainly a recurring theme in this era, especially on the Atlantic coast of USA. Too many of our young males have fallen victims of over zealous blood thirsty enemies of our people. Peter tosh correctly referred to them as vampires. Today, Arabs for the most part operate small businesses in poor neighborhoods such as 11212, 11216 and others in Brooklyn, New York and elsewhere in New York City. They are quick. They are adept in hurling insults to black males. However, they blatantly flirt with mostly poor black females seeking favors.

Recommended Reading:
Payne, Tommy - 10 Days that shocked the world
Mangru, Basdeo - A history of East Indian resistance
Seecharan, Clem - Bechu
Ramnarine, Tyrone - East Indian Resistence 1869-1978