Alred C. Frett. Photo: VINO/File

It’s almost sacrilegious that although telephone, television and internet have brought the World into our homes, many slave descendants still know little or nothing of Mandela and Martin who actually suffered and died for the freedom of Africans… Instead they profess to worship and know everything about imaginary Jesus who was crowned and rejected as King of the Jews – Not of us.

With no portraits of Martin, Malcolm or Mandela but many of Jesus and Mary, Massa Lynch’s lessons of ignorance, ingratitude and self-denial keep us in 21^st Century Slavery by conditioning us to see slave masters as Gods and our own brothers and sisters as devils… As a consequence, many profess to be black and proud externally while lacking self-pride and confidence internally. 

Slave masters lessons make us quick to say, ‘If it’s not me or mine then I don’t give a D---’ so instead of reasoning that every targeted brother or sister has the potential to be you or yours we bask in denial… They rightly reasoned that once we were conditioned to despise and destroy each other we would be easier to capture, control and oppress without the wisdom of flight or fight. 

Although it is natural for wisdom to increase with successive generation, they counted on our children being unlucky enough to have non-thinkers as parents… They reasoned that even those rescued would reject their rescuers – Thus while some now hail brothers Mandela and King as freedom fighters, 50-years ago they were jailed as trouble makers – And some still don’t care.

There should be no doubt that forces of evil are real and well prepared… Their quest is to keep us in ignorance via religion, wars, blocking internet or making education unaffordable and while we have all benefited by standing on the shoulders of our forefathers, we must decide whether to lift our children onto our own shoulders or instead, chose to stand on the heads of the youth.

When the Boss is God & Cash is King:

None of this may be easy because these traps are carefully crafted by the rich to use our own stupidity to their advantage and until we educate and inform our people we will forever be victims of poor on poor crime… Meanwhile, as we destroy one another, the Middle Class is decimated and the 3% that seems to have it all presides over the 90+% of those who have little or nothing.

We see it happening as more and more fast foods or minimum wage marches reveal that too many of our males are in Governments’ jails and too many women stuck in fast food kitchens. The same systems that shout freedom and democracy shout ‘lock them up’ as money-grabbing CEO’s and Managers complain of cash flow problems as excuses not to pay their hard workers.

These ongoing hardships, along with misguided increases in such fines and fees as Work Permits and Visas are already backfiring as long- residing Caribbean brothers and sisters are now packing up and repatriating to their homelands, leaving trails of empty apartments, outstanding bills, loss of expertise and substantial financial holes in the pockets of our local economy.

Even in our trickle down economy, the powerful and greedy remain unsatisfied – to them ‘too much is still not enough’ so our internal dilemma is worsened by external influences of FATCA and rumblings of unnecessary wars when International Rights and Humanity become targeted by global greed and imperial bigotry -  They are quick to say, war is no solution but play it anyway.

As usual we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t – we are forced to be quiet and then told ‘silence gives consent’ so rather than think, reason and plan for ourselves, we hide our heads in the sand and believe some imaginary God won’t send us more than we can bear when in fact, the graveyards continue to be populated by those who certainly have had more than they could bear.

The Ultimate Display of Slave Masters Power:

History has shown playing deaf and dumb will not negate dangers and the fact is that when members of an organization usurp the designated function of that organization they become a threat to the objectives and existence of all other members… The threatened actions of US, UK, France and other rogue nations against Syria and others undermine the purpose and existence of the UN.

Furthermore, to tolerate and encourage such behaviour sanctions the mighty to regard all others as its possession and their freedom and rights no longer exist… As slave descendants, colonialism taught us, when the rights of nations are compromised the rights of its people are nullified… The only name for this is slavery in accordance with the biblical ‘Mark of the Beast’.

No wonder religion more than anything teaches conflict, racial supremacy and slavery thereby allowing some to openly break local and international laws while others are bullied and bombed on mere suspicion… Again, it appears impossible for readers to understand the agony of slavery and oppression when their roots are anchored to the foundation of slave traders and masters.

War remains that ultimate exhibition of ‘The Slave Law Mentality’ where might is right and the weak are destined to be meek – A process where old leaders in air-conditioned offices send the young to kill and be killed as disposable toys in their word games - They promise the meek shall inherit the earth as they bury them in it and erect their own ‘No Trespassing’ signs.

It seems unnatural for Obama not to see that those pushing him along this caustic road are his own political enemies and the religious right… Think about it - McCain will never be his friend so his advice would be aimed at polluting Obama’s legacy with wars and financial chaos.

Accomplishing this would hurt us but bring great joy to the Republican and religious right.

We are entering a crucial phase that will be controlled by the decisions and actions of others at home and abroad… We must prepare and adjust ourselves for the challenge of survival by looking out for others and not just ourselves… I am convinced; with the necessary will and way we may even turn their bad seeds into our good apples… This can and will be done if we begin today.

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