Governor's office a 'real manifestation' of colonial enslavement - Skelton-Cline
"Have you noticed how some people rush to go and defend the Governor and rush to go and defend the Office of the Governor, the very symbol... and real manifestations to this current day that represents our enslavement and our colonial masters?" he questioned.
Skelton-Cline was speaking on the Thursday, July 16, 2020, edition of his radio show on ZBVI 780 AM when he said that the people of the Territory continue to participate in their own subjugation by being easily comforted and persuaded with 'nice words'.
VI continues to celebrate slave owners - Skelton-Cline
"Why are we celebrating people who were slave owners, people who participated in the slave trade, persons like Francis Drake, persons like William Thornton, people who exacted crimes against humanity? Some of these people need to be tried... and found guilty."
When revisited, Skelton-Cline said that many of the past relics and especially historical people are not a good example of model citizens and, hence, should be confined to the 'dustbin of history."
The man of the cloth also called on the bourgeoisie and educated class in the VI to take the first step, while pointing out that now is the best time to change the world.
"How can we change our current condition and chart a new course if we don't confront the lies that have been told in history, even lies about us, that we too have come to believe about ourselves?" he questioned.
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Assessing the people of Africa's past by today's standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains"
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Nigerian journalist
Here the Bible says for slaves to obey their master as if he was God himself.
* 1 Timothy 6:1, “All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honour, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.”
Either you're the same person or ignorance has just quadrupled in this place. Your time has expired... The 400 years are over-
Acts 7:6
Genesis 15:13
But what I love the most is Genesis 15:14 and it says, in your same King James Version that "...that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward they shall come out with great substance."
It's ok, we understand it is a fearful thing for the ones who are not called after God's name.
They tried to impose their last names on the ancestors and today they laugh at the fools in the bvi who fight over who have their slave masters last name but I know my last name is Israel!
Short presentational grey line
My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings.
"He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him," my father told me.
Nwaubani Ogogo's slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria.
People from ethnic groups along the coast, such as the Efik and Ijaw, usually acted as stevedores for the white merchants and as middlemen for Igbo traders like my great-grandfather.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Message for the house slave
Stop it. History has proven that you cant win. So to the Lorna Pickering, Marlon switch Ronnie smith mr and Mrs Lettsome Chalwell Flax Even those who proclaim to be pastors to name a few just know you are fighting a battle that you cannot win.
past should not be eliminated, hidden, not talked about. it is there...it cant and should not be ignored. It is what this territory was built on an what has shaped us as human beings to what we are today... we have risen above it.....we have climbed out of it....let us not forget it.
Mr. Cline...focus on something more productive
Francis Drake was a privateer / pirate , long before there were any plantations here. He had nothing to do with slavery.
They must be related. Thick as .....
Moreover, Colonialism is an anachronism with a sordid history that needs to be dumped in the dung heap. The VI, an OT of the UK, is supposedly an internal self-governing territory. However, in reality, it is partially self-governing. The UK is responsible for external affairs, defence, internal security, civil services, RVIPF, jail(partial) and judiciary; VI, other. In addition to the listed responsibilities, the constitution give the governor, the crown rep and de facto head of state, tremendous reserved powers. There is clearly a governing power divide and the gap needs to be significantly narrowed or eliminated altogether. The VI negotiations team at the last constitutional review did less than a stellar job in the negotiations. Consequently, in the next constitutional review, the power of the governor needs to be curtailed.
The brutal Atlantic slave trade commenced on or about the mid 1600’s. Millions of captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic to the Americas and the Caribbean colonies; many had a watery grave on the way across the pond. Though the UK abolished the slave trade in 1807, physical slavery was not officially abolished until 1838. Cheap slave labour created many millionaires with the wealth of slave owners passed on to their descendants at their leaving this earth. Slave traders and slave owners benefited from slave labour yet to date neither slaves nor their descendants have received a wooden nickel. Slavery abolished, the UK borrowed approximately £20M to compensate slave owning families. Per a University of London study, approximately 3000 slave owning families were compensated; the families of some prominent Britons, including a former prime minister, were compensated. The loan was retired in 2015, which means that Black Britons were paying to payoff a loan taken out to pay slave owners who owned their foreparents. In any event, it is time to shed colonialism and make slave descendants whole. It is time for reparation.
Reparation is about righting a wrong. Slaves were definitely brutalized, exploited, abused and dehumanized. Reparation is not a hypothetical situation. Other groups who have been wronged have received reparation, eg, Jews, Japanese among others. So why not slave descendants?
Go shit ur w**** @$% down if u want to be walking around here blind folded that ur @$% u go blind ur kids too ..not me and mines ...u #%^&* out of timing mule