Are VIslanders placing nationality before race?
During the programme, which was hosted by commentators Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru and Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka, Smith stated, “The thing that we are doing now as African descendants of putting nationalities before race, no other group on the planet is doing that.”
He mentioned that all other groups on the planet, in their success as a group, particularly the Caucasian (white) race’s success as a group, was based on putting race before nationality. He also noted that Asians followed a similar trend in behaviour pattern.
Smith stated that the story of African history and enslavement needs to be told and done in such a way “where we as African descendants unite with each other across nationalities.”
The view was not limited to Caribbean or English speaking descendants of African slaves as according to Smith, “All African descendants around the world, if we had a modicum of unity, would be celebrating the African descendants’ emancipation from the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation era. Even the African brothers and sisters would have a celebration.”
Earlier, Smith said, “The story of our greatness as a people needs to be told so that when the transatlantic slave trade story is told we could have an appreciation of where we were and what we have fallen to.”
Wheatley suggested that this would also offer a view of what this enslavement really means to the culture of African descendants.
The duo said that a misrepresentation of history has been passed on with the tale that Africans sold their brothers into slavery with Smith stating that “nothing could be further from the truth”. He added that it was a case of the victim being made to take the blame for his own enslavement.
According to Wheatley, many who have perpetuated this line of reasoning have simply never bothered to do the necessary research but have parroted what they were told by other, similarly misinformed individuals.
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27 Responses to “Are VIslanders placing nationality before race?”
BUT ... do you believe solutions to the BVI community's problems lie in a race-based approach?
Do you seriously claim that white folks were united around this idea that their whiteness was the most important thing guiding their actions? Check your history. White folks didn't take no notice of skin color when they spent thousands of years killing each other for the simple motives of greed and power. They didn't advance because they were united. They love to kill, rob and steal off each other as much as anyone else.
So don't go dreaming black folk around the world will somehow dominate planet earth if they could only turn themselves into some kind of black panthers or black kkk. That's just foolishness. Division along the lines of complexion is only a fast track to bloodshed. And that blood is always red, no matter whose it is.
I think you are saying - to no one's surprise - Africans unite. Well, good. It is a fine sentiment to aspire to. In the real world, reality will continue day to day, regardless.
A couple of things you need to research, quickly: First you say, the Jews are Caucasian!!!?
WTF planet are you on? The Jews are .... Jewish and have been since Adam and Eve.
Second: The Jews are slaughtering the .... Persians??? LORD HAVE MERCY. No my friend, you are talking about Palestinians. Persians, though of a similar skin color and look are very, very different. What are you, a racist? Hint - Iran used to be called Persia, not any more. And are the Iranians OR Palestinians Caucasian? NO!!!! They are Iranian (Persian) and Arab.
Please, all you people who go around lecturing us all on black supremacy and the giant conspiracies going on against black people – back off until you've educated yourselves to at least a basic level of understanding the world. It is not a planet made up of Us and Them (black and almost everyone else is 'Caucasian' ie from the Caucuses). It is a complicated mixed up world in which good and evil appear in many colors for many reasons. Don't tear our island apart by preaching this kind of half-baked 'knowledge' which is really just total, embarrassing ignorance.
Anyway, Chinese & chinese everywhere, Indians are indians everywhere. BUt the major reason why this cannot happen with black people is b/c we are not all of similar origin. All balack ppl aren't directly from "Africa" And we were all different tribes with different cultures & it's had to differientiate who were Ashanti, Israelite, Zulu etc etc where as many of the other cultures although they were similarly tribal have common religious beliefs & culture that unite them we have always had different cultures with our race.
Just as within little BVI there are many different cultures & an outsider would not know what is really BVI culture from Dominican, Jamaican, Kittian etc
Touchy subject for most as they have never learned about how they arrived here or about the 1st world order in the first place.
An African girl I once tried to date told me it did not make sense because she would never be able to marry me. The reason: I was a descendant of slaves and she was of a different bloodline. The high class Africans look at all black Westerners as descendants of slaves, lower class. So Slavery was a reality in African Societies, it was just different. Slaves in Africa were like modern day maids, nanny and gardeners. They were a part of the home and were treated as such.
Furthermore, what's up with idealizing the white man,. The white man has constantly been to wars within themselves, UK Irish relations or with other white countries, world war 2 anyone?
The world hated that government and eventually it fell because it was morally bankrupt and pure evil.
So, is that what you are calling for in the BVI? Some kind of separate development political regime, with black people first class citizens, all others second?
How in God's name is that going to make this country well again?