‘We have lost the reason for the season’ – Cromwell Smith
"It seems as though this has happened with our emancipation celebrations. We seem to feel that we have lost the reason for that celebration," he said.
"I don't know if we have really internalised or if we know enough about our celebrations...about the transatlantic slave trade...that our forefathers experienced. I don't know if we know enough about that to have the passion towards the celebration," he said.
"To me that is the important aspect of the celebration...knowing what you are celebrating and how significant it was for the success of your forefathers in gaining their emancipation from physical slavery" he said. "So I don't know if we understand what that physical slavery entailed and the horrors of the slave trade...in order to have the real emotion to put into the celebration," he said.
He also spoke disapprovingly of the entertainment and what he described as vulgarity of the Festival parade participants and the entertainers who come to the country to perform.
However, he noted that while many people are quick to criticise they don't want to contribute to make a difference.
"I applaud those people who work very hard to organise the celebrations, put everything together, get the booths up and running, get the entertainers to come," he said.
He said that there should be more guidelines given as to what the troupes should look like and guidelines on the behaviour and performance of the artists to appear on the stages of the various venues. He said that there seems to be some good ideas coming forward but he is hopeful that the organisers incorporate these into Festival going forward.
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28 Responses to “‘We have lost the reason for the season’ – Cromwell Smith”
Yall quick to criticize and no suggestions brought forward !!! SMH
but your heritage will never change ( we need focus more on our heritage )
The Bvi and any thing positive of its characer has been wiiliingly handed over to the Caribbean Islnds that can only sink and destroy as that is what they know. We are outnumbered. They will never learn our ways because the BVI has been suffocated by their dank dust.
So tired of our so call leaders!!!!