Religious Supremacy in TnT Today
Posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2001
(Dr. Kwame Nantambu) In his book titled Yet With a Steady Beat : Biographies of Early Black Savannah(2001),
Rev. Charles Lwanga Hoskins asserts that "religion by its very nature is a two edged- sword. While whites were able to use it to oppress blacks, conversely blacks used religion to survive and eventually to the extent possible, overcome the oppression" (p.29). This article seeks to analyze the appointment of a white, Euro-American as the ninth Archbishop of TnT within the context of European supremacy and the 'two edged-sword' modus operandi of religion. However, it is vital to posit on Afro-centric, historical, linkage background prior to the analysis in order to put this Euro religious supremist action in its proper perspective. More
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Education for Afrikan-Trini Powerlessness
Posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2001
(Dr. Kwame Nantambu) In analyzing public education in the United States, the deceased, erudite, international Afro-centric scholar, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, once concluded that: "We have to realize that education has but one honorable purpose ... one alone ... everything else is a waste of time: that is, to train the student to be a proper handler of power. Being Black and beautiful means nothing until ultimately you're Black and powerful. The world is ruled by power not blackness and not by beauty. More
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Social Decadence in TnT: An Overview
Posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2001
(Dr. Kwame Nantambu) Since the 1970s, there have been a rapid decline in the social fabric in TnT - a decline that did not exist in the 1960s. In the 1960s, we were poor and polite; our family structure was on solid grounds. The Indian-Afrikan extended family way of life and being were the common glue that kept us together as one social unit. We have LOST them. More
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Afrikan-Trinis Identity Denial
Posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2001
(Dr. Kwame Nantambu) Racial reality finally set in for Marlon Black, an Afrikan-Trini, as to who he really is to the outside world, whether he realizes it or not. Indeed, if he does not, then it only reflects the myopic, short- sided and asinine sub- conscious mind- set of Afrikan - Trinis as to their identity as a PEOPLE. The incident in Australia is a reality check for all Afrikan- Trinis; it is a significant racial, ethnic wake- up call, by design and not by accident. Marlon Black and his two other fellow cricket associates need to hastily rewind social calypso commentator Stinger's rendition for the 2000 season titled "Fight" in which he correctly expounds that "in the eyes of the European man we All Black." More
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Ramesh Human Rights Bureau?
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2001
(Shelagh Simmons) Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj has said he used the money he was awarded in damages following his 1975 jailing for contempt of court not for himself but to set up the Trinidad and Tobago human rights bureau for the benefit of all.
Very commendable, to be sure. How regrettable then that instead of building on what he had achieved, he chose to undermine his own good work. He systematically attacked international human rights structures which were of great benefit to the people of T&T too. But he did not stop there. He actually withdrew from them, thus depriving everyone in the country of international redress for any human rights violations they suffer. More
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