Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe - AFP/Getty
BU has reposted Ras Jahaziel’s comment, He believes same sex unions must be repressed.
… I am talking about is the fact that THE SAME COLONIAL POWERS that invaded Africa and put Black people in slavery and took away their lands, and their language, and their names, and their culture and impoverished them are now trying to go further in IMPOSING THEIR GRECO-ROMAN WORLD VIEW ON AFRICANS.
See what Mugabe is saying – Mugabe to Cameron on calls to respect gay rights: ‘To hell with you’. ALL AFRICAN COUNTRIES PLUS THE CARIBBEAN, that means Black people throughout the world are being PRESSURED to follow the MAN MARRYING MAN CULTURE. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN that we always talk like we are so concerned about?
This is a step by step thing. Your children will soon be taught that if boys feel like girls there is something normal with that, and if they feel that they should come to school in dresses, there is something normal with that. Cant you all see how THE WHORE OF BABYLON is trying to make all nations drunk with her abominations?
I am thinking that none of us can afford to keep silent. The church and everybody should be speaking out. But this is tied in to what we were talking about earlier: CAPTIVE LABOR. All of those collared and tied men that laid out the red carpet are showing you how COLLARED AND TIED they are. They have lost their manhood and cannot STAND UPRIGHT and let the Greco-Romans know that we as Africans have a different world view.
If there must be silence about this issue then forget about talking about HOW THE YOUTHS GET SO. How come nobody is standing up and strengthening Hammy on this issue?
Is it as he said because of being STUPID UNDER THE UNION JACK where the white man has to be your master continually?
So this should be the discussion. HAVE BAJAN SPINES TURNED TO JELLY, so that they can continue to bend you, shape you, and rearrange you in THEIR IMAGE?
Why is everybody loosing their voice and clearing their throats now that it is time to speak up?
@ Brudah Bim and anyone else if the cap fits
Frankly, I find you all as bigoted, intolerant, insensitive, insultng and, to a point, vicious as each other. Ras has his rastaF. Brudah Bim has his traditional religion. Doubtless there’s a Moslem reader. I have my own curious kind of Christianity.. Of course we have our theological problems with each other’s brand of whatever it is, as well as the historical ‘take’ on much of what has been said. I don’t actually buy into the chicken creation story; nor the garden of Eden story, nor the idea that the last prophet in the line is the end of it – which is why, for me, religiousness is more significant than religion. And that -religiousness – is what we should be searching for in each other. I am quite sure it’s there. But if the new creation depended on what has been spouted in this blogging then, sadly, we remain in the shadow
of the idol of the cave.
Now……on the question of the weather……
@ robert ross
“Brudah Bim has his traditional religion”
You’re wrong, when did I ever say that I was a practitioner of traditional African Religions. Please don’t go about accusing people of being bigoted when you aren’t sure of what their standings are, especially when it comes to faiths.
To correct you, I am in fact AGNOSTIC teetering closely to ATHEISM. I do not believe in an institutionalized version of “God”, and I even question “his” existence.
To clarify my argument, I was only arguing that if Bajans TRULY wanted to decolonize, that they would adopt traditional African faiths to start with.
In essence, just be mindful please to not speak on behalf of others before checking in with them.
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@ Brother Miller
The weather here in the U.S. has been especially sporadic to say the least. We have increased rates of Hurricanes afflicting the southern regions, and further up North (where I’m located), there has been scant snowfall and longer periods of seasons that should actually be brief (ie. Autumn). Some areas in the North East are reporting especially heavy snows while in other parts, such as here in New York, we have been seeing little snow. Not to mention that we also get spontaneous bursts of snowfall and rain-pour and yet the sun will break out in the midday (only for brief periods though).
I also realized that when the winds pick up during the day, it will prove to be especially bitterly cold at night. So to answer your question Brother Miller, yes, We too are being slammed with such drastic changes in our climate. Little do Bajans know that the U.S. government has responded by initiating alternative energy and fuel companies, however it is gradual.
I believe that the Bajan government should follow suit by being more innovative. the country grows sugar en masse, yet there still isn’t any talks within parliament as to initiating a bio-diesel industry domestically to meet Bim’s needs. With all the sugar Bim produces, we should be producing Ethanol fuel by now!!
Just thinking about it makes me frustrated at Bim!
@ Brother Miller
Oh My Goodness!! It was as you said it would be. Ras Jahaziel has yet to address my questions and all he can come up with are quotes from his beloved sacrilegious texts (IE. THE BIBLE).
a truly pathetic comeback indeed, I should have known better to not start engaging in a debate with him. He cannot rebut anything I said because RAS JAHAZIEL Knows its the truth.
Thus making anything he says in the future, IRRELEVANT. A sad case indeed, Maybe I was too nice (or stupid, rather) when I told Jahaziel that he has “sooooo much potential.”
He poses no real argument, thus I shall discount him as you so wisely advised Brother Miller.
@Brudah-Bim | February 29, 2012 at 9:35 PM |
“With all the sugar Bim produces, we should be producing Ethanol fuel by now!! ”
Seems Climate change is gradually creeping up on us. Fortunately for Bim the melting of the glaciers in the Arctic would put very cold water in the Atlantic for a few more years and thus slow down the heating of the surface water which provides fuel for hurricanes. But the downside is the rising sea levels and the destruction of the coastlines and infrastructure.
But in regard to Bim producing sugar your mind is playing tricks and imagining the halcyon days of the Sugar King. Man, this country can’t even produce 20,000 tonnes of sugar. If we make that target this year we will be fortunate. A viable sugar industry in Bim requires no less than 50,000 tonnes of sugar production. Ethanol would require another 200,000 tonnes of cane to be planted and harvested for a viable ethanol investment. You feel that if the nincompoops “bout hey’ can’t even produce enough sugar to meet its export contracts, fulfil local requirements for industrial and domestic consumption and at least try to produce enough molasses to make our much valued rum we can produce ethanol.
If drastic action is not taken now I believe the industry would close next year. Government has no money to keep subsidizing this industry in its present parlous state. And the IMF would not allow it either. One should not envy the political party which has to announce the obituary.
miller the industry might soon be sold to the chinese close what !
@ac | February 29, 2012 at 10:15 PM |
You are really a very gullible person. Anything coming from C S should be taken with “healthy” pinch of salt (pardon the oxymoron). This is the same man that promised to pay Barrack since last year October. But instead he spent time plotting to unseat your man FS. What do you call that? Dependability or treachery? Don’t you think that the bs artist would be more effective if he could get the Chinese to invest in the Four Seasons project? The Chinese would only be interested in a sugar industry in Bim if they can own the land, bring in their own management and labour and operate within a totally Union free, tax free and unregulated environment. Chinese are interested in the Jamaica sugar industry not Bim. Even Africa or South America would attract their attention more so before Bim. It is possible they might advance a loan which they know would be paid back via the one-way trading relationship that exists.
@ B-Bim
I am not going to play the game. Save to say this….you have the cheek to criticize those you repeatedly say are brainwashed by European faiths and refer them to African traditional religion – and you have done this from the post onwards. It is in that sense I wrote as I did – not to suggest you are a ‘practitioner’. I have no interest in what you actually believe. But IF you had no empathy with that and regard it all as hogwash why are you SO critical of us all?. You see, not all of us see religion in your terms, that is in terms of the religion of colonial masters however we actually conceive of the divine or of the Bible. We are entitled to say ‘Well, you were right on this one’ aren’t we – just as we might say (having left the bush) ‘I prefer Gucci shoes – or Clarke’s – or trainers – to bare feet’? I really don’t see how making decisions about faith, or shoes, compromises my ability to grow as a person, to express my own uniqueness, or that of other people of my race. But then, in personal terms, you will note that I spoke of religiousness rather than religion. In doing so, I don’t feel less – or more – colonized. I don’t even feel enlightened – perhaps simply more joyful.
“I really don’t see how making decisions about faith, or shoes, compromises my ability to grow as a person, to express my own uniqueness, or that of other people of my race.”
Never once did I even insinuate that, nor was I trying to convey such a notion. Your choice in your faith is your prerogative, I am in no position (nor was I attempting to adopt such a role) to dictate what faith one should follow.
I am merely pointing out here that foreign bred religions is serving to divide the nation through issues such as the mentioned gay rights. It makes no sense to preach hate to your brothers and sisters when their ancestors are one in the same as ours.
It makes no sense to discriminate against them because “the Bible” says so because people have used the story of Ham to justify the bondage of our ancestors.
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“But IF you had no empathy with that and regard it all as hogwash why are you SO critical of us all?”
I am merely pointing out the facts as to how they are. You can choose to live in ignorance if that is what brings you bliss. However I am aware that my people’s future as a nation is at stake and the government is doing nothing to stop it because they are owned by foreign corporations and powers.
So if you think that my motion to educate Bajans about this messed up paradigm is “criticism”, then so be it. And by the way, in every nation; THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR CRITICISM.
Domestic criticism is what helps a nation move forward as the needs of the nation are pushed to the front on the government’s agenda of priorities. It is what ensures the SUSTAINABLE development of a nation. As a people who have been and are still made to live under a system of colonialism, Bajans HAVE THE RIGHT TO CRITICIZE their government for failing to provide a solid stake in the nation’s economic and political future.
SO PLEASE DO NOT HARP ON ME FOR REFUSING TO BE THE TYPICAL “COMPLACENT NEGRO” THAT HAS LONG BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE NOW EMASCULATED BAJAN IDENTITY!
Trying to save the industry should be a priority the sugar industry does have meaningful potential in other areas .
@ ac | March 1, 2012 at 6:27 AM |
“Trying to save the industry should be a priority the sugar industry does have meaningful potential in other areas.”
This goal was clearly stated in the DLP manifesto on which they were elected. Five years in the making and what we have is an almost 50% drop in sugar production and many acres overrun by bush and inhabited by rats and other vermin.
Now, ac, please no reference to the time of plenty under the OSA 14 years of your so-called mismanagement. That is why the people got rid of his administration and elected the DLP to make a difference. No blaming the “bogeyman international recession either. There is a contracted (guaranteed for the time being) export market to be met in order to earn much needed forex; and also a local market to save forex. Bajan-made sugar is a real locally made product with high local inputs (added value) of a much higher quality than that imported to meet our local requirements. But like everything thing else loads of promises but little action except in the building of ovens (concrete houses in theTropics) for people without jobs or disposable incomes.
@ Bruda-B
The nuances of the post are hilarious. We are carping and the rest are discussing the weather and sugar..don’t you see how funny this is.
An accord: if you read what I wrote way, way above, you will see that I do not disagree with you at all about the homosexuality issue and comment on the abominable biblical texts. That’s actually where the discussion began – homosexuality and Mugabe – and where I will leave it – well unless it’s to talk about sugar about which I know absolutely nothing. Peace.
Oh miller who else should i blame but your previous administration who had plenty of TIME and MONEY and RESOURCES to correct these glaring problems. Unfortunately a lack of VISION has proven to be their downfall and the results are obvious
@ Miller
“If drastic action is not taken now I believe the industry would close next year. Government has no money to keep subsidizing this industry in its present parlous state. And the IMF would not allow it either.”
This is very distressing. But how are we going to gather up the citizens in order for them to place pressure on the government to allocate funds from the senseless big-budget construction plans underway to funding not only our Sugar Cane industry, but to revamp the WHOLE of our agriculture sector.
After all, Agriculture is all that Barbados really has at this point in order to become competitive. Its best that they act now for the climate and the world economy will not wait for Barbados to get on board. Tourism has proven itself to be an unsustainable industry, hence the government SHOULD look towards different viable industries (as they SHOULD HAVE DONE SO SINCE THE EARLY 1990′s.)
Shockingly, even the Nation Newspaper is talking about this. Have you HEARD? Britain is placing a “TOURISM TAX” for visitors venturing to Barbados. Clearly, We are at the mercy of these rottenly rich PIGS who wish to EAT UP the Island in TOTALITY!
Here’s the Article: “What’s Trending:Tourism tax” http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/whats-trendingtourism-tax/
To those who remain skeptical of Barbados’ ability to compete “due to her small size”, just take a Look at what Malta has done in order to establish herself as a SELF SUFFICIENT economy.
For those of you who don’t know, Malta is an island nation that has a population that is 430,000+ strong and is considerably smaller than Bim (it is only 122 square miles where as Bim is 166!).
Here’s an overview on what Malta has done in order to succeed in being self sufficient and COMPETITIVE! (Courtesy of the E.U):
http://www.euro-challenge.org/doc/Malta.pdf
^^ Perhaps if David (B.U.) were to make the above comment an article, it would DEFINITELY LEND INSIGHT as to how Barbados can achieve self sufficiency and even outpace Malta. We’re strategically located between three regions (four if you count Central America).
I personally think it would SERIOUSLY open up the eyes of many Bajans!
Brudah-Bim | March 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM |
“We’re strategically located between three regions (four if you count Central America). ”
This strategic and pivotal location is not a novel observation but still timely and most relevant for the times. It is because of its strategic location (and to a large extent Bermuda has that advantage too) that Bim was ‘aggressively’ colonised and kept (never ceded) by the British. A major link in the Atlantic Triangle Trade: England>Gold Coast of West Africa>Caribbean & Americas. Settlement of many British territories in the Caribbean & the Americas- including the Carolinas- was done using Bim as the launching pad. Bimshire’s economic development was, to a great extent, due to this geographical advantage especially in the late 1600′s and right through the 1700′s. A cooling Atlantic breeze, flat topography, very little surface water but with a natural underground water storage system encouraged the settlement of a relatively large white population.
But as the saying goes: What goes around must come around. Bim is certainly in need of refreshing and could again capitalise on its strategic location using access to modern modes of transport and good ICT infrastructure as its calling card.
@ Brother Miller
And you hail me as a “genius”! CLEARLY YOU ARE HIGHLY COMPETENT!!!! Be sure to check out David (B.U.)’s piece on Malta. It can help to provide a likely map as to how Barbados can capitalize off of her location and even outpace Malta (through innovation of course).
There was a time when you could
make the following statement
and not many people would disagree.
You could say:
THE MIXTURE OF SEX AND EXCREMENT IS AN ABOMINATION
and those that indulge therein have been given over to
A REPROBATE MIND
MOVED BY DEMONIC POSSESION
SUNKEN BELOW THE LEVEL OF BEASTS.
Nowadays if you dare make that statement it would be like throwing corn.
ALL THE FOWLS WILL RUN OUT
They will become very agitated
and try to create all manner of distractions
to get away from the point that
AN ABOMINATION IS AN ABOMINATION.
They will say that you are talking Bible talk,
not knowing that they are unwittingly giving much credit to the Bible,
because if in this matter The Bible is helping to show you
what is CLEAN and what is UNCLEAN
in a time when so many people seem to be unsure,
then even if for that alone,
it has served a useful purpose.
Now this little something that I am going to share with you
is mainly for those who have not yet been PENETRATED
and who have eyes to see where THE ANTI-CREATION AGENDA is going.
I AM sure they will want to protect their children when
IN SCHOOL NORMALCY WILL BE CAST IN DOUBT.
So use the following to teach your children and teach them well
SEE LINK
http://rastafarivisions.com/features/anticreationagendas
Religious Leader in Jamaica Accuses European Tourists of Spreading Homosexuality and Sodomy – Jet Magazine, March 11, http://flic.kr/p/2Y54Cx1954.
Men arrested aboard gay cruise in Dominica plead guilty to indecent exposure
Published: Friday, March 23, 2011 ROSEAU, Dominica — Two Southern California men pleaded guilty on Thursday to indecent exposure in Dominica after they were arrested during a stop on a gay cruise of the Caribbean.
John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, of Palm Springs, apologized in court and said they regretted their actions. Police said they were seen having sex in plain sight of people on land, prompting officers to board the ship and arrest them on Wednesday.
The two initially were arrested on suspicion of the local equivalent of sodomy in the eastern Caribbean island, which prohibits sex between two men.
The men’s attorney, Bernadette Lambert, said they were remorseful.
“They were struck by the beautiful mountains, the clean and clear fresh air and were having a few cocktails, and so threw caution to the wind,” she told the court.
Chief Magistrate Evaline Baptiste ordered the men to pay a nearly $900 fine after calling them “rogues and vagabonds.” They made no comment after the hearing and police drove the men to the airport after they were released.
By The Associated Press .
Error: the article was published by Associated Press on 23/3/2012.
Jamaican Sex Perversion Blamed on Tourist
Jet Magazine, March 11, 1954.
” European tourist were accused by Jamaicans of spreading sodomy and homosexuality throught the famed vaccation island. From St. James Parish in Montego Bay, Archdeacon Fox preached against the ” open practice of sodomy in the town .” The clergyman said that he had been visited by youth ” who complained that they have been introduced to this vice by unscrupulous visitors .” Other Jamaicans said local politicans were afraid to take action against sex preversion because of fear of curtailing the tourist industry.”