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Now I understand what’s wrong with my hair and the colour of my skin; nothing!!!

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Now I understand what’s wrong with my hair and the colour of my skin; nothing!!!

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My co-workers with straight hair can come to the office with messy hair and there would summons into the supervisors' office but when I go to work with a “twist out” (a hairstyle which takes considerable preparation), I am asked if I think it is an appropriate hairstyle for work. Yes, this is a real occurrence.  Eurocentrism at is finest in the Trinidadian workplace. This is continuous issue which began with the social values presented in the education system provided by the Roman Catholic around 1834, stereotyped African hair as not being work appropriate unless “tamed”. Discrimination of the African descendant does not only occur due to the texture of one’s hair but skin tone is used as another silent method of marginalization in the office. Although it is now a taboo topic in my country,Trinidad and Tobago, it can be noted that it is only in recent times that companies, such as financial institutions, have begun hiring employees of a dark skin tone to work on their frontline and be the face of the company. Entities like the Equal Opportunities Board in Trinidad and Tobago have been developed to combat any form of discrimination in the workplace.
April 19, 2017

It is not a problem if I to go to work with the European hairstyle on the right but the hairstyle with my natural hair on the left is inappropriate.

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Sports combats African marginalization and unites the Caribbean

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Sports combats African marginalization and unites the Caribbean

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Sports may be one of the most uniting things within the Caribbean and it is also one of the only areas where the African descendant is not marginalized. This is mainly because the athletes which bring the most glory to the region are of African descent. Our cricketers like Brian Charles Lara, Christopher Henry Gayle, Ian Sobers; our Olympic gold medallist like Usian Bolt, Kirani James, Kehsorn Walcott and Hasley Crawford and our internationally recognized footballers such as Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy have united our region as we watched them compete. Whether it was watching Dwight Yorke play for Manchester United in the Premier League, during the period 1998 to 2002, or Usain Bolt in his last Olympic race in Brazil on August 18, 2016, these moments unite the entire region. I cannot begin to describe the unity that the West Indies cricket team brings to the Caribbean. Despite the issues that the players have with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), which have led to some of our top cricketers continuously being omitted from the team, and bias of the selectors which leads to most cricketers emerging from certain islands, cricket is an avenue for further regional integration.

The regional unity in the stands at a West Indies cricket match.

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The slave master thought us how to discipline our children!

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The slave master thought us how to discipline our children!

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The plantation owner has left an indelible mark on the descendants of African slaves. So much so, that we still punish our children by hitting them when we believe they have done wrong. “A little lash never kill anyone”, a term often heard rolling off the lips of a parent defending their choice to beat their children as a form of punishment. The truth though is that a “little lash” did injure and even kill many of our ancestors. A depiction of an African slave whipped at the hands of another slave.

This abuse was carried on for so many years during slavery that it has been ingrained in our mindsets over many generations. We have come to believe that this act of correction is the best way to ensure our children follow our guidance but the truth is that flogging our children reflects the slave masters whip forcing our ancestors to abandon our true heritage and forcing them to work in the most despicable conditions. I want you to observe families in your neighbourhood or families you are familiar with and tell me, what race of people punishes their children the most by flogging? I have never met a Caucasian person that beats their children and East Indians rarely flog their children.
April 19, 2017

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Do we really have a Caribbean Civilization? Form the perspective of an African Descendant.

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Do we really have a Caribbean Civilization? Form the perspective of an African Descendant.

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While our Caribbean Civilisation encompasses different heritages, many of the traditions of our African ancestors have been lost. The African slave was subjected to either following the way of the European man or practicing their traditions in secret and somewhere along the line this caused a loss of culture. The belief that traditional African religion is aligned to evil is another myth passed on to the descendants of the African slave. Negative connotations such as these has caused many African descendants to abandon their heritage. The African was thought that he was not good enough and to this day most of us still believe this. I cannot say that we truly have a Caribbean Civilisation, but I can say that we have a copycat British Civilisation. We can only have a Caribbean Civilisation when we can follow the traditions of Neo Indians if there is any history of it left. We can only have a Caribbean Civilisation when the African descendant feels free to wear the traditional African garments on a regular day and not only for special occasions. The African heritage remains somewhat neglected and eurocentrism has heavily impacted our Caribbean Civilization.
April 8, 2017Spiritual Baptists at a church in Barbados ringing the bells which are an integral part of their religion. (Circa 2014)

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My initial thought was that this course would be a waste of my time, however, by the first lecture I realized how much history was corrupted by the Europeans. Learning that Neo Indians and African explorers came before the Europeans was very enlightening. The realism that most of the ethnic divide which exists today are centuries old and is mostly a way of thinking that was passed down through generations was another awakening. The graphics of the atrocities which happened to the African slave overshadowed everything else learned in this course and left a knife in my heart. My realization that the mindsets of African descendants that abuse their local welfare system to survive or who cannot envision themselves as their own boss can be linked back to the apprenticeship period was developed.  My father taught me not to believe everything that was taught in school and the revisionism of this course helped me to understand why. I am not racist but I cannot understand why the white man has done so much just to marginalize the black man, even after he slaved to make him rich. Reparation is necessary, Black Stalin's - Burn Dem sums up how I feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsce_CsWME0
April 5, 2017