"All ah we is One" by Yannique Hillocks https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks Exploring the history, societies, and concepts of identity in the Caribbean. en-us 2020-04-13 03:08:08 UTC 2025-11-09 03:04:09 UTC hello@padlet.com All ah we is one.” Yannique https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527356437  The Strength of the Caribbean people is recognized through their common status of a diverse ethnic and racial atmosphere. Tracing back to our ancestral lineages, we see a outstanding dimension of empowerment and leadership throughout the Caribbean region. Thousands of miles in, the European nations sought after wealth, trade, land, and training groups for naval personal, they would usher in the turmoil of the Caribbean nations with the fifteenth century (Life 2011). Upon discovering the Caribbean islands, one after the other, foreign clangs were declared on various territories, such as the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti/ Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) and the Lesser Antilles (the leeward and windward islands).  During that European colonial era, the Spanish and British empires,  who came seeking wealth, enslaved the indigenous people of mainly large islands of some Caribbean countries, which include Jamaica, Puerto Rico Cuba, and Trinidad. Upon enslaving the natives, this soon led to the mass extermination, ultimately the extinction of the natives. This was driven by the destruction of native’s way of living and imposing a new way of life to them, including expiating (2007). 

 In the Caribbean, during the eighteenth (18) century, there was a turning point for the slaves when they were bought to the island. They were bought to work in the sugar plantations. Slaves where categories as skilled and unskilled labourers. Skilled slaves were placed in the fields to plant cane and other Agriculture produce as well as to keep the factories and the fields equipment functioning. Besides planting and working the sugar fields some slaves where required to plant various Agricultural crops. Some crops may include tobacco, grapes olives, coffee, and certain forms of rice according to (Hellie 2019).
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]]> 2020-04-24 03:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527356437 Yannique https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527394973 Chattel slavery, on the arrival of the African slaves in the Caribbean, were sold, and they were viewed as property and taken to the plantations in many cases they were never to leave alive. To ensure that the enslaved were not able to leave, they endured harsh punishments for disobedience and brutal daily beating until the nineteenth (19) century. The rebellion was typical as slave owners demolished the slave’s identity. While dark-skinned slaves toiled outdoors in the field, their light-skinned counterparts usually worked indoors at far less harsh domestic tasks (Kareem, 2020). In the twenty-first (21) century, people of colour have a harder time getting a job; for example, unemployment rates were significantly higher for ethnic minorities at 12.9 percent compared with 6.3 percent for White people. Black workers with degrees earn 23.1 percent less on average than White workers in Britain, significantly lower percentages of ethnic minorities (8.8 percent) worked as managers, directors and senior officials, compared with White people (10.7 percent) and this was particularly true for African or Caribbean or Black people (5.7 percent) and those of mixed ethnicity (7.2 percent) (2018). This shows that just because of your skin complexion, you will have a harder time getting a job, and you may earn less than someone that is white who is in the same profession as you. Back in the 1770s, there was an anti-slavery movement that began to form in Europe. The society for the abolition of slavery was established in 1787, which raised awareness for the inhumane treatment slaves where experiences ("The Caribbean History | Caribya"). The capacity to live with difference back then was the immediate question for those in the 21st century”. Speaking specifically about the racism and the intolerance of differences between the blacks and the whites, we were not seen as one (Dunne 2018). What we ought to find out was if we can find our identity and as well as what is one thing in stock that can bring us together as one.
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Blacks are looked down upon and treated as worthless, unworldly, and uneducated humans. Cricket itself was used as one of the instruments of colonizing and very much as seeing as imparting English historical values to discipline the “Nigger.”  (Albert el.2018). Back in the   30s, colourism was a prominent thing, some Caribbean countries worse than others, being decimated against just because you were a darker complexion. For instance, a study in the US in 1940 showed that both black and white children overwhelmingly chose to play with lighter-skinned dolls, finding the dark-skin ones “dirty.” Colourism is something we have to deal with on multiple scales, for instance, the workplace, schools, evening leaving your someone people may look at you differently. Individuals should not be oppressed, but this type of behavior, but instead keep their heads held high, and body grounded, use this as an opportunity to kill them with kindness.
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]]> 2020-04-24 05:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527444820 Yannique https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527445278 Free blacks were forced to walk long distances past white schools on their way to school. Back in the late nineteenth century laws, and policy practices remained the criterion in those times and are still prevalent today. The future success and development of black students are adequate and equitable resources. Statistical analysis taken from Lambeth University shows that black students who take honours and advanced courses remain undoubtedly below that of other groups. Caribbean writers used to experience this type of prejudice; for example, VS Nepal writes in his Literary word the Middle passage tackling the credulous of a person in the Caribbean society during the period of colonialism and Racism. Now we have here ex slaves trying to excel in something which the English masters have brought on. It took the English society some time to recognize that African people felt that they were strip of something by colonization and slavery, and this latest generation wants to restore the dignity that was taken from us years ago. 

These Caribbean countries wherein confidence of gain their own independence Jamaica and Trinidad in 1962, Barbados, Guyana in1966.  Before Jamaica gain independence, there was no encouragement for self-reliance equality and justice for the people. No freedom frights and no human advocates were permitted. During this colonial-era, Jamaicans ingested this unsavoury under the colonial power that the British had over them. Blacks where less forfeited to the whites, according to an article written by Maurice Haugton he mentions that the British should keep the masses as needy and poor and are basic feed food like bread milk and flour while the whites eat lavish (Jamaica Observer Limited). Persons like Marcus  Mosisah Garvey Jr, a Jamaican publisher, Michael Manley (Former Jamaican politician), as well as Marson, fought to bring civilization to their country. Studies show that a good number of the locals were brought in to work on plantation farms, thus becoming like shipwrecks on an exotic island without connection to any other culture or language. The people felt connected only to the land, but they neither practiced their original lifestyles nor embraced the new customs.

 The imperialists seized the moment to supplement the existing cultures with their traditions. Unfortunately, the intentions were to maintain a status in which the colonizers dominated other cultures and imposed their civilization. Independence has seen as a high point of the right civil struggle that has gone over time. This grouping has become the change for the Caribbean. Through the cricket, we were able to carry a message to the white world to break this racism by defeating it on the field none other than the cricket pitch. By genuinely making it a level playing field. What still persisted up until the 1960s was that a White man will always be the captain of the West Indians team, It was extremely meaningful to black  Caribbean people to see a one of their kind as the Captain it trilled their hearts. It was once said Clive Lloyd brought the spirt to the West Indians Cricket team since he was the Captain in late 1972. It started to become a game of hurt and pain since they say that bowling can cause the death of someone. So, the whites took advantage of that, and attacks were out for the blacks on and off the field. 

]]> 2020-04-24 05:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527445278 Yannique https://padlet.com/yannique/Bookmarks/wish/527445643 Besides Cricket, another avenue that brought us together as one is the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA), which was established in 1972. This multidisciplinary art festival is held in various CARICOM countries. While our past would have colonialism slavery, indigenous people, The Caribbean still brings its own singularity, to this melting pot of civilization (Nurse 2015). Back then, Colonisation played an essential role in the transformation of the Caribbean Culture. While dark-skinned slaves toiled outdoors in the field, their light-skinned counterparts usually worked indoors at the far less harsh domestic task. The way we live was created through the imperial structures. While this still affected us in the Caribbean, we still had some sense of belonging and identity, and through the significance of CARIFESTA, we were restored. Our fragmented histories was an assertion of our uniqueness (Nurse 2015). In one Caribbean Country’s people will flood the stress on the myth that “all ah is one on” Monday and Tuesday for the greats show on Earth Trinidad’s Carnival. Chinese, Indian, white, or black all blend in between mixtures with everyone and win and parade their uniqueness to the phenomenal sound of soca music. Around this time Trinidad displays its uniqueness of different local cuisine, folk dance, panorama, and calypso just to name a few (2007)

Despite its (Caribbean islands) seemingly distant through socio-economic and political branches, the pre-colonial societies engaged in activities encompassing the declaration of “all ah we are one. Today in the 21st century, if we work together as one, and we work as a unified Caribbean, we can become a developed region rather than developing, which continues to expand through the Caribbean and even the world.
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