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Britain’s Perfect Caribbean Crime: Ignored Genocide, Faked Emancipation…

Published on June 15, 2017 in Africa, Caribbean, England, General T&T, International, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 22 Comments Tags: Abuse, Africa, African, Hilary Beckles, Reparations, UWI.

7th Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture

Streamed live on Jun 13, 2017

On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, delivered the seventh Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture at The UWI Cave Hill Campus’ Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) in Barbados. Vice-Chancellor Beckles spoke on Britain’s Perfect Caribbean Crime: Ignored Genocide, Faked Emancipation, Insincere Independence, and No Reparations.
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Self-Identity: The Key to Mental Emancipation

Published on August 2, 2016 in Africa, Culture and General T&T. 11 Comments Tags: African, Emancipation, Keith Rowley, Politics.

By Ayinde
August 02, 2016

“The stories of our past should not condemn us to the turmoil of acrimony; but rather they should show us a path for achieving the positive and prosperous development of our country now and for the generations to come. . . . We are currently writing new pages in our history. . . . We need to ask ourselves, are we facilitating new prejudices and divisions in our society? Are we perpetuating a mindset of entitlement – claiming rights where instead we should accept personal responsibility? . . . Are we committed to working together in the best interest of our country? Can we look past the ‘me’ and ‘my group’ to the bigger picture of nationhood?”
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Needed: A second Emancipation

Published on September 14, 2011 in General T&T, Media, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Racism Watch and Violence. 53 Comments Tags: Abuse, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Michael Harris, T&T Govt.

By Michael Harris
September 11, 2011 – trinidadexpress.com

My column last Monday [PNM’s children] seems to have ignited something of a furore among readers. On talk shows, in the blogs, and in letters to the editor, there was a surprisingly huge outpouring of feedback as everyone appeared to have something to say about my article.
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Emancipation: some creation myths

Published on August 15, 2010 in Caribbean, General T&T and Race and Identity. 7 Comments Tags: Abuse, Africa, African, Emancipation, Emancipation Day, Selwyn Ryan.

By Selwyn Ryan
August 15, 2010

I overheard someone complaining on a call-in programme during Emancipation week that people of African origin in Trinidad were a different breed from those in other islands of the Caribbean.

It was not clear whether the caller meant to say that the Trinis were a worse or a better breed. I think he meant that they were an inferior breed, since, like Prof Courtenay Bartholomew (Express, August 11) he had some critical things to say about us blacks here in Trinidad. The caller was however quite correct about Trinidad blacks being different from their Caribbean counterparts. Culture and cojuncture and not genetics were however responsible for the differences.
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Emancipation Celebration?

Published on August 10, 2010 in Africa, Culture, General T&T, International, Letters and Race and Identity. 4 Comments Tags: Abuse, Africa, African, Emancipation, Emancipation Day, Michael L. Joseph.

THE EDITOR: After four hundred years of shackle slavery, and the worst kind of atrocities ever inflicted on any race of people bar none, all because of their melanin and without any apology and compensation, and therapy for Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome, I am totally puzzled and confused with the reason for the celebration of Emancipation.
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Emancipation: When Freedom Come

Published on August 2, 2010 in Africa, Culture, General T&T, People's Partnership, Politics, Protest, Race and Identity and USA. 1 Comment Tags: Africa, African, Emancipation, Emancipation Day, ESC, Kafra Kambon, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Wade Mark, Winston Peters.

Head of the Emancipation Support Committee Kafra Kambon, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters

Emancipation Day Celebrations 2010 in pictures

Kamla: Emancipation about struggle, triumph
PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday urged the nation to not only see Emancipation Day as merely a public holiday but rather to reflect on the struggles of the ancestors of Afro-Trinbagonians who rose up from the chattel of slavery to take their rightful place in a free society.
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President’s Emancipation Day 2010 Address

Published on August 1, 2010 in Africa, Culture, General T&T, Media and Race and Identity. 3 Comments Tags: Emancipation, Emancipation Day, George Maxwell Richards, President.

President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Professor George Maxwell Richards

Message from His Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards TC, CMT, Ph. D, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on the Occasion of Emancipation Day 2010.

On the occasion of Emancipation Day 2010, I send greetings to all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, as we consider what this day means to us.
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Prime Minister’s Emancipation Day 2010 Address

Published on August 1, 2010 in Culture, General T&T, People's Partnership, Politics and Race and Identity. 2 Comments Tags: Emancipation Day, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Message to the nation from the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar on the occasion of the celebration of Emancipation Day 2010

Fellow citizens. Today our nation commemorates the 172nd Anniversary of Emancipation in Trinidad and Tobago. That historic act on August 1, 1838, destroyed the moral and legal basis of a system, which allowed human beings to be classified as chattel and denied the most basic human rights.
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Emancipation 2010: ‘Ganges and the Nile’?

Published on July 28, 2010 in Africa, General T&T, India, Letters and Race and Identity. 1 Comment Tags: African, Emancipation, India.

THE EDITOR: Possible points of confluence, and of departure between the ‘Ganges and the Nile’?

As Emancipation, T&T ’10 approaches, and considering possible choices for ongoing nationhood, three prescient thinkers, one in each of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, are worth citing. One is William Faulkner, the Nobel prize-winning American author; the other, George Santayana, the 19th century Spanish philosopher; and T&T’s David Rudder.
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Emancipation an unrealised dream

Published on August 4, 2008 in Culture and General T&T. Closed

By Raffique Shah
Sunday, August 3rd 2008

AS many of my African brethren gathered over the past week to mark Emancipation Day, I reflected on just how emancipated we are. And I don’t mean just Afro-Trinis, I mean all of us who form the melting pot that is Trinidad and Tobago. I started this column by noting that many among the Afro-Diaspora would mark emancipation. Not all. Far from it, the majority of those who descended from the most barbaric form of slavery known to mankind are not even aware that their forebears were brought here (and elsewhere in the West) against their will, in shackles, in the most inhumane conditions.
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