Vincentians Emancipation a shame a blight.

It is no secret that the country that is today known as St. Vincent and the Grenadines and its people only knew about forty (40) years of slavery. In my opinion that was forty (40) years too much. When every other land in the western hemisphere including Haiti, were known to be slave colonies; St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the people who lived there/here were free men and women. No shackles, no ruler, no master and no shame; we were govern by worthy rulers

In 1498 or there about, Christopher Columbus claimed he discovered St. Vincent and the Grenadines. However, for some two hundred (200) plus years, before Columbus hoist his sail, to go on his first voyage, our fore fathers the Kalinago people; occupied this land and made it their home.

Sometime later, the Kalinago people were joined by a group of Israelites, who became ship wrecked, on their way to work on some plantation as slaves. The union between the Kalinago and the Israelite produced a people who were simply call the Garifuna. Together the Kalinago people and the Garifuna people simply known as the Caribs, or as I call them the St. Vincent Indigenous people (SIP).

Our people had one purpose. That purpose was to resist the white man at all cost; even if it meant sacrificing their life. My fore father fought long and hard defending our land, their family and our future. They wanted to make sure, the wicked white man never lay his filthy hands on our shore, our people especially the future.

Our fore parents armed with crude bow and arrows, spades and shields stood firm, in the defense of our future. They were willing to and many gave their life to keep the wicked tyrants: the White man from our land. Our indigenous fore father sacrificed their life to ensure a strong Garifuna man like me, will never have to deal with a dirty, filth laden rapist like Ralph E. Gonsalves; and their sacrifice were more than enough to ensure that did not happen.

It is a Gad Darm disgrace to Garifuna and the Kalinago who fought to keep St. Vincent and the Grenadines from falling in to the white man's hands. It is also a Gad Darm disgraced to every man woman and child who die in the struggle against the Europeans, whether in active combat or on Baliceaux; to see those people whom they fought for; has so venomously disrespect their efforts, their blood and the sacrifice of their lives; by gifting the land they love and the future to white oppressive rapist like Ralph Gonsalves and an oppressive Caucasian like James Mitchell.

The chiefs and elders of the past are crying with shame to see their efforts were all in vain. It is the tears of our fore fathers that have cast a blight upon SVG’s people. A blight that will only be removed, when the Great Grandson of a chief in hiding, take the reins of SVG and restore St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the glory they enjoyed and hoped we would have attained.

Sign. Chief Strong-Blood

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