In Solidarity : The ties that Bind Afro America and the Afro Caribbean
The MCG, unapologetically, aligns with all those people and
individual countries, who are actively protesting the brutal public execution
of Afro American George Floyd. Those who believe that this should be of no
concern to the region, are to be forgiven for it is really not their failure but
the societies from which they come, that have refused to enlighten them.
We cannot be diplomatic, and sugar coated, on this sordid or any
other issue that seeks to justify and defend, the continued murder of Black
Americans by those who are supposed to execute and defend the law. We are at
one with the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, the Mighty Stalin, who in one of
his vintage calypsos stated: “We took the same ship on the same trip.”
The collective failure of the region’s educational system, to
have comprehensive Black history taught from the primary school onwards, must
carry a tremendous amount of blame for how we see ourselves physically and
mentally. Should we remain in this barren state, we would never understand why,
due perhaps only to pure historical fate, that George Floyd could have been any
Afro Caribbean man, in another time and place.
We go further and predict that if we don’t teach our current
and future generations about the historical ties and connections we have with
our Afro American brothers and sisters, history would repeat itself in a different
form but with more dire, brutally destructive consequences.
The MCG therefore joins with all protests and protesters from
all countries , racial and ethnic groups ,in expressing sincere condolences to
the family of George Flyod and all those who are left to grieve because of his
brutal inhumane murder.
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