February 1st, 2010 | by
Editor | published in
Feature, Sound
Marley’s music made plain the intricacies of poverty, ‘mental slavery’, colonialism, oppressive civil society, relationships and Rastafari – themes that are alive and well in the Caribbean and in need of much discourse. Yet, from Port-of-Spain to Montego Bay, his image is relegated to t-shirts, mugs and assorted trinkets. The only value Marley seem to present to his homeland is his ability to draw tourists to the island in search of things the government have been slow to celebrate – marijuana and a Rastafarian lifestyle still marginalized on the island today.
January 28th, 2010 | by
Editor | published in
Roots, Word
How [could] the Europeans construct the Americas without African labor? It’s just not true… we are led to believe that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was an involuntary migration of unskilled labor, well that’s not true either. If you are about to build a whole continent-I mean “rebuild” because somebody had already built it, you are not going to recruit people based on their lack of knowledge, you want people who have the kinds of skill and expertise you need to create this new society.
