NOT AN IDLE OR TRIVIAL MATTER — EVER
MOSES was told in the Hebrew scriptures, “You will live a long life before you sleep with your Fathers,” according to the book of Deuteronomy. To honour our ancestors is a mental and spiritual duty we cannot abdicate; their time, strengths, contributions and errors constitute the baton of knowledge that will guide us to understand and time-travel to erase the notion that what we face today has now begun. To honour our ancestors leads us to explore the steps they took, to enhance the good and repair the errors, to be inspired and guide the evolution of our consciousness to face the myriad world of our day.
We must, however, understand what our mental and spiritual obligations are to that ancestral duty, as we proceed to the rise of the fateful tide. We pay respect on this occasion to a duel event: first, to the lives physically lost in the terrible voyage into slavery, and second, to the mental and spiritual death that visited those who survived from generation to generation, enduring the psychic torture of slavery–both its physical torment and the mental onslaught to create the slave as a spiritual invocation of our nature. Thus, we must understand and place value on the yoke of labour extracted from enslaved Africans to drive the sea back and make the agricultural lands of the coasts of colonial Guyana functional for plantations and habitable for townships and villages and subsequent estates; transfer our minds into the memories that exist in our genetic inheritance, and inhale the sweat and blood that dug every canal to make life as we have inherited it today.
We must do this because our ancestors came here with unique skills, they were tribesmen and women, not outcasts, and because of the planters’ greed, he allowed them their right to farms; when his anxieties overflowed into savagery they rebelled, for those weak among them who betrayed them, they followed an ancient innate rule: “He who stands before me in battle, that comes from within me, must be the first to die.” From post-emancipation to now, their protests and courage shaped the social achievements we take for granted today, through outward and inner struggles. Go visit 1856, 1900,1905,1917 and witness from 1961 to 1964, then from 1993 to 2010; once we are under culturally alien rule, our lives and way of life are in danger. The history speaks for itself, and we understand that culture is not always to be viewed ethnically, no, not at all, culture is first spiritual, mental, principled and manifest in practice; but above all else ‘Human’ there are different cultures, some opposing with fury, beyond logic all that you may hold sacred in practice.
Therefore, we must understand where our ancestors walked as best we could, how did those they fed along the way, repay them, what different ungrateful rites and gods they met that perceived them with scorn and hatred without reason and cause, because of their different beliefs. On the eve in South Africa of the twilight of apartheid, a white South African leader spoke encouragingly to white South Africans that they need not fear physical retribution from black South Africans, because he assured them that the innate morality of the African will not approve of such in the face of apartheid’s demise, and the release of Mandela. 
South Africa was viewed by a world that held its breath, knowing what Africans had endured under apartheid, South Africa has emerged as the standard-bearer of the 20th century of an uncommon maturity when all evidence demanded a course of justified reckoning. Because I’ve used this reference, readers from the anti-US confederacy will point to Rwanda. The Tutsi or Watutsi as we are more familiar with, came into Rwanda during the 14th century colonising the area that was already occupied by the Hutsi. The Watutsi were all over six feet tall, the Hutsi four-five feet in statue, then came the Germans and the Dutch-Belgium colonisers in the 19th century with their racist pseudoscience and created a superior as against inferior tribal perspective between the Tutsi and Hutsi recognising that it was better to embrace the warlike Tutsi as allies (the same was done with the colonisation of India using the Raj). This colonial indoctrination fuelled further resentment that resulted in the explosive massacres in Rwanda.
African descendants of all family groups have never sought to dominate others by deception, because we have not inherited any religious doctrine that defines in mythological, religious or pseudo-scientific doctrine to establish a belief system of racial dominance from tribal Africa. we have no determinations driven by past millennial ethnic privations and persecutions to transfer our persecution neuroses to another as a callous, self-purging placebo, with innate compulsions to trample all principles to fulfil the ego of status and economic acquirement as the end of all means at all costs. I am not saying that we are better than anyone else except that there’s no collective philosophy that would allow the absence of moral directives and empathy that would compel us to justify usurping, mimicking and stealing another man’s creative blessings, value and worth, and seek to justify that process with collective applause, while we severely condemn our own ‘Shut Button grabbing’ cliques. Slavery did not damage us in this way, but we must be resolute for others have done this to us, and still others are striving to do this as you read these words, because it is believed that we are vulnerable because we do not teach our children to hate , and we must never do that, so we believe that all men share a common loyalty to the word, and its intent, while they think that we are simple because we do not perceive and contain a vocabulary of deceptions and double meanings, considered to be their actions of the wise.
Hatred is poisonous and must never be a taught lesson, but to survive and endure we must not be blinded by the ‘them and we’ exclusively, be aware of the foe both within and without, though we must acknowledge how others think of us, our inheritance teaches us also “That there’s a time for everything under the sun, a time to forgive and a time to demand the atonement of the sins contrived and carried out against us in veiled word and deed.
The personal visit of reflection through the symbolic act on the seawall is a pageant of reminding the subconscious self that the burden of awareness, is all that will protect us as we proceed to reconstruct what the holocaust has taken, and how we must determine the arc of survival and the protection of our initiatives in this age, we must purge ourselves, our organizations, judge from works and not chit-chat, the age of the coloniser has never left, his physical looks will change, but we must perceive the intent, which means, we must have our ‘Individual content’ to negotiate and realise that words and deeds must be weighed, so in the end we can surmount and separate the weed from the fruit.
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