There is a profound identity crisis fueled by the critical uncertainty in identifying Self as Black, Negro, Colored folk, West Indian, Caribbean, African , hyphenated-African or descendant of African. This is exacerbated, for example,when the West Indies cricket team, in their quest for sporting supremacy ventures onto the sub-continent to play against India, a peculiar identity-issue is exposed.
How did a vast number of enslaved Africans taken mostly from the west coast of the African continent become trans formed into west ' Indian’ players while the non-African members of the same regional cricket team maintain their identities as [East] Indians. Can the East Indians be West Indians? Just who or what then is a “west” Indian? The Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and English man for example, suffer from no such connundrum. What was the nature of these men and who were those players who refashioned a 'gentleman's game' into a 'tool' for resistance to an oppressive colonial and racial order?
Looking Beyond Africa
From a geographical view point on the island of Barbados, there is a section of the island that is lashed by the Atlantic Ocean and another side of the island that is lapped by the Caribbean Sea. This begs the question: ‘ WHO draws the lie (imaginary line)to separate or determine where the Atlantic Ocean begins and where does the Caribbean Sea begin??.Just what is the ANTILLES[now divided into two, Greater and Lesser]. from which comes AtlantI-an; and observe which group of People have been Carried-be-Yond... ..the consciousness of Them Selves.
The notion of the Caribbean and the West Indies is an obvious 'construction of convenience' to maintain control over land, sea, people, space and time .Before the coming of the Europeans into the southern Hemisphere, the Region was called the ANTILLES. Hayti was once dubbed 'the Pearl of the Antilles' for its tremendous power and wealth. Haiti remains the symbol of Black Independent Thought and Resistance.
The mountain top islands of Haiti and Jamaica in the Greater ANTILLES do re present the remnants of the "lost" Continent of ATLANTIS…..in the Southern Atlantic Ocean ... Pre -dating the Continent of Africa...Un Covered In the South ANTILLIAN Ocean...contesting Plato's view that ATLANTIS could be found at the Pillars of Hercules in the northern Atlantic Ocean. :. Who Am I?? More anon.
How did a vast number of enslaved Africans taken mostly from the west coast of the African continent become trans formed into west ' Indian’ players while the non-African members of the same regional cricket team maintain their identities as [East] Indians. Can the East Indians be West Indians? Just who or what then is a “west” Indian? The Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and English man for example, suffer from no such connundrum. What was the nature of these men and who were those players who refashioned a 'gentleman's game' into a 'tool' for resistance to an oppressive colonial and racial order?
Looking Beyond Africa
From a geographical view point on the island of Barbados, there is a section of the island that is lashed by the Atlantic Ocean and another side of the island that is lapped by the Caribbean Sea. This begs the question: ‘ WHO draws the lie (imaginary line)to separate or determine where the Atlantic Ocean begins and where does the Caribbean Sea begin??.Just what is the ANTILLES[now divided into two, Greater and Lesser]. from which comes AtlantI-an; and observe which group of People have been Carried-be-Yond... ..the consciousness of Them Selves.
The notion of the Caribbean and the West Indies is an obvious 'construction of convenience' to maintain control over land, sea, people, space and time .Before the coming of the Europeans into the southern Hemisphere, the Region was called the ANTILLES. Hayti was once dubbed 'the Pearl of the Antilles' for its tremendous power and wealth. Haiti remains the symbol of Black Independent Thought and Resistance.
The mountain top islands of Haiti and Jamaica in the Greater ANTILLES do re present the remnants of the "lost" Continent of ATLANTIS…..in the Southern Atlantic Ocean ... Pre -dating the Continent of Africa...Un Covered In the South ANTILLIAN Ocean...contesting Plato's view that ATLANTIS could be found at the Pillars of Hercules in the northern Atlantic Ocean. :. Who Am I?? More anon.
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