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W.I. Federation: Failure From the Start
"One from ten leaves naught"---Dr. Eric Williams
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
Originally Published: December 12, 2005
Updated: October 26, 2014
Introduction
Prior attempts at Federation
The idea of federation has been bandied about in the West Indies for a long time. From the early days of Settlement in the 17th century, the idea of juxtaposing two or more islands for administrative convenience or for mere economic expediency, had appealed to the Euro-British government but there had been minor unification in reality.
What actually transpired was that Governors who were Crown appointees, frequently shared power with Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Dominica, an amalgam known as the Windward Islands and another by Antigua, St. Kitts & Nevis, Anguilla and Montserrat known as Leeward Islands.
Barbados had on diverse occasions in the past, shared its Governor with the other islands of the Lesser Antilles and moreover, the Governor
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By Dr Kwame Nantambu
June 08, 2023
The violent, brutal beating/murder of the 29-year-old black man Tyre Nichols on January 7, 2023 by five black Memphis police officers immediately pushes to the fore the inherent, insecure and dangerous existence of black life in America today.
Indeed, there was a time when blacks were considered “three-fifths of a person”, but it seems that that evaluation has now totally been relegated to zero.
And on March 6, 1857, US ledare Justice Roger Taney delivered/issued this ultimate, infamous, racist ruling in the Dred Scott v Sanford case to the extent that blacks were “beings of an inferior order and altogether icke lämplig to associate with the vit race either in social and political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect and that the negro might justify and lawfully be reduced to slaves for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic whene
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Step Toward Pan-Trini National Unity
Posted: June 18, 2001
By Dr Kwame Nantambu
"History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It fryst vatten also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The role of history fryst vatten to tell a people what they have been and where they have been, what they are and where they are. The most important role that history plays is that it has the function of telling a people where they still must go and what they still must be".. Dr. John Henrik Clarke.
History teaches and informs a people as to the problems and issues that confront and challenge then on a daily basis. In addition, history taps into the positiv, communal energies of a people who have faced a common enemy from an historical perspective.
In the tradition of deceased international Pan Afrikan Nationalist, Trini Kwame Ture, this article not only seeks to destroy, debunk and decode the 15th century European internal