By Stanley Collymore
I take great pleasure in my Barbadian ancestry, upbringing and connections and so I was most appalled and deeply offended, and to put it bluntly personally insulted by the descriptions given by the so-called Royal Barbadian Police in relation to the inexplicable disappearance of SHALEYE JALISSA BENJAMIN.
For
apart from the fact that no white person would be described in such racially
insulting turns by the inured slavery-mindest assholes still infesting the
Barbados Police Force this lady comes from one of the constituent parts of St.
Andrew in Barbados where my entire ancestral roots on both sides of my family are
deeply buried, and understandably is an area I know intimately and have many
friends and relatives there.
Furthermore,
her own relatives are among those that I went to school with, both at junior
school, or as it was commonly known then in Barbados Elementary School, and
subsequently the 18th century Alleyne Grammar School that we
attended. And to see her treated in this fashion by irredeemable assholes who
despite being Barbadian have no right to be in our country quite frankly pisses
me off.
And
to reinforce my anger I’ve taken the liberty of reproducing verbatim a response
by a well-known Bajan personality OSSIE MOORE who describes the sickening
revulsion that proud and MENTALLY-LIBERATED Bajans like me feel as regards this
matter. And I’m personally writing to the Commissioner of Police, the Prime
Minister who I know, as well as other Cabinet Ministers and prominent Barbadians
I either went to school with or grew up with to voice my utter disgust.
I
personally don’t give a toss what “Royal” accolade accorded to it several years
ago that the Barbadian Police Force lauds itself with. But what I sure as hell shan’t
tolerate, even if I have to fly to Barbados and make my own feelings evident
there, is a situation where HOUSE NIGGERS within OUR BAJAN police force categorize
a BLACK WOMAN in a manner that would make the remarks of the Ku Klux Klan, the
British BNP and other right-wing racist groups look moderate and even anodyne.
And an apology is very much in order here to this missing lady, her relatives,
friends and all Bajans that respect themselves and don’t hanker to be HOUSE
NIGGERS!
Significantly
too Barbados is a country with a 95% Black population, so we do know what fellow
Blacks, be they male or female, look like; as they’re our parents, relatives,
friends, neighbours and fellow church goers. Now totally unaltered is OSSIE
MOORE’S VERY RELEVANT RESPONSE:
Once
again the R O Y A L BARBADOS POLICE and the news media is giving the
description of a black person the way they were taught by the British years ago
during the slavery years in how to describe a NEGRO - the way slaves were
described.
Description
of the missing black woman:
“Benjamin
is five 5ft 8” in height, thickly build, dark in complexion, has a round head
and face, brown bulged eyes, broad forehead, large nose, small ears, thick
lips, and walks with an erect appearance”
(a) Has a round head - are black people supposed to have square heads?
(b) Brown bulged eyes - a white person would have been described as
having medium sized brown eyes.
(c) Broad forehead - please
describe to me what is a broad forehead.
(d) Small ears - are black people
all supposed to have large elephant ears; why can’t some Blacks have small
beautiful ears?
(e) Large nose - white folk have
long pointed noses how come their noses are never mentioned in a description?
(f) Thick lips - some white folks
with “thin lips” are now getting “lip injections” to make their lips much
thicker like the black woman’s lips being described here and when that happens
they are described as having “nice full rounded lips” while the “NEGRO” is said
to have thick lips.
Barbados
tries to dress itself very nicely on the outside but deep inside it’s an island
of racists (against the other Caribbean islands), educated asses who still live
in the days of slavery. A unique group of aliens who live their lives in chains
and who don’t even know that they have the keys to unlock those chains.
Just
like someone mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago when former West Indies spin
bowler Lance Gibbs was bowling in England the British commentators would
describe him as tall and lanky, yet one of their own white players [of similar build] would be
described as tall and slender.
Now Bajans
are describing their own black people the way in which a slave would have been
described, but they would never have described a white person in a derogatory manner.
In fact, was any [graphic] description ever given for the white Bajan woman who
went missing in Barbados a few months ago?
[Actually] just yesterday I was watching the
CBC TV live stream Q in the community which was coming from the BAJAN community
in Warwickshire, England and this Bajan man who had left Barbados approximately
46 years ago said in his interview blah, blah, blah “but we (Bajans) are a
unique group of people” etc. etc.
With
the way in which Bajans are describing one another now I understand what he meant
by saying “A UNIQUE KIND OF PEOPLE!”
FIFTY
YEARS of so called independence! FIFTY YEARS forward but 500 years backwards!
Well
said Ossie Moore. And I sincerely hope that Shaleye Jalissa Benjamin is found safely
and very soon. And to all my relatives and friends throughout St. Andrew, and
especially at this time Walker’s Bay, and also the rest of Barbados my thoughts
and prayers are with you. God Bless!
And
to the so-called Royal Barbadian Police Force – Do get your fucking act in line
with 21st Century Black liberation and progressive thinking. We’re
no longer SLAVES! So don’t act like we are and certainly NOT do so in the name
of decent Bajans who comprise the majority of our population.
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