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TANTIE TALK:
Emancipation...so,
"we free"! But what exactly are we commemorating/
celebrating? Freedom from physical slavery led straight into
mental slavery, which most of us are yet to escape. We
still blindly follow rules, regulations and customs
established neither by, nor for, ourselves, but... we
free. Our education system has merely been updated with
new books and technology over the years, but it is still
essentially de same system that was designed to create a
'literate' population of 'locally assembled' clerks when it no
longer made economic sense for Britain to ship 'foreign used'
ones over here. Our laws still have references to and are
based upon customs and cultures of a bygone era, yet the
English ones on which they were modelled have been updated
with the times.
We proclaim our emancipation from things past without
understanding what needs to be changed and why. A prime
example is our sporting administrations. Horse racing was
the 'Sport of kings', because originally only de
high-and-mighty and well-to-do could afford it.
Nowadays, any and every body could own ah piece of ah horse, but
it still expensive and every time yuh turn 'round yuh
hearing how the 'industry' in trouble. But eef dey would
stop and study dat dey ent no Kings and doh have money to
jes pelt behind horse, dey would realise dat de 'industry'
really and truly IS ah business and have to be run AS a
business and not like de 'Old Boys Club' it used to be.
Free-up yuh mind.
De same thing was happening in cricket. Dey did break de
stranglehold dat QPCC (and equivalents in de other
territories) had on de game, but dey turn around and end
up wid de same kinda heavy-handed 'rulers' in charge who
did seem to be de only ones benefitting from de game.
Interesting to note dat since de change in de top, de West
Indies team look like dey find back dey confidence .. and yes,
ah know it was only Zimbabwe, but ah WIN is ah WIN ... and
dey did look good doing it! Ah hope de young boys an dem
realise dat freedom have responsibility and not jes
license.
Football...is what ah go say? Fus it have freeness in
dat! Every game is how many ticket sharing free-sheet?
Depending on who yuh know, it have plenty freeness
running. Is ah free-fuh-all, but some does get plenty more
free dan de rest. When yuh stop and tek ah good look at
it, football itself eh free at all. FIFA is de world's most
successful conglomerate and dey have it lock-up tight, tight,
tight. So when we all want to put on we dashiki and
tie up we head and parade, is what we really celebrating
at all? De new colonialism dat everyting and everybody have ah Yankee accent and
name Tommy (according to dey clothes)? We proud to be
emancipated and independent, but we still doh know who we
are and where we going because we fraid to look back at,
and understand, where we come from.
EMANCIPATE YOURSELF!!!
Tell Tantie: tantie@trinidiary.com
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