Nobody takes the threat of war in our region seriously because most people from this present generation have no clue of the trials and tribulations that our fore-parents faced during the First and Second World Wars.
Many are siding with the USA as the aggressor because they think it means America will continue offering us visa free status and contribute to our economic welfare. However, the US war against Venezuela is an attempt to control their oil resources despite their sovereign status, and at the same time continue to cripple and suppress Cuba.
Now, we in the region are dismantling our relationships as a people of peace and tranquility, fighting against each other in favour of Uncle Sam’s demands. We are prepared to band our Citizenship by Investment structure that has become a means of strengthening our economic stability and return to total dependency on such superpowers like America.
Whatever America wants, they usually take and who they want to destroy they will, so we seem to have forgotten many times being under French and English control and now we’re shifting to American control and becoming recolonized all over again. We are now saddled with greed and material wants and do not mind being enslaved once again, but this time by our own desire.
History seems to have taught us nothing. We have foggoten the story of the Middle Passage, our suppression, our battles against slavery and colonization mean nothing to us anymore and we’re now prepared to be puppets of the USA and toe the line, all in the name of material progress.
We are blind to this new reality, so, to some people, having a visa to enable them to go to the United States is more important than Caribbean sovereignty or unity. They feel dismantling our Caribbean unity is now OK and all the strides of the past can be put on hold.
Our Latin American linkages we seem to feel we can do without, regardless of all Cuba and Venezuela have done for us, especially through health care, economic support and educational advancement. We see nothing wrong in turning our backs on them, because this is the only way Uncle Sam will acknowledge us as friends.
What a time we live in. Despite all our education and knowledge of the past and what countries of might and stature have done to us as Black people, we are prepared to go to bed with the enemy just to satisfy our material greed.
Sadly, history will not forgive us as we have not considered the plight of the Haitian people for being the first to start the abolition of slavery. Our people must remember the exploitation of Africa and its people, the way our indigenous First People have been treated worldwide, the mineral exploitation, the mass killings, the torture and disrespect of all minority groups, while we desperately try to upkeep and uphold White Supremacy.
We as a people and a region are prepared to sell our souls to The Devil in exchange for glory of material wants. We who profess to be a Christian society have forgotten the biblical quotation ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?’
I pity this generation because one day we will discover the falseness of our independence, and how, like Judas, we sold our souls for thirty pieces of silver and we say ‘Give us Barnabas instead of Christ’s kingdom, because this will satisfy our moral compass.
We forget through America’s support for Isreal how they have just massacred more than 70 thousand Palestinians. We forget the exploration of the African continent. We seem to read but don’t understand and we look but do not see and listen but do not hear.
What more can I say to convince those of us still in doubt that we are barking up the wrong tree and one day ‘too late’ will be our cry.
Remember, what you sow is what you shall reap and how you support blindly will and can become your future woe. So, be continuously aware of world affairs and don’t be persuaded by false doctrines and misguided information. Learn to stand up for your rights or be prepared to suffer the consequences of your actions.
And remember always not to bite the hands that really and genuinely feed you.