Moruga Beach
I can see how people in trinidad get caught up
A few years now I discovered I had Moruga /Company Roots. It was connected to me finding out that Papa Neezer was my blood relative, being my paternal great grand mother's nephew and god son. Since then I have created a page of the Merikin Merikins legacy in Trinidad and Tobago. a fascinating story. It started a path of quiet activism. I wrote to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and..Smithsonian asking that Moruga, the Companies and that history be included in a new project the new director was trying to develop - A Black Museum as it was popularly called of African American history. I thought how novel to show and document how African American history exists off the land mass of the United States.
Then last year, as an outworking of my farming in San Rafael, I started to think of expansion and thought of Moruga--the vast stretches of fallow land, the unemployment and the youth. I decided to take it in pieces. And developed a program of an afterschool homework center that would be attached to a technology and farming training center for school leavers.. I met with the Baptist board and the Principal of First Company Primary Baptist school I believe. Leonis Roberts, my cousin will bear me out and correct me of my fogged memory on details. It never worked for I could not find a place to live down there as I could not afford to travel daily. But i was prepared to do the project for free.
My vision was to make Moruga an Organic Farming Mecca in Trinidad/ And use all the untapped youth and labor to develop skills and competencies. Totally transform the place.
It did not work, I left it alone as one of my many ideas I tried. Shelved for the moment.
But this story that started floating this week about Taylor and Moruga. I am glad he was rejected. I have enough stories on that man. My own personal exposure seeing him at Margaret Rose's firm. Then my friend Veera whom he robbed of $75K this year, and Gus, the old Merikin in a wheel chair will tell you how he stole the Merikin story, registered it in the US and created havoc for the real organization here to function up there. Ugly smart man thing
But to hear that there is no candidate from and for Moruga draws me out to write. I see how people does get tie up here. I would gladly jump at the chance to 'represent' Moruga, even as no one down there knows me except for my spirit, ancestral and blood relative family. But i want nothing to do with the PNM really. I dont want to be a party to any political party that ever existed before. I recognize in this writing the true test of any party seeking to move forward is to accept those who are great workers and candidates, who choose to remain independent, but given coverage and access to resources for constituent purposes, for citizen purposes, for wellbeing, national and locale interest. In the interest of that great myth of democracy and true freedom.
I would gladly jump at the chance at the dream delusion and prospect that I could access the resources and mandate to implement my ideas and solutions for the place and location and its people. But is that really how this place works? And what of the rock and hard place? the conflict between my personal view and what I think I can do and the structures and obstacles and systems that definitely do not facilitate that level of autonomy, but i have to buy in to even play. It is all mad and madness. What to do?
But i write to show you how things get twisted and complicated and how people may appear to be hypocrites from the outside perspective but it is not true. They just trying to find a way between the betwixt .
I reach out for guidance
As I write, i realize the optimal framework for someone like me going into a place maligned and forgotten like Moruga is to enter in with my funders, financiers and money to wield the magic the place and the people need.
i think of the mashed up roads, the broken down houses, the old people, the lack of so many things and ponder what make me feel I can do anything different? why no one else before? I was trying not to tag people but i dont think i have a choice>
I am deeply saddened by this quandary . It should not be so but it is an indication of the character of this place.
Richard Anthony Luke Job Reborn Clarence Rambharat Citizen Daren Mc Leod, Kambiri de Suza Patricia McIntosh, Peter OConnor, Kerry Peters
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