Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Denied Slave Wills and Destitute Overseers: Centuries Old Land Theft in Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Orville Scott, Tobago Land Ownership Association 
On cnmg Tuesday, June 07, 2011 at 8:40am
 Cant believe what I am hearing

Overseers stole the land left of and by absent, bailed and evacuated plantation owners who decreed, willed and signed the land over to the abolitioned (freed) slaves as they left these shores as plantations were no longer profitable to operate at the end of slavery.

I have said before and amazing that more information is emerging to prove the truth. Africans were robbed of land centuries ago. Africans are now landless because they cannot afford to buy back what was stolen and to correct their disenfranchisement. And the train has left the station. You cant reset a chess set board game. And too many centuries of causative circular and cumulative acts entrenched lines and identities drawn in ley lines.

Overseers here were the impoverished, disenfranchised of Europe, and could also be seen to be free criminals who were assigned to the periphery to work the land and ownerships of those they transgressed, a sort of hangover from the earlier fiefdoms of Europe. They found their reinvention in the absence and abandoned lands and estates at the abolition of slavery.  It is from that, the left overs that they created their industries, amassed the stolen estates and money from the businesses they continued and started. But they were granted the resources from that theft to get started. Lets be clear No one came here with money. None who are still here today,. That is. All were scrunting and now we learn, plenty were and are criminals.

And turns out there was a law written to stop the lands being turned over to abolitioned slaves in Tobago. One wonders who wrote that law, who was present to write that law; and how legal was that law if plantation owners wrote wills transferring the lands to said free slaves, men and women. But you can write a will in any hall of representatives to overturn any arrangement but it ought to be done with the change in constitution, but doubt if you will this was and is the wild west, and perhaps here, I finally discover how asinine a profession could be as the legal to write laws and never go back to research history and precedent. Perhaps that was a leftback, leave over of the colonialists who knew they were always scheming and writing deals to restrict the freedoms and abilities of previous. So is that why, laws are written in dispatch and patch; with great loopholes to drive a moon through and breaks in between to allow the establishment of illegality as a nation>

Dr. Orville Scott had all that material. He had a copy of such a will from a plantation owner willing land to the slaves he owned. He showed and spoke that NONE Of the people owning lands in Tobago for all these decades and hundreds of years, have no paper, or legal document to  proof of the land. He read off what must have been twenty estates in Tobago with no prrof of land ownership. And he spoke of trying to get help from Rowley, OLondon and THA. But it is clear to me why there would be no help forthcoming. That is upsetting one big applecart. People would be lost to all the pomp, and ownership./ they would become destitute. He also showed a Tobago document decreeing the STOP of all adherence to wills transferring land to the rightful owners of the aboilitioned slave. Imagine that! IF Tobago wrote a law preventing the ownership, transfer and holding of legally decreed lands by abolitioned slaves, what did Trinidad do? This is how we know we have a system and country of Legal Illegality> See why and how some side with the petty bandits. Is the whirlwind sown that chickens roosting and still to me what petty they do – do not match the ugly injustice meted out to them in history and reinforced by contempt> Everything is turned upside down and inside out. The Criminals are not the ones on the road snatching,. They are the lawyers and legal framework that institutionalize debauched thievery, and national disenfranchisement.

I have always said, intuitively seeing  that all are here, are thieves; never imagining the extent to that truth. The ones who landed here and came, as merchants as overseers,  and in transitions, perhaps the sailors, they are no more than the slaves and indentured who worked the land, but the latter not organized, mindful, minded or aware of what was happening, owing to perhaps, illiteracy, the lack of knowing how the land and laws worked, not even aware of the laws, and certainly, having spent their lives and heritage in bondage, would not  have the courage or the esteem in general terms to even envision owning anything. One cannot so easily change stripes. And like the slaves so the lesser European thieves. They came here, working and toiling for their lesser acts, and so they carried on.
All were here working, none were bested or better than any

Fascinating, I am stumped. And stumped to see how ingrained ignorance, and the extent to which the system cordons and blinders what information we are to know and understand. Paul the host was totally stumped as to how legal papers would not be adhered to by courts, lawyers and the system like the THA> Is it that lost to a thinking mind that those are now the people who would be bereft of their holdings, their collateral, wealth and land if the rightful owners of what they live off of were corrected the injustice? Is it that lost to a thinking mind that those rolls are the police and assurance of the establishment, and here we see the establishment, how criminal? Is it not clear that we create lives and living that are themselves the antithesis to human functioning? Not for fairness and justice but to might and power and how to protect that in perpetuity> That is law and the legal profession: To protect the haves and the rich from the have nots and the poor. This Land in Tobago situation is a classic example.
IS it not clear that if the THA no longer held that land they would be no different than the poor and disenfranchised of this two island country? Not even oil to cover a lie or lack of industry> There are men and women seemingly totally ignorant of the treachery of people, the injustices suffered of lessors, and the dynamic amidst those all poor vying for survival.

It is fascinating; I have no words, because now I wonder if it is the case that Africans were run off the land; or if they willingly stopped working the land? And had they continued on the land, would they have been rich beyond belief and recognition, in this day and age, when food and the land on which to grow it, even on water are becoming the only premium.

I think of all the light people of European descendants I see around now, talking and picturing estates. Appalled. We are watching thieves then: Surmised before; proven now. Bold and emboldened. Do they know? Some do. Some know. Many if all did at one time. But as time went on, they took their thievery for entitlement and privilege. Never to know what a lie/ I have no words/ The dance of it all.

I know of the injustices of the world. I am stumped literally and almost paralyzed to learn of its institution here at home. But why this reaction>? I would not be if I did not have people, black folk who look like me, talking shit and defending the ugly their white ancestry did when they raped and took advantage of the black, indian and mulatto women who they took as any tool on the land, peer, estate or plantation> Talking shit of ‘[family]’ what family? You were as an ox on the land, to produce. You were born of a taking in the shed or barn or under the stars, or the kitchen floor, or the overseer’s bed, without say your mother had or respect.

Funny too, because I think of the plantation owners who left, because of their absence, they  were free to leave inheritance to their slave children, as they would be absent any embarrassment or consequences of their breeding/ no one to call for entitlement; but the overseers who remained, they are the ones who lied and denied their seed and children of black women/and thus this rampant colorism as a means to deny the same nose, eyes and lips between children of one father but on/some darker for the slave mother…the only difference and ability to deny paternity is the color eh. And we have bought that lock stock and barrel

Our ignorance robbed us then> Our ignorance is robbing us now. There is a reason friends I always said I would squat. And it was because one, I knew anything I may want or need now has already been paid for, a few times over, if not more; and two, I was not going to pay for anything that by blood and right belongs to me or at least to those coming after. I take the teaching of the nations, that we own nothing while living here. To be adjusted to madness does not make you sane, just mad

I wonder if and what thieves are in my heritage history? I wonder what crimes and European scowl criminals are the ancestries of my genetic makeup? I am grateful for my melanin that prevented me from claiming any light to hidden darkness/ People like Mugabe , Samora Machel, Chavez, Mobutu and Castro had their reasons many decades ago, didn’t they? They made it their business to know the ugly these Europeans do and the ugly the afro Saxons coming behind them as neocolonialist to mind what was left, mimic and monkey> Fire Bun Dem for true

Where the justice?/ in what timing/ what world? What means/ WOW> Blows my Mind
When and what you learn, demarcates new lines of living; could be, friends and associations. That is if without dissonance.

And to show you how things do not change through time, Recall how the Americans came and claimed African lands for their base in Chaguaramas. Recall how those descendants were still calling for justice, correction and reappropriation of their lands when the PNM government was getting ready to build development there. It is the same story in replay. you all should make sure and get the clip of the interview. 


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Now... Dr Orville Scott, Member of the Tobago Land Ownership Association, reveals a controversy brewing in land ownership issues in Tobago...


The lands in contention are not even being developed into real estate or for agriculture. They are lying fallow and undeveloped in many instances. This is hurting the economy of Tobago.
– Dr Orville Scott, Tobago Land Ownership Association
Dr Orville Scott: “We have received no help from Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and THA Chief Secretary Orville London, both of whom are Tobagonians. In fact they have not been very supportive of our cause. The Tobago Development Minister, Vernella Alleyne-Toppin has made it her mission to see the lands returned to the rightful owners.”

Then today, I discover this, more incrimination ...in the land of paradise>>


http://e-edition.guardian.co.tt/2011/06-06-2011/pageflip.html


    •  i wish i could capture it by photograph, but no means But pg A6 reads: "New Squatting Trends in TT"
      pg A7 reads:       "Rich, big shot people blocking up land"

      0_o
      Try the return of the shotters to blocking up land
      Read history
      not your family famed lies, myths and dream allegories



Monday, June 6, 2011

The Obama Phenomenon Book Launch- DC

From:  Ojo-Ade, Femi
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Subject:  RE: A book launch for "The Obama Phenomenon..."
Dear Dr. Checole:

Thanks a lot for this arrangement.

Colleagues and friends, I hope you will do your level best to be there. Of course, I expect those livng in the DC area to make time for the event.

Thank you all and have a wonderful summer.

See you on Sept. 10.

Femi



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Cc: Ojo-Ade, Femi; 'Shirikiana'; 'Senait Kassahun'
Subject: A book launch for "The Obama Phenomenon..."


Dear Friends:

I am pleased to inform you that we have organized a book launch and a panel discussion on “The Obama Phenomenon” at SANKOFA Bookstore in Washington, DC for September 10, 2011.  The editor, Prof. Femi Ojo-Ade, will be there and we want to extend an invitation to you as well, just in case you will be in the Washington, DC area at that time.  If so, please let us know, and we will see to it that you are properly listed in the program.

In the meantime, I share with you the web site of the bookstore:  www.Sankofa.com<http://www.Sankofa.com> for your preview.

Kassahun Checole,
Publisher
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Thursday, June 2, 2011



http://www.joylandmagazine.com/brian/blog/250_books_women_all_men_should_read

rue, true or not. i wonder how many titles are from women of the indigenous diaspora, the periphery or 'dark africa' some titles look absolutely delish...Housekeeping...?

wish i could get a job. to read these titles and more. be put up in hotels around the globe as I read. and blogged post tweet. the travel, the reading and the 'put up' of it all...dream life

Friday, May 27, 2011

In Memoriam for Abdias do Nascimento 1914- -2011 by Molefi K. Asante



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Subject:  ABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO

In Memoriam for Abdias do Nascimento  1914- -2011


Seven years ago I went to Rio de Janeiro to speak on the occasion of Abdias do Nascimento’s 90th birthday. He repaid the honor by coming to my 65th birthday symposium three years ago at the age of 94. It was an emotional meeting captured on camera as I cried like a baby that this great man had come to Philadelphia for the occasion of my birthday.  So today I pay homage to this brother genius who has cherished our history and culture and who has made the life and struggle of the African Brazilian people his personal mission. And yet I know that the imperishability of his career, the elevated nature of his commitment to humanity, the sacred ceremony of his love for the orishas, and his devotion to art and literature mark him as one of the greatest humans of his time. Indeed, I have been struck by the way he managed to carve out his persona in the midst of a multitude of illusions, images, and situations.
It is rare for a human being, without the control of the media and its popular diversions, to rise above all of the noise of his or her time and stand out as a unique human being.
Abdias do Nascimento  defended the oppressed, advanced creativity, sought human community and made our lives better by his art, reason, emotion, and laughter. I danced with him when he was in Buffalo and I ate his Brazilian dishes when he lived as an expatriate.
For nearly forty years Abdias was my teacher. That is why when I received the news of his transition there was nothing more for me than to write in my own voice about the works of this marvelous man. Abdias was Brazilian, but he belonged to the African world. We claimed him in the United States; they claimed him in Mexico; he was claimed in Nigeria; they spoke of him as belonging to them in Ghana; the Angolans and Mozambicans called his name fondly as one of theirs.  All over the African world his name was written in the bosom of the people. Abdias’ name must be included among the most eminent of Africans, alongside those of Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, and Cheikh Anta Diop. Brazil has been alert enough to honor him in a way that projects Brazil into leadership in the African world.
I met Abdias do Nascimento, son of Brazil, son of Africa, son of the world, when I took a professorship at the State University of New York in Buffalo in l973. One could not miss his grand character, his immense popularity as a professor, and his enormous smile. When I stood in his presence I knew even at that time that I was in the presence of magnificence. What is it to be warmed by the sun but to feel a sentiment of comfort and security that everything will be allright now that you are touched by the radiance of its brightness.

All people, in every country and of every nation, have identified individuals who deserve to be celebrated and praised for the work that they are doing and have done. The names of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Dessalines, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Amenitoshaka, Yanga, and a thousand others sing out from the panoply of heaven in witness to Abdias’ life.
 We elevate ourselves and commemorate the illustrious creativity of our most shining star when we bathe in Nascimento’s halo. . If you call it self-love, because we celebrate ourselves when we celebrate the best of us, then it is a type of self-love that makes us honor a sharp mind and a constant activist. Whatever our attributes, our desires, our ambitions for ourselves and the world they all come together in the character of Abdias, a monument of brilliance, and an icon of victory.
In my judgment there has never lived an African in the Americas with a more instinctive understanding of the nature of our African culture. In that, Nascimento was alone, among the likes of Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Aime Cesaire, Leon Damas, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, Jacques Roumain, Nicolas Guillen, and Langston Hughes. No male leader has captured the essence of our history and culture so plainly and powerfully as Nascimento. Of course, we know that Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Zora Neale Hurston, and other women, may have been much more attuned to the intricacies of culture than many men. However, Nascimento brought his strong passions to his love for our culture and our creativity. This was one of his greatest gifts to us. When I have seen him talk at Lagos, in Washington, in New York, and other places I always left his presence thinking that there was no need to worry because Nascimento knew that we walked the way of a revitalized world and with his leadership we could  truly find ourselves.

Abdias do Nascimento was not only a major force in African Brazilian culture and politics; he was a world figure who started his career in the 1930s. When he founded the Black Experimental Theater in l944 he immersed himself in every aspect of the history and life of the African in Brazil. But he wanted to know more, to do more, and therefore his interests expanded to other countries where blacks lived as he made alliances with the writers, artists, and intellectuals in other South American countries. Soon he was to take his wisdom, dramatic arts, and cultural knowledge and practice to North America where he made a significant impact on the African community in the United States. But his first love was always his Brazilian family, his community, his people who had been so violated by history and circumstances that they had often forgotten their own history and their own need to gain their victory over the degradation of the West.
Abdias’ life is the victory.
I believe that Africa spoke to him like an oracle. Why do I believe this? If a continent could speak, if it had its voice, it would say that African Brazilians had to find their way back home in their minds and souls. Nascimento heard what the continent wished to say. He interpreted the voice of the continent through his essays, paintings, and poems. He became for thousands of people outside of Brazil the purest voice of the African Brazilian. In this, we were lucky. Yes, because Abdias’ voice was the dynamic voice at international gatherings of Africans in Quagadougou, in Lagos, in Dar es Salaam, in New York, the black people of Brazil had an eloquent and dramatic voice on the stage of African history.
What is the place of Nascimento in the African world? If you were to look at Nascimento in the continuum of African giants where would you put him?  How would you articulate his importance to the global discourse on the question of African consciousness? In the world of ideas we are often confronted with new theories but the enduring quality of Abadias’ work is its ability to anticipate every turn, every nuance of the African world.

            There is something universal in Nascimento. He traveled to any society and was immediately at home. He was Nigerian, Senegalese, North American, but he was really Brazilian. Actually, it was the human quality that made him so much a part of the rest of the world. He did not come with the calling cards of capitalism, imperialism, or globalization. Rather Nascimento approached the world with human rights, equality, and mutual respect for all cultures.
He was our champion. There was no one in Brazil or the United States like him. His spirit stood out from the pack, undaunted, unbowed, and straightforward.

Who was Abdias do Nascimento?  Asked a young Salvadorean. He was a playwright and dramatist, said one who had read and seen Sortilege. This play which Nascimento wrote and produced at the Black Experimental Theater in Rio de Janeiro in the l940s “as an exigency of the lamentable situation in which black people found themselves in Brazilian society” (Nascimento, Sortilege, Chicago: Third World Press, 1978, p. 1) is still seen as one of the most creative works ever done on the modern stage. Indeed, the theater itself was a center for the affirmation of African cultural values, and in that regard, it was an institution that forced a progressive stand in relationship to the condition of the people. So it is true that Nascimento was a dramatist.  But who is Abdias do Nascimento? 

He was a poet, said a young lady from Sao Paulo. This son of Dona Josina Georgina and Jose Ferreira do Nascimento was the author of Axes Do Sangue E Da Esperancs, orikis.  Yes, he was a great poet, one who memorialized the orishas:  Exu, Ogum, Yemanja, Oya, Shango, Oshun, Obatala, Ochosi. He named and honored his parents, his wife, the women in his life, his children, his comrades, and his close friends. He was a poet who celebrated the iconic value of Ausar and Auset. He was one who elevated the masses of Angola, South Africa, and Mozambique and in his poetry willed them to overthrow oppression.  But who was Abdias do Nascimento? 

He was a historian who chronicled his own time. Nascimento was always an advocate for African Brazilians. He wrote Sitiado em Lagos and Povo Negro as political history and as political philosophy. But these were only two of the more than 30 publications of this artist who was a man of science, this social scientist and historian who was a creative artist, this chronicler who reached back and found in our past the necessary principles for our future. Perhaps Mixture or Massacre: Essays in the Genocide of a Black People was one of the most penetrating works ever done on racial politics in Brazil. It introduced Nascimento to the North American audience as a thinker with a passion for truth. We are presented with the heroes of Brazilian history: Luis Gama, Jose do Patricinio, Joao Candido, and Luisa Mahin. There were others and Nascimento never tired of telling the world about them and the heroic deeds they did in the interest of black freedom. Protests against discrimination in employment, housing, schooling, hotels, the military and diplomatic services, fueled Nascimento’s eagerness to become a voice for the people without a voice. So, who was Nascimento? He was a political leader, a force for social justice and peace, a senator and a minister.


Who was this man born in Franca, Sao Paulo on March 14, 1914?

If we write the history of resistance to oppression in Brazil we must write the names of Abdias do Nascimento, Leila Gonzales, Guerreiro Ramos, and Nelson Rodrigues as compatriots in the struggle for cultural, psychological, and economic liberation for the African Brazilian people. Nascimento headed the list.
Nascimento claimed the history of the African Brazilian people when he took the Quilombos and made them models of an African Brazilian response to the human condition. This was an Afrocentric thrust into the meaning of our presence in the Americas. It was a statement, a position, a proposition of resistance and victory. He taught us that the Portuguese and Spanish slave owneers were just as harsh, just as brutal, and just as wicked as the English enslavers.
The magnificent literary and artistic career of Nascimento remains the standard by which we will always compare geniuses. My big brother, and dear friend, stood with and by Wole Soyinka, C. L. R. James, Maulana Karenga, Paulo Freire, John Henrik Clarke, Leila Gonzales, Rodrigo Alves, and Guerreiro Ramos. They are some of the key figures in the resurgence of Africa, but Nascimento is not lost in that list of greatness.
If I were asked to name a great artist, Nascimento would come to my mind. If I were asked to identify a man who dedicated his life to the liberation of the oppressed, I would have to put Nascimento on the list of names at the very top. If I were asked to name a great creative dramatist and founder of theatre, no one would come before the name of Nascimento..
What Abdias taught was that we carry our own weight. There is no universality that obliterates our identity; true universality builds upon identity until it incorporates all identities. Only in this way do we find our own singularity. When I think of the rise of African consciousness in the world, I think, of course, of the Negritude poets, of  Bantu Steve Biko, of Maulana Karenga and Kawaida philosophy, and the apostle of Quilombismo, Abdias do Nascimento..
I did not arrive at the conclusion that it was necessary for all Africans everywhere to have a sense of agency without the advise, the knowledge, and the encourage of those who had already claimed African consciousness. Abdias do Nascimento demonstrated to us that it was essential to have a cultural revolution before there could be a moral revolution. Indeed, in his writings Abdias was the Shaka and the Zumbi of the most important truths in the world.
Hotep to the Almighty whose name is sometimes Ptah, Ra, Atum, and Amen.
Hotep to the orishas Eshu, Obatala, Ogun, Ochosi, Shango, Yemanja, and Oshun.
Hotep to the great ancestors of Palmares!
Hotep, Abdias do Nascimento, eternal spirit of African resistance and victory!

.   AxĂ©!


Molefi Kete Asante