Cities have a difference of industry than the rural antebellum. A city is where raw material and natural resources were sent to be refined and sold to mass market. Instead of cutlasses, sacks of cotton, and shackles, African slaves had … Continue reading Re: Grounds for rebellion
Using the term “Rasta” to popularize and sell commodities is entirely insulting because it is colloquial. A musical, religious, socially conscience political movement that unites African persons globally should not be defrauded to sell young white men in Europe and North … Continue reading Re: Using the term “Rasta”
African Americans were drawn to Paris, France because they could be themselves. Decades before and decades after Ms. Coleman and Ms. Smith’s arrivals and departures Black people of all walks of life found themselves yearning for the simple privilege of … Continue reading Re: Left alone and left to dream
In the Caribbean hospitality industry the agents of consumption of mobility can be translated into a tourist/servant relationship which was formerly master/slave.The notion of emancipation is not purely legal, the descendants of immobile slave populations are recipients of an imbalanced … Continue reading Re: Purely legal
The United States has a sordid history of retrospectively appreciating those that must leave and return instead of cultivating their native sons and daughters from the beginning. Bricktop and Queen Bess: Examples of African-American Women the Pursuit of Happiness Abroad in … Continue reading Re: Native sons and daughters
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