At a time when the enticing virus that makes life impossible, the people of Barbados remind us that we can still dance as much as we can.
As the new year approaches, the weary world faces a series of heartbreaking challenges, challenges that have combined to bring hope and joy from now on.
But the small island, which is sunny in the eastern Caribbean with a population of only 285,000 people, has denied any doubts, and opted to celebrate a rebirth through the ever-increasing darkness as a necessary hope.
At the evening ceremony on November 30 – full of peaceful dignity and meaning – Barbadians realized the long-awaited dream of creating and carrying on the power of thought and a commitment to self-determination.
Decades after the declaration of independence in 1966, Prime Minister Mia Mottley swore last year to fulfill a promise made by the country’s first Prime Minister Errol Barrow that one day Barbados would “not delay in the last colonial house.”
And, so, in the middle of the night, the Royal Standard was gradually downgraded, signaling the arrival of Barbados as a parliamentary republic, unmovable finally from a symbolic alliance with the then-existing British empire that, for centuries, imposed – brutally and terribly – culture. it is a strange tradition and ruined and hurtful.
When the 21-gun salute returned last night, Dame Sandra Mason, the last governor, was sworn in as President – instead of Queen Elizabeth II as head of state – and chief justice and vowed to remain faithful. to a newly liberated country.
Hundreds of years of British rule that saw a country that had been liberated from the ravages of war and created – under the whip – a place of oppressive slavery by white, rich, English-speaking enemies who plundered a remote island for profit, began to recall.
However, another wealthy Englishman, Prince Charles saw for himself, the proud journey of Barbados from the colony to the entire republic. For many, his presence was unacceptable as he incorporated all that the Barbadian people decided to give up for sure.
In a delayed defense, the successor to a diminished, useless throne, Prince Charles acknowledged “the terrible atrocities of slavery, which tarnished our image” and allowed “the creation of this world to give a fresh start”.
The Barbadian poet and poet Winston Farrell drew attention to the depth of this “new beginning” in a tragic verse.
“Completely ban the colonial page,” Farrell told a crowd gathered at Heroes Square in Bridgetown. “Some grew up stupid under Union Jack, lost in the protective circle of their skin.”
“It’s about us, coming out of the sugarcane fields, restoring our history,” he said. “Ending all that he means.”
Barbados has done what Canada and Australia – who are still married to the absurd notion that the queen means instability and the close alliance that binds people far away – refuses to do: Grow up and leave “home.”
Instead, like angry children clinging to an apron for comfort and security, these fearsome members of the Commonwealth who promise unwavering loyalty to a good, aged queen, tend to sympathize more than maturity.
The British monarchy is useless, with rich, famous pedestrians, some of whom have been excommunicated for revealing to those who asked them to flee the mythical “myth” instead of perpetuating the lie.
One “prince,” above all, represents the A-Z marches of the haughty, weary nation, which, apparently, protects the rested criminal in his protective, wetland.
Today, Prince Andrew who, like his well-groomed brother, is supposed to be a volunteer for government work – often missing out on the same protections as witnesses. Grieving Prince Andrew, however, was photographed earlier this week as he rode with friends to his guest house at Windsor Castle.
The recent prince has not been well received because he faces strong charges that Virginia Giuffre insists that, at the age of 17, he was a “sex slave” in 2001 for Prince Andrew and other well-known and well-known hideouts and deceased Americans. p-converter-pimp, Jeffrey Epstein.
The “people” of Prince Andrew, de rigueur, painted a false accuser like a money-making prostitute who sued the princess “to meet a pay day with her money.”
This is proof, and gatherings, of Prince Andrew’s alliance with the #MeToo group – insulting the brave woman to try to oppose all powerful forces – and, apparently, the ruling king (the old woman) agrees.
Not to mention the victim, Prince Andrew’s lawyers now claim that the New York law that Ms Giuffre relied on to establish her case is illegal because, at the age of 17, she was old enough to confess and, as such, ended up. not, at that time, to be considered inferior by the state.
I would like to think that Prince Andrew’s ill health will not only give sensible kings the impression they need, but also question the queen’s evil idea of giving her naughty child a peaceful place amid the insults and cruelty that surround her. Additionally, Buckingham Palace.
Blinded, as they are, by the absurd fantasies that royal development and events underpin, they, no doubt, will continue to look loosely in another way to avoid contradicting the truth about the monarchy empire which is deeply entrenched in ruthless and petty history.
The traveling circus, known as “The Firm”, survived with the help of British nostalgic and rancid tabloid journalists as well as producers of TV and lightly polished TV screens that try, ad nauseum, to give it a whole new patina look and purpose.
Years ago, the wise Barbadians understood that it was, and still is, a mirage made by white people. In time, they decided to rid themselves of the wealthy old system in which their parents built their wealth by conquering their beloved homeland and becoming enslaved.
Last month, Barbados asked the queen, and her princes, who were bound by the king’s children, to respectfully travel.
If only Canada and Australia, among many astronomical countries, had the will and wisdom to follow her example.
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