The Problem Pseudo Jamaicans have with Black Identity Part 3 (Final)

I am about to move on from this provocative subject but feel constrained to leave behind some markers for those persons who will have to return to these writings to decide what merit there may be to the views expressed and what relevance, weight and impact if any, they will have upon their practice of … More The Problem Pseudo Jamaicans have with Black Identity Part 3 (Final)

Uncomfortable Truths

Everywhere, everyone seems to have woken up to talk about the US and Cuba. Suddenly, national consensus on any number of issues that deeply divided the polity a generation or two ago now has shifted. Folk born after the 1980s seem to think significantly differently than folk before that time. Or could my earshot be … More Uncomfortable Truths

Podcast Episode: The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One

Pip: YeKengalé is the kind of site that asks you to sit down, take a breath, and then hands you something that requires several more breaths — the good kind, the kind that come with actual thinking. Mara: Today’s episode follows yekengale into the long history of how imperial projects used religion and ideology to … More Podcast Episode: The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One

The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One

I have been promising to take a deeper look at the role of religion in preparing the axiological scaffolding that supports a civilization and in particular, the role that Colombian and Cromwellian Christianity played in shaping The Caribbean and the Americas of today, which demanded the surrender and capitulation of many indigenous and imported identities … More The fallacy and the mandate: Out of many, One

May to Remember

I gave this speech at the Rotary Club of St Andrew yesterday. The live video was defective so I present the information here in this format. Every generation of mankind has a duty to the species of legacy. We receive the gift of life and all its treasure to ‘pass it on’ in time as … More May to Remember