Author's Remarks:
In 1980 I quit the English education system where I was a teacher, lecturer and likewise a voluntary extracurricular innovator, and took up the Academic positions offered to me in Germany. It was a decision I willingly made and one that I’ve never ever regretted or am ever likely to, because overall I could see, and have since been proven phenomenally right, that the British Educational system which has carried on apace ever since then, and both sensibly and logically from my perspective and others I’d quite frankly spoken with and from their own perspective similarly wanted nothing to do with it, was thoroughly unfit for purpose. And distinctively from my own point of view I wanted no further part of it. A clearly Utopian escape therefore for me and one where my teaching and valuable contribution to education not only in my now adopted home country Germany but also a s guest lecturer, speaker and contributor elsewhere in neighbouring countries excelled to my utmost delight and satisfaction; drawing all of this time full inspiration on my part from my cultural and ancestral homeland Barbados where the foundation of my excellent educational upbringing has its undoubted origins.
In 1999 a former student of mine and now herself a very successful career teacher and lecturer herself at an adult college and similarly a Gymnasium – Grammar School for the uninitiated – asked me if I would like to give a talk to her students on whatever subject matter I chose to speak on, as she’d continually told them about me, my work with her and they were decidedly quite keen to meet and hear me. I agreed; as this educator and former student of mine with whom I’d always had an excellent rapport was as exemplary in her field of work as any genuinely outstanding human being can possibly be.
I chose as my subject matter the Machete and its significance in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Barbados specifically and subsequently also the other Caribbean territories, coupled with the grotesquely amount of wealth that this one implement discernibly garnered for what was essentially a backward offshore, of no account offshore European entity called England, which because of the fortuitous acquisition of that same monumental wealth eventually morphed into first the creation of the UK and subsequently an empire that its British serfs liked to boast about and arrogantly declared on which the sun never set.
But the gem in my speech was that just as the Machete was highly and invaluably instrumental in doing all that it could also likewise be used to tear down the asinine and conceited, quite delusional and preposterously living in their utterly demented state of denial that these present day white Brits, their Useful Idiots of coconut hue and composition along with their infernal posse of thoroughly entrenched Stockholm Syndrome inculcated House Niggers somehow not only firmly believe themselves but similarly expect intelligent, and totally capable of thinking for themselves human being, far removed from their own subservient and lowlife existences that Britain is somehow an exemplary post-racial 21st Century Utopia, and white Britons: whoever they supposedly really are, are the epitome of what mankind is and should in essence be all about. Dream on I say! For therein lies your very long overdue but inevitably deservingly so permanent destruction.
So all power I say to the Machete and Long Live Barbados!