Now, be honest, Dear Reader – did you remember Saturday was “International Day of Peace”?? Thought so!! The first thing that popped into your Eyewitness’s mind was whether Israel and Russia/Ukraine would pause their wars. But that, of course, was a wasted thought!! Used to be that “keeping the peace” was the job of the superpowers – who became the “world’s policeman”. Presently, the US is still the sole superpower standing – even if challenged – so it would appear they ain’t doing such a good job in the policing department!! What gives?? We know the US is actually using Ukraine as a proxy to pre-empt a threat from the Ruskies in Europe – so it can focus on the Chinks out in the East!! But is the Jewish lobby really so powerful that they’re dictating what the US Govt can and can’t do in the Middle East? And here your Eyewitness thought “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was a hoax!!
Anyhow, after the Brits fought the “Great War” of WWI – to “make the world safe for democracy” in the “war to end all wars” – and presumably bring in “perpetual peace” – seems that something went awry!! We then had another “great war” – this time to save the world from the “fascism” of Hitler and Mussolini. The US emerged as the new superpower holding up the world on its shoulder – like Atlas of yore!! But they immediately ran into competition from the Ruskies – who insisted they’d done more than them to defeat the German Huns and they weren’t getting any respect from the Yanks and Brits!!
We in the Brit and Frog colonies took the opportunity to become independent from the now toothless colonials – and the Ruskies convinced many of our then leaders that they had a better schtick for us natives. We’d been now dubbed the “Third World” by the US and the rest of the West while the Ruskies were relegated to the “Second World”!! – to which they didn’t take too kindly – as you can imagine since they detected a touch of racism since they were Slavs!! The beef between the two contestants was called the “Cold War” because they didn’t fight each other. They left that to us natives – who hotly supported one or the other side!!
Well, a superpower’s job is never done and right now looks like a new Cold War has appeared between the Yanks and the Chinks!! But while the Yanks are still attempting to play their world policeman role – look at them paying for Kenyan Police to impose peace in Haiti – the Chinks seem to be adopting a hands-off attitude!!
Look how they were silent when Venezuela threatened even their CNOOC in our Stabroek Block!!
…with the schools
If it’s one good thing that came out of our British past, it was the respect drilled into us for teachers. It arose from the respect for education by our foreparents who came out of slavery – and later indentureship – as the tool to deliver real emancipation. As such, your Eyewitness is very disappointed to read about the attacks on teachers by students and violence in some schools. And of the weapons these students now tote around!
But let’s face it…this behaviour’s coming straight outta Compton and other American inner-city ghettoes. Sadly, it’s the culmination of the glorification of that ghetto culture that’s overtaken our schools – in what is now called “hoods”. It started with the misogynic Gangsta Rap that glorified violence – and influenced Dancehall singers like Elephant Man, Vybz Kartel, Skeng, etc– that’s the first step. Look what happened in Jamaica – which had the same colonial background like us.
We gotta yank this out from the roots!!
…for the AFC
Geez…you’d think after Moses parted the PPP’s Red Sea in 2011 and 2015 – giving the AFC the cred for the PNC courting them into office, he’d at least get a mention nowadays!! Was he too much of a lapdog??
