Sadly that was nigh on 50 years ago and in the 21st Century we still don't get it. I'm sure my first ever guitar tutor as young boy, might of played that, along with puff the magic dragon and kumbaya my lord. I was too young to remember now. I was listening to a 90 minute podcast yesterday by Darryl Edwards, former investment banker and technologist turned movement coach and author, founder of primal play method. It was interesting, I don't agree with all aspects of what he says but his views nonetheless were as I say, interesting, disccused aspects of history on the slave trade, and the main commodities of tobacco, sugar, cotton, and rice. Also a rarely heard word of colourism, or certainly for me, which intrigued me enough to look it up.
Interesting times indeed, read about the spice routes recently, certainly opened up the world of trade.
Yup, so it wasn't just about Slaves, it was stealing their precious metals, taking advantage of the rich commodities they had, that I've listed above. John Barnes summed it up for me in his inanimate object sentence, as is the inanimate object of the statues for me. It's not them that are the problem, it's PEOPLE in general that are the problem. They deflect it away from them to a faceless, unaccountable object. We didn't just steal their lives, we stole the riches of the land they had too.
He's getting old now but there was always something I liked about Elvis Costello, also he never gave a ****te with his nerd rock look. I expect he'll be involved in Black Lives Matter, somewhere, although I've not seen anything, but he was heavily involved in Rock against Racism. When I first heard Watching the Detectives, I'm like who the fook is this guy, you just knew straight away he was going to smash the music industry...
