{"id":128665,"date":"2021-05-09T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=128665"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:21:55","slug":"bad-minded-and-lub-ugly-antiguan-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/bad-minded-and-lub-ugly-antiguan-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad-minded and Lub-ugly\u2019 Antiguan Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Makeda Mikael<\/strong><\/p>

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Friends of my generation are trying to discover where the Antiguan culture developed \u2018bad-mindedness and lub-ugly\u2019 as its outstanding features when it comes to its own people.<\/p>\n

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We have come up with a theory based on the history of Antigua being the first colony to emancipate its hundreds of enslaved Africans and their half-breeds \u2013 inheritance of their master\u2019s rape.<\/p>

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The mind set of the planter class may have been triggered by fear and loss of control, hence their departure for the UK, leaving their overseer class in charge of the island.<\/p>

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These are the culprits responsible for the failure of our people to have picked up some of the finer cultural attributes of the upper class British, instead of the brute qualities of their lower class left behind to oversee the estates.<\/p>\n

Antigua can truly be considered a classless society, which respects no one, especially its own people, which has \u00a0unfortunately resulted in mediocrity and a non-meritorious society.<\/p>

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It is not lost on us that there are very few Antiguans if any who hold top jobs in Government, the hotel industry and private enterprise, and who if qualified, apolitical and professional are micro-managed by Ministers of Government, and the expatriate Manager who reports to the hotel and private enterprise owners.<\/p>\n

For a long time we blamed the Antiguans\u2019 refusal to make the quantum leap from middle-management to top management. Now serious study of the two political administrations and going back historically into the last thirty odd years we find no encouragement from the top, except for a brief period in the 1980-90s when government sought to locate and position outstanding Antiguans to high Ministry positions, encouraging the hotels to do the same.<\/p>

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Clearly the government does not trust Antiguans to carry out their directives without beating up on their people with the \u2018bad-minded and lub-ugly\u2019 cultural attitude.<\/p>

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On the other hand the expatriate or non-national in the top job can be trusted to carry out government directives unquestioned and confidential, and at the same time smiling in the Antiguan face while carrying out the adverse political directive with subtle racism.<\/p>\n

How do we fix this \u2018bad-minded & lub-ugly\u2019 cultural attitude which we have learned from those who had no \u2018airs and graces\u2019 to impart to the down-trodden black enslaved Africans freed in Antigua, who groaned like Langston Hughes, the American poet:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we sit here on the edge of hell
\nAnd wonder what to do in the face of what we remember
\nAnd with every bid for freedom
\nSomeone whispers
\n\u2018Wait\u2019<\/p>\n

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