By Makeda Mikael
Four hundred years of culture does not disappear in days or years, but with re-education maybe a hundred years or so.
The manliness of our black men as ordained by the slave master represented his ability to rape at his master’s choice, breed more enslaved women to increase his master’s labour force, and when necessary, slap the resisting young girl into submission and conclude the rape.
With such a defining historical past, it is still not easy to forgive or understand the violent creature of our slavery inheritance. When one looks at the culture, it must be in a 360% perspective seeing the pride of the black man being totally destroyed watching his mother, wife, daughter, son sexually and otherwise demoralized in his presence, not fighting, and even thanking the master for being chosen.
As a free people we are less than one hundred years old, mindful that all those still connected by its Justice system to the colonizer cannot really claim freedom at all. Left by the British without the proverbial ‘pot to piss in’ our culture continues to manifest the violence of the plantation now ruled by surrogate black overseers.
The plantation was a wicked place, where enslaved Africans learned new brutal types of cruelty, a place where breaking the spirit was by violence, including branding (sizzling flesh ownership), beatings, breaking bodies on the wheel, hanging, chopping off their heads, burying them alive and often using family members to inflict the punishment.
The role models of the violent Caribbean black male was the violent slave master in his fear.
Slavery had a very strong sexual component which is constantly overlooked because rape is embarrassing and so stays hidden. Those enslavers on their plantations full of strong virile men who had to be kept under control so devised many specialized punishments to control the black manhood, by directing their frustrations inward towards their own.
After a hard day in the field and the young woman is resisting, a slap or two gets the submission needed to rape and impregnate her.
The culture remains and will not change as long as we are still subject to the dominance of the slave master, his heirs and successors and his black overseers. Rape, Breed and move on!
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Can the writer please write an article on why so many Black business owners abuse, insult, oppress and treat their employees with disdain…….
Hmmmmm. I doubt she would ever do that.
You’re right Mel. Well, lady, what’s your answer???
Funny enough, I believe this to also be linked to slavery.
Black business owners sometimes think they have arrived…..at the position of replacement Massa.
You see it with government managers too. Attempts to belittle, micromanage and use profanity, as well as ego driving their responses.
Don’t you dare disagree with Massa or make Massa look bad by speaking about them mistreating employees.
I’d like to know the name of the genius who wrote this article. Does he really think that the heritage of slavery is the problem? You are not serious man
It was written by a Female. Her name precedes the article.
well said! because I work for a 2 year old in a 60 year old body who doesnt care about the staff and is very vindictive when people are trying to build the business for them. When they cant figure out something on their own and the staff fix the problem, they create a bigger one so there’s malice, very vindictive and likes to do things to upset you.
The sad thing is that many managers don’t realize that the company CAN do without them. On the other hand, the company CAN’T do without the workers.
#foodforthought
While I respect this writer’s opinion, I do not agree. The writer makes it sound as if men are born with this type of attitude.
Humans are not born with this type of behavior. I agree that it is indeed taught.
Humans/Men on the other hand, have free will and even if raised wrong, we know the difference between right and wrong. The writer is speaking specifically about men, but as men, we have mothers, grandmothers, daughters etc. How would you as a father feel if another man is abusing your daughter for example? It might take a generation, but if we teach our kids the right way from the onset it can be done.
Yes, one wonders what kind of a home she grew up it??? It must have been pretty hellish. Hmmm.
Nemo you’re an idiot ofc everything about western black people Caribbean and us blacks mentality is a slavery mentality and also we are the israelites the bible speaks of no other nations of people! Youtube iuic
This has to be one the most dumb, ridiculous and just plain stupid Op-Ed’s I have ever seen on this website.
There is no empirical evidence or statistics that the author cites. There is no figures or numbers provided to support any arguments that the author writes. Basically, this is something that could be on a blog or FB post.
Can I write an Op-Ed on the subject of: “Why Caribbean women beat and kill their men” ?
So many women commit crimes against men and so many woman make false allegations against men.
Yes, we want to see it.
The above is true but it’s not the reason……This is the modern world we living in…..We all know right and wrong…..Some people very sadly don’t give a damn and think with their genitals and others may honestly have mental problems.. Some people cannot handle Jealousy, rejection or humiliation well and they snap……It’s sad but it’s just reality
Who the hell is Makeda Mikael !
What utter rubbish! This woman obviously lacks a rudimentary understanding of the history of this country or the world at large. India is the rape capital of the world, and Antigua would be on the bottom of any list if we made the list at all. The author appears to have a problem with black men in general and used the “rape” canard to vent.
Has “the minister” been arrested yet? What’s the hold up?
“EVIDENCE”? OF RAPE IS..THAT’S WHY NO ARREST.
WHY WOULD THE POLICE MAKE AN ARREST WITHOUT “EVIDENCE”?
U PEOPLE LOVE UGLY!!
LET THE POLICE DO THEIR JOB!!
The Internet is a #Drug. At times, just like other drugs, that serve a positive purpose in Our lives, can be and are ABUSED, so too can the Internet.
I think, #Makeda Mikael gets High on the Internet like some folks, got carried away like she’s on psychedelic mushrooms, or fentanyl laced heroin and #OVERDOSED.
Now, that she’s being resuscitated, she is telling us, of the #Trip which she took.
Lmao that’s a good one ras smood
My dear Ras, you hit the nail on the head. She must have grown up in a very abusive home. Most Antiguan men are NOT beaters and rapists. In fact we’re all waiting for a minister of government to be hauled in for alleged rape, and if he is guilty all Antiguans with a conscience want him locked up. No, dear lady, most Antiguan men are NOT beaters and rapists.
The phenomenon is called inter-generational trauma and it is passed on through our genes. Slavery is also the reason we beat our children as punishment. We know no better or different.
Thank you for this comment. So true.
So then the domestic abuse and rape statistics should be non existent in Africa because they are not decended from slaves right ?
Some of you all really disgusting. I am in total disagreement with this opinion. I think it is a weird conspiracy theory. HOWEVER! I have the respect the person’s opinion. AND! As a media house you cannot say that the editor should not allow it because you don’t agree with it. Miss me with that “incorrect” BS. It is an opinion as clearly stated in the headline. You read it. you give your own opinion and you move on. Some of you are famous for talking the most sh*t on facebook and cannot tolerate a different view? Get out of here. Some of you all sicken me.
For such a serious topic it’s sad that it is just an opinion and not a piece based on empirical evidence albeit quantitative or qualitative.
I read the title and went straight to the comments section. Lol.
Makeda? Do u have a Facebook account?
I would love to school u on Journalism!!
What kind of article is this….Caribbean men Rape and kill women?
I really believe u and ANR trying to get news about the minister..lmao..y’all will wait forever.
“No Evidence of Rape”… y’all just won’t stop with this Rape headline..smh..
Now who ever this Makeda is just trying to get the police to see this article and try to speak on the minister..smh..so much goes on in Antigua to be focusing your energy on this matter..let the police do their job!! Everyday so? Get a life!
The clicks bringing in revenue. And what is more scandalous than a governament minister being accused of rape. The longer they drag it out the more clicks they get. The more revenue comes in.
So confused by this article —- you must really be confused because their is no link between the article and the alleged rape by a Minister of government.
Sir, are u old? Don’t u see what they are implying? U must be really lost ..but that’s exactly what they want to poke at..come on! There isn’t anything to report on the minister’s case so they will come up with other topics close enough to the story. It’s annoying now! Every other day “Rape”..chupzzz.
This headline everyday triggers people that actual go through these acts! Am tired of seeing these article it sames like y’all doing this on purpose!
If no one reads this article people would think it happens everyday in Antigua!!
I have a suggestion. That you all go back and read the article. Not read it knowing or caring who wrote it, or who specifically it is about. Not using it as a chance to vent your sarcasm, your ignorance or your smuggishness; but just read it, looking back to the past and maybe trying to rationalize why things still exist the way they do today; and if by chance certain actions can be traced back to the immense humiliation black men felt, the helplessness they lived through, and perhaps see why this is still acted out to some extent. You only have to look at how our black leaders behave. How they strip their fellow black men of opportunities to derive positions of power. Why it is that they prefer to let some Chinaman from China, or some high color man from the Middle East get all the wealth and achieve all the power they want, but will fight tooth and nail to ensure this does not happen to their black brother. This too, my friends, is a form of rape. It’s called cultural rape, which has its origins in the cane fields and cottonfields populated by enslaved people.
Is that you MAKEDA? Or a “friend” of hers trying tp “defend” the poor :aryicle??
@Woman on Edge…basically, what you’re describing are #Indoctrinations into Clubs, Fraternal Orders, Societies, Religious Organizations and the likes, many of which have their roots in those colonial past.
The inductees then carry on those practices for more reasons, than one.
The ironic thing is, no one to include you, has mentioned the strength, tenacity, will and resolve of many BLACKMEN, that have being systematically targeted for extinction, by any means necessary, but yet still, we thrive! We thrive! We thrive!
It would be interesting, to read hers – Makeda Mikael, and yours, thoughts that is, on the effects of same period, on the present stiletto, mini skirt, lycra fitting Hubble, low cut blouses females that are still parading in front of the Master, either for a job or a promotion.
Many of Us Caribbean men, have continued in the traditions of Our foreparents, by using the skills and Trades which they have us, in such fields as Agriculture, Fishing, Construction, and Medicine.
Seriously the headline is most egregious.
At times people write things based on personal experiences so who am I to knock it?
Perhaps the author is crying out for help…..
Hence the reflection of it in the way they treat people.
Who knows
Interesting article however I do not think that the incidence of rape and violence against women in Caribbean societies is rooted simply in our history of plantation economy and slavery. The incidence of rape and violence against women is a world wide phenomenon which is rooted more in patriarchy than anything else.
Charles, You REALLY making sense this time. Wow!
KRISTI come on! You know I always make sense, just that you may not agree with me at times.
Intersteing coming from a lawyer. I wonder how many “rapist” have you defended in court? Or are you one of those lawyers who takes people money and then tell them to plea guilty and get the 2/3 discount. Hope I won’t hear your hyprocrital *** defending a “acuused rapist” again in court. Btw this “opition” or “Op-Eds” is nothing more than a fishing expidition to keep the alledged “rape” story alive.
So what happened to my other comment on this post why are you guys hiding the truth about shouls,nunes,derricks and halls? Roles in slavery?
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