Caribbean
I’m finally closing in on the end of The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples and getting to some good stuff about the state of the Black Undertow in the contemporary Caribbean:
“By some measures, national independence is associated with poverty. While statistical methodologies vary, a 2006 ranking of Caribbean nations and territories from highest to lowest gross domestic product per capita is typical in finding non-sovereign territories monopolizing the top 8 spots and independent nation-states, including Suriname and seven former British colonies, occupying the bottom 11 spots. Even in the middle group, non-sovereign territories tended to be ranked higher.”
Independence is strongly correlated with poverty and economic decline in the Caribbean for an obvious reason: the black islands which chose to remain colonized get to suck on the tit of the European and American welfare state while the others foolishly opted for Haitian-style négritude.
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are American territories. Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana are part of France. The ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and the Dutch Leewards (Sint-Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius) are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A handful of the most marginal British islands remain British overseas territories: the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, and Montserrat which was destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1995.
Haiti, now in the 208th year of freedom and equality, is the most famous independent black country in the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic has been more or less independent since 1844.
Cuba became a quasi-independent country in 1902 and fully independent in 1959 when Castro took over. 62 percent of Cubans are now black because millions of White Cubans relocated to South Florida to escape Africanization and communism in the 1960s.
So, the list of independent black countries in the Caribbean now include Jamaica (1962), Trinidad and Tobago (1962), Barbados (1966), Guyana (1966), the Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Suriname (1973), Dominica (1978), St. Lucia (1979), St. Vincent (1979), Antigua and Barbuda (1981), and St. Kitts-Nevis (1983).
Fifty years later Jamaica under free society has become The Dead Yard.
When is the book coming out?
Which is worse, the Supreme Court justice who has his vacation home in such places, or the one who adopts from such places?
It is going to be an awesome, awesome book. Probably early next year. I want to update Lothrop Stoddard, Sir Spenser St. John, Hesketh Prichard, and Thomas Carlyle.
15 experiments in black freedom: Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia.
“15 experiments in black freedom: Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia.”
” Famous Hispanics who have acknowledged Marrano (i.e. crypto-Jew) ancestry include Rita Moreno and Fidel Castro. ”
” Crypto-Jew is the correct term, as it also refers to Jews forced to adopt other religions and political philosophies while maintaining Jewish practices. Crypto-Judaism pre-dates the Inquisition, as Jews were forced by the Al-Mohavid invasions of Spain to become Muslims, creating Crypto-Jews who gradually fled to Christian districts for protection from the Muslims (see Roth’s History of the Jews). In modern times outwardly Muslim Crypto-Jews are known to be in Meshed, Iran, and in Turkey. ”
http://www.jewishcuba.org/marranos.html