All the brothers and sisters who write on occasion on social media or as I do on a daily basis about the struggle for the liberation of people of Afrikan descent are knowledgeable that there has been an ongoing war from the 1490s. I am 76 years old and have been in the forefront of the struggle for some 43 years (since 1977).
I am aware that there have been many victories. However, I would be obliged if some of you would please answer the million dollar question. We know that the past 500-plus years of European history have been underpinned by untruths (blatant lies). With this being a fact our struggle has been made more difficult, hence my question: Why is it that our conscious fighters have not as yet joined forces and called on governments or advocated that the truth be told in a particular way by supporting the call for an International Day for Truth, Justice, Peace, Healing and Reconciliation?
Such a date was put to world leaders and to the people of the world from as far back as 1990 after I became aware of a plan to depopulate the world by some two billion people. The date that has been identified for such an important observance is October 12.
The present reality of public executions of black people are the continuous effects of the adventures started by Christopher Columbus’ expedition after his arrival in the Caribbean with three small ships on a reconnaissance mission on October 12, 1492. On arrival Columbus and crew were welcomed and assisted by the melininated (black people) of the Caribbean until December 1492 when they returned to Spain with two ships, as one was shipwrecked, and some of the crew left behind.
It was on Columbas’ second visit one year later in 1493 with 17 warships and 1,200 mercenaries that the carnage began. His mission with the blessing of the Pope was to Christianize, enslave or kill. The first impact was on the people of the Caribbean and the Americas and later on the wider black population of the world.
In our understanding of history why have we not distinguished between what happened from October 12 to December 1492 and what followed from 1493?
By not making the distinction between what happened in 1492 and what started one year later from 1493 we have colluded with the falsification of history by confusing events and by so doing have allowed Caucasians to cover up and not credit our ancestors with the humanitarian nature they displayed on October 12, 1492.
This must be corrected, and what is most remarkable is that the ancestors have given guidance and allow October 12 to be put forward as a day for truth, justice, peace, healing and reconciliation that would repair the damage due to the untruths that have been misunderstood by most. The date has been put on the world agenda and will remain there by the determination of one man through his efforts and support in the following process;
In 1990 October 12 was sent as a proposal to 178 world leaders and in that same year made public in a booklet to the people of the world.
In 1993 October 12 was proclaimed as African Holocaust Maafa Day by the Pan-Africanists in Guyana.
In 1995 October 12 was presented to the government of Barbados as a draft resolution for consideration and possible submission to the United Nations.
In 2001 October 12 was presented as a draft resolution to the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban.
In 2002 October 12 was endorsed as a resolution at the Afrikan and Afrikan Descendant World Conference against Racism held in Barbados.
In 2010 October 12 was submitted as a proposal for the International Day for People of Afrikan Descent at the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent in Geneva.
In 2012 October 12 was tabled as a proposal at the African and Diaspora leaders conference in South Africa.
On October 12, 2012, the Government of Barbados established a National Task Force on Reparations.
On October 12, 2013, the World Social Forum proclaimed the date as the International Day for Reparations.
In 2017 October 12 was proclaimed by the CARICOM Reparations Commission as Caribbean Holocaust Day.
We are reliably informed that the Black Lives Matter: We Can’t Breathe campaign now circling the globe has captured the attention of the African Union and that all leaders of the 54 nations have signed a letter to the United Nations requesting that an urgent meeting on racism be convened. We as a people have not been breathing properly from 1493 and have been choking on untruths.
The COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in a New Dispensation for the world. This new understanding is influenced by the public execution of George Floyd on May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer and has been compounded by another public execution, the fatal shooting of yet another unarmed black man Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta on June 12. The effect of this present reality of publicly killing black people is the continuous effect of the adventures started by Christopher Columbus’ expedition after his second visit in 1493.
That experience was a pandemic of white supremacy (racism), which was aided by the colonisation of the small island Barbados in 1627 that was prepared by God the Creator for laying the foundation and legal structures of “A Man’s World, Classism and Sexism” with the introduction of the Barbados Slave Code of 1661 that denigrated black people to the position of less than human, which was adopted by the USA in 1776.
Today in 2020 Barbados and other CARICOM member states are presently plagued with violence and crime as a direct result of that 1492 historic encounter between Columbus and the indigenous people of the Caribbean region. In 2019 Barbados had 49 murders, the highest such killings in any one year post-slavery. The current number of shootings indicates that this year’s murders if not brought to an end may even surpass the killing of last year.
This kind of carnage of black people is happening across the region and when added to the racist killings in the USA and in other metropolitan countries add to the depopulation plot which must be exposed and stopped. What are the solutions? The words of Sir Hilary Beckles in this link
https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9qOwIXXog with reference to the killing of George Floyd demand that we review our action now.
One proposed solution is to call on the United Nations to designate October 12 as the International Day for Reparations for truth, justice, peace, healing and reconciliation and see what happens
We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The timing is perfect.
Rev. Elder Buddy Larrier
