RACISM, PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY, DISCRIMINATION, OPPRESSION

Racist-:a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. 
Racism-: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Racism depends on the ability to give or withhold social benefits, facilities, services, opportunities etc., from someone who is entitled to them, and is denied on the basis of race, color or national origin. The source of power can be formal or informal, legal or illegal, and is not limited to traditional concepts of power. Intent is irrelevant; the focus is on the result of the behavior.

Prejudice-: discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Bigotry-:  a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
A bigot is someone who doesn't tolerate people of different races or religions.

Oppression is the systematic subjugation of a social group by another social group with access to social power. Power is the ability to control access to resources, the ability to influence others, and access to decision makers. 

Institutional racism is any system of inequality based on race. It can occur in institutions such as public government bodies, private business corporations (such as media outlets), and universities (public and private). The term was introduced by Black Power activists Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in the late 1960s.^[1] 

Discrimination is behavior, intentional or not, which negatively treats a person or a group of people based on their racial origins. In the context of racism, power is a necessary precondition for discrimination.

Racism is both overt and covert, and it takes three closely related forms: individual, institutional, and systemic. 

Based on the above dictionary definitions it can be clearly seen, that the term racist, as used by the media, is in effect another way of hiding and obfuscating the actual definition of the word racist and its individual and institutional expression in society. 

The use of a word, an expression of thought, an implementation of an act of violence, stems from the systems philosophical foundation.

Racism is institutional. It is embedded, in all the institutions that uphold the system. 

Institutions are the pillars that maintain a society.

The philosophy upon which that society is built, permeates its institutions. 

Education, Religion, Economy, Media, Politics.

Inherent in all those institutions, is the permeating thought process of superiority and inferiority.

All the institutions teach or express racist philosophies. Each tailored to the means of the institution.

Education teaches the glories of western civilization past and present.

Religion teaches the Chosen and the sacrifice of a white image to save humanity.

Economics and Politics are dominated by one group.

The media, expresses and reinforces those concepts that serves the purpose of the system.
In totality the system teaches its superiority and its chosen right to be.

All else pales before that philosophy, and all else is a result, an effect, of that cause. 
The philosophy of superiority and chosen, has given terms such as "the white man's burden" and the "indispensable nations" as modern day expressions of that superiority complex.

Racism is the expression of an act that by definition upholds the superiority of one ethnic group over another through the control of power and the means to exercise that power through the systems institutions.
The system cannot exist without it.

Prejudice, Bigotry, Discrimination, Intolerance, and Oppression are the effects of the same root cause. Racism. 

Any of the above terms, are more fitting expressions of the day to day acts that take place in the society.

Using the term racist as all inclusive, only hides the inherent and permeating racism that resides in all the systems institutions.

Oppressed People can do all of the above, except be racist. 

Racism implies and act applied or implemented from a position of power, through the systems institutions to insure the superiority and continuity of the the ethnic group.

Racism is now and has been from inception an integral part of the system.
It was written into the system and integrated into the systems institutions.
Words, names, expression of ideas, symbols, acts of violence.
None of the above is racism.
Removing a symbol (flag) wont solve the problem.
Berating officials or anyone else for saying certain words, wont solve the problem.
Prayer meetings, vigils, forgiveness for acts, condemnation of the perpetrator, may create a social feel good moment, but that too wont solve the problem.
Bigots, exist in every nook and cranny in and out of the system.
Institutional racism,so deeply ingrained in the system, gives them the power to preform their actions.
On a regular cyclical basis, these acts become the face of a nation and within each cycle, if enough condemnation is aired, the nation concedes some superficial external expression.
The continuity of the system, is dependent upon maintaining its form.
Superficial concessions have no impact on it.
Racism is one of the cornerstones of the foundation upon which the system was built.
It is an expression of the philosophy of supremacy.
The philosophy of superior and inferior.
The philosophy of chosen and the philosophy of indispensable.
No matter what words or actions are said and done to placate,
the system continues to implement policy that insures its continuity.
The society continues to support that system to insure their comfort.
To maintain that supremacy, it cannot be removed.
Removing racism from the system, is asking for the removal of a major cog in 
a complex machine.
Remove it, and the systems raison d"etre no longer exists.
So it is in the medias interest, to obfuscate its true meaning.
Ethnic Slavery, was the grossest expression of the systems racism.
Colonialism, the name and replacement for slavery was slavery's daughter.
Colonialism enslaved entire nations.
So the system morphed from enslaving individuals to enslaving nations.
It morphed from free labour to minimum wage labour.
It morphed from plantations to industrialized metropolis.
The system grows, develops and advances in the same manner that the society grows, develops and advances.
As the society grows and adapts to new inventions, so does the system.
It morphs whenever necessity demands. However, its root raison d'etre never changes.
Whatever new name change is involved, whatever new system is put in place, whatever superficial concessions are given, the system remains intact and its foundation remains unchanged.
Its philosophy, established some 2000 years ago continues to insure that Western Civilization remains supreme.

              A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS.
Its interaction on the local and International arena and its connection to the UK's agenda on the international and UN front.
Montserrat one of the last remaining Colonies of the faded "empire" on which the Sun never sets.

The last time I posted here some few years ago, the overview for political progress and constitutional reform was still on the table.

The UK government with its agenda based on its 1999 White Paper, which was quite explicit about their world view and where they saw themselves, was still at the forefront of the internal discussions.
From 2002 until 2006 the UK and its local lackeys and gatekeepers, did their utmost to document events to fit their agenda.
The Constitutional Review, the first phase, designed to fulfill the UK's agenda still had many huge footprints in it that reflected the underlying desire of the People of Montserrat.
The government of the day made a momentous decision to include the entire Legislative Council for the second phase of the exercise.
The UK's position was made clear by its negotiators.  Certain areas of the existing "constitution" were not open to discussion or change.  Specifically, the extraordinary powers of the Governor. Certain topics would not be introduced because from the UK's perspective, they were no longer relevant. Specifically the Right to Self Determination through the avenue of Free Association.
At this point in the negotiations the Government of the day understood what was taking place.
The UK needed a finished document. One that was vetted by the government of the day and passed in the House of Parliament. Their target date 2010. The end of the second phase of the Committee of 24 (Decolonisation Committee) mandate in the United Nations.
Keeping the process in Council with a Constitutional Committee responsible for periodic reports to the House kept the process alive, and the UK negotiators in check. 
A preamble that reflected past, present and future. 
The constitutional authority for a Minister to run a Ministry.
The Right to be  Self Governing as a basic Human Right.
The right to Self Determination as a  way forward.
The establishment of an economic program to remove the subsidising of the recurrent budget.
The removal of the onerous Grant-in-Aid regime controlling government finances.
The excessive powers of the governor deemed untouchable.
These and many more topics kept the negotiators in check.
Over those four years the UK's negotiating team made many reluctant concessions as they attempted to forge a final document for government to vet.
However, no document was finalised, and the 2006 elections took place.
In that election, the government of Montserrat, unfortunately lost its way in the constitutional process, as its chief internal negotiator was not returned to Parliament.

The 2006 elections brought into office one of the strangest coalitions in the devolving process that is called "politics" and "elections" in Montserrat.

Of the nine seats contested, the incumbents won 3 seats. One opposition party won 4 seats. One opposition party won 1 seat and an independent candidate won 1 seat.

With no power base, the opposition candidate that won the one seat was allowed to form a coalition with the incumbents and the independent candidate. 

With no power base, the member that won only one seat became Montserrat's Chief Minister.

Needless to say it did not take long for this marriage of convenience to self destruct.

Not satisfied, he dismissed his Ministers and invited the opposition to cross the floor.

This they happily did, and a second coalition government was formed.

This too , did not take long to self destruct. Serving only 3 years of a 5 year term the Chief Minister dissolved Parliament and elections were called.

During those erratic 3 years, the constitutional process went into limbo, and all the concessions and documented agreements disappeared. With time still on their side to implement their agenda the UK negotiators had no problems suspending the negotiations waiting for a more opportune moment and a more malleable Council.
The 2009 election returned an old UK ally to power. 
It appeared to be overwhelming. In reality, the fault was the inability of the opposing party to field a viable team. The 2009 elections were won in effect by default.
Regardless they held 6 seats, and independent candidates with divergent and often opposing views held the other 3.
Immediately, the constitutional process was revived. The watered down Preamble with only a few small footprints left in it after its torturous journey through Council still irked the UK.
Its removal and rewriting signaled the end of any benefit for Montserrat in the process.
With no continuity, from 2002-2006 period to negotiate for Montserrat, the UK  negotiators wiped the slate clean, and began the process anew.
The Government of the day willingly collaborated. 
From that point on the government of the day and the UK negotiators were in lockstep on the constitutional issue.
Whatever the negotiators wanted they received with no resistance.
The majority of the elected members of the parliament were clueless on the issues involved.
The opposition in the House showed little interest or awareness.
The government of the day did as it pleased irregardless of the impact of its decisions on Montserrat's future.
2010 the UK's original deadline passed and the final document was still not complete.
With the end of the second phase of the United Nations mandate on decolonisation approaching, the Chief Minister attended an annual Decolonisation Committee meeting, and 
unilaterally announced Montserrat's desire to opt out of the Decolonisation process.
Naturally, the reaction was extremely strong when he returned home.
With no mandate from the people on the issue the Chief Minister demonstrated his willingness, to satisfy the UK's agenda irrespective of the historical and documented position that Montserrat recorded over the years at these meetings.
In 2010, The United Nations, recognising that its Deolonisation Mandate was still not fullfilled extended the Mandate once again.
The gambit to close the book on Montserrat's colonial position vis a vis its Administrating Power at the UN was not finalised.
However, the final finished signed sealed and delivered document was still on the table and very much within the UK's grasp.
In 2010 September, the Government of the day passed through the House the final watered down version of the new "constitution" for Montserrat.
Once again the People reacted to no avail.
From this writers perspective, changes were superficial. The UK got all that it wanted, the People of Montserrat got nothing.
None the less, in the international arena, and at the UN, the Administering Power can claim that the document was the end result of a long process of negotiation.
In effect, it was a brief 3 years with a total capitulation by the government of the day to the wishes of the UK.





  

Montserrat Colonial History From Emancipation Until...

Overview.

This is an attempt to put into perspective an understanding, of the connection between Ethnic Slavery, Colonialism, the Constitution, and the ongoing process between the Administering Power, the Colony of Montserrat and the United Nations. One reason for doing this, is so that the People of Montserrat can have another approach to viewing what has happened to US from Slavery to the present and to determine whether what is happening to US presently varies very much, from what happened to US then. In order to do this, a specific starting point is necessary. The historical starting point is Slavery. Even though the history of our people go much further back than 1500, for the purpose of this exercise, 1500 will be the starting point.

Around the year 1500 Europeans began a peculiar type of enslavement, classified as ethnic slavery. The classification, came about because from the years 1500 to 1834 the europeans put in place a system called slavery, that targeted one specific ethnic group from the continent of Africa. Acquiring them by any means, they transported them across the Atlantic ocean, and sold them. The buyers purchased them as objects and used them to serve as a free labor force for their plantation and estate industries. It was this system of ethnic slavery that allowed Europeans to establish the empires and industries that make them the force that they are today.

For some 334 years, with the assurance that assimilation was impossible, this system of slavery was enforced through brutality and fear. After some 300 years, due to a convergence of contradictions in the military, social, political, and economic dynamics of the society the system of ethnic slavery collapsed. History states that we were emancipated in the year 1834. In other words in 1834 the Africans in the English speaking Caribbean were set free from physical slavery. This emancipation should have translated into free democratic self-governed states. For the next 31 years, however, between 1834 to 1865 there were many riots, revolts and disturbances throughout the newly emancipated regions, due to the fact that the former slaves were landless and penny less.

In 1865, the People of Jamaica were in open revolt. They were the majority. However they had no say so in the political system’s Legislative Assembly. They demanded land and the right to rule themselves.
The following year 1866, the british government came up with a response to the peoples request.
Throughout the region, Legislative Assembly’s were dissolved, and Nominated Assembly’s replaced them.
Under this system the crown assumed “absolute rule” over the colonies, and could delegate its authority to whomever it desired. This was called "absolute rule" of the crown.

Colonialism, implemented through “absolute rule” of the crown, was designed to insure that the majority of the people who now occupied the free territories would be controlled and administrated by their former slave master's through the authority of the crown. It still exists today. In those areas where ethnic slavery existed, colonialism became the replacement.
Coming , as a response to a genuine request from recently freed slaves to take charge of their own destiny, Colonialism, is Slavery’s Daughter.
So, Africans, recently freed from physical bondage, in 1834, began a new cycle in 1866 where the administrative authority of the crown, replaced slave master brutality and the exploitation of labour and resources continued.
The newly freed territories became crown colonies and all of the recently freed people became subjects of the crown. Administrative authority would be exercised by whom ever the crown choose.
In Montserrat, the same held true. The census of 1871 shows some 240 europeans to eight thousand Africans on the island. Still, like all of the other recently freed british territories, Montserat too, became a crown colony in 1866.
In 1936, 1956, 1958 and 1960 some minor changes were made to the colonial system, to accommodate attempts at central administration.
In 1989 for the first time in 123 years of colonial rule a written constitution, The 1989 Constitution Order came into force.
With very little consultation, at the same time that the populace was attempting to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Hugo, the british government enforced a constitution on the colony.
Collecting all the letters of patent and the other administrative controls that it used from 1866 up till then, they compiled them placed them all in one document and enforced it upon Montserrat.
There was very little in it, that deviated from the original form of colonial administration established in 1866.
As in 1866 when the crown decided to assume and implement its authority, so in 1989, the crown through HMG assumed and implemented its authority over its colony. Montserrat.

Anti-colonialism.
In order to clarify the connections, some understanding of the anti-colonial movement is necessary.
Soon after the Second European war, around 1945, colonies began to agitate against their colonial masters.
By the late 1950’s, some of these colonies had thrown off their colonial shackles and the momentum to end colonialism was brought to the United Nations.
In 1960, the United Nations issued a mandate to end colonialism.
The mandate stated, that by the year 2000, there would be no colonies left.
The mandate gave nations holding colonies, 40 years, to bring their colonies to a stable political, social and economic condition that would be conducive to self rule.
The mandate also stated, that there were no preconditions for self rule. If it was the expressed will of the people, no matter their condition their hopes and aspirations were to be complied with.
The british government refused to sign the mandate.
This, however, did not stop the momentum, and colony after colony gained the right to rule themselves, by various means.
Some, fought viscous wars of attrition, and others applied political solutions.
By 1971 with the number of colonies shrinking rapidly, the british brought a modified version of the 1960 Decolonisation Mandate to the United Nations.
The wording of their version stated, that by the year 2000, colonies should appear to be moving towards Self Determination.
Self Determination could be expressed in any one of three ways.
1) Outright Independence.
2) Associated Statehood.
3) Maintenance of the status quo.
By the 1970’s most of the larger colonies had either attained their independence, or were locked in a protracted and viscous struggle with their colonial masters to attain their independence.
So, most of the remaining colonies small island states whose population majority were not british natives.
Most opted for Associated Statehood and eventual independence. Unfortunately for Montserrat, leadership of that time did not feel that Montserrat was ready.
From the 1960 Mandate on Decolonisation, to the 1971 modified version presented by the british, right into the 1990’s, Montserrat has languished in its crown colony colonial status.
Being aware of the fact that the year 2000 was not far away and the United Nations Mandate on Decolonisation drawing near, and that there was not even the appearance of any move towards Self Determination by its remaining colonies, the british government issued a White Paper in 1999.
The paper covered the status of its remaining colonies, and the intent of the british towards those territories.
The Paper expressed the right of the colonies to Self Determination.
In connection to that right, the Paper promised Constitutional Reform in keeping with the peoples hopes and aspirations.
The White Paper stated to the colonies, that in return for them passing certain laws that would satisfy agreements that they had signed on their behalf british citizenship would be granted to the colonies.
The paper also stated, that if the colonies did not willingly pass the necessary laws they would be imposed on them through the privy council.
The paper was a contradiction in terms of partnership, negotiation and imposition.
Not one colony passed any law.
In effect by not passing the laws requested, all the remaining colonies rejected british citizenship since the two acts were coupled together in the White Paper.
Not getting the cooperation that it requested, the british imposed the laws it required.
Not much later, it then imposed british citizenship on its remaining colonies.
The british, in effect, changed the status of the colonies it administered through administrative imposition.
To date the only parts of the White that have been implemented, are those sections imposed by the british to satisfy their program.
1) The passing of homsexual laws and doing away with capital punishment.
2) The imposition of british citizenship on its remaining colonies.
The year 2000 came and the United Nations, mandate on Decolonisation had come to an end.
Inside the UN there was a movement to shut down the Decolonisation Committee.
The argument from those old colonial powers still holding colonies, was that if after forty years, colonies had not changed their status it was because they wished to remain as they were.
The argument did not hold sway. The United Nations, recognizing that there were still colonies being held and administrated by colonial powers, extended the Decolonisation Mandate for another ten years, until the year 2010.
In the year 2001 Parliamentary Representative Chedmond Browne made a presentation to the United Nations Committee on Decolonisation.
In it he stated to the committee that the colony of Montserrat wanted the opportunity to express its right to Self Determination and had no desire to be de-listed.
In the year 2003, for the first time in the life of the Decolonisation committee the british government agreed to host the meeting in one of its remaining colonies. Anguilla.
All of its remaining colonies were represented by their Chief Ministers.
The opening Address was given by the Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Hearing Mr. Annan’s address, some of the Chief Ministers became aware for the first time that there were three options available to them to express their right to Self Determination.
Until then british officials have insisted that there were only two.
The british sent high level representatives to the meeting and the committee expressed its pleasure at seeing for the first time such representatives at a Decolonisation meeting.
As anticipated in 2001 by the representative from Montserrat, the british in 2003 requested the de-listing of its remaining colonies.
Citing the change in Nationality, ongoing constitutional reform and no change in status from 1960 to the present, the british argued that its remaining colonies should no longer be classified as colonies and should be removed from the United Nations list of colonies.
Protocol, demands that the Chief Minister, or the delegate representing the colony request de-listing. Not the Administering Power.
No such request for de-listing was made by any colonial Chief Minister.
Having heard the Secretary Generals state the UN’s position on Self Determination all indicated their interest in exploring their options.
The United Nations extended the Mandate on Decolonisation until 2010.
Already four years have passed and the colony of Montserrat colonial status is not much different from its status in 1866.
Montserrat has some six years left to attain, after 138 years of maturity.
Constitutional Reform
With the issuing of its White Paper in 1999, the british promised its colonies constitutional reform.
From the beginning the process was never clear. The other parts of its white paper to which its colonies did not corporate the british used their authority and imposed their laws and decrees.
The approach for the constitutional reform process, was not much different.
The paper stated openly to the international world that they would like to establish a program for partnership and progress and would enter into negotiations with their colonies.
That made good press in the international arena.
They also stated, that they reserved to them selves, the right to accept or to reject, what ever parts of any final document they received.
In Montserrat, the governor issued instructions as to what was negotiable, and what was not.
The instructions were specific. Certain areas, he stated were not open for discussion, and if anything, the powers of the governor, needed to be increased rather than decreased, in order for the british to satisfy its international obligations.
At the same time that these private instructions were being circulated,
“ devolution” of power became a buzz word. Few recognised the term for what it was. Even fewer, were aware of the fact that the british idea of reform was limited to minor changes that had little effect on their direct administrative control of the colony.
As a result of their private tactics, very little was done.
However, the british needed the reform process to begin, as they needed to impress the UN on the progressive interaction they were having with their colony.
So, eventually a draft constitutional review team was created.
Financed by the british, they hand picked their chairman.
The terms of reference issued by the Commission Chairman, was broad and all inclusive.???(need some from the first little flyer)
The hopes and aspirations of the People were to be documented and all sectors of the constitution were open for discussion.
Even though the scope was broad, there were some major flaws in the approach.
There was no time allocated for an education and familiarization process.
Very few of the people knew anything about the constitution.
Even fewer had actually read it.
The time frame for completion was very short.
With the exception of the very first meeting the turn out to the meetings was very low.
Eventually, with some agitation a few extra weeks was added to the time frame.
Some brief periods for familiarization were granted but in the end these fell far short of what was necessary for an exercise of this magnitude.
The process started in January 2002 and ended in May 2002.
In September 2002 the Draft review was presented by the chairman to the governor.
The governor, in turn, issued copies to the Members of Parliament with the instructions that it be vetted in Parliament after which it would be sent to the british government.
None of the areas that the british originally listed as not open for discussion, debate or negotiation came up in the draft.
Instead of vetting the draft, the Legislative Council created a Select Committee.
Its task is to eventually submit to Parliament a draft, as an addition to the one submitted.
In doing so, Parliament has created a fluid and ongoing process that gives the people of Montserrat an opportunity to broaden the scope of what was presented in the draft.
What is written in a constitution determines how a country is governed.
The Declaration of Human Rights states, that it is the right of any people, to be governed by those they elect.
The hopes, aspirations and the rights of the People of Montserrat, must be documented in any draft that comes under the heading of reform.

Conclusion-:
The system of Slavery was a brutal form of control that exploited the physical labour of a specific ethnic group that were removed from the continent of Africa.
The system of colonialism replaced the system of slavery. It maintains colonies for exploitation. It also maintains and controls land and people for the purpose of the crown.
From 1871 to 2004, 134 years have passed. The System of Colonialism replaced the System of Slavery. Simply put, Colonialism is Slavery’s Daughter. Carried to its highest levels of control and authority, Colonialism then becomes National Slavery.
Montserrat has been a crown colony for 134 years.
During that time, very little has changed in the way Montserrat has been governed, controlled and administrated by the crown.
In 1960 the United Nations passed a mandate on Decolonisation.
It stated that by the year 2000, there would be no colonies remaining.
The british did not sign the mandate.
In 1971 the british modified the 1960 mandate.
It stated that by the year 2000 remaining colonies should appear to be moving towards independence.
There are three options to express Self Determination.
The Administering Power, is obligated, to aid, abet, assist and encourage its colony to move out of its colonial state towards self governance.
From 1960 to 2004, the british have done nothing to encourage or assist Montserrat to attain Self rule.
In 1999, with the mandate on Decolonisation coming to an end, the british issued a White paper.
The White paper promised changes, one way or another.
The White Paper stated that Self Determination was an available expression of the People any time it desired.
The White paper promised constitutional reform in keeping with the vision, hopes and aspirations of the people.
The White Paper was a contradiction as so far, only those things that satisfied the british program were implemented through imposition.
In 2001 Montserrat’s parliamentary Representative to the United nations Committee on Decolonisation stated clearly Montserrat’s desire not to be de-listed.
In 2002 the british issued a proclamation making Montserratians british citizens.
In 2002 the constitutional reform process was started. From the beginning internal instructions were issued, stating that the Powers conferred upon the crown were not part of the reform process.
Montserrat’s unchanging colonial status, imposing british citizenship and there by changing our nationality, and constitutional reform were all part of the british program to make its argument to satisfy the UN’s mandate on Decolonisation.
In 2003 the british attended a Decolonisation Committee meeting and requested Montserrat’s removal from the list of remaining colonies.
No representative from any colony made such a request.
The constitutional Reform process, was just another part of the british greater plan to convince the UN that its colony was changing.
Privately the british stated that certain areas of the constitution were unchangeable.
The british have no intention of releasing Montserrat from its colonial control.
Any superficial changes in the constitution would be reform.
Any superficial changes vetted by the Legislative Council would be earmarked as the will of the People to remain as they are.
The People of Montserrat have less than six years to come of age.
It is in the best interest of the People of Montserrat to submit a draft reformed constitution that expresses the logical objective of any people whose past is slavery and whose present is colonialism.
Removing colonial control from the constitution is a reform that declares Our Human Right to be governed by those we elect.
Let the british tell the international arena why the Declaration of Human Rights is not applicable when it comes to colonies.

DEFINITIONS-:
Ethnic Slavery-:Where one ethnic group through their institutions control and determine the destiny of another ethnic group.
Assimilation-: Where similarities in ethnicity allow upward mobility in the power structure of a group.
Colonialism -: a system whereby a Nation maintains colonies for the purpose of exploitation.
Administering Power-: The country that Administers for the United Nations anither Country or Territory, until such time as that country or territory declares its Right to Administrate itself.
Colony-: Definition 1 states-: a people who settle in a distant land, but remain under the jurisdiction of their native land.
Definition 2 states-: a territory distant from the country having jurisdiction over it.
De-List-: To remove from ie removal from the Decolonisation committee list of remaining colonies.
Constitution-: The document that determines how a People are governed, and how Laws are written and Justice dispensed.
Devolution-:Delegation of Authority without relinquishing that Authority.
Reform-: Any form of change.
System-: The flow of Institutional Control and Authority in the governance of the Colony. (for this )
System-: Any function that has controlling elements that can determine the ebb and flow of the function.

The Hon. Marcus Garvey

Greetings!!
The Honourable Marcus Garvey is an Enlightened Being, that no Person of Afrikan Descent, no matter where they live in the World, should ever forget.
Yesterday was his Birthday.
He may have left this Physical plane, but he still exists in and around US.
We who feel his SPIRIT owe it to those who still exist below the level of Conscious Awareness to keep the LIGHT of His SPIRIT always burning brightly.
The Philosophies And Opinions of Marcus Garvey should have been, should be, and must become the Philosophical Foundation that allows the peoples of Afrika to rediscover themselves and establish for themselves, a Society and a SYSTEM of CIVILITY and Governance that REFLECTS THEMSELVES.
Below are a few quotes from a Speech given to the People of Montserrat in Montserrat by the Hon. Marcus Garvey.
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"When you refuse to learn, then those who learn must lead you.
God has given every man a mind, and whether he is black or white, he can use that mind."....

"Therefore, anybody who is thinking in the particular is bound to have the advantage over the man who is not thinking."...

" If you don't know values, if you can't calculate values, whether scientific or otherwise, then it's just your bad luck."..
"I regard you as just part of a great number of people who need help, proper leadership and proper guidance toward a destiny that is worthy of men...."

"So, my friends, man's duty is to get intelligence. Get intelligence consistent with the society in which you live so that you may be a credit to the civilization to which you form a part, and may my words help you to rediscover yourselves."..
The entire Speech can be found here-:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/4751/index14.html
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Then, as Now... "The Battlefield For The Continued Oppression Of The Many By The Few Is Your Mind."
Mwongozi Cudjoe Browne
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Struggle is born where ever injustice, opression and powerlessness exists.Organised Movements empower the powerless to overcome those who profit from their oppression.
mwongozi cudjoe cheddy browne
FMUM Spokesperson
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Where are we?

Montserrat, is one of the United Kingdom's few remaining Colonies in the Caribbean.
i note with interest, and a huge degree of respect and support, that a recent United Nations Report on the remaining colonies documented the Colony of Anguilla's determination to seek full internal Self Government.
i note, with some degree of perplexity, that the Colony of Montserrat and its constant position on its Right to Self Determination is not even mentioned.
Of all the remaining colonies of the United Kingdom, Montserrat has made its presence at more decolonisation meetings than any other Caribbean Colony.
Through out the years, Montserrat's position has been consistent.
At the 2001 Decolonisation meeting in Cuba, Montserrat anticipated the Administering Powers intent to incorporate the remaining Colonies.
At that meeting the representative from Montserrat was clear.
Montserrat has no desire to be delisted under some false assumption and Montserrat's vision for its future, is to eventually exercise it's RIGHT to Self Government.
Despite all that the Colony of Montserrat has experinced since then, that position still holds sway.
The United Kindom's attempt to assure Montserrat's incorporation into Great Britain appropiately called "incorporation by stealth" is still ongoing.
The so called constitutional review, has turned out to be nothing more than Foreign Commonwealth Office representatives attemtps to get the Government of Montserrat to agree to abdicate certain fundamental Rights by signing a "constitutional agreement" that continues and even increases the Administering Power's authority over the Colony.
To its credit, the present Government of Montserrat has resisted and as of this posting has not yet signed of on any "constitutional" arrangements that carries the Colony further back into an ancient colonial era, rather than forward into a modern day agreement.
The Colony of Montserrat is presently facing many challenges.
The United Kingdom, has so far taken advantage of every one of theose challenges to further ensure that the Colony of Montserrat remains a dependent territory of England.