🇧🇸 | History PhD Candidate | Professor | bibliophile
flo-rida
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I wrote about the history of Grenada’s Carnival and how traditional mas characters can be used as political counter narrative; also went to Spicemas last year and it was an experience!
insurrecthistory.com/archive…
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British royalty visited The Bahamas, a former colony and former site of African slavery, and this is how Black Bahamians were put on display in public, a few steps away from the actual place where their ancestors were placed on pedestals in similar fashion to be sold to Brits?
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This is the problem with the discussion. A lot of people are conflating the removal of Charles as Bahamian head of state with severing diplomatic ties with the UK.
There are 56 Commonwealth countries. Only 15 retain Charles as head of state. 4 were never even British colonies.
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The Rastafarian community secured their permit to protest days ago, and they are doing so peacefully, so Idk what the issue is. We have done an injustice to them by letting them advocate on our behalf by themselves for so long to the point that reparations seems like a mystical
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Junkanoo, a practice of resistance of African enslaved people and their descendants after them, used to entertain the beneficiary of slavery and colonization is beyond insulting.
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Charles III joked about which Junkanoo group in The Bahamas he should cheer for.
(Junkanoo started as a passive rebellion in the Caribbean against enslavement during British colonial rule.)
Bahamians cheered when he joked about cheering for Valley, Saxon or Family…
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Per the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums (Amendment) Act, The Bahamas Gov’t splits the value of sunken treasure 50/50 with the treasure’s finder. The gov’t can claim more than 50, if it deems it necessary.
This particular fight is over the finders’ share of what’s left.
BATTLE OVER BILLIONS IN ABACO TREASURE
AN EXPLORER owned by the billionaire proprietor of Walker’s Cay wrongly withheld a contractor’s 25-30 percent share of sunken treasure in Bahamian waters valued at billions of dollars, a US court has ruled.
bit.ly/47MsaqA
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In 1970, The Bahamas was a self-governing colony. The Brits controlled foreign affairs.
The Brits allowed the U.S. to dump 1000s of gallons of nerve gas and land mines in Bahamian waters off Abaco. It was a big controversy.
It led to an int’l ban on oceanic nerve gas dumping.
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1989 will always be that bitch. But oh boy, Midnights is a masterclass in pop music.
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It’s insane.
The Bahamas is struggling to keep electricity on, vital bridges are literally crumbling, one of the country’s busiest airports is only having its runway resurfaced because a major carrier stopped service until it’s fixed, but no expense spared for King Charles.
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The drop will be available via a 10-day pre-order window, running from today, October 18, until October 28.
Items are made-to-order and will not sell out during this timeframe.
neptun2021.de
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yall gotta remember these ain’t air nomad descendants lmao it’s the earth kingdom niggas that randomly got bending after harmonic convergence
Jea using the spear as a staff not knowing it his people's main "weapon" and he did good with it🗿
#AvatarSevenHeavens #Jea #Airbending #S01EO4
