‘Festival is not to jump & whine up’- Radio show caller
Posing a question to the host, the caller said, “I need some verification, what is the name of our Emancipation Festival? We need to develop an official name. Also, BVIslanders need to open there eyes and recognise that the festival is not to jump and whine up. We need to do better as a people and know our history.”
Another disgruntled caller commented that the people of the Virgin Islands should recognise that they are not truly free because they are still oppressed by the British rule.
“I want every black person to go into the dictionary and read what emancipation means, so people stop getting the impression that we free because this so called emancipation was taken from the man and given to the state. Their apprentice system is the same ‘dutty’ system that we living by now and we have to correct it because emancipation ain’t mean free like what we assume,” said a frustrated caller.
The caller continued, “We are not safe from the British oppression under this colonialism being imposed on us. It has our people on a trip to forever and we don’t know where that is. Black people won’t be free until black people make black people free.”
Skimpy festival outfits send wrong message
It was back in July 2013 that former legislator Eileene L. Parsons OBE complained that some of the festival parade costumes are “too much”.
She had stated that the costumes often leave little for the imagination and were too sensual and too sexual. “We could do better,” Ms Parsons had during a telethon to raise funds for the VI Festival and Fairs committee on July 9, 2013 on the Spotlight show that was hosted on a local television station and simulcast across several radio stations.
Ms Parsons conceded that there might have been a different generation long ago who did not witness anything of this nature but added, “we are so quick to adopt what isn’t our own and we have no sense of pushing what is ours…”
The cultural icon had also claimed that many VIslanders do not get involved in the festival parade and left it up to those who wanted to go, “we thank God for them, otherwise it won’t have a parade."
“As the man from Trinidad say: ‘Feathers and Flesh’. You don’t see the culture, a part of BVI culture coming out in the parade,” she had said.
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