Physical emancipation is a given – today, 173 years later, there no Blacks walking around in shackles or sold on auction blocks while white people fondle their private parts and prod them with sticks and fingers to determine their ability to produce more slaves and access the quality of “the breeding stock.” But the chains are still there, invisible, tight and harsh in the recesses of the Black Mind. That will be exceedingly hard to break and, yes, emancipate. It’s going to take more than just a few holidays to drive home the significance and importance of emancipation or, in the case of the Caribbean, it simply will be another holiday to go to the beach, drink some rum, eat a good curry goat and rice…things that our Black African ancestors were never allowed to have.
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