SEX AND RELATIONS IN BARBADOS – Guileful
Women - Nothing to do with seemliness, Christianity or morality. White people!
What do you intend to do and how many years are you going to continue
to allow actions set in place by your ancestors to destroy the inter-relationships
and the potential of the human race? It is incumbent on the white
community in this country to change the paradigm by which black women
are seen as a species of game animal with an inherent “dignity-ball”
syndrome. During the latter period of slavery, women of light
complexion, not Caribs, held dignity balls, where only white men and
no black man could attend. It was a farce for dignity suggests,
as Aretha Franklyn sang, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. The dignity ball did not
enhance the value of brown women or their daughters; it taught them
that they were to wait on men. Commentators
on racial sociology say the most lasting legacy of white racial bullying
and supremacist practices has been a fawning subservient attitude of
blacks in the commercial and tourism sectors, however, this is not the
case, instead the most devastating results of two hundred and eleven
years of chattel slavery and after has been the treatment of black women
as bed wenches, women of easy virtue, as the South African Boers say
they say they have to be forceful with “these people” and that they
only respond to masterly force. The concept of sexual baaskap
– meaning boss - show them, who is boss. Baaskap in Afrikkan
language means an ideology of bossism - total fascist control, where
not only the body but the mind is imprisoned - a plantation prison. People have
to learn to respect black women; this is what they have never done.
White women here are super-ordinates; they are some of the most dominated,
submissive and dependent. Many people do not realize that many
white men do not respect their own women and do not promote them to
positions of power in their organizations. Once upon a
time from the time of slavery it was an established practice that white
men chose black enslaved women and this has remained a feature of male/female
relationships and since then the only significant change has been, where
in those days it was white men - the droit, the seigneur, the lord of
the manor had carte blanche rights vouchsafed by God to spread the legs
of every nubile female – now, in the modern era, there has been not
much changed; there are men with cash in all ethnic groupings and they
operate on the belief that as long as a female is not a relative it
is open season, free access to black women based on an economic nexus. An aphorism
with which these men operate is: “She has a body to be serviced
and I am performing social welfare. I am going to tune up her
body and do the 4 Fs: find her, feed her, feel her and foop her,”
like a Hollywood situation, where each producer can look at a Jennifer
Lopez or a Paris Hilton and say: “do not mind she, I had her.” They must cut
down each female and if they find one not like that and they can get
someone near to her to do so then they feel that they have conquered
the unattainable. Beware! the
label of contents should be checked otherwise there is the risk of harm
for all over the island there were great grandmothers and grandmothers,
who were the most aristocratic persons that did not give an Adam; they
knew, who they were and they got it across to their off spring white,
black and brown. They created formidable females with which nobody
troubled. “Everybody”
does get a rude awakening, when some female of a different set of standard
and norms, who knows how to protect from those, who have no idea of
what is immoral. Do For
Do Ain’t no Obeah or One Smart Dead at Two Smart Door A……. has
attained the answer to cut across all social barriers to make ‘all
of we one.’ Twenty years
ago, he was a neighbour. He is one of those people, with whom
a relationship must be distant and subordinated. His girl
friend, who became his wife was too mocking, too smug and too worthless.
She quit work, went to the university and never worked during the marriage.
He lost access to big cars from his job, when he chose early retirement.
“I tired of the duty sex.” His religion taught that he was
first and no matter his wife was part of him so she had to be put before
others. That is schizophrenia: a split between feelings and thought,
behaviour and action. Finally she up and left him refused counselling
and he admitted that she had been about what he had had. He came back
again about a year ago for advice, counselling and health tips with
another of the same. “Can’t
you find a woman that is a finished product, one with manners, who can
express regrets, who can see a point that is glaring her in the face
and who can see why honesty is necessary, regardless of circumstances.”
As suggested he took a six-month break from this last woman and went
out to say Hi! to a woman, who had some kind of interest. So many black
mem do not benefit from and cannot form relationships and not many are
successful. They have been brought up not knowing what relationship
is about; they do not understand and they destroy themselves in their
interaction. So many of
them sustain women with material things and too many women hold on to
men for what they can get - economic dependence and they end up breaking
each other’s spirit. Some women stick in a relationship and
only, when the man is dead they say:
“I never liked him.” It comes down
to money. Like an old lady at ninety-five years of age, who had
seventeen children and, now unhinged, boasts that she never worked a
day in her life. The men from whom she had the children, mostly
white, supported her. She is ugly and had married but the husband
- none of the children are for him - went off in three weeks. I carried out
an informal survey of the middle class men around me and in nearly every
case from town to country it was the female hired help – the maid,
the field worker, older girls, who initiated their first sexual experience
with boys as young as twelve and most likely it was to cement a future
economic relationship. “I do
not want any black women around me because as soon as you have something
to do with them they want something.” And Women say:
“Let me see what use I can get out of him.”
“Oh! He got money!” “Oh! he got a big car!”
It is culturalization and must be weeded from our children. Too
many are incapable of friendship without sex. They heard and saw
the white man foop a lot of black women and gave them some money.
It is handed down and almost natural, a cycle that is hard to escape
for it is written that wherever the natural is oppressed the unnatural
takes its place. When it came to sexual thing the morays, the
way of life was corrupt. Mis-education
and class ignorance started, when white people did not need a big lot
of sense or education to get rich and lived in big houses to which blacks
did not have access but had to go in the fields and work and did not
have money. The worst manner of white man or brown-skinned man
was called Sir! Just because he had less colour and could buy
people. Respectability
was to wear proper clothes, go to church and sit up front in the pew.
Blacks were encouraged to breed; it was not until well into the 20th
Century that they were encouraged to marry in the church and even then
marriage had an economic base: a lot of blacks did not marry until they
got a house. One fellow would not marry until he got his own house;
he married and his children were old people. The priests
were very respectable too: they baptised legitimate children on the
first Sunday of the month and the other Sundays were for the illegitimate
children. The only churches, which preached against sexual immorality
were the Pentecost. Morality is dictatorial when it lumps natural feelings of life together with pornography. In doing so, it perpetuates sexual smut and blights natural happiness whether this is what it intends to do or not. It is necessary to raise a strong protest when those, who determine their social behaviour on the basis of inner laws instead of external compulsive behaviour codes are labelled immoral. In the field of mental hygiene, the first and foremost task is to replace sexual chaos, prostitution, pornographic literature and sexual trafficking, with natural happiness in love secured by society. The parallel
in the whites is people like the Wards, in the 20th century.
The Wards are short people and Ward, a short white man, owned houses
next door to where he lived at Maxwell House with a white English wife,
with whom he never had children. He had women in those houses,
whom he supported and from whom he had children. In all he had
over one hundred children from many, many women – white, black and
mulatto. How was his wife comfortable with a husband having all
those women and children? His brother
did the same thing and they sent their children to good schools and
universities and all the children were called Wards. One called
Deighton that lived in the area, at Deal became a judge and then Governor
General. Ward populated nearly the whole village of Nesfield in
St. Lucy, where he kept a storeroom of yams and hungry females were
fed and fooped. He had scores of children there. Frank, one
from that area, became a brilliant surgeon and when he was at Guy’s
in London Mr. Ward told that “Frank up there studying and doing
very well but the first time he fail an exam I done with that.”
But would he have felt so about a legitimate child? Some white
Wards do not recognise that the coloured ones are their first cousins
after all they did not get their name by ownership. White man Cox
from Castle Grant had about one hundred and fifty children. He
went blind and died of syphilis. He looked after some of his children,
not all. The Walkers are his off springs - Prince managed Castle Grant,
Norman was a school teacher, Pop was editor at the Nation newspaper
and Herbie Walker was an inspector in the police band years ago.
Mr. Webster had his quota of coloured children, about ten. This was never part of the routine for some, who were not exposed to that conduct, behaviour or mode and our great grandmothers’ told about Chrissie Brathwaite, a politician and man-about-town now regarded as an early radical. His house was near Queens Park. He wore his hair shoulder length and nobody talked about it. The Smiths,
Sleepy Smith and his brothers went to school from Brathwaite’s house
because their mother and their father, who was a school master lived
in the country and during the week they stayed at his house. Their
grandmother was a domestic there. It was not a class thing, they
come along that way, she stayed working for him and earning a living
and the children went to Combermere and then to Harrison and nobody
knew what went between them. He interfered with every woman yet
he was a churchwarden. Ernest Deighton
Mottley, whose son is Elliott Mottley and Elliott’s daughter is Mia
Mottley was a sex fiend and paedophile. He set up a soup kitchen
in Queen Park, fed them, gave them clothing and bedded them and their
girl children and every body knew but he was confirmed at St. Mary’s
and had a front seat and the Church preached about illegitimate and
threatened hell fire. Morals did
not come in to it. That was superficial. Like respectability
being a Christian was a commodity and some on the fringe were uncouth.
Older people could not forget Jube Reece, half brother to Ernest Mottley,
when it came to sex he was called a madman; if that is called madness
there are more people insane than is thought. He was not accustomed
to taking no! Jube’s grandfather was a plantation owner, who
had Jube’s father, Walter, from his maid. Walter did not
publicly acknowledge his black ancestors, became Solicitor General and
he also had Mottley from his own maid. Many decades
ago, an older middle class friend, when he was a young student at College,
had a friend from his school days and he asked him to drop his girlfriend
home one night and he raped her under the threat of a gun. The
girl had spent the whole weekend at the friend’s house, slept in the
bedroom with his sister and he never touched her. No legal action
was taken, then, some people did not care much about that sort of thing
and no one wanted a court case because certain people could not be put
in court. He carried a name - his father was white and owned a
lot of property and he inherited money but his father was not going
to spend any money sending a half-caste son to Harrisons College.
He was bright but he was sent him to Lynch’s school, called Green
Lynch, and was friends with Harrison College poorer whites. He
became a magistrate. Then there
was economic enfranchisement but the white companies are still run by
whites. All over now sex is the common currency and it is exploited
by men lower down the social order, who have money to spend not to save.
It is contagious and not a natural evolution. They feel that they
have arrived and are independent and that is the way to show it and
in the general atmosphere of cheap thrills, the more gross the more
exciting. Black men brag
that they are great at sex and that women like them more than any other
man but a lot of it is: “Everybody has to put up with it.” ***** There needs
to be a campaign against such unnatural behaviour. A……. found
his favourite kind - one with a large behind. She was his neighbour,
Jamaican nearly-divorced and had spent more than a decade in the island
with a husband from the lower middle income, whom she met at university
and who became a doctor. He does not
easily lend his car but he lent her within a few weeks. She told him
in the sweetest of sweetie voices, in the softest of softie tones, the
nicest of nicie ways with sexiest of sexy body language that she had
a boyfriend overseas. Since his intention was sex, after
favours and a length of time he began to touch her; she asked of others
what to do but she played softie-softie, sweetie-sweetie, nicie-nicey,
sexie-sexy with him and continued to used his car and did not fill leave
a spare gallon of gas. Finally her nicie-nicie, sweetie-sweetie
and softie-softie sexy-sexy approach had run its course. He took
away the loan of the car and expressed for the first time the irritation
she had put him through: “She thinks that she is smart. She should become independent; she had been taking advantage, always doing things and then saying sorry like some damn little girl; her priorities are wrong. She has a husband and it is his two children. What about her boy friend in Jamaica? She is living above both her means and mine too. If she had to rent a car how much it would have cost her? He could not afford another monthly commitment. He had to pay all the bills in his marriage and now it is he alone to support his son. And the pants she wore to exercise is printing out ever inch of herself. How disgusting!”
In spite she
had given him a fortunate opportunity in a business one in which he
could have come along at his own rate and in his own time because he
is way down the brightness ladder but he is angry, slighted; pushed
to the edge and no longer interested in a personal relationship but
tried to continue the business arrangement. In a business meeting,
which she chaired he tried to look powerful and make an impression and
the only way he could was to bully with jabs, indirect shots and innuendo.
No spoken agreement took place between the two but she did not correct
his conduct – she protected his back; it was a mutual exchange for
free Internet use in his house - the bedroom business transcended into
the boardroom and all sincerity was thrown out the office window. Passive aggression
is the way many exist in their daily lives; it falls into place like
a predisposition for a particular type of behaviour. They think
that they will not be discovered especially, when their victim is of
humble manner, treats every one with a certain amount of respect, does
not have to assert authority, does not show off and all not because
of stupidity. They think that if they are treasured it is because
better is not known. She knew all
he said about her and she said nor asked him anything but continued
to enter his house and use his Internet: “I am vulnerable now.”
Even when she discovered other distressing personal details, which he
should have revealed to her; she continued her silence and this allowed
him to slip into a mode of annoyance - not understanding, misunderstanding
and playing the idiot. She had overestimated her worth for he discovered
his lust was based on lack of exercise and excess of fat from weight
lost.
“If I tell you it would be my opinion you have to read it for yourself.”
He is a net-worker. At fifty years of age and a committed, unmovable
Bahai of over twenty years yet he cannot explain Bahai; he brings a
piece of paper. Bahai is a source of bewilderment and better
left alone i.e. they have Christ in their ideology but the righteousness
of their teachings is not convincing. It is a religion
based on one man, who claims to be right and to “show them,” like
the Mormons were revealed to - handed down to someone in a vision, they
are fraternities and most turn out to be clubs, associations.
At a meeting there will be friends and a young doctor and some people
like Cally Mottley, when he was alive, and an Indian or two - a nice
social gathering and all speak in the same way with the same emphasis.
At Jesus’ mock trial a woman said to Peter that he was from Galilee
and spoke like a Galilean, Peter had not realized that, when he spoke
he would show up himself for there was no way of getting away from Galilee. With quickened
seemingly upward mobility so many find neither chopsticks, roti, fingers,
knives, forks and lack sensitivity for all what another stands.
They do not watch to see what others do. African friends serve
very hot dishes called soup with meat and gravy and eat with their hands
but we call it stew and eat it with a knife and fork. So many
have “car first” but kitchen equipment non-existent. So many
eat their lunch on the street on the minibus in the car but then again
they do not cook lunch anyway. Like a girl
bought a shotted-taffeta dress to wear to a dance and when the dance
was over she found that she had nothing to wear to work and she wore
it in the field. The fault is that we do not live in a fundamentally
honest society, therefore it is difficult for an individual to help
- it is wiser sometimes to stay at arms length Someone said
that bad taste is better than no taste. Ask A……. if he enjoyed
a meal and his reply is: “It is food so I eat it. I did not
know what it was.” On top of never
having a life he has become a patsy to a fly-by-night subversive piece
of doctrine made to feel acceptable and normal, a course in the value
of virtues, now doing the rounds like Total Quality Management (TQM)
a few years ago. A psuedo-morality with loose labels and words
that people like conjured up and passed off in the public domain.
Shallow things given serious meaning to poor unfortunate teachers he
recruits. Wonder if the government pays for this - to listen,
to repeat and regurgitate like birds undigested food, unsophisticated
baloney made easier to swallow and passed on to the foolish with a piece
of paper printed on a printer that says: “I am immune from any
further knowledge.” After all a health certificate does not mean
that a sore foot cannot be got. A……. has
adapted this formula to his life. The virtue he has picked up
is what he calls assertiveness and his course tells him that all demanding
people do not have contentment nor do they know how to cooperate and
all stubborn people need respect, flexibility, obedience, detachment,
moderation and forgiveness – and he is now equipped to look down upon
anybody he sees lacking this long list of ignorance. He attended
the Cave Hill Campus as an adult student and has a degree in Business
Management and it would have been a surprise if he came out with knowledge.
He sees affluence as a fancy car, a big house, and friends that belonging
to a big organization but he cannot see how to get there. The ordinary
person is not going to understand dialectics but what every civilized
human being does is use two forms of logic to come to a conclusion one
is deductive reasoning and the other, inductive reasoning. Deductive
reasoning means more often than not from experience, if every time the
rain falls the road is wet so even if someone is asleep and does not
heard the sound of rain but the road is wet it is likely that rain fell
but sometimes the sanitation truck washes down the streets. Inductive is
more mathematical, more a process of thinking to find reason not because
of any positive insights but gut feeling taken into refined reasoning,
a kind of inductive feeling. The man, who discovered that
the arrow of the sugar cane was a sugar cane seed not because he saw
them spring up. The way he did it was inductive reasoning - there
has got to be a reason - they got to be seeds. This is the
sort of reasoning you get that from the wise men (griot) of the tribe. She thinks
that she is bright but she does not understand nor has she taken the
time to think about others philosophy of life. In blissful guilefulness
so many younger people, especially young women, do not know that older
people are wise to their conduct, are bearers of customs and are people
of perspicacity – mental penetration and discernment - to see through
things and with enough wisdom to perceive the possible outcome of an
action and even knowing that go ahead. In her game
she sees only herself in a mirror and sees only her own self-interest
and does not take into account whether the opponent is more wicked or
more witted than her and does not consider that she can lose.
She understands the male’s protective instinct and found that there
are some men, who are prepared to sacrifice some of their aspirations
for a comfortable life with a woman and children and whatever comfort
there is, for a time. It is an old
observation not a rule that says a man should leave his mother and cling
to his wife but it is not a right philosophy. It is a matter of
making peace, men do not want to embarrass their women. Delilah,
even if you do not believe the story the moral is there, asked Sampson
how he became so strong and what was more valuable to him was sleeping
with her. Men have means
and get trapped because of their children and too late men understand
f that they have served a purpose - security and respect earned vicariously
because he is well respected in the community. When challenged
she spoke of resilience. Resilience is the capacity to maintain
ground and courage in adversity - survival and that means physical as
well as spiritual which allows for a bounce back to the original.
What she did was not resilience but compromise “playing whory-whory”-
“dry screwing”- the enemy. Resilience is not only the ability
to survive in adversity but in the same form. There is no winning
in a game with vice. The bible tells not to have fellowship with
it otherwise it grabs hold, catches and there is no getting away. “I think
A…….. is looking at one aspect and other facets of whatever
his own mental experimentation through inter reactions with people.
And is trying to secure whatever that brings about a learning dynamic.” This statement
is a petty way of getting out of responsibility and it has no face in
reality. It is easier not to try to see, what in one form or the other
everyone around has seen; easier not to believe, it is a form, a pattern
of lies, that repeats itself and there is surprise at the outcome. What are the
answers and how to save oneself from the personal suffering when setting
a good example gives no hope. This has to do first with training
at home: creative thinking and problem solving in the house. Women
must be trained to not compromise, to be straight, to adopt a standard
and stick with it. To stand up in the truth. Achievement
in life is not how much money or how much wealth or social esteem or
social respect but real benefit is the love that a person is able to
exercise and show to others and in the exercise of living that love
and allowing it to mature and blossom to the benefit of humanity
and nature. Women can set
the bar and can stop the foolishness of condescending to the whims and
fantasies of men, like Lysistrata, a Greek drama by one of the Greek
authors from ancient times, BC, where the women went on strike to end
a war. It is called
a Greek tragedy by literature scholars, who classify such things but
that is from a man’s point of view. What a tragedy or a tragic
comedy to men to imagine that women could stop a war and by simple and
non-violent means:- that is the notion to end it all by withholding
and refusing to do all that women usually do:- all household work and
just stop from sleeping with their men. With real women in power
there stands a better chance to get a better government. Not women with
sex problems. With women like Billie (Miller) and
Mia (Mottley) there is no feminine allure. Who wants to be
with them? Billie walks through the New Orleans slums with great
ostentation, haute couture, a bag worth about $1,000.00 and she has
not worn anything but silk for a long time. Stupid style but same
of the same people, who struggle for meagre means admire that and some
will worship it with their: “I cannot buy it.” They cannot
admire her for her brains for she has never displayed any and even if
she had a good ideas she is bland at pronouncing. She opened a
new bus stand and the only people, who listened were the conductors
and those, who were working but she spoke any way because it would go
down in history. Her father, Freddie used to talk a lot but he
had initiative. Men like to
patronize women so the main thing is that women in power are not just
figureheads - Mary Daly, the feminist writer, calls them femme-bots
– mock-stick, robotized women, who behave like men and belongto men
e.g. Condolezza Rice, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto. All Eva Peron
did was inherited from her husband and many Argentineans revered her
even though she was no particular use to the people. V.S. Naipaul
in his book The Return of Evita Peron, said that she was
great at fellatio. THE END |