A message from Jack Warner, Chairman of the United National Congress (UNC).
This was and still remains an important event in the lives of persons of African decent because it reminds us of the resilience and strength of our fathers who amid adversity struggled to ensure that over the years Africans never experienced the genocide that a number of autochthonous persons suffered during their periods of colonization.
Whether we as a people have learned from these struggles is still to be determined because we are still to demonstrate the type of solidarity for each other just as our forefathers who laboured to ensure a better world and a better future for their posterity.
The social turbulence and decadence suggest that we are far from being an emancipated people. The wanton slaughter of each other tells us that we need to be taught the responsibility that generally is associated with freedom.
The moral decay that is permeating our social fabric is indicative of the chasm which exists between the vision of hope held by our forefathers and the meaning of freedom now shared by their posterity.
But today as we celebrate we can still stand on the premise of the promise that initiated our emancipation; a celebration that allows us to rediscover the passion, which drove our fore-parents to earn their freedom.
A zeal that forces us to shake off the shackles of ignorance, abandon the shackles of violence, discard the shackles which ignores our identity and forsake the shackles which brand us as being less than others.
Today as we celebrate let us strive to become more educated, more tolerant of each other, more respectful to the human race and more loving and caring to our children.
Let the celebration of emancipation today mean something for the destiny of our children starting today and let us raise the standard in a way that would guarantee the social and economic sustainability of our people for generations to come and many decades to follow.
God bless you all my people.
As Chairman of the United National Congress and on behalf of the UNC, I wish all a successful “Emancipation Celebration 2011.”
Jack Warner | Chairman, United National Congress
Today we celebrate one hundred and seventy-five years since we as African people achieved our emancipation from slavery.
This was and still remains an important event in the lives of persons of African decent because it reminds us of the resilience and strength of our fathers who amid adversity struggled to ensure that over the years Africans never experienced the genocide that a number of autochthonous persons suffered during their periods of colonization.
Whether we as a people have learned from these struggles is still to be determined because we are still to demonstrate the type of solidarity for each other just as our forefathers who laboured to ensure a better world and a better future for their posterity.
The social turbulence and decadence suggest that we are far from being an emancipated people. The wanton slaughter of each other tells us that we need to be taught the responsibility that generally is associated with freedom.
The moral decay that is permeating our social fabric is indicative of the chasm which exists between the vision of hope held by our forefathers and the meaning of freedom now shared by their posterity.
But today as we celebrate we can still stand on the premise of the promise that initiated our emancipation; a celebration that allows us to rediscover the passion, which drove our fore-parents to earn their freedom.
A zeal that forces us to shake off the shackles of ignorance, abandon the shackles of violence, discard the shackles which ignores our identity and forsake the shackles which brand us as being less than others.
Today as we celebrate let us strive to become more educated, more tolerant of each other, more respectful to the human race and more loving and caring to our children.
Let the celebration of emancipation today mean something for the destiny of our children starting today and let us raise the standard in a way that would guarantee the social and economic sustainability of our people for generations to come and many decades to follow.
God bless you all my people.
As Chairman of the United National Congress and on behalf of the UNC, I wish all a successful “Emancipation Celebration 2011.”
Jack Warner | Chairman, United National Congress
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