Breaking chains of mental slavery

It can be contended that this ghetto was primarily a social device, a contraption, a mind manipulation to confine people to a particular space and political party, a mischievous scheme which our people must move away from.

The ghetto is stigmatised with crime, ignorance and countless social issues and its constituents can hardly be blamed. The distorted personal views are carried along the currents by gangs and other pressures, creating the belief this is the only life and is diffused along devious courses using “black” spuriously upon the penurious.

In the spirit of Emancipation Day, it is hoped that we would not confine nor define ourselves by others or existing circumstances.

Our true emancipation lies not in living in chains of the past but in the struggle to procure economic, educational and social progress, thereby breaking the yolk of mental slavery, so young man/woman “doh take chain up.”

COLIN FORTUNE Arima