http://otabenga.org/taxonomy/term/99 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://otabenga.org/node/108 <p><em>In this lucid and eloquent article, John Maxwell traces the connections between European genocide in the West Indies and the devastation produced in Africa by the slave trade with modern day poverty, oppression, and degradation in both places. It is a powerful condemnation of the hypocrisy of western trumpeting of human rights. Maxwell writes a column called "Common Sense" for the</em> <a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/"> Jamaican Observer<a> <em>where this was originally published. Reposted from </em><a href="http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/haiti-christmas-in-hell-by-john-maxwell/">Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela&gt;Analysis</a> .</p> <p>Sunday, December 30, 2007</p> <p>Christmas in Jamaica is bad enough. One good thing about Christmas Day is that it means the end of weeks of aural assaults by mindless rhymesters perverting songs of worship to paeans of praise for hucksters of all kinds, from shopkeepers to banks, from auto-parts dealers to purveyors of cheap, non-returnable, eminently breakable, non-biodegradable trash tricked out in plastic, tinsel and lead paint to lure innocent children and entrap their parents.</p> <p>And, as a bonus, there are the sound-system parties, which allow you to dance in your own home to music played two miles away. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://otabenga.org/node/108">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p> http://otabenga.org/node/108#comments connecting John Maxwell Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:11:42 -0600 otabenga1 108 at http://otabenga.org