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This is Lecture 5 of Caribbean Thought, a course at the Jamaica Theological Seminary Lectured by Rev. Renaldo C. McKenzie, Dated February 10, 2023. This is a continuation of week 4 and the Lecture series towards developing a Caribbean Thought Journal. The Lecture was quite powerful as usual. We continued from week 4, conceptualizing the course Caribbean Thought when we had asked, "what is Caribbean Thought, and who determines this?" This week we ask, why who determines this and why is it important for us to revisit the past? The lecture delved into this question by lifting up a current situation in the Caribbean - The Haitian Crisis - where The US and Canada is pressuring the Caribbean to intervene in Haiti on their behalf (See the Podcast/Youtube video with Brian Concannon). We examine this issue in relation to the Caribbean socio-economic challenges which has defined present realities which imposes on cultural identity. We explored this within the context of our understanding of the Caribbean being part of the pan-African struggle for not just independence but economic prosperity that allows them to compete. When we go back in history, we explore situations where the Caribbean's inability to truly realize pan-African goals in light of strategy that continue to keep these peoples and countries down - Debt. We begin the class by revisiting the conclusion of the class: "...the Caribbean represents a people who have been disrupted, detached, displaced, hybridized and made into dependent capitalist states with some level of modernity to promote consumption within the neoliberal globalized world which is largely a consumer society." We then moved into Lecture 5 by exploring the course outline: Course Description: This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense.... The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean and the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism (See Groups’2 Paper on Pan-Africanism – we defined Pan-Africanism reading from their exceptional essay which delved into Pan Africanism), Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty....Among the thinkers/works that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, W. Benjamin, M. Foucault, Franz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhabha, Mike Davis, Nelson/Novella Keith, Stephanie Black, Jamaica KinCaid, Garnett Roper, Rex Nettleford and the Professor’s Works We then begin to explore Caribbean thinkers: Ramesh F. Ramsaran who wrote in the Preface of his book, "The structural adjustment issue is, not surprisingly, one surrounded by intense controversy and emotion. This is because it does not concern simply with economic policies or improving government performance but brings into question basic economic philosophy and ideology and may also involve the effective transfer of decision-making from local hands." The Caribbean must critically reflect on its position in relation to life...theneoliberal.com

Recently I interviewed Brian Concannon for my podcast, The Neoliberal Round. Little did I know that there was a situation that he is involved with as a Human Rights Advocate on Haitian justice and democracy. Brian is the Executive Director for The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. It's a US based Human Rights agency that is actively involved in working here in the US to advocate for the Haitians.   While conducting the interview, I learned that the US through Canada is actively seeking CARICOM to intervene in the Haitian crisis since the assasination of the Haitian President October 2022. The US has since installed a Prime Minister that Haitians oppose and this has created internal conflicts especially against the US backed PM who is calling for the US to intervene, despite the objection of Haitians.   Mr. Concannon shared a letter from a human rights and advocacy group in Haiti, written by Mario Joseph the Managing Attorney to CARICOM. The letter, written November 2022 stated:  BUREAU DES AVOCATS INTERNATIONAUX 3, 2ème rue Lavaud B.P. 19048 Port-au-Prince,  Haiti  November 4, 2022   Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett Secretary-General Caribbean Community   Re: Proposed International Intervention in Haiti   Dear Dr. Barnett:   We are writing you in relation to the armed international intervention in Haiti that has been requested by Dr. Ariel Henry, the de facto Prime Minister of Haiti, and supported by the United States and Canada, to explain that any support for the intervention by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would violate CARICOM’s democratic principles, betray Haitians’ centuries-long struggle for democracy and sovereignty, and implicate CARICOM in attacks against civilians exercising their basic human rights. Ever since the intervention was proposed, Haitians have taken to the streets by the tens of thousands to oppose it. We have issued statements, spoken out in the media, and done anything else we could to let the world know that the intervention is designed to prop up the unconstitutional, corrupt and repressive de facto government and stifle legitimate dissent. De facto Prime Minister Henry ascended to his post not through any Haitian procedure, but through an announcement by the US-led Core Group. He had been nominated by President Jovenel Moïse of the Parti Haitienne Tet Kale party (PHTK), whose mandate had expired five months previously. The PHTK has not run an election that was either fair or timely in the decade it has maintained power. Haiti’s Parliament became inoperative in January 2020, and the terms of all local elected officials ended in July of that year. Haiti’s Supreme Court has lacked enough members to constitute a quorum since March. This situation constitutes a sharp departure from the right to a fair and open democratic system guaranteed by Article VI of the CARICOM Charter of Civil Society. PHTK governance has been demonstrably brutal...We want CARICOM to once again insist that the international community stop supporting an unconstitutional, imposed regime, and allow Haitians to find a democratic, sustainable solution to our political crisis." 

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Question: I currently reside in the US as a Naturalized US Citizen, from Jamaica. Would I be considered a First Generation American? Activity: Come up with one or two sentences that define/s Jamaica in relation to Caribbean. Learning Objectives: 1. To critically formulate and present a concept of the Caribbean in relation to its position in history which has given rise to its present reality. 2. To begin to trace Caribbean Thinking through its process of coming to be, moving beyond Independence and the tensions between competing political thought in Jamaica – capitalism and socialism. 3. To begin to develop a critical and academic frame within which to provide commentary and contributions on current issues of society and identifying media that facilitate these expressions.  This lecture aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of Jamaica in relation to the Caribbean, one where the internal and personal interacts with the external. Like Keith and Keith, they agreed that Jamaica has suffered under colonialism. Yet, they contended for a picture of Jamaica that was independent of its socio-economic position and experience. Maybe as a way to forget the reality of its vulnerabilities so as to boast about something else that gives pride and joy. Indeed, although at first the students struggle to come with an original concept of Caribbean for themselves, they still sourced and provided a definition that gave them great pride about Jamaica – its size, its influence and popularity as a leading island in terms of its worldwide appeal and fame from Bob Marley, Merlene Ottey, Usain Bolt and Jerk Chicken. Nevertheless, the consensus was that Jamaica is still a society divided along class lines. This was important as one student pointed out that his movement from one class to the next and from the rural to the urban has adjusted his experience and his ideas about Jamaica, which changed his perspectives. This supports what Norman Girvan had written in his “Reinterpretation of the Caribbean” in “The Caribbean Reader,” indicating that to define Caribbean is a matter of context and perspective.  The Caribbean Reader begin their perspectives on the Caribbean in Grenada, in 1983 when Maurice Bishop and his People’s Revolutionary Army met their demise. This was juxtaposed with the invasion or penetration of the US by their Navy Seals who provided the support that sought the local conflicts among the peoples that crushed the nationalist and democratic socialist intentions of the nationalists. Keith & Keith, Dale Johnson all scholars of the postcolonial write in their projects how the US penetrated the Caribbean through their various machineries. To promote US style ideologies. This was not free of local assistance who were opportunists hoping to cash in as elites or representative/house slaves in the local. Like Europe’s strategy of trickery, making the same deals with all the African tribes which created further chaos in Africa which led to its plunder and domination, the penetration by supporting a few created a local tug-of-war. That was evident between the Manley and Seaga governments of the 1980s, which defined Jamaica. Nevertheless, the students agreed at the end that Jamaica has been given tremendous opportunities and investments. But has squandered it through nepotism, connectionism and corruption. The students alluded to their own experiences, associations, studies showing Jamaica’s corruption index, the NIA & Dr. Trevor Monroe, UK report on Jamaica being on UK crooked politician Radar as evident to support their conclusion that the country has mismanaged its investments and resources.  In the end we concluded that we are not a human race in the sense that we are racing against each other.  But if we think in terms of race, then the reality of the Caribbean and the black position within that racial thinking suggest that we lost the race of time. https://theneoliberal.com.

I had a drive with David, who is originally from Ghana and attended the University of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. He has been living in the US since 1973. He talked briefly about the experience of being the only black student in classes back then, and how he was seen as provocative as he challenged the material and his professors. He reminisced about the days when two dollars (US$2) per hour was enough. He reported that Ghana was progressing since their independence from the Brits and that many Jamaicans and African Americans currently reside and have businesses in Ghana. We also talked about the difficulty that many Black Academics and Professionals from Ivy League Schools or with advanced degrees have of accessing jobs or navigating the professional and career world. We raised the question: why it seems that very educated black men experience discrimination even within predominantly black industries and workplaces. I shared a personal story of the difficulties I had working in New York as a Junior Executive within a predominantly white Jewish environment and later being turned down by a Social Services Agency in Philadelphia because the Hiring Manager thought I was too educated and shouldn't be applying there. I learned that they don't even care to review or interview these individuals, as the attitude is to indicate "no response" on their applications. We then discuss the issue of violence and a recent article I wrote entitled: "What Will End Violence?" available in The Neoliberal Journals of The Neoliberal Corporation Moral Magazine Website at https://theneoliberal.com.

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This is a remake and updated video of a previous story entitled: Good News or Not? Unemployment Dops to 3.4%, Yet Conditions are Still Worsening! However, we have improved the video and audio and added several more comments to the story, given the Feds interest rate hikes.   We begin by revisiting the previous story: Is it good news for some but bad news for the rest, since the national does not take into account the “devil in the details” or the situation in the locals. This report gets lost in the details of people’s life who are struggling to find well-paying jobs, and a December economy that usually attracts more employment in retail and other industries given the usual increases in consumer spending during the Christmas holidays. So, the employment was expected to rise. However, what will happen in February or March? Signs suggest that the economy is bracing for more blows given the interest rate hikes to come and the instability in inflation and rise in some consumer goods. Places with high poverty and unemployment rates such as Philadelphia has experienced increases in poverty, homelessness among the young and more people are receiving welfare, where they can. If not, the situation becomes an issue of rising crime and violence.  We then move onto exploring the Feds increasing interest rates: This brings us to Critical Economics, which when placed within what we have said about critical thinking is then thinking & rethinking ideas and principles about economics that has come to shape how we allocate or distribute resources within society. It means looking at the inequity and distributional challenges in society today from an economic that aims to allocate resources fairly and efficiently. However, A Free-Market system has not achieved that, what economics was developed or supposed to do – distribute evenly within a perfectly competitive market. It is full of nepotism driven by neo-capitalistic forms of economics. Within a Capitalist society such as the US, where buyers & sellers transact business & set prices. However, the Feds have raised interest rates a third time in the last few months which directly affects prices as it affects costs of financial instruments. The cost is passed onto the consumers. There’s a story in Yahoo News regarding the stand-off on interest-rate hike by the Feds. The story entitled: Federal Reserve and the markets in standoff on rate hikes:  Concluding: The Feds decision to increase the interest rate by 0.25 % with more hikes coming suggests that they have learned from the mistakes of the IMF and world bank who at one time applied structural adjustment too quickly which affected the most vulnerable. Instead, they are applying incremental increases so as to minimize the effects that these increases may have on the poor and working classes and to soften any blow back from investors on wall-street and effects these will have on production costs, wage, and capital investments needed to continue to spur the economy towards needed development in infrastructure of the US economy. The inflation rate seems to be under control, which many believed was a direct result if the intervention by the FEDS to implement interest rate hikes over the last quarter.   Host/Producer: Rev. Renaldo McKenzie a Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University but may switch Doctoral programs to University of Pennsylvania. Renaldo is a Lecturer and Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty  & Resistance.  Renaldo graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Liberal Arts and a Master of Philosophy. Renaldo also studied Philosophy at the University of The West Indies, Mona in Jamaica briefly, before he migrated to the US, where he is now a US citizen residing in Philadelphia. Renaldo is working on Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, another book with contributions from Prof. Emeritus Martin Oppenheimer. theneoliberal.com

This is Lecture Four of The Course: Caribbean Thought a course at The Jamaica Theological Seminary, Lectured via Zoom recording by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie. It promises to be quite academic, ethnographic, and powerful as the students and Lecturer contend for the Caribbean and explore its challenges and explore solutions. We discuss Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad, Haiti, the US, the Slave Trade, and did a SWOT analysis of the Caribbean.  (Brain-teaser/Activity:  1. I currently reside in the US as a Naturalized US Citizen, from Jamaica. Would I be considered a “First Generation American”?) 2. Come up with one or two sentences that define/s Jamaica in relation to Caribbean.  Learning Objectives: 1. To critically formulate and present a concept of the Caribbean in relation to its position in history which has given rise to its present reality. 2. To begin to trace Caribbean Thinking through its process of coming t  be, moving beyond Independence and the tensions between competing political thought in Jamaica – capitalism and socialism. 3. To begin to develop a critical and academic frame within which to provide commentary and contributions on current issues of society and identifying media that facilitate these expressions.  What is the Caribbean Thought? Past influences on the Present?   This is a question of being, as much as it is a question of tradition, culture, and thinking. But it is also a question about the place and peoples of the Caribbean. It represents part of a new world with new people, islands of paradise in the Americas with language, history, culture, religious consciousness, politics and economies that are inherited from its mixed past. When we hear of Caribbean today, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea, sand, cannabis, Bob Marley and reggae music, Usain Bolt, irie people living out their best dreams, desires and life. But Neoliberalism challenges this motif, stating that the Caribbean is made up of dependent vulnerable states whose beauty is divorced from its people and enjoyed mainly by those outside of it. Further, the Caribbean represents a people who have been disrupted, detached, displaced, hybridized and made into dependent capitalist states with some level of modernity to promote consumption within the neoliberal globalized world which is largely a consumer society.  Needless to say, the Caribbean remains vulnerable and open to penetration from without and exogenous shocks from within and is recreated within the mole and frame of its former masters, since decolonization and independence. These former masters are now landlords within the newly created globalized world where freed men now pay rent. This is the new condition of the Caribbean and the world since decolonization and the drive for a post-colonial world where the Caribbean had a dream of nations of freed men who were sovereign of their own lives met a neoliberal globalized world in the 1970s and beyond, where nationalists succumbed to denationalization of the nation so as to free up globalization. This was a type of globalization that ultimately continued a strategy of pharasaicalism now defined in the 20th century as the Bureaucratic Phenomenon – where established rules made through arrangements only governed the new nations and freed peoples, but the old masters and their new elitist friends of the Washington consensus were largely above those rules, as for them, the law is not a shackle, only those who are within a particular dynamic of life and society.).

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I called an Uber to take me to pick up a Tesla today. That's when I met Darline from Haiti, who is now a US citizen, driving for Uber as part of one human race. She talked about the experience working with Uber. But she was also just returning from a visit to Haiti, and we talked about what's happening in Haiti. She was quick to point out the challenges in Haiti, saying "there's a lot of problems... the people are united together. Which seems to be the problem of the Caribbean. The inability to come together to share and work to build. This selfishness learned probably from colonization or within human nature to fight over scarce benefits and spoils, has dogged the island. Yet, when asked, what can be done, she could not provide any answers, only that the people need to be more united and that the President was just killed as a result of him being branded an American mouthpiece. American penetration in the global south islands are not well known in the US by its citizens. We only see what others are doing but Haiti has endured several setbacks due to penetration of outsiders but also due to the damage done to it by themselves. Haiti was one of the first to obtain independence, the first among black peoples that was freed but made the mistake of trying to colonize Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, who shares the island with Haiti. Indeed, at one time in Haiti's history, they had colonized another country after they were free, but this was transient, and this created a history of bad blood between the two countries that share the same land mass. Dominicans who took back their country through partnerships with the Europeans, took on whiteness and was forever an enemy of Haitians or their black brothers who had tried to enslave, so that today many Hispanics from that region cannot identify with a race, only an ethnicity. We explore the dynamics in Haiti briefly, speaking with Darline and shared a personal experience while exploring life and society. We were perplexed about Russia's invasion and the boldness with which men invade and plunder other men and nations without apology and conscience. This ability to destroy peoples and leaving it up to diplomacy to resolve, while the people suffer. The human condition has become so tarnished by self, the id and a privilege that justifies its injustices on other people's int he world. We pray for peace and God will uproot men like Putin who unleash evil without mercy when they too need God's mercy. Let them become aware of the ills they do by realizing the plight of men they plunder and doom. May that be their lot oh God. May you rescue Ukrainians and all who suffer the hand and might of callous angry men who through selfish desires and myopic reason seek to establish power for themselves and the few. May you grant Ukraine favor and the weapons to stand up. May you bring others to their aid. May you stop the war and bring destruction on those who fail to heed your warning and hate against hatred. For what is the ultimate of all things, that we become one with reality with all of our individuality, so that we are labelled into negation. In the name of that than which nothing greater can be conceived. Amen!

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Today we explored the question of the question, to conduct a study of the Caribbean, where must we begin? This episode is a summary of Lecture 3 which was a five-hour long lecture. This the condensed version of Conceptualizing the course, Caribbean Thought. We ask, when we study the Caribbean Thought, including diverse currents that have shaped its present that speaks to a future, how far must we go back? Where must we start?  The answer is a complex one because we stated in class that the Caribbean is an invention of the past which must now reinvent itself in the future if we are to surpass the challenges of the present. We say the Caribbean is uncompetitive stemming from a violent past that continues today through neoliberal Globalization. We did not explore neoliberal globalization but provided an understanding of Neoliberalism, Neo-capitalism &Capitalism. We explain Neoliberalism as a form of liberalism used within economics by capitalists to liberalize economies so as to penetrate thereby ensuring profit. We said that we will explore Neoliberalism in more detail later in relation to its effects on the Caribbean when we watch "Life and Debt" by Stephanie Black based on a book "A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid - a book about Antigua whose experience of structural adjustment and fight for prosperity resembles Jamaica's so that the film could take from the book and talk about Jamaica. This speaks to the symbiotic relation between the West Indies.  We examined the processes of Colonization from the perspective of Fanon who defines colonization as involving a violence of depersonalization - stripping away the individual.   We provided an academic answer/response to the question: Are "White-Collar in Jamaica a Crimes a result of Colonization"? And Why are crime rates so high in places like Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica? We suggested a Marxist materialist reply - "Relative Deprivation". What is Relative deprivation? We defined it as the correlation between high crime & high poverty and income inequality. Jamaica and the Caribbean suffers from high poverty and inequality correlated with the highest crime rates in the Caribbean. This is commensurate with what is happening is black and brown communities all over the world - hence supporting the conclusion/analysis of "relative deprivation".   We pointed out that to study Caribbean Thought is to do philosophical inquiry which involves logic & Descartes phenomenology, who coined "cogito ergo sum" - I think therefore I am. He recognized the subjectivity of reality outside of objective verification. Further, we pushed the exploration of knowledge by discussing Kant who says that history is a result of human nature and circumstances, and questions Newtonian Physics which formed the basis of western civilization's understanding of reality. The Caribbean as part of a reality of western civilization is influenced by that bent.  We reviewed the economic history of western society and capitalism stating that it is within a system that has impoverished or weakened the Caribbean States. We revisited Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations & Weber's Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism regarding the justification and economic principle behind Capitalism. However, we challenged the wealth of nations by invoking Karl Marx who critically re-examines Adam Smith's Accumulation of Capital idea, saying that it was not one in hard work but theft and violence. This then led us to consider the socio-economic/political interests of the Caribbean such as Michael Manley and Fidel Castro who were Nationalists influenced by Marxists critique of capitalism and his idea of Communism.  Caribbean Political and literary thinkers were off-center and regarded as Democratic Socialists which had threatened American domination and penetration in the region to what they had believed had given way to socialist ideology. Read on at www.theneoliberal.com.

On January 7, the very cameras that law enforcement erected to capture and deter criminality, caught the very law enforcement committing the crimes that they intend to capture and deter. But little did these officers know that they were being recorded. They had forgotten about the cameras. Thus, they would have done something else or done it elsewhere, but if it weren't for the unseen eyes of technology, we would not have acquired the truth that has always been the modus operandi of police.

Therefore, if we are to prevent police brutality within a culture of violence, we may consider technology. The police officers who act outside of regulations do so because they know that they are not being watched and have the protection of their unions and a system that protects the purity of the batch. Police have a tendency of turning off their cameras. The ability to operate incognito provides an opportunity for them to disregard laws and abuse their power. But, if some people have power in society to enforce laws over others, and we know that power corrupts due to human nature, then it stands to reason that they must be scrutinized. They must be placed under tremendous surveillance and observation so as to ensure that they do not act outside of laws within the culture of violence and human fallenness. If we are to be resolute on stopping police violence and abuse of power, they must not have the ability to turn off their cameras and must be penalized if they do so. We must develop technology that keeps the police under surveillance. We may need to employ independent quality assurance professionals who randomly do "spot checks" on police officers on duty and implement GPS tracking on each police vehicle, weapon and uniform. If we can do these, then we would be sending a message that we are serious about police brutality and abuse of power for police would not stop their disobedience of the laws leading to death.

But to cover up the realities of abuse stemming from a history and culture of violence by the status quo, by minimizing records and narrative of its truth will never heal wounds in society that may ultimately lead to abnormalities such as civil wars, terrorism, extremism etc. This is the kind of truth that hurts, for it may contain painful things about you leading to anxiety. Sigmund Freud asserts that we use DENIAL to block as 1 of 6 defense mechanisms leading to abnormalities if not psychoanalyzed properly. Yet, Ron DeSantis Governor Ron DeSantis and the GOP in Florida is doing just that. Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies that are unconsciously used by individuals to protect from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings. According to Freudian theory, defense mechanisms involve a distortion of reality. Defense Mechanisms include Repression, Denial, Projection, Displacement, Sublimation and Regression (Sigmund Freud.) So, how do we deal with issues we are not dealing with properly to avert abnormalities. Desantis and the GOP need a kind of therapy and psychiatry that speaks to their psychoanalysis assessed in Freudian psychoanalytic theory of Psychology. The fix is psychological not politics or the usual human tendency to ban symptomatic of his defenses. That only pushes the problem to the unconscious creating further problems for themselves and society.

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