Emancipation Day Holiday

[sistactry]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vegas</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> i knew dat. </div></div>

BOAL

[Wendy]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vegas</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> i knew dat. </div></div>

BOAL Watch how shi a get get canfuse again when Friday people a celebrate Marley Bday.

[Q3210]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vegas</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why am i thinking dat its the 6th is holiday? smaddy pls edumacate me </div></div>

the 6th me dahlin is INDEPENCE DAY (1962), but today a EMANCIPATION DAY (the day when the crown freed all slaves 1838 i think)

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btw. Its the first Monday in August which is given as a public holiday emancipation, then the following Friday as Independence

[Peasie]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">but the mental emancipation is yet to come for some of us </div></div>

True ting dis

[mountaingal]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why Ja couldnt have a meaningful statue like Barbados of what Emancipation means, instead of this foolishness...and the park is sooo lovely!!

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leff di naked ppl dem, dem a look to di heavens and thinking pure thoughts.

a ongle hope the jamaican govt maintain di park properly so my man teely no russ off.

[Q3210]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

Yu safe. Dem spray it with WD40 every morning.

[Peasie]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yu safe. Dem spray it with WD40 every morning. </div></div>
fi likkle side bizniz

[Q3210]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

No, regular maintenance.

[Peasie]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

[Wendy]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yu safe. Dem spray it with WD40 every morning. </div></div>

BOADWL at MG and Q It too early fi dis enoh ..cho

[jah_yout]

Re: Emancipation Day Holiday

<span style="font-size: 11pt">&quot;The events of the past hundred and fifty years require no extended recitation from Us. The period of colonialism into which we were plunged culminated with our continent fettered and bound, with our once proud and free peoples reduced to humiliation and slavery; with Africa's terrain cross-batched and checker-boarded by artificial and arbitrary boundaries. Many of us, during those bitter years, were overwhelmed in battle, and those who escaped conquest did so at the cost of desperate resistance and bloodshed. Others were sold into bondage as the price extracted by the colonialists for the &quot;protection&quot; which they extended and the possession of which they disposed. Africa was a physical resource to be exploited an Africans were chattels to be purchased bodily or, at best, peoples to be reduced to vassalage and lackeyhood. Africa was the market for the produce of other nations and the source of the raw materials with which their factories were fed.

&quot;Today, Africa has emerged from this dark passage. Our Armageddon is past. Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men. The blood that was shed and the sufferings that were endured are today Africa's advocates for freedom and unity. Those men who refused to accept the judgment passed upon them by the colonies, who held unswervingly through the darkest hours to a vision of an Africa emancipated from political, economic and spiritual domination, will be remembered and revered wherever Africans meet. Many of them never set foot on this continent. Others were born and died here. What we may utter today can add little to the heroic struggle of those who, by their example, have shown us how precious are freedom and human dignity and of how little value is life without them. Their deeds are written in history.&quot;</span>

---selassie I