Lord Kitchener (1922 - 2000) Trinidad
An important lesson to biracial folks about internalised racism and participation in colourism/featurism that's been absorbed from their environment. It's important to educate your kids on these issues because if you don't society will teach their way. If you're white, you need to find people and material to teach these lessons for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkNM5RrSqvc
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Another #Calypsonian from #Trinidad 🇹🇹 I'd like to highlight is Singing Sandra (1957-2021)
Ancient Rhythms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyWUBxMP-6g
Caribbean Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy1IBRll-yM
Voices From the Ghetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZH27vGntg
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I'd like to pair this with Chalkdust's - Black Inventions. He sings about black contributions, inventions, improvements to existing inventions, firsts.
It's important that black folks see ourselves and our contributions to the world.
This performance is from 1993, but the song is from the tail end of the 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7siO1uW8690
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This is #Maestro (Cecil Hume), a #Trinidadian #Calypsonian who passed in 1977.
Singing about #BlackIdentity and the #BlackEasure that happens with European names.
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