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December 8, 1983
The Wolverine Observer
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Editorial Comments
Grenada Still Raises Questions
"Third World View"
The events of last month,
propelled the tiny island of
Grenada into national and inter
national headlines. Most people
had never even heard of the
island. Those who had knew of it
as a beautiful place in the
Carribean for tourists. Unfor
tunately, about many of the
developments and changes oc-
curing in Africa, the Carribean,
and the Third World, the
African-American population is
not as informed or as vocal as we
should be.
In particular, Black students
tend to suffer from a lack of clear
and comprehensive information
on events shaping the destiny of
today's world. Thus, without
information, Black students who
are the developing scholars,
intellectuals and leaders of our
people, cannot make any real
analysis of how these events
impact directly and indirectly on
our lives.
There are many lessons to be
learned from the situation in
Grenada. In fact, the seriousness
of the issue challenges Black
students to dig deep for the facts,
and bring forth analysis and
action. There must be a search, a
probing search by Black students
into the history of Grenada and
its people. If that is done we will
discover that the Grenadian
people were enslaved in the
same regions of Africa as our
people. In fact, if we could really
trace our history we would find
that many of us are direct
descendants of people brought
to Grenada.
But, we must not be content to
study just the distant past, we
must know of Grenada’s recent
history. We must know why a
political party called the NEW
JEWEL MOVEMENT formed on
the island and led a bloodless
revolution in 1979. A revolution
that made people all over the
world look to the tiny island and
its people. We must pull out the
facts, and find out why the
Reagan administration acted
hostilely to the government of
Grenada. Why Reagan pursued a
policy of threats, refusal to
normalize relations and refusal
to give assistance to the people
in order to aid their develop
ment.
If we ask these questions we
will discover that it reaches far
beyond just the shores of
Grenada. We will find that
overall U.S. foreign policy in the
3rd world, especially Africa and
the Carribean, is a policy based
upon propping up brutal dic
tatorships and opposing any and
all movements, governments
and leaders who want to develop
the independence of their
nations. We will see that there is
a consistent pattern of in
terference, economic intimida
tion, political assination and
intrique, diplomatic pressure
and even (as in Grenada’s case)
full scale military assault.
If we really search for answers
to why Reagan would invade a
small Black nation of 110,000
people, we might find that it is
the beginning and not the end of
a developing militarism coming
out of the White House that
could possibly push the whole
world to major military conflict
and war. If we are able to get a
deeper understanding of world
politics and economics, it will
probably become clear that the
invasion of Grenada was also to
prepare public sentiment for
increased U.S. military agression
in the Third World. With that
throught in mind we should
remember the thousands of
young Black men who are
college age, that will be used on
the front lines. Young Black men
who will die in foreign lands
fighting their brothers and sisters
so that America's corporations
can get richer.
Black students have always
been an important force for
social and political change in this
country. It is time that today's
students claim that history. We
know what Reagan has done to
Black people, women, youth,
students, the elderly and poor
people in this country. We can
look at Grenada and see what he
intends to do on a world scale.
Black students must become
politically informed, in order to
have a complete education. And,
they must become politically
active to have a practical educa
tion. That brings to mind another
lesson from Grenada.
In the late 1960's a young man
left home in Grenada to receive a
college education. Like many of
you he was one of a few of his
people that could go to college.
He went to England, studied law
and became a very good lawyer.
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But, his dream of law was not so
he could pursue money and
material things. This young man
returned home to his people in
Grenada so that his education
could be used to serve the
people. He served them so well,
that he became the leader of the
progressive political movement
that would eventually lead
Grenada’s revolution. That
young man would become the
most influential leader of the
Carribean and the Prime
Minister of Grenada. Black
students must learn from the
example of Maurice Bishop, and
struggle to make your education
as relevant to our people and our
situation as he did to his.
FORWARD EVER! BACKWARD
NEVER!
Michael Simanga
Chairman, NEW JUSTICE
MOVEMENT
14 Nov. 1983
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