The Saturday Morning Entertainment Show

The Saturday Morning Entertainment Show is right on time brought to you by Caribbean Global Voices with host, Ivor Henry. We are excited about spending the morning with you and providing you, the fans, with the entertainment that would take you through the next week. And, with the same great style with which the fans have become accustomed we bring you inspiration, music, a chance to greet your loved ones, celebration and a little conversation and commentary. It is certain to get better with your input, feedback and reccommendations. We appreciate and look forward to those.

So let's talk. The City of Philadelphia is apologizing for the medical experiments it performed on Black prison inmates between the 1950s and 1970s at its Holmesburg Prison. This is 5-25 years after the Nuremburg Trials that sentenced Nazi's to death for crimes against humanity. These apologies are awfully hollow.

Isn't the experience of history a reliable teacher? Didn't our historical experience teach us that there is an inherent danger and fundamental violation of human rights in any circumstance in which White people have authority to make decisions about Black people? Then why aren't Black people describing their circumstances in the context of their historical experience? 

Harriet Tubman is best known for her escape from a plantation in Maryland to become the brilliant architect of the Underground Railroad that whisked many Black people away from the plantations. So why is the CIA honouring her? They say officers learned of her techniques as she spied for the Union Army.

This weekend we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Memorial. It is sacred to the memory of the various indigenous cultural groups that inhabited the Caribbean. They were not just Caribs and Arawaks. The arrival of Columbus represents the beginning of their demise and the demise of Africans who came after.