[AKA_Monet]

MsFoxyLoxy77--

You need to know your history...

Fact is many Island Nations actually fought and won their freedom from slavery 100-200 years before the slaves in the States got theirs in 1865...

In fact the war of 1812 is just about that issue alone...

What Toussaint L'Overture and I believe "Cinque" (a former slave--pardon my ignorance) did to the French Empire led by Napoleon in what is now called Haiti in 1795--whoa...

Many other island nations have had their own revolutions throughout history. Some of them battles... Some of them peacefully... I.e. I think the Bahamas and Jamaica suceeded from the British "fairly" peacefully...

Then Monserrat was blown away with it's volcano... Now no one can live there for another 100-200 years until the lava solidifies...

Then there is Belieze AND Ecuador...

And who do you THINK helped Nat Turner and the slave revolts in the South... And who fought the Spanish off in both Florida with Chief Crazy Horse? Who would have had active supplies lines???

When the large countries lost their footings in the Carribean due to piracy, where did all the "wealth" go?

Over time, many in the island became entreprenuers and extended opportunities to them from other nations, some European and "Soviet" to amass more industrialization... However, it is because of lame US policy (really against Fidel Castro), that impoverished some of these islands...

Did you know there are numerous Africans on Cuba? And they are segregated from those that we "Americans" think as Cuban...

When you speak to Trinadians have they started to share with you what parts of African cultural traditions were maintained over the years not lost due to enslavement...

Know your history... That is all I can say... There is plenty of it out their.

And I just watch how the Arubans kicked the FCC's azz with online Casino Gambling...

And the best monetary accounts to have in now in Caymans, liken to a Swiss Account, but better... No questions asked...

If I was West Indian, I dayum sho would have some land somewhere... But, I cain't stand those Hurricanes...