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At one of last week's functions to celebrate Cornwall's 110th anniversary, an old boy, DR Joe Perrera, who is some vice-chancellor of the UWI-Mona and have bout five PhDs, was delivering a memorial to our first local born headmnaster Mr Everald Barrett and invoked Marcus Garvey a few times.
See Mr Barrett was born in 1902 or there abouts and his ideals would have been shaped by the Colonials but he broke out of the mold, sought higher education and was directly responsible for the heights that Cornwall reached in the late 1950s and through the 1960s and his legacy is still alive through the likes of Rex Nettleford, Kingsley Thomas, Vernon Wong- another Rhodes Scholar from 'the hill beside the sea' and many more old boys who have helped shaped the jamaica we want to liove in.
The ironic thing was the man who was talking about Garvey and breaking the shackles of colonialism was the very light complexioned man who no doubt came from the upper class and also no doubt resides there even now.
And one thing I forgot to add to the original post was how he reffered to World War II by calling it the Second European War, that was interetsing.
See Mr Barrett was born in 1902 or there abouts and his ideals would have been shaped by the Colonials but he broke out of the mold, sought higher education and was directly responsible for the heights that Cornwall reached in the late 1950s and through the 1960s and his legacy is still alive through the likes of Rex Nettleford, Kingsley Thomas, Vernon Wong- another Rhodes Scholar from 'the hill beside the sea' and many more old boys who have helped shaped the jamaica we want to liove in.
The ironic thing was the man who was talking about Garvey and breaking the shackles of colonialism was the very light complexioned man who no doubt came from the upper class and also no doubt resides there even now.
And one thing I forgot to add to the original post was how he reffered to World War II by calling it the Second European War, that was interetsing.