Blessed Emancipation Day Bahamas!

Emancipation is the freeing of someone from the control of another.On this day in the Bahamas, (the first Monday in August) we as a Black nation celebrate the emancipation of slaves, which took place August 1 ,1834 in the British Empire.No longer were slaves yoke to a white master, whose tyranny and cruelty have left us scarred even unto this day.

At times though it seems we have shaken off the shackles of one master and put around our hearts and minds the shackles of another. Self loath,ignorance,greed have become our new masters and are even more cruel than the first.These masters do not use the whip or the wine press to keep us in line.They use our lack of mental well being.Unforgiving and unrelenting ,they do not only punish, they destroy.

A proclamation from oneself is the only way to emancipate the mind and thought from this oppression.A proclamation that you as an individual, as member of a noble race,will do everything within your power to uplift your race,not destroy it.That you will help to erase the negative stereotypes of Africa's sons and daughters,not enforce it.The power of change can only and will only come from us and not from a sheet of paper or any other declaration, written or uttered.

As the late, great Sir Robert Nesta Marley said "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery;None but ourselves can free our minds." Only then can we redeemed