Have we been true to the trust he left us?
Have we been true to the trust he left us? Spread the love Yesterday was the birthday of the father of our nation, Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr. Were he alive today, he would have been 111 years. We are indeed grateful that the good Lord, in his infinite wisdom, lent Sir V.C. to us for a season. He was our Moses, the man who led us out of the wilderness of colonialism, deprivation and despair. Dr. Natasha Lightfoot referred to those awful conditions in her book by the same name, TROUBLING FREEDOM. True, the good doctor was referring to the period immediately after emancipation in 1834, but th...
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