TIME TO FORGET UNCLE SPREE. IT'S UNCLE SAM TO THE RESCUE!!! S.A.M. MEANS "STEEL AWAY MUSIC" (STEEL PULSE.) OF COURSE, EVERY UNCLE SAM NEEDS AN UNCLE TOM. IN FACT, WITHOUT UNCLE TOM, THERE IS NO UNCLE SAM. UNCLE TOM IS UNCLE SAM'S OXYGEN! EVERY PLANTATION OWNER KNOWS THAT. THEY NEED THAT UNCLE TOM TO SERVE AS THEIR "USEFUL IDIOT".
AND SO, AROUND 1992, A GROUP REPPIN' UNCLE SAM EMBARKED UPON A JOURNEY TO FIND A FEW GOOD UNCLE TOMS IN THE PANYARDS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL BEYOND THEIR DREAMS AND EXPECTATIONS, SO MUCH SO, THAT THEY EVEN NAMED THEIR COMPANY IN HONOR OF THE PLACE WHERE THEY FOUND THE MOST-WILLING USEFUL IDIOTS. UNCLE SAM THEN BEGAN DOCUMENTING THE ARTWORKS OF THE WILLING USEFUL IDIOTS, AND BEGAN MARKETING THEM FOR PROFIT.
(DID YOU HEAR ME? FOR PROFIT! NOT FOR "LOVE" OF THE UNCLE TOM'S CULTURE. NOT SAYING THAT THEY DON'T "LOVE IT". EVERY YOUNG PLAYA "LOVES" A SUGGA MAMA! RIGHT, BOOGSIE? LOL. TOO MUCH INFO HERE.)
UNLIKE "DEVELOPING NATIONS", HOWEVER, UNCLE SAM'S BUSINESS IS PUBLIC RECORD AND CAN BE EASILY ACCESSED BY ANY AND EVERYONE. THE "INVESTIGATOR" CAN UNCOVER THRUTHS ABOUT UNCLE SAM, EVEN IF UNABLE TO UNCOVER TRUTHS ABOUT UNCLE TOM. AND, IN THIS CASE, UNCLE SAM, BECOMES THE QUINTESSENTIAL NEMESIS AS REFERENCED IN MERCHANT'S "PAN IN DANGER". YOU SEE, IF YOU REVIST THOSE LYRICS, YOU WOULD BE IN AGREEMENT WITH MY CLAIM.
SO, LADIES AND LADIES, HATE THIS MESSENGER ALL THAT YOUR CHAUVIN-LIKE LITTLE HEARTS DESIRE, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO BE THAT BYSTANDER WHO SIMPLY CARES ABOUT LIFE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. NOT JUST SOME. ALL! NOT JUST SOME "PANMEN" AND "PANWOMEN". ALL! NOT JUST SOME STEELBANDS. A L L! NOT JUST WHITE-AMERICAN OWNED FOR PROFIT AND NOPROFIT COMPANIES. ALL! NOT JUST PANYARD, INC., PANYARD, LLC, AND MAU MAU, LLC, BUT PANICLE USA, LLC! ALL!
IN CLOSING, I ANTICIPTE THE USUAL ATTEMPT TO NEGATE ME. HOWEVER, MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SPACE, AS ELSEWHERE, SPEAK TO A MUCH LARGER, A MUCH MORE DIVERSE AND CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE, AND I SPEAK TO FURTUE GENERATION OF READERS AND STUDENTS OF STEELBAND AND PAN HISTORY, SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE NO DOUBT, AS TO WHO DISPLAYED COURAGE IN THESE TIMES, AND WHO DID NOT. IT IS ALWAYS MUCH EASIER TO JOIN MOBS AND PELT PERSONS WITH STONES, THAN IT IS TO STAND ALONE AND TAKE THEM.
THE THING IS; BULLIES ARE USED TO VICTIMS, AND I WILL NEVER BE YOUR WILLING VICTIM. I WILL FIGHT YOU WITH EVERTHING I GOT BECAUSE THAT IS HOW I AM WIRED! LIKE MAXINE WATERS, MY SELF-PROCLAIMED ENEMIES WILL ATTEMPT TO DISTORT MY WORDS AND ME AS BEING ANYTHING OTHER THAN ONE OF THEIR OWN GOD'S CREATIONS. OBVIOUSLY, I AM FIGHTING BACK HERE, SO "FIGHT" MUST MEAN SOMETHING TO ME, THAT IT DOES NOT TO YOU, AND THAT'S YOUR ISSUE NOT MINE. I SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, AND KNOW THE POWER OF TRUTH!!! MORE POWER/TRUTH!!!
George D. Goddard, B.A. (A real degree, under Dr. Dawn Batson's program at FMU. LIONS!
PHOTO: IMAGE OF INSIDE PAGE, SHOWS ME AS THE FIRST MENTIONED "CONTRIBUTING WRITER" IN THE "WORLD GOVERNING BODYOF PAN" PAN TRINBAGO'S 50TH PANORAMA SPECIAL EDITION MAGAZINE. THAT'S WHAT I MEAN BY "HISTORY RECORDS..."! THAT TANGIBLE DOCUMENT, WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE BS POSTED HERE IN THIS SNAKE PIT THAT WST HAS TO MANAGE!!! QUOTE ME!!!!!!!!
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