{"id":127949,"date":"2014-11-23T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=127949"},"modified":"2014-11-23T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:04:10","slug":"will-stop-complete-dismantling-mr-leblancs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/will-stop-complete-dismantling-mr-leblancs-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will stop the complete dismantling of Mr Leblanc\u201ds legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118061\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118061\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pascal.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Pascal believes the issue of marijuana should be examined objectively\" width=\"278\" height=\"242\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Pascal believes the issue of marijuana should be examined objectively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The recent E O. Leblanc independence lecture by Justice Irving Andre in my opinion was one of the most illuminating national lectures I have heard. \u00a0However it was the comments and responses\u00a0\u00a0 after a replay of the lecture on \u201cLaw on Q\u201d that forced me to reexamine and reflect\u00a0 on the life and times\u00a0 of this great Dominican. This is so especially in a political season devoid of debate since those who rule don\u2019t feel obligated to do so. Dominican taxpayers they say are not the major financiers of their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I am no historian but on\u00a0 reviewing \u00a0the life and times of E.O Leblanc I have concluded that the two most important aspects \u00a0of his legacy were first \u00a0his commitment to instill in a battered and dehumanized people a sense of self-pride and self-worth .\u00a0 The second, no less important was the individual ownership of at least \u201ca little piece land\u201d. \u00a0A clear indication to me that E.O Leblanc understood that ancient Pan-African tenet that \u201cLand is power to be protected and defended by any means necessary\u201d. These two goals combined could only result in fostering an independent spirit in his people.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that it is because of his success in achieving these objectives that E.O Leblanc and the then Labour Party have etched a place in the hearts ,minds and DNA of older Dominicans. It must also be the reason why the <strong>renegade freedomites<\/strong>\u00a0 Skerrit, Savarin, Alix-boyd Knight, Astaphan, McIntyre \u00a0and others who had nothing to do with his principles would conveniently wear the\u201d Labour\u201d mask to establish <strong>a dependency syndrome<\/strong> that will keep them in power while they enrich themselves and destroy the PRIDE of DOMINICANS. It would be na\u00efve not to consider as conspiracy the fact that \u00a0younger Dominicans are so ignorant of E O Leblanc\u2019s legacy . This instructive history of the life and times of E O Leblanc is absent from our school curriculum! This is after fourteen years of a so-called Labour\u00a0 Party regime that proudly\u00a0 boasts of it\u2019s\u2019 (mis) education of the masses. Furthermore no member of the cabinet attended the lecture<strong>. Labar what<\/strong>???<\/p>\n<p>I daresay that the significant dismantling of these two pillars of E O Leblanc\u2019s legacy commenced \u00a0with the parachuting \u00a0of the ex-Freedomite\u00a0 Roosevelt Skerrit at the helm of <strong>Labar Party<\/strong> brand after the untimely death in 2004 of Douglas- Charles. Though his defenders may dispute this, it would be downright hypocritical to deny that in the last ten years there has not been a significant and accelerated decline in both aspects of E O Leblanc\u2019s legacy. We have largely become a seemingly helpless and dependent people. Our arable lands lie barren while unemployment is at an all time high yet Skerrit celebrates his weekly corrupting \u2018Red Clinic!!\u00a0 Begging has been elevated to an art with no shame or guilt. In a follow \u201cthe leader\u2019 type of trance we depend on others to do for us want we can do for ourselves, we don\u2019t sacrifice for others anymore, indeed we sacrifice others to safeguard or well being, no better example of \u201cdiabolical blood-sucking\u201d exists. This \u201c<strong>New Labar<\/strong>\u201d leadership teaches and encourages followers to denigrate those they don\u2019t like or who differ from them regardless of achievements or commitment to this beautiful country. \u00a0I must say that the adoption of this warped philosophy of the \u201cdivine\u201d right to dehumanize and demonize because of difference is straight out of the \u201cslave masters control or destroy manual\u201d. \u00a0E O Leblanc and his team, must be turning in their graves since this is exactly the mindset they martyred to change.\u00a0 \u00a0Some of us struggle daily to resist this mentality that says \u201cMassa alone knows what is best for us while using us and hypocritically masquerading it as \u201cYes we care.\u201d \u00a0This mindset prevalent in the Skerrit regime is in my opinion much worse than that which existed in the pre-Leblanc era. <strong>Go listen to the lecture, read the history or better yet ask the elders in the land who in this election cycle struggle to explain and rationalize their continued allegiance to the \u201cNew Labar\u201d brand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank God some of us because of E O Leblanc\u2019s foresight on land ownership do still own a \u2018little piece\u201d of mostly inherited land. How many of us have bought land in the last ten years? A few have formalized squatted land but many have sold this important aspect of the legacy ignorant of the adage, <strong>no land, no powe<\/strong>r. I add \u2018No land, no agriculture. No agriculture, no income.\u00a0 No income, no independence\u201d. Without financial independence what will happen to those \u201clittle pieces of land\u201d when subjected to this double assault of increasing psychological dependence coupled with the failure to economically empower people. No doubt like any truly scientific process those responsible for the assault\u00a0 know that \u00a0the \u201clittle pieces of land\u201d will have to be \u00a0sold to their moneyed friends just to maintain the lifestyles that we have been encouraged to adopt.<\/p>\n<p>In this election season devoid of opportunity for debate I am asking the educated class the major beneficiaries of E O Leblanc\u2019s legacy to stand on behalf of Ma Dominique and the less fortunate. Let your voice and actions count. Do the right, be firm, be fair and for your children\u2019s sake advocate and vote for those capable of stopping\u00a0 or better yet reversing \u00a0this deliberate dismantling of\u00a0 E O Leblanc\u2019s \u00a0<strong>NOBLE<\/strong> \u00a0legacy.<\/p>\n<p>May the spirits of the ancestors be pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Irving \u201c<strong>EIPIGH\u201d <\/strong>Pascal\u00a0\u00a0 MBBS. FRCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent E O. 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