{"id":139227,"date":"2015-05-23T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=139227"},"modified":"2015-05-23T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T16:27:32","slug":"of-edward-oliver-leblanc-and-conscious-leadership-in-a-time-of-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/of-edward-oliver-leblanc-and-conscious-leadership-in-a-time-of-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Edward Oliver LeBlanc, and Conscious Leadership in a Time of Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leblanc has been described as an efficient and integrity driven administrator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the evening of October 28, 2014, esteemed Canadian jurist, Dr. Irving W. Andr\u00e9, gave a masterful presentation at the Fort Young Hotel on the legacy of the late Premier Edward Oliver LeBlanc, the architect of Dominica\u2019s self-government.\u00a0 Reports say that it was a standing-room only event. In attendance was the President, the Bishop, the leader of the Opposition, other high officials; professionals and concerned citizens.<\/p>\n

LeBlanc, who led Dominica from 1961 to 1974, was considered an efficient and integrity driven administrator. An agriculturist and poet from the village of Veille Casse, he had swept the Dominican peasantry and urban working class into power in 1961. He brought educational opportunity to the many, land to the landless, homes to the homeless and social change in a manner, hitherto unprecedented. For his accomplishments, so well illustrated in Dr. Andr\u00e9\u2019s \u201cEdward Oliver LeBlanc and the Struggle to Transform Dominica (Irving Andr\u00e9, Pont Casse Press, 2005),\u201d LeBlanc is often considered the father of the nation. Regrettably Andr\u00e9\u2019s book, on someone who is a towering nation builder, is not on any school curriculum on island.\u00a0 No wonder \u00a0\u00a0so many of our young are dismissive of their island and unwilling to sacrifice their time and treasure to its uplift.<\/p>\n

At our 36th<\/sup> anniversary of independence, it is only right and proper to consider where we are as a nation and what lessons we have drawn from LeBlanc\u2019s legacy.\u00a0 And where are we? Some observations are useful here:<\/p>\n

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  1. Consciousness and Respect: On all sides, we still abide a deep self loathing. It is shown by the lack of a national patriotic education that inculcates love and respect for the culture of the majority African descended population, or the Kalinago people. So Dominicans are still looking for investors from outside to save the day, dismissing their own brothers and sisters of merit with scant regard that we are worthy as a people. As a result any political changes will bring only fleeting improvement in national life, until and unless self respect breeds the discipline and self confidence so neccesary for socio-economic take off.<\/li>\n
  2. Organization: The Chinese, the Jews and East Indian communities have shown how colonialism and past discrimination are no eternal bars to progress. All these groups were able to vault over their obstacles with time. However, it took a coherent and disciplined commitment to partnering, alliance building and organization to get them to positions of strength. Often times when Dominicans at home and abroad have sought to write books about our condition, they have faced political and other discrimination from their own. When Dominicans at home and abroad sought to build an academy of arts and sciences to educate and partner for the common good, there was no national consensus on the value of such an organization. Few joined up or paid their dues. In time, the organization became victim to the discord so common in a state where there is no national consensus on development priorities and where commitment to unselfish public service is increasingly weak. In the scramble for power, scant regard is paid to truth and character assassination is the order of the day \u2013 as a result too many of the educated are disengaged and the masses are seduced by idle demagoguery offering sweet nothings as solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Incoherence in Matters of the National Interest: Who are we? What do we need? When and where can we reach consensus on public policy upon whose tide the ship of state will float? On all sides of the political arena personality politics reign supreme,\u00a0 few debate issues of art, sciences, honest partnerships between Dominicans at home and abroad, industry, small business, banking, public health or agriculture without falling into the dark maw of partisanship. In the recent debate on Dominica pertaining to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, persons of African descent are heard excoriating Africans and telling Black Dominicans who advocate that one should not discriminate against our African brothers \u201cto go back to Africa.\u201d Now, even reasoned debate on the Ebola disease and public health responses thereto, is caught in the feverish grip of competing political agendas. \u00a0The level of ignorance and partisanship is frightening. Whither goeth progress?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Dr. Irving Andr\u00e9 is no Johnny-come-lately to the national independence debate. He was an active member of the Popular Independence Committee formed by Rosie Douglas. It was in that struggle our brotherhood was forged. He migrated to Canada, and associated with other Dominicans in Canada, offering leadership to the various Diaspora organizations there. \u00a0He was an exemplary leader in the Diaspora in the Development Symposiums held after the untimely death of Rosie Douglas in 2000. Indeed, word of his elevation to the position of Judge at the Superior Court of Brampton Ontario came while he was officiating at the 2002 Diaspora Development Symposium at the very same Fort Young. \u00a0In 1992 he committed to founding Pont Casse Press to publish books on Dominica and so perpetuate a sense of heritage and knowledge at the service of development.\u00a0 He did not bask in his personal accomplishments and forget his roots in Dominica. He has stayed true in his concern for the future of our country.<\/p>\n

      So what shall be the legacy of that excellent Edward Oliver LeBlanc lecture?\u00a0 That presentation should be treated with the gravitas it deserves. \u00a0Indeed, may we all engage in sober reflection on the quality of our service to our communities and country.\u00a0 The University of the West Indies organizers did well to have organized the event. Dr. Irving Pascal was wise in having ensured it was broadcasted.\u00a0 The presentation itself was the product of scholarship and disciplined effort. In his finessed dissection of the man, Dr. Andr\u00e9 exalted those virtues of LeBlanc: Integrity, service, self respect, a passion for the common good. May we, as we seek to transform Dominica, note that LeBlanc was also a deeply complex man, who faced much opposition in his time. Many would say he was driven into internal exile, misunderstood by the radical intellectuals of the day, mistrusted by the merchants and big landowners, betrayed by his own. Then, as now, there was a lack of national consensus and we have faltered. Yet, today we remember, the progress he brought and the unrealized promise of his reign.<\/p>\n

      May we then, like Andr\u00e9, seek to be more organized, more committed to paying our dues, and less grabbing of power to the disregard of the courtesies and niceties of friendships of years. Let us be the change that LeBlanc\u2019s life and service promised. We still have an opportunity to build the beloved community he sought. We can do better as a nation where we purge ourselves of the self hate, reproachful politics, and malevolence which will leave our beautiful island a wasteland where not bridled. \u00a0Shall the blind lead the blinded?\u00a0 Who shall reach across the aisle and build bridges in our small but divided land? Shall we stop the bleeding?<\/p>\n

      As the curtain descended on the master lecture the applause resounded within the stout battlements of the old Fort Young. The fort is but a stones\u2019 throw away from the new Emancipation monument to the Negre Maron \u2013 African freedom fighters who had sought refuge from slavery in Dominica\u2019s mountainous Zion.\u00a0\u00a0 It was maybe a metaphor for the narrow base for serious and scholarly analysis of what ails us as a nation, that this lecture took place within the walls of a former British colonial fortress \u2013 now a hotel, and not at the more commodious auditorium of the Dominica State College or some place more public; a place where students, the young and old, could savor the fruits of such heritage enrichment. It cannot be that we have reduced discourse on our island only to mass community gatherings mired in garish noises which pretend to be melodious, accompanied by low brow dancing and strong drink.<\/p>\n

      Dr.\u00a0 Andr\u00e9\u2019s delivery at this time of our celebration of independence from Britain, is a call for sobriety, profound meditation and the absolute need for positive action to build a more conscious and united country.\u00a0 It would be to disrespect his work where his lecture was taken as one more reason to merely pay homage to more rancid partisanship run amok.\u00a0 A meaningful tribute to Dr. Andr\u00e9\u2019s work, as with the legacy of LeBlanc, means crafting a robust pro development character. It is also required that we inculcate more civic virtue in our young, thereby arresting the selfishness which undermines public service. Such beneficial value engineering demands we put country over party. It also means committing ourselves to the change within, without which change on the external is ultimately illusory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the evening of October 28, 2014, esteemed Canadian jurist, Dr. Irving W. 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