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Jan 21, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
For some time now I have not heard from the African cultural and economic organisations, such as ACDA. I beg these organisations to do the following:-
(1) Try to encourage young Blacks, especially in the countryside to go into farming. Almost all the remaining Black farmers are old or middle-aged and black farmers will soon disappear, except we stop the rut.
Induce them to hold their land instead of selling it off or abandoning it. The Burnham regime propagated the incorrect idea that farming was an East Indian preserve and not for Black People. Burnham propagated this falsehood for his own self-interest. Please let people know that some of the greatest farmers in the world are Africans.
(2) The question of African land rights must be addressed. After the abolition of slavery, the ex-slaves bought out a number of abandoned sugar estates and set up villages.
These places were bought in joint ownership. ACDA and other goodwill groups must organise a group of lawyers who will work on the partitioning of these joint properties. Many joint holders have done so on their own initiative. Others must get up and get.
ACDA and other groups must stop whining and expecting Government or fairy godfathers to do what people themselves could and should do.
Why should any government do what the people themselves should do? It is imperative that this be done now as the Black population is slowly declining.
F. Mason
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