An interesting quote from Catch a Fire, defending himself from those rowdy chaps at the Bermy Onion Patch. It is from the book ‘Is Massa Day Dead; Black Moods in the Caribbean’ by Orde Coombs.
Massa Day it seems never ends in the West Indies. It only grows Blacker.
In other words, the old system of elite control persists. The only change is one of personnel. Black replaces White, and native replaces foreigner, but the dominant class still dictates to a subordinate majority, relating to them with contempt, condescension and cynical paternalism.
Ouch.