2:26CGood morning.
2:26AHe’s our in-studio guest. He’s a law student and a Pan-African writer. Dwayne is going to address a host of topics which we trust will be of great interest to you. So sit back, relax, enjoy, and thanks for tuning in. Asa.
2:43BSiyahamba is our opening selection performed by St. Luke’s Steel Band of New Haven, Connecticut, arranged by Deborah Thiessen from the album St. Luke’s Steel Band: Live in concert.
3:03AWe are parting in the life of God. We are parting in the life of God. We are parting in the life of God.
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12:35AOkay, that was Magic Drum, composed by Len Boogsie Sharpe and Machel Montano. arranged by Pelham Goddard and performed by Brooklyn’s Sesame Flyers Steel Orchestra from the album Pan in New York 2009. And good morning, good morning to all you locked in there. I see, um, we have a friend from Nigeria, he is locked in. Also, we have some new listeners, they’re all locked in and listening To the steel pan vibes, it’s more than music radio show. We are so glad to have you join us, Asa.
16:37BTwo sweet pan joints coming up back to back. Stay with us.
17:10ALet’s have a party, a Caribbean party. The entire region together in one big splashdown fiesta. A Caribbean connection, a regional vibration. I say we jamming to the sound of the Caribbean. We moving to calypso and steel band. This jungle, I mean, is one love, so feel free. We are the people of the Caribbean, showing that we don’t want no basic plan. A Caribbean connection, a region of vibration. I see we jamming to the sound that Because we’re beyond being moving. To Calypso and steel band.
18:43COh!
21:17AOkay, the set began with the fine calypso vocals of Keith Styler, accompanied by Kareem Thompson on pan, doing Caribbean Connection from the album Pan Roots Culture, followed by pan soloist Trevor Cole. With a sweet reggae rendition of Michael Jackson’s Human Nature from the album Taking Over. And you know who’s taking over now? Carmen. Carmen in Brooklyn, she’s taking over. So is Nargales. Oh, that’s a Spanish-speaking listener. Buenas tardes. How’s that? Sounds good. All right, well, we’re glad to have you. Thank you so much for listening. I don’t know exactly where you are, but it’s in Español. Now, who else is there? Nash is there. Good morning, Nash.
22:10AThank you for listening. And we got a text from Adrian. She’s way up in the Poconos. There’s no internet service there, so she is not listening to us today. She’ll have to go into the archives. But all of you there, thank you so much. We appreciate the time you take to Check us out. Often students who desire to go to college don’t get there because they and their parents lack the correct information. No more. College Prep at Truth Revealed is providing a free seminar Saturday, September 28th, 10 AM to 3 PM at FIT and on the line We have attorney Jennifer Rose. She will tell us more about it.
23:00ASo if you’re in Brevard County and there’s a high schooler in your life, listen up. Good morning, Jennifer.
23:08DGood morning, Miss Barbara. Thank you for having me on your show this morning. I truly appreciate it.
23:15AOkay, we are so glad to have you because we know what you have is very important to our community, and we like to give you that opportunity to share it with our listeners. Now, um, could you tell us a little background about the event and why you’re having it?
23:32DYes, this is the 8th annual Planning for Your Future seminar, and I just assist my good friend and sis colleague Valita Cameron. She’s a member of Truth Revealed, and she helped spearhead this, and it’s great. For the past 8 years, the kids have been coming out to FIT getting great information with great speakers, attorneys, astronauts, people of all different professions, just really trying to uplift our children and let them know that they all have the chance and opportunity to attend college. There are seminars, former college students and teenagers just talking to them, giving them great tips. It’s for children 6 from the 6th grade to the 12th grade. Registration is required, and there’s a free lunch in the SIC cafeteria where they get to mingle and talk to college students, ask a couple questions. It’s a great experience. And also, they provide a tour. SIC is a beautiful college, so we encourage parents to register their children at trmcollegeplus.org.
24:49AOkay, you want to repeat the address? They have to register online?
24:52DYes, ma’am. trmcollegeprep.com@gmail.com or collegeprep@truthrevealed.org.
25:08AAnd we also have an information line, area code 321- Okay, just repeat that phone number because sometimes they’re right there on the phone.
25:22D[number removed]. We encourage parents to come as well. A lot of the information is pertinent for parents and students. It’s open to the community, and again, it’s a great event. I’ve had the pleasure to be involved for the past 5 years.
25:43AMm-hmm. All right, so tell us again, when and where does it take place? This is college prep.
25:49DYes, ma’am. This upcoming Saturday the 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at FIT located in Melbourne, Florida off University Boulevard. There will be signs with arrows pointing to the building so no one can get lost or turned around. There’ll also be an attendant out there helping to direct students, and if students have an issue with transportation, we encourage them to call the information line. There may be transportation provided as well.
26:21AWonderful, wonderful. That’s so good, Jennifer. Thank you so much. I know we’re gonna have a lot of listeners with school -- high schoolers, for 6th to 12th graders in their lives who can take advantage of the free seminar, free lunch, free transportation. What else do you want? You need to come out.
26:41DExactly. Oh, and we also -- this is just a plus -- they also give out gift cards for kids for different things. So the kids love that. So not only are you attending a free event, you get to walk away with something too. Just a little incentive.
26:57AVery good. That’s so good. Okay, Jennifer. Well, we want to wish you all the best with the seminar, the college prep seminar coming up next Saturday, September 28th, 10 to 3 PM at FIT, with lots of information. So parents and kids, get out there if you’re in Brevard County to Florida Institute of Technology. Go out and get all that information you need so you can take advantage of getting into college when the time comes around. Okay, Jennifer, you have a good day.
27:29DThank you, Barbara.
27:29AOh, you’re quite welcome.
27:30DI appreciate you and all that you do for the community. Have a great day.
27:33AYou do the same. Okay, folks, that’s a great event for folks to attend. What do you think, Dwayne?
27:39CI think so.
27:41AAll right, well, if you, if you’re in Brevard County, you have a high schooler preparing for college, check out this event, College Prep at FIT. on Saturday, February -- um, September 28th from 10 AM to 3 PM. Okay, up next, jazz pianist Victor Provost with a jazz standard composed by Clenna Lewis from the album Her Favorite Shade of Yellow. Oh wow, that was Just Friends, Just Friends with Victor Provost. That’s one of Paul’s favorite panists. He likes him. Why do you like Victor Provost? Well, being a bebop jazz player, he’s -- he can tear it up. He’s one of the best jazz musicians I’ve ever heard on the pan.
31:45AVery good. He is. He’s one of the best. His technique is Very outstanding. Very. It plays very fast too. Of course, of course, of course. Yes, man. That’s what we do in the Steel Pan Vibes Radio Show. We bring you the best, the finest. And I know who is there. Let’s see. Let’s start with with with our folks here listening to us on Facebook, listening to our live stream. Oluwale, Oluwale in Nigeria. I love saying that. Name. I think he told us what the name meant. Do you have any idea? Oluwale. Okay, we can find out. Give us the meaning of your name. And Nagladis.
32:30ANagladis. Also comment, comment, comment. Thank you so much for for listening. Who else is there? Asa, Nasha, Nasha, Russell. and Jama Stewart. Jama, mighty Jama from the UK, we’re so glad you can join us. We do our best to bring you the finest. Okay, so what’s happening?
32:55BComing up in the Steel Pan Vibes Spotlight is our friend and regular guest, Dwayne Akia Wong Omowale. Dwayne is a law student in Orlando and has written 17 books on the African experience. Today, Dwayne will touch on a few topics including the Bahamas and disaster preparedness, employment rights, Harriet Tubman in Ghana’s Year of the Return. But first, let’s listen to a ’60s recording with a salsa flavor by the Original Trinidad Steel Band called Archie.
33:28AOkay folks, we’re in the Steel Pan Vibes Spotlight with our guest, Dwayne Akil Wong Omowale, law student and Pan-African writer. and he’s a lot of other things too, you know. He’s a very ambitious young man, quite capable. I remember when he first came to the show, I don’t know, 3, 4 years ago.
36:12C4 years ago.
36:13A4 years ago.
36:14CI was 15.
36:15ARight. And guess what? Now he’s in law school. He’s written more books than I -- oh my goodness. Welcome and good morning. How are you?
36:24CGood.
36:25AIt’s always nice to be on the Okay, well, I know today we’re going to talk about quite a few things. We’re going to talk about Hurricane Dorian and the Bahamas disaster preparation, Harriet Tubman and her legacy, and Year of Return in Ghana. Also, we’re going to touch a little employment law. And talking about employment law, you know, the majority of us have been employed sometime or other. Some of us have have 2 and 3 jobs, but the question is, do we think about employment rights? What could you tell us about employment rights? Because we’re so happy to get a job, sometimes we don’t think about those things.
37:08CYeah, because I’m actually doing a course right now on employment discrimination, and one of the things that the course really opened my eyes to is the fact that, yeah, many of us are just happy to get a job and they’re just a lot of laws and regulations and rights that you have as an employee that many of us aren’t aware of. And one of the things to me that is really important about these laws is that the main law that we deal with, Title VII, that’s a product of the civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So I mean, I think the main thing that we should think about as employees is that many of the rights we have now are rights that people have had to fight for. go to jail for and die for. So I think, you know, very often we tend to take for granted, you know, certain rights that we have. So I think from that perspective, it’s very important to be knowledgeable about these rights, not only because it’s important for our own protection, but also because, like I said, these are rights that people have fought for us to have today.
38:04ADid you say Title VII, one of the civil rights --
38:08CYes, it comes out of the civil rights movement. It was a product of that. And that’s the rule that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion.
38:18AOkay. All right. Well, now let’s move a little quickly to the island and the people of Grand Bahamas and Abaco, you know, devastated by the impact of Hurricane Dorian. Now, we hear a lot about climate justice, and I wonder Yes. Which climate justice is a term used for framing global warming as an ethical and political issue rather than one that is purely environmental and physical in nature. Now, I wondered if there was a connection between those types of disasters, hurricanes and so on, and climate justice. Is there anything Is there anything in that situation that could be applied to the situation in Bahamas?
39:09CYeah, there’s a direct connection because I was reading an article a few days ago that actually showed pictures contrasting what the rich communities look like that were hit by the hurricane and the poor communities. And the rich communities tended to have these large mansions, so people were living in structures that were more equipped to deal with the force of a hurricane. And in poorer communities where people are living in little wooden houses. Sometimes people are living in shacks. When a hurricane hits those communities, it completely devastates the community, destroys all the houses, wipes everything out. So I think climate justice, it’s important to really think of this issue as a political and economic issue as well, because when hurricanes hit, they don’t impact communities equally. You know, certain communities, poorer communities, tend to be hit harder. And it’s particularly a problem in the Caribbean because there’s so much poverty there. And, you know, like I said, even without hurricanes, many people in those islands are living in, you know, shacks that are about to fall over and are in decrepit situations anyway. So they’re really not -- people in those communities really have little protection when hurricanes hit.
40:15ASo when hurricanes hit, they’re not really prepared?
40:18CNo.
40:18AOh boy. Hmm. No good. No good. This should be a good lesson in terms of, I guess, urban planning or, or whatever they do. But a lot of the people who were impacted, I found out, were not even people from the Bahamas. Well, there were people in Bahamas, like a lot of Haitians, I understand.
40:40CYeah, that was an issue too that I was reading about. There’s, um, a community called The Mud, and yeah, it was a lot of Haitians living there. And, um, the houses there were actually -- many of them were built by the people in the community because They were so poor they couldn’t afford rent anywhere else, so they were forced to essentially build a little community of their own. And as I said, when you have these little wooden houses that are built by poor people that can’t afford to go anywhere else, they don’t really offer much protection from the hurricane. But one of the things I was reading was the government of the Bahamas was considering tearing down that community anyways because it was part of a program of removing shantytowns. And the people in that community were concerned because, as I said, they were, you know, poor, they didn’t really have any options. So many of the people were concerned about what happens if my community gets torn down and I have nowhere else to go. And unfortunately, because of the hurricane, now that community is gone and those people really have nowhere else to go.
41:32AWow.
41:33CI did see a few people are actually going back to Haiti because there’s nothing left for them in the Bahamas.
41:39AAll right, well folks, we’re in the Steel Pan Vibe Spotlight. In case you’re just joining us, we are speaking with We’re here with Dwayne Akio Wong Omowale. He is one of our regular guests. We love having him, a bright young man. He’s an author as well of 17 books on Pan-African issues and situations. So he’s here just bringing us up to date. When he -- when we come back, he’ll be talking about Harriet Tubman’s 170th anniversary. of her self-liberation. Also the year, uh, Year of the Return in Ghana. We’re going to find out what that’s all about.
42:25DAsa.
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43:44AOkay folks, so if you are in Brevard County and you want to support a great cause, financial assistance for college education, come out this evening to their event at the Bakaska Development Center at 2174 Harris Avenue in Palm Bay. Um, at the door, I believe it’s $15 at the door, $10 in advance. So come out and support a great cause. We are in the Steel Pan Vibes Spotlight with Dwayne Akio Wong, Omowale, Pan-African writer and law student Well done. And we want to say thank you for Cecil for joining us. Okay, Dwayne, we’re going to talk a little bit about Harriet Tubman. You know, you always hear about Harriet Tubman, but we know some -- we could know more about her.
44:38CA lot more.
44:38AWonderful. And this week marks the 170th anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s self-liberation from her enslavement. So could you please remind listeners who Harriet Tubman was?
44:54CYeah, so Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who originally was enslaved herself. She ran away and was able to eventually escape and obtain her freedom, but that wasn’t enough for her. She felt obligated to go back and to liberate other people. So what she became well known for is going back to the plantations and leading raids in which she would lead out her army of enslaved Africans Africans to safety. And I think there’s definitely a lot more that we need to know about her because that aspect of her life is the main thing that people know about, how she freed herself and then went back and freed others.
45:27CBut I think to me, the important thing to know about Tubman, Harriet Tubman, that many of us forget is that she was dedicated and committed to uplifting African people, and that was a lifelong struggle for her. After slavery was abolished, she continued being involved in other issues. For example, she fought for women’s suffrage, you know, the right for women to vote. One of the issues she took up was building a home for the elderly, the elderly in her community. So right until she died, and she lived into her 90s, you know, right until she died, she was constantly involved in different causes for African people.
46:02CAnd there’s one story that I really love telling about Harriet Tubman that I think really captures the essence of who she was. In this particular case, she was at the home of another abolitionist known as Henry Highland Garnet, and she started celebrating. She started celebrating the emancipation of African people, and this was before the Emancipation Proclamation came out and all of that. Garnet told her that he felt that his grandchildren might see liberation, but he didn’t think he would in his own lifetime. He would see the liberation of African people. Now, 3 years after he told her that, the Emancipation Proclamation was declared.
46:37AMm-hmm.
46:38CAnd everyone was celebrating, and people noticed that Harriet wasn’t celebrating, and they asked her why. And she said, I already had my celebration 3 years ago. But why that story is so significant to me is that she really believed that within her lifetime she would see the end of slavery. And a lot of people didn’t share that belief. Like I said, Garnet was an abolitionist, and even he was trying to to discourage Harriet Tubman from being so optimistic. So what really stands out to me about who Harriet Tubman was is just she had a very strong belief in, you know, the cause that she was fighting for and what she was doing, and she didn’t allow anyone, even people with goodwill, to deter her from her commitment and her belief.
47:15AI think -- I don’t know if it’s a myth or if it’s the truth, but I understand that sometimes when she made those raids on the plantation, and she had, um, you know, the enslaved -- those who said they would go with her, um, would sometimes change their mind and say they wanted to go back to the plantation, and she would have to, um, to stop that, you know. Notice she had a gun.
47:41CYeah.
47:41ASo I guess she had to put it to use.
47:43CYeah, no, that was true, actually. And when they interviewed her about it, um, she, she said she never actually had to shoot anyone because once she pulled the gun out, people very quickly, um, changed their mind. But what she said about that is she, she said she wouldn’t of hesitated to do that because she felt anyone who was weak enough to give out and want to return back into slavery would be weak enough to expose what she was doing. And that became an issue for, you know, the safety of the people that she was rescuing.
48:07AAbsolutely.
48:08CBut yeah, she said she never actually had to shoot anyone.
48:11AYeah, I wondered, I wondered if she did, you know, because you have to do what you have to do when you’re on a mission. And she She held on to her dream. She pursued her dream when others discouraged her. And you have to -- even today, you have to be careful with that.
48:29CYeah. And, um, you know, one of the people that actually was discouraging her was her ex-husband. You know, she came back to try to free him, and she found that not only was he already, you know, living with another woman, but he told her to, you know, forget about freedom. So there was a lot of people in her life, even people that were close to her, that, you know, tried to discourage her. what she was doing. But as I said, you know, Harriet Tubman wasn’t someone that would allow herself to be discouraged, and she lived to see the end of slavery in the United States.
48:54AExcellent, excellent. Um, you take a minute to welcome Yvonne and Kevin, or Curvin, for joining us. Yvonne is in Trinidad and Curvin is here in Brevard County. I think he’s up in Cocoa. Thank you so much for taking the time to join us. We are in the spotlight with Dwayne Akio Wong Omowale. He is a regular guest here. Uh, he sometimes -- he even conducts interviews. He hasn’t done one lately. I guess he’s busy with law school.
49:25CYeah.
49:25AAnd he’s written 17 books on Pan-African issues. I suggest you try and get your hands on some of those. Where are they available, Dwayne?
49:36CThey’re all available on Amazon.
49:38AAmazon. On Amazon. Okay, folks, well, many African descendants in the diaspora have been able to trace their ancestral home to Ghana in West Africa. Marcus Garvey’s organization, the UNIA, had a plan for the resettlement of African descendants. And you know, sometimes, um, people say they tend to minimize or narrow Marcus Garvey’s focus and described the UNIA as an organization that just dealt with back to Africa. And it, in fact, it was much, much more than that, because the back to Africa was for those who were interested in going there and, you know, doing business there and so on. But he was more than that. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, he settled and died in Ghana. Now, now meaning recently, the Ghanaian government has embarked on a campaign to encourage encourage resettlement in the motherland, calling it the Year of Return. What could you tell us more about the Year of Return?
50:44CThe Year of Return was, um, set to commemorate 400 years of African enslavement in the United States. That, um, there were enslaved Africans in the United States before 1619, but, you know, generally we think of the Africans that were brought by the Dutch in 1619 as being the start of slavery in the United States. So that’s why this year is the Year of Return. And essentially what the government of Ghana has been doing is trying to encourage the African diaspora to reconnect with the African motherland. One of the things that the government was doing was actually giving citizenship. I think about 200 people were given citizenship so far for the Year of Return.
51:22CSo yeah, it was just to encourage that diaspora to go back to Africa to reconnect. One of the things I saw that actually was very interesting to me is there’s discussions now with Ghana and the government of Ghana. I don’t know if other Caribbean countries are involved, but what they’re talking about doing is having direct flights from the Caribbean to Ghana rather than having to go to Europe and then fly to Ghana, which made no sense to me anyways because it’s not a very long flight going directly from the Caribbean to West Africa, but having to fly to Europe to go to Africa. I know that’s something a lot of people are complaining about.
51:56CSo that’s one thing that I’ve seen, uh, come out this year.
52:00ABut there are more and more people, African-American and Caribbean people, going to Ghana, visiting and resettling and so on.
52:07CYeah, I think -- I don’t remember the exact numbers off the top of my head, but I think it’s about 3,000 African-Americans have actually relocated, uh, to Ghana and are living there. So yeah, many Africans in diaspora have been going Ghana. And you mentioned Du Bois. Du Bois died in Ghana. So since Ghana became independent, Ghana has tended to be the main African country that people from the diaspora have gone to, not just to visit, but to actually relocate and live.
52:31AWell, I guess I have to go there one day before I leave this earth. I would really love to go there. You know, Dwayne, it seems as though the time just flies by, but before we end the interview, what other nuggets of wisdom you’d like to leave us This isn’t coming from me actually.
52:52CThis is something that my professor, Professor Leacock from law school, taught the class. He’s actually from Barbados originally, so it was interesting being in his class. He told us in life there are 3 types of people. He called them quitters, campers, and climbers. The quitters are people that give up and they quit before before you really get anywhere in a journey. The campers are people that climb to a certain point and then they get comfortable and they camp out and they just stay there and they never move. And what he told us is we need to be like climbers. Climbers are constantly climbing. They never settle. They’re never happy with their position in life because they always feel like they can do better than where they are. So I wanted to share that because of the courses I’ve taken so far, and law school Professor Lee Cox’s class was Um, not only eye-opening to me and educational in terms of just what I learned in regards to law, but he gave, you know, very profound life advice. And that’s one piece of advice that I want to share.
53:52AOkay, so the first type is quitters. Quitters, man, nah, we don’t want those. The next type, campers. Campers, not really. But the third type, climbers. Climbers. And I know we have a lot of climbers listening And involved in the Steel Pan Vibes Radio Show, and we sure love having you on board, climbing on board and taking things higher. You know, I want to ask you this question because I know you love pan and you listen to the music. Do you have a favorite type or genre that you like or enjoy hearing on pan?
54:25CNot my favorite genre, but there are certain artists that I really do enjoy hearing on pan. And what’s interesting is I didn’t realize you were actually gonna play it today, um, Human Nature. By Michael Jackson is actually one of my favorite songs to hear on pan because that song itself to me is very soothing and calming, and to hear a song like that on an instrument like the steel pan, which is also a very soothing and calming instrument, I think to me that’s a good combination. Bob Marley, he’s another artist I really enjoy hearing on steel pan for the same reason. His music is very calming. Earth, Wind & Fire, a few renditions of their songs I’ve heard on steel pan also.
55:00Denjoy.
55:00CAnd this week actually, I saw someone on Facebook shared Umbayo by Merchant. It’s actually a song about going back to Africa, and it was Desperadoes Steel Orchestra, I believe, was doing their rendition on steel pan. And to me, that song is a very powerful song, but to hear it on steel pan just really brings the emotions out. So I don’t necessarily have a favorite genre, but to me there’s just certain songs when I hear it on steel pan The steel pan really helps to capture the essence and the power of, you know, what the songs are about.
55:29AWonderful. And on that note, I have to say thank you. We always appreciate hearing from you, and I know our listeners learn a lot about themselves and are encouraged. I find you very encouraging as a young man, encouraging even me to, you know, strive more and do better and reach higher. So thank you so much. much. Okay, all right folks, so what’s the last word? The last word comes from Harriet Tubman: Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.
56:13BHey sir, taking us home are 2 giants in the steel pan art form, Len Boogsie Sharpe and Pelham Goddard doing a show tune with the song In My Heart is the title from the album Sticks and Fingers.
56:28AUntil next time, take, take very good care of yourself and keep the master in mind as we go through the storms of life. May God bless you all.
