NO HERO OF MINE
A cross-examination of Alexander Bustamante—his name, his record on Rasta and Leonard Howell, Coral Gardens, and the BITU—ending in a verdict on the title “national hero.”
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
Was that the same William Alexander‘Bring in all Rasta Dead or Alive’ Clarke?Was that the same man weh seh,“…if the prisons can’t hold them,then Bogue Hill Cemetery or the madhouse can?”
Was that the same man in 1955 who laughed,when in one fell swoop,Norman Manley got rid of all bicyclelicenses and tax requirements?
Was that the same man who lied aboutwhy he changed his name from Clarke to Bustamante?and whilst overseas, disguised himselfas one Alexandro Bustamantithis Bustamanti ending with an I?
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
What was your beef with the originalGong, Leonard Howell?Why yuh neva like Rasta?Why the Coral Garden Massacre?Why yuh mek dem bun down Pinnacle?Leonard Howell; Leonard Howell, Bustamante,yuh just neva di like Leonard Howell
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
Busta, a when yuh go a foreignand a weh you did go inna foreign?Again, how yuh get di name Bustamante?Oh, is a nice Spanish man adopt yuhand give yuh da name deh?Again, a who name Alexandro BustamantiBustamanti ending with an I?
Hold on, you were a police inna foreign?Spanish Solider?Dietician?Store Clerk?Beekeeper?Dairy Farmer?Tramcar Inspector?Wall Street Speculator?Money Lender?This man, was he an illegal immigrant?Sounds like a predicate liar to meWas that not a man who was pathologically mendacious?
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
Attempted genocide...that’s what the Coral Gardens Massacre was aboutIn his own words, Bustamante asked to,“Bring in all Rasta Dead or Alive…”Then him seh, “If the prisons can’t hold them,then Bogue Hill Cemetery or the madhouse can…”If that is not a genocidal act, then I don’t know what is
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
What have you done to be called a national hero?The formation of the BITU?Maintain the hue-based employmentstatus quo with the BITU?Line your pockets with the BITU’s treasury fundseven years after you left di union;all the way up to your death?
Ban Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism?Playing politics with di people dem livelihood?Lying about the implications ofjoining the West Indies Federation?Was this man not an opportunist?
Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?Bustamante, Bustamante;who was this Bustamante?
He was no statesman and he is no hero of mine!
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