Saturday, August 29, 2009

Thoughts...AIDS



This video trailer highlights various issues on the topic of AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago, but I want to comment on a point of view that is shared by some in the film. My personal response is this:

What's is still really so sad about the Caribbean is that colonization is so deeply ingrained, that the intuitive, naturally confident, spiritual response to the heat rhythm collide with taught religiosity. Some are unable to perceive the downpres...sion of the creative, via their Anglicized fear of their humanity. Sex=Taboo, so music and art, the steel drum and 'wining' must be abolished to save youth from AIDS. Are they for real?

The complacent silence of a sexually repressed societal intellect versus nature, is the reason AIDS is on a worldwide rampage. No honest human "talkie" (dialogue). If something is still taboo, it doesn't ever get brought out in the open; therefore, trying to attack the disease of AIDS is a battle that cannot be won without open discussion and understanding of our very present human sensuality and the frailty that sometimes comes with that need for connection. So, everybody that's undervalued and affection-deprived enough to chose to sex any on offer in anyway just for the human body contact to another non-nurtured part of their own humanity as oft exist within the sensuality of contact dancing, is human..not exclusive to Caribbean folks. Do these folks indeed know themselves or the European designed version of what is a good African/West Indian?

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZk2pzEt12g and http://inbluewatersfilms.com/

Opinion: My own:)

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