rootsandculture

I viewed the documentary film “Fire in Babylon”. The fire is so far in Babylon, the fire is Babylon. It’s usually easier for me to be critical than to dispense praise. I plan to stick to form here, but only because of Colin Croft’s appearance in the film and his words which if left unchallenged can leave a bitter lie for generations to taste.  In the film, an unapologetic, former West Indies cricketer, fast bowler, Colin Everton Hunte Croft stated, in relation to his ‘rebel’ tour to South Africa during apartheid, “I guess money is everybody’s god’. If money, capital, can be a ‘god’, It’s an unforgiving god to a people who were themselves money. Croft needs to understand we are the victims of capital: of money and apartheid. Croft and others during that tour in apartheid South Africa were asked to leave trains, bars and restaurants on account of color. Being honorary White did not change their reality. Croft demonstrates and simplifies how he came to th...