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Abomination in Grenada Vol. 2, No. 7 The Black American Lobby for Africa and the Caribbean ABOMINATION IN GRENADA It was only in our last issue that we tion as a rigid process to be carried out extolled the promise which was in preconceived stages, they grew in­ Grenada. Prime Minister Maurice tolerant of any developments which they Bishop had visited Washington and ad­ felt interrupted the progress of those dressed the TransAfrica annual fund­ stages. Thus, Bishop himself became an raising dinner. He had spoken en­ obstacle to progress in their eyes and as thusiastically about the progress of the such, he had to be removed. Conse­ Grenadian revolution. He waxed eager quently, the renegades were shocked at about the future as he invited all those the Cuban reaction to what they had in attendance at the dinner to visit done. They lamented that the Cubans Grenada as soon as the new airport was showed more concern about Bishop completed and opened in March, 1984. than about the Grenadian revolution. Now, in less than five months, he is They were blind to the fact that Fidel dead. Castro and the Cuban people held He was killed after spending nearly a Maurice Bishop in genuine esteem as a week under house arrest. The People's Maurice Bishop 1944-1983 person. Revolutionary Army (PRA) had taken wife, Phyllis, also a member of the Cen­ We at TransAfrica were critical our­ over the government in a coup d'etat on tral Committee, along with Selwyn selves of Maurice Bishop at times. When October 12, and then confined Bishop Strachan, Hudson Austin and other key he visited us he was questioned by to his residence. So popular was the figures. According to some reports, members of the Board of Directors Prime Minister that more than 4,000 Bishop had agreed to power sharing ar­ about political detentions and the ad­ Grenadians stormed Butler Mansion rangements at one time, only to renege ministration of justice in Grenada. He where he was imprisoned to free him. on them later. His retraction was quite knew our concerns about enhancing the They lit~rally carried him on their disturbing for Coard, who stood to gain democratic process in his country. He shoulders to Fort Rupert in the hope tremendously, as well as for those who obviously had to balance those views that he could be reestablished in power. supported him. This faction moved to against those of his opponents at home. That was not to be. He was taken from isolate the Prime Minister within the Some have said that it was Bishop's visit the crowd at gun point. Soldiers fired in­ party and eventually placed him under to the United States that led to his death to the people's midst, causing several house arrest. upon his return home. If this is so, it deaths just in order to break him loose Nothing which comes to light subse­ makes a sad comment on the myopia from them. Then they led him away to quently can change the fact that this was and narrow-mindedness of those who a barracks with his hands folded on top an egregious act carried out by a killed him. It is hard to believe that they of his head. There they executed him in treacherous clique within the New Jewel would label themselves progressive. cold blood. Several members of his Movement. They took it upon them­ The actual extent of the tragedy in Cabinet died along with Bishop, in­ selves to murder the Prime Minister and Grenada did not become known until a cluding: Unison Whiteman, Minister of his colleagues. These people themselves week after the murders occurred. It was Foreign Affairs; Jacqueline Creft, had participated in the 1979 revolution then that the U.S. invaded the island. Minister of Education and Norris Bain, with Bishop and some, including Liam On October 25, American forces de­ Minister of Housing. James, had come to the U.S. as advance scended on the island by land, sea and In Grenada itself, the most serious people for his visit last summer. Their air. They gained control of the two air­ grievances against Bishop sprang from treachery was brewing even then and it ports, moved on the Medical School and his unwillingness to share power with crystallized after the Prime Minister the residence of the Governor-General. other members of the Central Commit­ returned home. They then engaged in house-to-house tee of the ruling 1Jarty. Personal dif­ It is most difficult to understand the fighting in order to subdue the national ferences had come to dominate party af­ coldness of the coup-makers in Gren­ army and round up the leaders of the fairs while the disagreements between ada. Their moves can perhaps be laid to ruling military council. It all took place Bishop and Bernard Coard, the Deputy the excesses inherent in unbridled very suddenly in what the military terms Prime Minister grew increasingly ex­ political ambitions. To the extent that a surgical strike. The entire press corps plosive. Coard was supported by his they conceived of the Grenadian revolu- Continued on page 6 CULTURAL BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY ~bi... Arlists and Athletes Against Aparlheld ~~ TransAfrica has been receiving considerable international attention as a result of the recently launched cultural boycott known as Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid. The magnetic appeal of this campaign is illustrated by the fact that more than eighty leading celebrities have committed themselves to be members of the Executive Committee, with thirty national and inter­ national organizations serving as co-sponsors of the effort. Co-chaired by Harry Belafonte and Arthur Ashe, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid is clearly destined for tremendous success. Hazel Ross, who is TransAfrica 's Legislative Assistant for Economic and Caribbean Affairs, has been work­ ing incessantly in promotion of the boycott. Here she shares with TransAfrica Arthur Ashe News readers some of her own perspectives on this dynamic drive. Harry Belafonte As long ago as 1958, the African Na­ Although the idea for a cultural boy­ lands. Afrikaner nationalists and their tional Congress attempted to impress cott of South Africa is not new even in collaborators insist on deceitfully pro­ upon the international community the this country, the recently initiated Art­ moting Bophuthatswana abroad as an importance of enforcing the complete ists and Athletes Against Apartheid "independent nation," or an "ancient cultural isolation of South Africa. How­ (AAAA) adds an important and effec­ African kingdom," and no doubt wel­ ever, it took the massacre of hundreds tive dimension to U.S. based efforts. come the frequent confusion between of black South African school children What makes AAAA unique is the fact Bophuthatswana (the South African in the township of Soweto in 1976 to that it represents the first nation-wide homeland) and Botswana, a truly inde­ rivet worldwide attention on the brutal­ mobilization spearheaded by the cele­ pendent African nation which is not ity of apartheid. The Soweto riots brities themselves. Their underlying now and never has been a part of South stimulated international support for the strategy reveals a reliance on profes­ Africa. cultural boycott as an important addi­ sional camaraderie and mutual contacts South Africa's homelands policy has tional means of combatting socio-politi­ to halt the travel of their colleagues to implications far beyond the mere physi­ cal aberrations inside South Africa. South Africa. · cal separation of the races and too few Prior to the Soweto killings, and as Since its origin at a United Nations Americans are aware of the political sig­ early as 1968, the United Nations press conference on September 14, 1983, nificance of these "homelands." Many General Assembly, in its Resolution AAAA has grown to boast an Executive are unaware that the South African gov­ 2396, requested all states and organiza­ Committee comprised of well over ernment has officially allocated 13 per tions to suspend educational, sporting eighty leading figures from the sports cent of the country's land mass for hab­ and other exchanges with the South and entertainment industries. A random itation by the black majority who actu­ • African government and its affiliated selection of participants yields such ally comprise 87 per cent of the national agencies. 'Iri 1972, the General Assembly names as: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Wil­ population. Neither do they understand recommended the organization of an ac­ ma Rudolph, Tony Bennett, Brock that the land that has been reserved for tual boycott, and in 1980 it made a ". Peters, Wilt Chamberlain, Ossie Davis, the black inhabitants, i.e., these home­ direct appeal to writers, artists, musi­ Jane Fonda, Denise Nicholas-Hill, Ruby lands, are the most barren and worthless cians and other personalities to boycott Dee, Sidney Poitier, Tony Randall, Di­ patches of land in South Africa. In addi­ South Africa." The United Nations de­ onne Warwick, Paul Newman, The tion to this, the 13 per cent of land so clared 1982 to be the International Year Commodores and Ben Vereen. reserved does not comprise one self-con­ of Mobilization for Sanctions Against Educating and raising the level of con­ tained land mass, but instead exists as South Africa and this is a theme with sciousness of athletes and performers is numerous disaggregated parcels of land which Artists and Athletes Against a major objective of the Executive Com­ which hold little promise for agricultural Apartheid is firmly aligned. mittee since South Africa and apartheid or other economic development. For many years, community groups are unfortunately such vague political Through the establishment of these and .political activists throughout this realities to many entertainers and sports homelands and the bestowal upon them country have expressed their solidarity figures.
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