Could Offensive Slogan Reignite West Indies Cricket?
“,”body”:”The social order in the ‘British’ Caribbean was carved out of slavery in the period 1650-1838. Its main industry was sugar; its ownership was British, and workforce African. British law, custom, culture and social conventions dominated the islands’ development.\n \nCricket, argued the historian Brian Stoddart, provided the greatest cultural monument to English social influence. It assisted the process of elevating whites above the black populations and enabled the propertied elite to celebrate the bonds that tied them to England.\n \nHilary Beckles further notes that the politics of West Indian cricket and the history of West Indian politics in the century after Emancipation travel the same road. This, according to cricketer Learie Constantine, was “to keep the black man in his place”.\n \nThe West Indies first sent a team to England in 1900, and from then until 1957, the captain was always white. That some players were not good enough for international cricket was secondary
