There was a good documentary on last week about the West Indies tour of England in 1976. The tour was notable in part because before it started the South-African born captain of England, Tony Greig, said in an interview
“These guys, if they get on top they are magnificent cricketers. But if they’re down, they grovel, [...]
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The sad decline of West Indies cricket
21 June 2007 – 3:20 pm
Stereotyping, cultural appropriation and such
13 August 2006 – 1:29 am
Alan Sullivan has posted a poem called Long Bay Jump, both to his blog and to Erato, which is in a West Indian voice. It starts:
Sun drop down with a flash of green.
Moon lift up, and the palm tree lean.
Jack fish bake in banana wrap.
Pi-dog snatch all the table scrap.
Ganja and rum, ganja and rum–
Long [...]