Turning Our Dreams To Shame RIP Asami Nagayika? u walked our mile and a half

Call it cultural illiteracy, because beyond the gender insensitivity that has engendered the storm over the rape and murder of Japanese Steelpannist at the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2016, we have been ripping our hearts out to teach, to spark some knowledge so others may understand the meaning and place of culture, in national development, and in not just the soft spots of dance and jump up and make people feel nice in bikini and beads, but as an economic earner, in cultural diplomacy, in cultural politics, in sustainable development, in our place in the world and for cultural understanding –  walking the mile and a half (listen to Asami playing one of Trinidad and Tobago’s classical folk pieces…

 AsamiNagayika? is just another one in a graveyard of cultural icons sacrificed on the alter of ignorance to narrow and myopic interests, turning our dreams to shame. RIP ?#?AsamiNagayika?  For love of?#?TrinidadandTobago? and ?#?Steelpan? Just another day in our paradise in pain.