AMERICAN URBAN POPULAR CULTURE AND ITS NURTURANCE AND SHAPING OF GANG-CULTURE IN THE CARIBBEAN: CRIMINAL GANGS SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGING THE STATE APPARATUS REGIONALLY THE COLLECTIVE CLASS AS AN ANTI-DOTE TO THE PRESENT NEO-COLONIAL STATUS.
™ Flag of Independence. © Owner of copyrights Wade A Bailey: An example of an independence flag for the “ New Soualiga ” Sint Martin. Only full-fledged independence, led by an educated cadre of Pan-Caribbean Pan Sint Martin nationalists can lead this island and the region out of our present economic, social, cultural morass and beyond the 21 st century. I wrote following in 2000 while I studied at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen where I did scientific research, studied Psychology, Child Pedagogy and Social Case Work. Let it be known here without any hesitation or shame that Iam, one of the stereotyped African Caribbean males who was an active participant in the “street sub-culture”. I am also one who in spite of my environment overcame social and racial barriers, to attain gainful employment after my studies on Sint Martin. I write from experience and I live in the communities that I write about the people that I write about in some instances a...