#carribean

March 21, 2026 - “After taking everything we had … they want to colonize us again.”

i posted this a couple months ago and came across this very illuminating video today that adds to my point about white people’s (everywhere of creeds bc none of you are exempt) antiracism largely being performative.

bc they continue to knowingly destroy/hide/sell invaluable historic documents that could help Black ppl across the diaspora not only trace their lineage, but also point directly to the white & nonblack families that owe our families reparations.

this is really why no white person on this planet wants to really do that work, and give us free access to these resources that are owed to us bc doing so would make them be face to face with the legacies that their ancestors who participated in this system, distantly and recently, left behind for Black lineages who managed to survive here, despite everything to this day, to inherit.

Such documentation would also allow Black Americans & other Black people to actually build concrete timelines of the crimes (such as lynchings, land theft, mob harassment, threats, kidnapping, rape, etc.) that white families & individuals have been able to directly profit from, POST-chattel slavery, in the modern era. Much of the violence done against us wasn’t legally considered a crime or purposely overlooked by law enforcement and the government; & not much has changed.

To be able to trace exactly how your white and nonblack families in the U.S. were able to maintain, lose, &/or gain economic stability pre- & post-Depression era? oh you girls aren’t that brave.

"A tiny lizard found only on one tiny Caribbean island has seen a dramatic 1,500% increase in its population, after just a few years of island restoration efforts.

In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than 100 individuals of the critically endangered Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) on the small hat-shaped Sombrero Island, part of Anguilla in the Caribbean. Just six years later, there are more than 1,600 of them, a recent survey has found.

“I am beyond thrilled to see the ground lizards on the road to recovery, and this is a fantastic reward for everyone who has worked hard to restore Sombrero,” Jenny Daltry, Caribbean alliance director at conservation NGOs Fauna & Flora and Re:wild, told Mongabay. “Too many island species have been lost already, and we really need to prevent extinctions whenever we can.”

Today, Sombrero Island hosts large seabird colonies and several unique and rare species. But invading mice, likely brought to the island on ships or other means by people, as well as climate change impacts, have wreaked havoc on the island’s inhabitants...

To turn things around, Fauna & Flora, Anguilla National Trust and Re:wild began restoration efforts in 2018. They trapped and removed all the mice by placing bait from June to August 2021. They also developed a “biosecurity plan” in which researchers regularly check the island to ensure it’s still mouse-free.

Given Sombrero’s remote location, the likelihood of reinvasion by mice is considered low, Daltry said. She added that the teams are also developing “remote surveillance cameras with AI capability” to automatically detect and alert them of invasive species.

While the mice may be gone, the threat from hurricanes fueled by climate change still loom close. While the researchers have been working to restore the island’s native vegetation, the island has lost much of its original soil cover, which will take time to rebuild, Daltry said. With no tree cover yet, any severe hurricane or storm surge in the future “could set back the speed of recovery of the soil layer and vegetation,” she added.

However, Daltry said she’s hopeful that even the current sparse vegetation provides the Sombrero ground lizards “with vital food and shelter, giving them a much better chance of survival when the next storm strikes.”

“This could make the difference between survival and extinction,” she said."