Andrew Sage

But before we wrap up, any final thoughts, James?

I feel like I just had lots of them.

I don't know.

Yeah, this is a fascinating period.

And now, as much as there ever has been, it's a vital time for us to study this, right?

as the person who's taught in American schools and universities, this one doesn't come up very much.

It's certainly not like in the required teaching syllabi in any way that I've taught.

And I think as we return to like Monroe Doctrine 2.0 or whatever, whatever we're doing, the United States is doing in the Western hemisphere right now, it's vital to understand the role it has played in suppressing progressive political movements in the last century.

I think, as you mentioned, it's already in the typical history and historical accounts that it's taught to students.

I think I marvel sometimes at, that's exactly how empire functions.

Yeah.

You know, the axe forgets, but the tree remembers, as the famous say it.

So something like the U.S.

's operations in Grenada or anywhere else in the world, in all the many places they have intervened, that may not even muster a passing mention, a sentence even, in a historical class, in a history class United States.

And yet it is pivotal to the histories and self-identities up to the present day of entire regions and peoples.

You know, it may be a footnote,

if so much in the standard curriculums in the United States, but it's one of the most recent and raw incidents of violence and trauma that's take place in the Caribbean.

Yeah, absolutely.

And in our independent history.

Yeah.