Andrew Sage

They were Black.

That's a big risk.

They were English-speaking.

There were English-speaking Black people close to the border of the United States of America as African-Americans were engaged in their own struggle for liberation in the U.S.

As Maurice Bishop noted, I mean, that's the threat.

There could be communication, collaboration between these groups, a demonstration of an alternative close to the United States with ease of communication with the United States.

So the United States invasion was always a potential outcome.

But here it was.

Flexing power in its sphere, in its backyard, the party rounded up a bunch of people to join them in defending the revolution.

Most people were traumatized.

They ran and they hid wherever they could.

Some, regardless of whether they liked the New Jewel Movement at that point in time or not, stood ready to defend their island from invasion.

But many more were hidden and scared.

And there were also others who, out of revenge for the revolution, they betrayed them.

Betrayed the revolution by expressing their support for the invasion.

Now, me personally, that's something I would never do.

I don't care how much I disagree with any government that I'm under.

I wouldn't co-sign

invasion of my country by an empire but i can understand the reasoning or the emotional position that some people were in at that point so the u.s's claim by the way for the invasion was that they were there to rescue american students who were in grenada

So they're there to rescue these students from these communists.