So, intelligence and ability must also be a function of discipline or are you resenting the orchestral arts that involve writing, rehearsing and performing music? Either you know the music or you don't. Even if you could pick up the song by ear and play by ear, this will not be the entire piece

So, intelligence and ability must also be a function of discipline or are you resenting the orchestral arts that involve writing, rehearsing and performing music?  This includes Monty Alexander and Bob Marley's music; not one note off key.  Either you know the music or you don't on performance day. Either you practiced or you didn't.  Either you know the law or you don't on examination day!  We believe in you!  You can do it! So, don't resent anyone who already took your encouragement and believed or did you want him or the others to underperform in front of the white students and lecturers who already had stereotypical, negative preconceived notions of Blacks or West Indians because of television? Should your relative have decided to honor you and your cane field owning ancestors(His ancestors were pilots, architects, wheel wrights and pastors and some also owned cane).    Even if you could pick up the song by ear and play by ear, this will not be the entire piece.   Maybe you could recall the entire piece by ear. But, can you build a Toyota or Benz without a  blue print?   Maybe you could fix it with amazing technological instinct but who is arguing? You are certainly good and so are your good children.   Can you run an international bank or its local branch office in the West Indies without rules as written for the safety of every West Indian customer; the branch office as well?  What about managing  an airline?  Can you do that in isolation from the rules and international legalities that make an international airline work?  There are certain matters that must be distilled and digested with study since you are an Island community living in an international context with direct flights to and from your paradise several times a day and you keep boasting that you want to be a global hub of some kind. Yes; sure. So, why not utilize some internationally trained individuals who decided to honor all of his ancestry with the dignity and diligence that was sown in to him.  If his parents said do not come home with less than a C, who is the devil trying to kill him at 39 years old because his results in Law School were more than a C? Unfortunately, his father was an orphan and it seems orphans choose the fear of rejection over the responses that come instinctually in natural law. You see someone beating your good mother and you have no father so you choose those who are willing to beat your father since you are a weak orphan; no soul. They have not given you a dollar yet and because you chose to beat your mother, they will never really trust you with anything and you will have to run away since they marked you for death at age 23.   You would bury yourself in garbage to make your whiter West Indian friends feel authority over you and you feel acceptance because of it. You would throw your cop father's promotion letter because you think white people will accept you and you live in a relatively ethnically diverse area and had one Black principal in Indiana.  Look at you!  Mr. Bryan, the school teacher,  is really innocent. His wife drank Drano thinking she would be whiter and she has tried to poison others so that she might be equal; people who act like they will kill the only father they had.    This is how you know who has a soul or who will just follow the band wagon and follow de leada to dead teeth, rat virus and diabetes. Run from any one such as these! So, what happens afterwards is that you get a false sense of authority while people are really calling you an immaculate fool! In other words. look at your teeth. See your disease. You said you needed to keep it for association.  But, association to what?  They need to know you not only respect your ability to show intuition but also your ability to study and digest something above and beyond the C grade since they know the Egyptians who built the Pyramids were Black.  You have the evidence so why deny your greater faculties or is it that we should reduce all human intelligence to the intuition of a dog or an iguana; not expecting anything more than feeling it and perceiving it that your grandma should have come to stop your father when he was beating you and riding your 19 year old sister's Ass; backside! A whah do you?   You must see that the divisions among the West Indian Islands are fictional. You are all one people with slightly different English Creole accents; all mongol Southern Amerindian Arawak peoples who need to work together.  Michael Manley is not English. He is not anymore related to the English than Alduous Huxley but certainly they are very intelligent people; very intelligent.  The English bare know their Roman sandals from their Mongol Pict ancestry.  They don't teach any latin any longer but they go to Ibiza and get drunk and drive a vehicle with a similar name. That is not latin in enough. French and Spanish should be mandatory as European students in Europe. It seems English is mandatory for French and Italian student so that they might be not only equal but superior. Who said "...run; you fools!"?