I noticed a trends of using the British title "Sir" to refer to our legends including Richards, Ambrose, Sobers et all.

I hope people really understand the origins, history and leverage of this "title."

Our legends do not need Slave Master British Validation to establish our greatness.

I will be honest, two decades ago I argued that today's generation and others would have confined that title in our region to the dustbin of history.

But to hear continued usage (and then poster Dukes in here) Badree, Ganga et all use it during commentary or when these legends are in the commentary box is very very sad.

In reply to Emir

I was thinking about that too.

Instead of referring to greats like Richards as King, we should use words more to our liking like Caliph, for instance.

Let we go Caliph Richards!

In reply to Drapsey





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noun
a title of various Muslim (mainly Arab) rulers.
"the emir of Kuwait"
HISTORICAL
a Muslim (usually Arab) military commander or local chief.
"emirs giving nominal allegiance to the caliph"

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In reply to Emir
What about Raja Richards

Massa Richards

Richards isn’t a slaveholder’s name?

Try something like Kunta Kente

In reply to Emir
Ws black people still bow down to colonial titles from Old queenie elizabeth..yes its rediculous aint it in the modern era....do we see the indian team members of dee past being cslled Sirs??

In reply to granite

My point is we don’t the slave master validation to claim our greatness.

The title “Sir” is a validation by the slave master for the slave master and our people must have none of it.

In reply to TEMPER

Mental slaves

i prefer monsieur or senor they just roll off the tongue

In reply to Emir

I do like the title, Caliph, Emir.

Reminds me of reading about The Caliph and The Barker as an introduction to the Arab world.

To find a suitable word to replace ' Sir ' we might have to find a word from a non-European language.

Look Emir

You preaching to the wrong congregation

When the leaders such as Richards, Sobers, Roberts and Ambrose reject THEIR OWN titles, we can drop the Sir from we mowt.

In reply to Halliwell

if we reject it they will have more motivation to reject it

In reply to methodic

I’m not sure I agree with that. Leadership in any movement is key.
The Sirs will always have a core of sycophants chanting their titles, and that may just be enough for them. Some loud folks behind strange monikers on a website, or irrelevant journalism like ReadersBooRow won’t move the needle. Me thinks.

In reply to Halliwell

true

In reply to Emir

you fighting a monster with 500 tentacles and those that was devoured love being in it's stomach because basically that's all they know now.

We should stop using Definitely

In reply to WIForever

Definitely

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In reply to methodic

I know it but I won’t give up trying.

It is shameful that Ambrose glee when they refer to him as Sir and last night Badree and Ganga decided to play with my blood pressure so they went over the top, using Sir at least 9 times when taking to Ambrose

In reply to Halliwell

Good observation

In reply to Emir

I agree with you it is embarrassing we need to stop it

In reply to Emir

All of them were knighted by their respective countries and these are National Awards not from the Queen. Clive Lloyd is the only one knighted by the Queen. If they have no problem accepting their country's awards what is your problem? You have the option to turn off the sound on your device.