NO HERO OF MINE

No Hero of Mine

Bustamante, Bustamante; 

who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?

Was that the same William Alexander 

‘Bring in all Rasta Dead or Alive’ Clarke?
Was that the same man weh seh, “…if the prisons can’t hold them, 

then Bogue Hill Cemetery or the madhouse can?”

Was that the same man in 1955 who laughed, 
when in one fell swoop, 
Norman Manley got rid of all bicycle 
licenses and tax requirements?

Was that the same man who lied about 

why he changed his name from Clarke to Bustamante?
and whilst overseas, disguised himself 
as one Alexandro Bustamanti
this Bustamanti ending with an I?

Bustamante, Bustamante; 

who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?

What was your beef with the original 

Gong, Leonard Howell?
Why yuh neva like Rasta?
Why the Coral Garden Massacre?
Why yuh mek dem bun down Pinnacle? 
Leonard Howell; Leonard Howell, Bustamante, 
yuh just neva di like Leonard Howell

Bustamante, Bustamante; 

who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?

Busta, a when yuh go a foreign 

and a weh you did go inna foreign?
Again, how yuh get di name Bustamante?
Oh, is a nice Spanish man adopt yuh 
and give yuh da name deh?
Again, a who name Alexandro Bustamanti
Bustamanti ending with an I?

Hold on, you were a police inna foreign?

Spanish Solider?
Dietician?
Store Clerk?
Beekeeper?
Dairy Farmer?
Tramcar Inspector?
Wall Street Speculator?
Money Lender?
This man, was he an illegal immigrant?
Sounds like a predicate liar to me 

Was that not a man who was pathologically mendacious? 

Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante;  

who was this Bustamante?

Attempted genocide...

that’s what the Coral Gardens Massacre was about

In his own words, Bustamante asked to, 

“Bring in all Rasta Dead or Alive…”
Then him seh, “If the prisons can’t hold them, 
then Bogue Hill Cemetery or the madhouse can…”
If that is not a genocidal act, then I don’t know what is

Bustamante, Bustamante; 

who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?

What have you done to be called a national hero?

The formation of the BITU?
Maintain the hue-based employment 
status quo with the BITU?
Line your pockets with the BITU’s treasury funds
even years after you left di union; 
all the way up to your death?

Ban Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism?

Playing politics with di people dem livelihood? 
Lying about the implications of 
joining the West Indies Federation?
Was this man not an opportunist?

Bustamante, Bustamante; 

who was this Bustamante?
Bustamante, Bustamante; 
who was this Bustamante?

He was no statesman and he is no hero of mine!