Sir Charles is a genius, he has done a lot for Barbados by developing the country. People need to stop being negative about the man and get to know him, this man grew up in Baxter's rd and went to school bare feet, he didn't let that keep him down. I kept something he said a while ago as my motto, he said "don't say we can't do it, say we will try" I am a black man and am proud to say that Sir Charles is my hero.
We need another Bussa to stop this madness. I remember growing up, before my dad could get a hold of something of ours, property prices were rising like hell. Now because of people like this, nothing in Barbados is affordable anymore. Even the east coast has become at least 800% more expensive within the past 10 years. He sells our country to foreign millionaires and the government applauds his achievement. Great!
1991 I used to work at Barbados Hilton as a Receptionist, he came in and asked to see the Manager, so I asked him, and I said and your name is?... He said, don't you know who I am.[ I knew who he was. ] but I said No, he got upset , then he said he is Co Williams. So I raise my voice and said , tell the manager there is a man what to see him. he say he name COW WILLIAMS. he was so vex. when came to the bajan whites. I would never bow down to them. Marilyn UK
@@Marilyn-zv6mt Good you realize. If I ever met him I'd punch him in the face and go to jail. Many us black bajans are just cowards. I discussed with bajan men how we can solve this problem once and for all but I can't find one man with a serious enough mind to end this. We don't have a country yet we sing an anthem and are proud of a flag they gave us. The frustration pushed me to buy my own small island on the coast of West Africa. When bajan men wake up we can do something about Barbados but I will never spend my life in a place where one European secretly owns the entire country while the rest of us remain free slaves
Inherited a piece of land DOES NOT Equate to becoming Rich( like he is today) he could have sold the land and live a very modest life and did very little no work at all he chose to work hard and he’s advantage that takes hard work and some one educated
alot of ppl will look at me like an idiot but this video serves as a inspiration to me, that whatever you want in life you have to go after and work hard and you will get it regardless of where u started.
@vejalinks And I am not crying him down for what is his fair and square nor am I being racist, but people need to face reality and stop burying their heads. White ppl enslaved blacks for 300 years in Bdos, and outward displays of racisim/segregation only stopped 45-50 yrs ago. You cannot honestly believe the playing field was level when 4% of our population owns the majority of barbados.
@optimusidol sweetheart anyoneeeeeeeeeeee that know cow williams know that tthis man get turn back by banks and investors and had to go out and fight hard to get what he has today ....it didnt drop in his lap sweetheart he had to work for his fortune and that is what i was told from my parents about howw he got to be one of the richest in bim .... I think he is an inspiration and someone that young pl should aim to be like....make your unrealistic dreams as real as they can be once you believe
Do things for the benefit of everybody not just yourself. He could adopt some starving kids and give them a good future. But I am a woman an I love To see children thrive.
he got where he is because he has white skin. put a black in the same position and he would not have that opportunity. the sad thing about Barbadians is that the majority black do not know their own history. they do not understand that during and after slavery, one of the laws of the colony was that if land was valued at $2.00 a sq ft, then the black had to purchase it for $20.00 while the white got it for $2.00. this was done to stop the blacks from prospering since one of the slave laws was that a black SHOULD NEVER have more than a white. so the uneducated talk about not grudging him etc is utter crap. KNOW YOUR HISTORY
Ja Comments it shows how uneducated u are, i do live the Barbados and obviously you NEVER entered the library at the UWI, Cave Hill because if you did you would find ALL the books about the SLAVE LAWS and the slave laws there. you found whatever living in the US, it shows your lack of knowledge about Barbados because it seems you are assuming that the library at Cave Hill or for that matter the Main library in the town would not have those docs and books. your assumption is pathetic. I got my 2 degrees at Cave Hill and 3rd at Harvard. the Cave Hill has an unlimited wealth of knowledge but many, many Barbadians are so immature in their understanding that when the evidence is there for them to find, they talk crap... i did not have to go anywhere to read the slave laws, the same slave laws that America (before it became the United States) adopted from the British Caribbean...know ur history. i never implied that COW does not deserved what he has, i said and it must be understood, that he and most Bajan whites had a head start generations before simply because the Slave Laws provided for the white to be rich and the blacks to be poor, it is there. so coming into the 20th century, blacks were still disadvantaged.
+Ja Comments Slavery was abolished in Barbados (at the British Empire at large) in 1834 (really more practically in 1838 and 1840 with the end of forced apprenticeship). So...definitely NOT in the 1700's as you suggested. And of course the society continued to be highly stratified by race and class for a very very long time after that. Hopefully, things are getting better as time progresses, but the culture of social privilege (including nepotism/cronyism ) for whites of the planter and merchant class and for light skinned mixed race people did not just dissolve when slavery ended...but still has some echoes in the West Indies today. And of course those with family backgrounds in the planter and merchant classes had the advantage of family wealth and land to continue to build their own wealth, while those with a family background in the slave class had no family wealth to inherit from the great toiling of their ancestors. (And yes...I am aware of the 'red legs'....they have a different history from the white planter and merchant class). I would not doubt that this fellow Sir Charles Williams worked very hard to get to where he is in life now (and also probably had a lot of 'good luck' just being able to take advantage of the right circumstances at the right time); but to suggest that colour and class do not still influence opportunities for social mobility in the Caribbean is to be naive.
how bajan's let someone get away with this is beyond my scope of imagination... people living in shack houses without running water. Barbados is a small country, no reason why there should be such a wealth gap.
Well, if you look into it, you'll find that the Gini coefficient (which measures inequality) is actually slightly lower in Barbados than it is in the UK.
There's likely others richer in Barbados. Look all down the West Coast, those are all uber-wealthy people with yachts, jets, penthouses, townhouses, and all kinds of other properties and asetts all across the planet. Who could forget the Russian Billionaire's yacht that was anchored off Bridgetown a couple years ago. Expensive people always passing through Barbados undetected and keep a low profile as much as they can while here.
He was terrible to my dad he worked for him for 67 years and when he struggling with cancer he said to me a fourteen year old man he gon dead soon man just see and ever since I have hated him he was a great man but the greed has corrupted him
Marx Mann Just the other day I was reading about what the Bible means when it says not to judge people. Basically, it means we shouldn't judge who'll go to heaven and who'll go to hell. I've often wondered what it meant, because I used to think that it wasn't possible to be a judge by profession and be a Christian too.
Wayne Phillips well you say that to a judge in the court of law ask him that question about who's him to judge and pass judgement on a man's life/freedom
I have never met the man, but I have heard lots of stories of him. My grandfather worked for him and his family for many years. He was fair with my grandfather and sold my grandfather land he would have not otherwise been able to perchance. I know there is alot of critics out there to point out your mistakes, but the good you do is rarely known.
@shuggaqube It is quite easy to spout the customary rhetoric about black people not pulling together nor pooling resources. All of these explanations are merely diversions from the hard, cold fact that in Barbados (and you say you were born here, so you should know) white Barbadians begin with an advantage. COW might not have had a silver spoon, but his family was obviously well off enough to to leave him land. This is not about feeling sorry. It's about recognising facts.
@shuggaqube Less I be misunderstood, my comments are, in no way, meant to put down Sir Charles, who from all indications is a model employer; They are meant to open people's eyes to the realities of this post-slavery, post-colonial society we live in. People ar behaving as though black and white Barbadians arrived here as equals, with equal resources. That is simply not true.
Oh for fuck's sake. In Canada, Black people come here and are immediately given money and CODDLED. They came here MUCH richer than did the White people who came here, and guess what? THEY STILL PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS AS BLACK PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES! So what's your excuse for Black Canadians, Olutoye?
@shuggaqube Yes, the white man does owe us something. It's called reparations. When you subject a people to the kind of injustice to which black people were subjected you need to repair the damage. What the Jews got for the injustice of Hitler; what the Maoris of New Zealand got; what the Japanese Koreans got for the crimes of World war 1; what the caribbean planters undeservedly got for the loss of their slave 'property'. Why do I feel you don't have a clue about any of this?
What of the Blacks who profited from slavery? Or practiced genocide on their own colour? As a white person I will not be held accountable by acts I am not responsible for anymore than your own bigotry.
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but yourselves can free your minds. the world owes you a living but you have to work hard to collect it!!! key words here are YOU & YOUR! the man leads by example, stop making excuses and regurgitating colonial rubbish and make a difference!! two things ya never ask de man are hw much money he got or how much polo horses he got cause the answer to both questions are the same; ''never enough"! kudos sir charles when you speak everyone has to listen!
@vejalinks the conviction you had in your first 3 lines, I would have sworn what you said was indeed a fact, and not some story your parents told you. I would hate to think you are that naive to believe that COW Williams was afforded the very same opportunities as ordinary black bajans. While he may not have started with "much" his first wife had plenty of land, which they used as collateral in order to get loans. Yes he worked hard but colour as well as socioeconomics play/ed a bigger part.
@shuggaqube Ahm - I think if you check carefully you might find it's you with the 'colour-related issues' - what with all that mixing up of African, Scottish, irish, Indian and goodness knows what else. I can understand why you are so uptight about race and colour. Me? I'm an average African man, pure and simple.
@shuggaqube I don't know how much you know about Barbados; but the percentage of "poor whites" is extremely small - something like less than one percent of the white population. It is a sad reality for a black majority country run by black people that if you were born into the 5% white group you automatically begin life with an economic advantage.
@shuggaqube So whether we have equal opportunity doesn't matter. How can those with less opportunity build the future you talk about without the opportunity to do so on an equal footing with others? How could our foreparents who went to Panama have built the future they wanted to when the white legislature of the day passed a law preventing them from buying more than one acre of land? I guess you don't know about these things, do you. Yes, that is the racism I am talking about.
@shuggaqube This has nothing to do with Sir Charles. It's about putting things in the right perspective. You see people like yourself want to play the pretence game: we are all equal so if some succeed it's because of their hard work. If others fail, it's because they didn't pull together. That simplistic reasoning defies everything we know about the history of Barbados. But then it seems you didn't do too much of that in school.
I have nothing but admiration for anyone who started with nothing and through hard work achieved the stars! Branson, Jobs, Gates, you name them. On another note - I might have been born in Trinidad, but (sorry Trinis) Bimshire (Barbados for those who don't know) is way and above my favourite island in the Caribbean. Been in Miami for 24 years and I would live in Barbados in a heartbeat. Beautiful, beautiful island. The jewel in the crown.
The WhiteMan have 300+ years headstart and they used the Black Man to build and do the hard work! The Blackman got started from scratch 40-50 years ago! We got freedom yes but in this capitalise system we have to work hard to make it up to the level and progress of the WhiteMan. I say we have a next 100 to 150 yeas before we start competing. I'm taking about Barbados only I dont know about other places! With all that said C.O Williams did and is doing alot for Blacks in Barbados!
@shuggaqube You know, you talk about ignorance and the more you talk the more ignorance you display about these issues. (I don't mean that in a bad way) Slavery is not homogenous. It's not one kind of slavery for everybody. Trans-Atlantic slavery was like no other form of servitude. Only in Trans-Atlantic slavery was the humanity of the person denied - not to speak of the brutality of it all. I would suggest you read up on this subject before rushing to comment.
If he is so nice and so wonderful and a true Bajan then why didnt he marry a BLACK Bajan? Because he thinks hes superior and he tells his children NOT to marry any Blacks either. To be honest I prefer St Lucia and as a Black Millionare Ill take my money there to invest.
Kris Clark my father is a very prominent Economist and Corporate attorney in Trinidad where Im from and he knows this man very well through business contacts. Hes a racist son of a bitch . So YOU Kris Clark are the stupid one here...Maybe you need his money.....Im a very wealthy Black multi millionare here in Carlsbad, California and well know. People like yourself mean nothing to me, So go back to your cage from whence you came
Look at that someone calls you out and you try to make it sound like you're better than anyone else. You didn't even argue on my point you made it about money, I even met this man in person on business. I didn't ask if I meant something to you, when did I ask for your approval of me? I merely stated how stupid your statement was, a true Bajan needs to marry a black Bajan woman? That is is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, that itself is racist, maybe you should check yourself out, I'm glad you're a millionaire but you're a terrible person mate. There are white Bajans everywhere but that doesn't mean they should have to marry a black Barbadian woman to prove anything. But you have fun with your delusional life.
I did not even read your post....Im just responding to say find some other outlet for your mental health issues which seems to stem from your upbringing and those who supposedly raised you....I have no idea what you wrote....I have no time for those below my level much less to give time to them... Good luck..
@optimusidol --all i will say is i pity all of you who cant make society any better today .... keep up this damned mindset that you have to be white to achieve the bigger and better in the society and know that it will be just that cause its what people like you believe--the point of this video is to show how a man with no riches used his brain and dreams to get him where he is today not a pass down of fortune and even if he had to use land to get the loans..it was his determination=success
@shuggaqube In the first place. You are not black. So you ent fooling anybody - certainly not me. What are the other ethnicities that have suffered trans-atlantic slavery? I challenge you to name them. There has always been serfdom but trans-atlantic slavery is in a category all by itself. It was the most brutal and most de-humanizing. And why are you so obsessed with grudge. Nobody is gruding; we are reasoning. Relax, you are too bitter.
