Drummed Out

Another Caribbean government is set to emulate the black ingratitude of the treasonous Republic of Barbados by removing from its national coat of arms the image of its first European slaver flotilla. The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that the ships are to be replaced with an image of the culpably non-historic steelpan, which has led to the standard complaints about erasing the national heritage. Considering that the Genoese thug in charge of the ships believed the Caribbean to be part of India, there is a certain irony to the claim that the change could lead to an increase in ignorance. Meanwhile, the government of Spain has yet to announce any intention to swap the House of Aragon's coat of arms on its own flag for an image of that inestimable colonial prize, the syphilis spirochete.