then
we go paint
the
town blue
“Djab se
yo
Neg me
die se
nom-la
blah” =
‘if the
devil is
a black
m a n
t h e n
God is
a white
man“.
The Story told by Tafar Chia Lewis
These words paint the rebellious, fearless energy of
the Blue Devils, an energy
that could only be experienced. A sudden burst of
madness onlookers would
see but to the player of this
Mas he experiences sane
honesty; the honest playing of the side of us that we
wish to suppress since slavery oppressed and since
Carnival for the lower class
was the chance to have an
opinion that mattered and
could be expressed. Blue
devils did that. It instead
is not a devil as what we
know in the biblical sense
but, it is the title given to
blacks in slavery, it is the
antagonist through the
eyes of a very subjective
society, and it is the person who chooses to revolt
or rather stand up against
the ills of politics and capitalism.
“If everything
we
do and
every
fiber of our being can only
be considered evil
because of the mere blackness of our skin then we go
paint the town blue.”