And Still I Rise

Hey people..am still alive.Was kinda under the weather though and I took off over the weekend and came back to find Net Service was down.Hopefully I get that sorted out soon.However,In keeping with my promise to feature things Vincy in this Independence month am going to take a look at Hugh Mulzac. Mulzac was born in Union Island in 1886 and was educated at the St Vincent Grammar School.His father wanted him to be an engineer but Mulzac had love for the sea. Upon leaving Grammar School he got a job on a schooner captained by his brother John and thus began his journeys on the sea.He sailed on several ships in the Caribbean before moving to the US to take up residence.While there mulzac became the first black man to obtain a shipmaster's licence when he did so in 1920.In his biography "A star to steer" and by he speaks of the struggles he faced as a black man facing racism and how satisfying it was to finally achieve his dream of captaining a ship that was non racially segregrated.In SVG he is one of the persons tipped to be named as National hero following the naming of Carib Chief Joseph Chatoyer.