I feel there is little understanding or knowledge of how we all came to share this island. Nationalists build their arguments on the comforting thought that identity of nations goes back as a pure line for thousands of years. But life isn't like that. My parents are from Jamaica and I think we have nearly every nation that ever sent anyone to the Caribbean in our gene pool. One of the strongest aspects of Fruit of the Lemon is a narrative that presents colonialism as less monolithic and much more heterogeneous than we'd like to think.
Colonialism is monolithic but the effects of it are personal.
This is what I tried to show in FOTL - the effects colonialism had on a family who lived under it for hundreds of years. History should be viewed from as many sides as possible. Never just let life's winners tell you what happened in the past. Black people have been, by and large, written out of history. Look at America and the lack of African American history in the mainstream story.