Mapoui, What goin on in T&T?
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:18 am
On December 18, 2009 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent. The proclamation was made, according to the resolution, "with a view to strengthening national actions and regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in relation to their full enjoyment of economic, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture." (The 2001 Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, to which the resolution refers, draws a distinction between "Africans" and "people of African descent.")
Who knows, it may well have been around the time the resolution was adopted that the documents I shall now mention were written. They only very recently reached me, but allusions in them to individuals and events suggest they date from the period of the last Manning administration.
The author is perfectly clear in his mind (I'm assuming a male wrote them) that black people are the scum of the earth, if not worse, and that the PNM - "Pure Negro Members (and) a party of Africans for Africans and by Africans" - is solely to blame for the ills of this country. T&T is "the most Racist country in the world now that Apartheid is abandoned...(T)he tree of Racism has been uprooted from South Africa only to be transplanted here bearing fruits only for Africans...The black race due to its past performances could be logically deemed to be parasites like locusts, fleas and leeches..."
He says also: "The abolition of slavery and Emancipation have done no good to non-African races, in fact it has become a noose for the necks of those Races." Worse follows: "It could be deduced by the way of Logic that Slavery is the only antidote devised to control, and prevent the black man like a wild runaway horse from unbridled power, it is the only solution to keep him in check and balance from his insatiable lusts for power." (My emphasis.) I wonder what Makandal Daaga would make of this. read more
Who knows, it may well have been around the time the resolution was adopted that the documents I shall now mention were written. They only very recently reached me, but allusions in them to individuals and events suggest they date from the period of the last Manning administration.
The author is perfectly clear in his mind (I'm assuming a male wrote them) that black people are the scum of the earth, if not worse, and that the PNM - "Pure Negro Members (and) a party of Africans for Africans and by Africans" - is solely to blame for the ills of this country. T&T is "the most Racist country in the world now that Apartheid is abandoned...(T)he tree of Racism has been uprooted from South Africa only to be transplanted here bearing fruits only for Africans...The black race due to its past performances could be logically deemed to be parasites like locusts, fleas and leeches..."
He says also: "The abolition of slavery and Emancipation have done no good to non-African races, in fact it has become a noose for the necks of those Races." Worse follows: "It could be deduced by the way of Logic that Slavery is the only antidote devised to control, and prevent the black man like a wild runaway horse from unbridled power, it is the only solution to keep him in check and balance from his insatiable lusts for power." (My emphasis.) I wonder what Makandal Daaga would make of this. read more