Prashad posted:Carib I love my wife that is something I have no apologies for. It is foolishness to believe that African Guyanese who have fought for the last 400 years for the right to be ruled by their own people will just somehow accept an East Indian ruling over them.
Here is what a major Portuguese businessman, who shows no love for blacks, as he hires few of them said.
Africans want fairness. If they feel that they will be treated fairly they don't care who rules. In 1953 they went to vote for Cheddi. Cheddi is NOT an African.
Indians don't want "to be ruled by black man". They will tolerate any misrule provided that "they aren't being ruled by black man".
You cannot mention even ONE instance when more than 10% of Indians have supported a non Indian. In 1953 Africans voted for an Indian, even though John Carter, a man of part African ancestry, and who led a black identified party. I will remind you that the League of Colored People, was an organization that aimed to improve the lot of Afro Guyanese. In 1953 the UDP, an affiliate organization, contested in the elections. Afro Guyanese instead voted for Cheddi.
Feel free to attempt to justify Indian clannishness by pretending that an equivalent African clannishness exists.