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Reply to "Has Joey Jagan disappeared from the face of the earth ?"

Zed posted:

I have argued that Carib is a racist and he propagates racism here. He says that East Indians make statements regarding how they are scared that Afro Guyanese will rape their daughters or that Afro Guyanese will murder them, etc. You all know the starkness of the statements. What he is doing is making the same statements in a round about way so he can say, if accused, that he was just repeating what was said. 

Zed, prior to Carib attacking Gilly on racial grounds after I declared my renewed support for the PPP, I never expressed "racial" views in this forum or elsewhere. On the contrary, I had stated a while back that my father and I had [he is dead] and have close Afro friends up to this moment. Some of them ate and slept in our homes. But my father and I had many valid reasons to shun black people, if not dislike them.

In 1964 black men from Uitvlugt Casbah stoned my father's house in Uitvlugt Pasture. My father never retaliated. In 1963 a gang of black thugs beat me up and dashed me in a D'Urban Street gutter while I was returning to my uncle's home from school. Between 1970 and 1992 black men choked and robbed me 5 times in Georgetown, getting away with my wristwatches, money etc. One Saturday night in 1977, while I stood on Ogle Public Road waiting for a hire car, a well-dressed black man approached me with a palm-sized revolver and grabbed my watch and wallet. I had $21.50 but when I asked him for the 50 cents for my car fare he said: "F___K YOU." I guess he wanted to go to a fete but had no money.

Despite those harrowing experiences with blacks I never harbored ill feelings against them. But, lately, Carib's racially motivated attacks against me have caused me to ponder. There's a letter in today's Chronicle in which a writer named Joseph spews spitfire because he thinks Ralph Ramkarran is returning to the PPP. Just as how Carib is spitting racial fire against me. Seems like pro-PNC people are very angry at people who are moving back to the PPP. 

FM
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