cain posted:
Gilly I'm gonna be a pain in de arse here. I admit I never read "The West on trial" however what I read here it seems Jagan conned people with that. The banna was speaking of the PPP (Guyana) Burnham(Guyana). He spoke of being removed from power by the Americans and the British (Guyana)
What does this statement have to do with Black Americans and what do black Americans have to do with Guyana?
It's well known and documented that the Kennedy & Johnson administrations in the USA played a massive role in destabilizing the 1961-64 Jagan government. At that time blacks in the USA were at the lowest scale of the social ladder. Martin Luther King and others in the civil rights were still fighting for black voting rights, equal employment opportunity, desegregation of schools and buses, etc. Why? Precisely because successive US administrations kept blacks down low through Jim Crow laws, police brutality etc.
So, what Jagan was saying is that the US Kennedy-Johnson administration removed his PPP government because of communism and NOT because they wanted a black man in government as they were oppressing blacks big time in their own country. They decided to put Burnham in government not because he was black but because he was the lesser of the two evils. And they insisted that the Portuguese businessman Peter D'Aguiar must be a key figure in the Burnham government. Without American intervention the Jagan government could not be removed in 1964.
While speaking in Toronto in 1996, Jagan assumed that his audience was aware of that historical background. BIG MISTAKE.
Cain, you should read THE WEST ON TRIAL.