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

Gilbakka posted:
Django posted:
 
 

 

Jagan said these words in November,1996.

 "Because we know Black people are at the lowest scale of the social ladder"

 

https://books.google.com/books...20GUYANA&f=false

Django, by isolating that phrase from the entire quote, the context is lost. This is what Jagan said in November 1996 in Canada: "The PPP is not an Indian party. The British and the Americans did not remove me from power and put Burnham in because of race. In fact, if they were using race, I should have been kept there and Burnham should have been kept out forever. Because as we know, black people are at the lowest scale of the social ladder."

Later, after Afros criticized him, Dr Jagan explained what he meant:

'In a statement issued yesterday, President Jagan said that the reference to black people "must be viewed in the context in which my speech was delivered."

He said that anyone who had listened to the entire address and had an iota of logic and common sense would have noted that the last sentence could not have been a reference to Afro-Guyanese but to Blacks in the United States of America.

"I lived in Washington, New York and Chicago and my personal experiences and views about the social alienation of Blacks in the United States of America are well known and documented in my book, The West on Trial," the President observed.'

Read THE WHOLE STORY

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?

Isnt this akin to someone mentioning the C word and when cornered just pass it off as "I was speaking about those poor souls in India?"  

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