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Reply to "How Guyana can end it's racial Problem in 2020 and beyond."

Prashad posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Prashad posted:

When people are brainwashed in society from the time that they were young to see the koolie as a subhuman inferior then the institutions of society just become a continuation.

Dr. Odeen Ishmael shared his experience about how Indians were viewed and treated in British Guiana.  He said the Africans felt socially superior to the Indians because they were educated according English standards and were employed in the civil service.

Is he right?

If you read Edgar Mittelholzer's book on British Guiana society then it does prove that Dr. Odeen has a point.  My view of the issue is two-fold that experiences from colonialism has brainwashed people into the belief that the East Indian is a subhuman individual but most importantly the experiences from colonialism has grounded in people in an unbreakable belief that they should only be ruled by their own race. 

This is where you display your own ignorance. In fact Mittelholzer was a "red man" who despised his African ancestry and allegedly committed suicide because of this.

In Colonial British Guiana expat whites were on top, with local whites below them, followed by Portuguese and then Chinese and light skinned CHRISTIAN Indians (the Luckhoos) and light skinned red people.  Then came the brown while blacks and Indians were at the BOTTOM.  Amerindians weren't even considered fully human so weren't part of society.

Blacks occupied lower level civil service positions, teaching, nursing, trades, and the lower ranks of the police force. For any one to claim that they were the favored ones is pure bullshyte.  The British played divide and rule. 

They allowed the blacks lower level civil servant jobs and destroyed their villages and farming and small business base as they didn't want them to be independent. They allowed Indians easier access to land but put in lace barriers for non Christians to enter the civil service, so those Indians who refused to convert and who refused to assimilate were excluded.

Bottom line is that those Indians willing to convert and who were light skinned received privileges and were as derisive of blacks as were the other privileged groups. They were EQUALLY derisive towards less assimilated Indians, especially those who remained Hindus.

FM
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