Reply to "Keynote Address at GOPIO’s Annual Dinner in New York on 4/28/17 by Dr. Leslie Ramsammy."

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Prashad posted:
"We came as sojourners huddled and brutalized in ships and we reluctantly continue our sojourn leaving in jet planes."

Good speech.

Be glad that you didn't come as "farm animals" bereft of even deserving treatment as humans.

What ever narrative Indians can develop to paint themselves as victims Africans can go further. The humiliation of the Transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath has no parallel in the Americas.

5/16/176:01 PM

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