They forget that the President of GOPIO did not embrace Guyanese Indians as equal but expressed a similar opinion of them that was the legacy of what kept the ancestors to Guyanese Indians in limbo in India. The President said Guyanese Indians are as their black brethren in Guyana backward and lazy and not the same Indians cultural capacities as the native Indian!
Is that true? Do we have the exact words by any chance? Kari?
the black brethren part is my ornamentation...he said Guyanese indians are not like indians from india.
He said they are lazy, not concerned with sending their children on to higher education, not culturally sophisticated and in short more inclined to criminality.
We discussed it here in the early 2000. All the New York dailies were appalled.