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@sachin_05 posted:

I experienced hatred for just being Indian by blacks in all the Caribbean islands during the early 80’s when I fled Burnham dictatorship. In Tortola where I lived for a while, I remember I respond to ads in the newspaper for apartment and got turned away when I showed up as Indian. My cousin kid top the school as valedictorian but never got the scholarship that goes with it. Government jobs was for belonger only. There were many opportunity in the white owned marine businesses where they hire and promote on merit but Indians were hated even more when they excelled. Guyanese Blacks were migrating there by even larger numbers because it was easier for them but if you check today guess which of Guyana’s migrant group owns the top supermarket, car dealership, machine shops, restaurants, nightclubs etc....coolies! I guess coolie haters - Totaram, Tola, Django would say dem Guyanese coolies marginalize the poor blackman even on a playing field that favor blacks...

You must have been a dum-ass  Indian who went to Tortola with a Burnham chip on you shoulder, to be treated that way.  Where many Indians exceled, some in African business, or Indians allowed to build a high-rise building in Road town, including more than one house. How de rass are so many Indians marrying or renting apartments from blacks in Tortola ?  Or working at marinas repairing boats ?   

If Indians are disliked so much in the BVI, why de hell were they allow a vibrant Mandir to be established at Sea Cow Bay, or blacks join the Indian cricket team.  You must have not been to Guyanese Indian Ruby Roti shop where blacks line up for food every day. Or a Berbician Indian becoming  the security chief for a number of  hotels.

At an Indian funeral, why were there more blacks than Indians in attendance, who were at home drinking rum  and beating their wife ?   

You sound like Ilumb, who left Guyana by calling blacks  the 'scourge of the earth' and a deep hatred that  will continue for the rest of your life. Get over what Burnham did to you, he already dead and gone.

Get your ass in gear and study why Guyanese Indians were first invited to the BVI and what year, when we also first visited and yearly afterwards.       

Tola
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