caribny posted:Billy Ram Balgobin posted:Contraband trade made a few rich and whole lot miserable. It was no fun standing lines for hours for a pound of flour. People suffered tremendously, especially East Indians who had to pay black market prices. The Afros would demand that they get it at controlled prices or else the police would be brought in. Indos did not receive the same service from the police. Racism against Indos was rife.
The Afros began to display levels of malnutrition that hadn't been seen since the 30s so I dont know where you get your notion of preferential treatment.
As with the Jagdeo era a few elites benefitted and everyone else suffered.
I can tell you what I used to see at the office to get tax clearance so that one could travel. In the morning everyone was there black and Indian. In the afternoon when you had to go back to be interviewed it was almost exclusively blacks. The Indians got their tax clearance without an interview, maybe because blacks hadn't learned that they needed to bribe.
A whole lot of untruths in the above.