Reply to ""Walter" save us please!"

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Drugb posted:
. But the fact remains that overall the Blacks were solidly behind LFS as he had more to offer. Rodney only offered beatings and rhetoric.

So why were the polling stations empty on election day. Surely they would be full if Burnham enjoyed support.

What did Burnham have to offer in 1980. Listen we had to fly to Trinidad to get TOILET paper. Most people had to crush up The Chronicle and dampen it with water, and that is when there was water available. The super markets had only rum and cigarettes, NO FOOD.

People went to work, not to do their jobs, but to hear which food outlet had supplies available, and then the entire office would empty as every one ran their.

Teachers were flying INTO Trinidad on Sunday night, so that they could buy stuff for sale at their schools on Tuesday.

So by 1980, in the hey day of the WPA, what did Burnham have to offer blacks, other than "white corner" and orange hair?

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