Does this jackass understand what capitalism is or does he think it has to be fostered by affirmative action?
It wasn't capitalism. It was a concentrated focus by the colonial elites to have Guyanese divided based on access to occupations.
Indians were encouraged to be property owners, and barred from joining the armed forces, or the civil service, or becoming teachers.
Attempts by Africans to be self reliant and independent of the plantation system was thwarted by the colonial elites who feared this group from becoming economical powerful, given their larger numbers, and the notion that had developed that Africans and mixed Guyanese were entitled to playing a strong role in the governance of the colony.
So when Africans failed at farming and small business, ambitious parents taught their children to work hard and get an education or a trade, and then secure a good safe job. Seeing the poverty of the rural black peasant and the failure of black business middle class Africans developed a risk averse attitude.
I cannot help but compare Jamaicans and Guyanese. In NYC 10% of Jamaicans are self employed vs. 7% of Guyanese. Aside from the fact that this exposes the lie of the supposedly "entrepreneurial" Indian, it also shows that Afro Guyanese are considerably less entrepreneurial than their Jamaican counterparts.
Meet many Jamaicans and they will boast about their "piece of ground". Jamaicans were more interested in "planting yam dan heducation" which they said any "mek people fool fool". Same history in slavery, yet different outcomes. The black peasant in Jamaica forms the bed rock of their agricultural sector. Ditto in Grenada, St Vincent and Dominica.
You going back all the way to colonial days? It is people who make themselves who they are.
My mother side took to the fields in the 50s and they are wealthy. My father side remained cancutters and some move to civil service and remained poor/average.