Insularity in the west indies is rooted more at the top of the society than at the bottom...just like it was in the old days with the whites in charge. the old planters fought each other tooth and nail which provided the basis for insularity... which the inheritors of the planters, the black and brown elite, kerry on to this day
the biggest fight in west indies cricket history is the one that took place between Bajan whites led by the idiot Goddard.. and the erudite Trinny Stollmeyer, with his Sancho, Gerry Gomez..and Trinidadian snake in the grass Dos Santos.. who manipulated ceaselessly to re-instate Goddard once Stollmeyer was gone...Goddard, who proceeded to lead the disaster in england in 1957.
they picked a team that Goddard could lead..including sundry old men and youngsters who could not contribute save in one case..Collie Smith.
I knew that the removal of Gayle would lead to Sammy. which is what I clearly stated to amazement on Bally's board. they paid scant attention until Sammy was duly appointed. I knew that that is exactly what an old backward pseudo planter skunt like Hunter would do if the opportunity presented itself. I know how dem pretentious skunt and dem think. I know their minds..how that lily liver, oreo cookie, Bernie Wooster west indian elite thinks.
skunts and dem even in this day and age would like nutten better than to be english themselves, white, lords and ladies, counts and peers with Jeeves of their very own.
the west indies are divided currently because that stinking traitorous elite are in charge. they broke up the federation for the british/american interest and sit astride the region ensuring that it never joins up, never becomes an independent nation.
it is from them..from the top down that insularity lives..not from the bottom up.
no ordinary people in the west indies would have agreed with Sammy as captain. that is strictly an elitist production.
and as captain what has been Sammy's path..totally anti-worker! he has been anti-union. He is still prolly not a member..attends no union activities, function or otherwise. and he is captain. as such he is opposed to the interests of the men he leads..a massive in our faces, imposed conflict from the top.
if you want to hit the team a blow, strike a blow against west indies cricket, what do you do..stuff like appointing a captain who represents the elite in permanent conflict with the labour..the players. Sammys appointment was not only insular. it is elitist in the most complete sense of that term...sabotage.
SABOTAGE! that's right.
I have warned allyuh for years now that the wicb is not in favour of a powerful championship west indies team..especially one that is multi-ethnic. Rev is only talking about things form a an ethnocentric point of view. Sorry Rev but from that angle you are anti-west indian and ultimately on the side of the elites.
Ketchup too..and all who see race or ethnicity first. ultimately you are working on the side of, and for the interest of the very enemy you now rail against.
they will play Indians...that is not a problem for them. but an Indian cappo..if he is like Shive..a patsy, a non-threatening intellect.
Ramdin is different. Ramdin is full of shiite himself, unsophisticated to a point that makes him prone to pull out self-destructive, pre-written notes from his pocket. but he is smart enough, popular enough to be suspicious to the elites. that is why it is taking long for him to be appointed.
Sammy is totally dependent...impossible for him to establish and independent base in the cricket and on the side. he cant play worth shiit and needs the wicb..must do as they say consequently. he can only soo-vive if they want him too.
a perfect stooge..Sammy...the most perfect for a manipulative elite in charge and jealous of their power. they will protect their power if they have to keep west indies cricket down for a hundred years, in the middle to bottom all the time..even if the cricket dies. better dead than a source of social cohesion from the bottom up.
if the west indies develops a multi-ethnic championship cricket team, led by an Indian, fully identified with the people like LLoyds team was..uniting ordinary people look out!
there can be no more potent potential political force in the west indies than a united people from the ground up.
the wicb will not allow the cricket to develop in that direction again if they can help it.
Permaul is a likely weapon now being cultivated to deploy against such development ultimately. Permaul as a wicb favourite is bound to be a Shive type, a suck-up, who has been leap frogged and pointed straight at the captaincy for no other possible reason. the wicb will ensure there will always be a few of those in the team, of all and any west indian ethnicity or mixed.. to ensure the captaincy does not fall into the 'wrong' hands.
now if allyuh are elitist allyuh selves, as well as ethnocentric... allyuh can continue supporting the players as allyuh do..from ethnic stand point. allyuh shud know however that that kind of thing ensures a weak west indies team regardless of its ethnic composition. and even more so the more they bring in forrin Busses of PIE to run the show. I see how much ketchup loves the new Pie Bus..celebrates it like a new version of slice bread. well in actuality he is supporting wicb policy to keep west indies exactly where we are currently.
Take a look at the very skunty Skameron and where is his focus lies..in the shorter forms of the game, bringing in forrin investors to develop the market, establishing the traditional crooked financial structure that proliferates in the west indies..which west indian officials and politicians know and love because they can make plenty 'bobol' with it.
Skameron has done nothing to help 5-day cricket. the MC even sabotaged this effort to India by insisting that the team train in Florida instead of Barbados, where they could have arranged days long practice matches with A teams..to develop fitness and focus.
