[quote author=ketchim link=topic=106237.msg713492#msg713492 date=1474302100]
While we at it, can we swap jala/ramesh and his ilk : for the folks in Valsayn... ::LOL::
or maybe down Couva sugar field side
[/quote] take warning , you better take warning
I went to see Masai Ujiri's movie/documentary on Sunday with a group I know well..mostly west indians around my age. the discussion ultimately came to the west indies and what it is currently
here verbatim is an opinion that flowed from one of us. it may sound like me but it it isnt
Quote:I lorse interest in west indies and west indians. I had dreams and hopes but dat all dead now.
the west indies is dead space..especially when lunatic faces like Cameron is prominent, even dominant in the media. dominant in the media means dominant in the social life.
the west indies society is awful, full of garbage backward social practices that produces awful citizens.as a west indian, to deal with other west indians any where is fraught with danger, so much contempt and dislike suffuses routine relations
recently all this came home to me..whither the west indies ::confused:: ::confused::
it was not my responsibility to take it on, to try contribute something positive. I did for several compelling reasons. I am not sorry. I learned a great deal. but its my time to walk away, to drop it all and move on.
I am not going back there anyway. and I don't and wont have much to do with west indians up here. I let all this go man.its time.
the question becomes/became whither me. and I answered it this way.
in the final analysis I have lived more than two thirds of my life in Canada. its time to accept that fact and all it means..positive and negative. at this stage there is much that is positive in that, opposed to the west indian side in which there is only crisis and social failure at home and abroad..for good reason save its been going on for so long it prolly feeds on itself. and for that goes on and on because it can...because no west indian wants it any different
right or wrong I am done. that is the way I see things now. I don't much like west indians anymore. there isnt much to like about west indians anymore..especially of the African variety.
the fact is the west indies are beset by a social crisis that is eminently solvable, the answers are known but the people prefer to live the incredible inter group social hostility we call life that we live at home...which life we have exported to Canada and the USA.... and everywhere in the world west indians congregate.
I have an alternative at this stage. time to grab some of it before my time peters out.