[quote author=Kwami link=topic=63204.msg395871#msg395871 date=1328585286]
all the leaders in the caribbean with the exception of Michel Manley were son of b****es , none spoke out against Forbes
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I was told that Eric Williams absolutely despised Burnham. I was hoping it was because of Burnham's dictatorship and the resulting rape and pillage of the country's economical and social wealth.
yu know wat I think if Eric. there is never a totally bad situation or a good one. things doh work dat way. so eric had some kind of good effect as he went.
but his entire leadership was a period of neo colonialism for Titty and the westindies. Williams never devolved to Burnham levels. but Titty was never 'threatened' by a communist opposition
had that been the case even worse than Guyana was likely, for Titty was far more important than Guyana..then as now. that wont be the case forever but the USA would not have allowed Titty to slip out of its orbit. they prolly wud have invaded and taken it over directly.
piss on Willaims as far as I am concerned. he left titty with a legacy of racial politics an social division. he left blac people in serious disadvantage, after inheriting Trinidad with a significant blac advantage, which he frittered away.
williams went to westminister and agreed to leave the forrin owned banking system in place... that the independent central bank would function like those in the western world, against the people and for the banksters... that the commanding heights of the economy would be left in the hands of forriners/forrin corporations
'what do i do with the people then?' did eric ask?
I dont know..but he used the government bureaucracy as the only source of employment for the people, never pressured big business, never even knew what they actually did in the country.
eric did not even know how much oil titty had, could not speak to corporate trinidad on equal terms. they may not even have accepted his calls.
and when the titty people rose up against such leadership eric beat them back and instituted draconian labour laws to shut them up..with the american southern fleet parked out in the atlantic..off tittys coast
as in Guyana so in Trinidad, afros lost out...but worse in titty than in Guyana as the population ratios were reversed then in favour of afros in titty.
everywhere there is blac leadership, blac people have lost out. incredble isnt it?
after half a century of Bokassa, Burnham, Papa Doc, baby Doc, Trujillo, Amin, Burnham, Kenyatta, Mobutu, Kasavubu, Zenawi, kagame, Zuma, Gairy, Musaveni, Charles taylor, Obama..it is clear the rise of blac leadership holds out no basic hope for humanity.
certainly none at all for ordinary black folk
the answer is not in the colour of the skin but in systematic social change by those in whose interest the survival of humanity resides...all the ordinary folk.
it is in the social ineterest of ordinary folk the saving democracy resides. and such democracy can be achieved only if the ordinary people rise and effect it
Maps do not include JOMO KANYATTA among those other black leaders. He was a great leader who had to balance tribal interests. He created a one party systen that allowed politicians to campaigned independently but once they were elected , they belonged to one party and govt
[quote author=Kwami link=topic=63204.msg395891#msg395891 date=1328586668]
Maps do not include JOMO KANYATTA among those other black leaders. He was a great leader who had to balance tribal interests. He created a one party systen that allowed politicians to campaigned independently but once they were elected , they belonged to one party and govt
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