They are totally convinced (rightly or wrongly) that society, as in the System, has failed them. They feel betrayed by society. Ipso facto, they not only internalise their accepted truism that they are failures but more self-destructively, they also publicly act out Bob Marley's lyrical dictum that the "Babylon system is a vampire".
Ergo, they are now totally convinced that they have the right to turn on society—crime, therefore, becomes their magnetic force just to survive.
On the thorny issue of corporal punishment, this writer vociferously rejects the Euro-centric notion that the decision to abolish was based on "research carried out in North America and Europe". That's the problem.
Again, this is exactly what the renowned Euro-centric psychologist Sigmund Freud did centuries ago, namely, using the European behaviour/experience as the norm, standard and model for all people ( including governments) to accept and follow—total, unabashed rejection by this Afri-centric scholar/professor, period.
This decision not only represents a direct correlation with but also a very dangerous embrace of the Euro-centric world view and policy-making modus operandi. And that's the problem with solving crime in Trinidad and Tobago.
The stark reality is that the historical experience/behaviour of the European coloniser is totally different from that of the colonised. Ergo, what is good and works for the European coloniser is not necessarily good and works for the colonised. That must be clearly understood by public policy-makers in Trinidad and Tobago.
they all white..the government, the criminals, the indos, the afros, the chinese, the whites are white too, dougla, buckra or mulatto...all, everyone of dem white..
so the problems will be treated white. and if yu want the criminal an' dem to get vex tell dem you treating deh problem as afro-centric. is den self Titty in trouble.
tell dem yu treating deh problem as a white problem its fine..tell dem is jail with hard time, no rehabiliton..that deh go give the police harder butoo to bash dem, bigger gun, chains to tie dem.
best yet.. tell dem the government go get american orange prison suits fuh dem wen deh hol' dem
criminal go give demselves up so deh cud do perp walks in orange jump suits..make the paper, television news all up in New York.
dat go make dem rale happy..make dem feel like deh in ting.
the only person who happy with afro centric anything is Netambu or wat his name is. he musta fuhget how Trinidad stop ::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl::
