skeldon_man posted:ksazma posted:caribny posted:VishMahabir posted:How come everybody concerned about the elections and most Indos here dont even address a grave threat to Guyana from Venezuela???
Are Afros supposed to protect Guyana for everyone??
jes askin
the easy answer is this. Blacks see themselves as Guyanese who happen to be black. Indians see themselves as Indians who happen to be Guyanese.
Don't make that seem like a sin. Blacks lost their identity during slavery so they were doing just what they had gotten accustomed to doing. Indians never lost their identity and even today that we are in other parts of the world, we still can relate to our fore-parents in India. Now it is easier for us as the white people are beginning to like Bollywood. My current ringtone is the music just before the song, lal dupatta. A Peruvian asked me what song was that. I told her it was a Bollywood song. Se said that she loves Bollywood songs. People aren't finding anything from Africa attractive to attach to. Not even non-African blacks are attaching to Africa.
The other thing is that the old PNC used to treat Guyanese Indians as second class citizens causing many Indians to see themselves that way.
Some foreign students from Nigeria use to refer to the American blacks as cotton pickers. The American blacks hated that and wanted nothing to do with them. I see the same clannish behavior with the Somalis here.
I went to school in England and at Howard with Nigerians. Howard had as many Nigerians as West Indians. None...let me say this with no reservation...none of them have in my presence ever uttered an unkind word about black Americans. Many of these students were from the elite class in Nigeria and were very rich. As a matter of fact, they were keen to emulate them in lots of ways. Maybe the community selects for people of that kind. The remarkable thing is on campus no one had ideas of being lesser than others.