Iguana posted:The folks at this gathering are being told they have to play their part in getting the message out and help craft solutions to these social ills. I don't understand your objection to this or what wrong you think Granger is guilty of here.
These groups need the RESOURCES to do so. Where is Granger talking about the resources? Did he discuss what he plans to do to help solve these problems and clue these groups as to how he will cooperate with them?
No. He is angry that his political base don't see how the coalition gov't has helped them. Including the teachers who now threaten strikes and the vendors and small farmers who are now angry with APNU. His people gave themselves massive pay increases as soon as they walked in and mounted a campaign of harassment against petty traders, many of them black.
They see Harmon and others taking bribes to preserve a status quo which developed under Jagdeo. The result is that they refused to support Harmon's campaign to be party chairman.
He sounds like an elitist looking down his nose on the poor. Look at how the Indo KKK are rushing to endorse him as he is justifying their rants about blacks.
People who show up to these gatherings are usually those who are involved in various community activities. They are concerned about resolving societal problems and I don't see how Granger's rants helped them.
Jagdeo will say the same thing about blacks and quote Granger and then claim that this is why he excluded blacks when he was in power. They are lazy and unproductive. In fact within the black population there exists many strivers and resilient people. But listening to Granger you wouldn't know this.