Seriously Just Cool, yuh ever hear anybody say Tobagonians doh do nutten bad or horrific??!!
The FACT is Trinidadians carry on with more violent crimes than Tobagonians. And since the crime rate is higher in Trinidad than in Tobago, that must be where the perception that Tobagonians doh get involved in nutten in violent came from.
There was once a time when as a Tobagonian one could state that any violent crime (e.g. gun or gang type crime) that was committed in Tobago had to have a Trinidadian involved. The type of crime that would normally be perpetrated here was between family or husband and wife.
Of course with the changes going on all around us Tobago has changed and so too its people. So in the recent past there have been more murders and of a violent nature.
But jump high, jump low I still feel a whhooooolllleee lot safer in Tobago than I ever will in Trindiad. To say that we Tobagonians claim to be angelic is disingenious and you know it!!!!....
As for hating Trinidadians, I personally have always loved the fact that I could live in peaceful idyllic Tobago and then jump on the plane or boat and shop and fete and go back home.....I can tell you that over time Tobagonians have always resented being treated like the annoying little sister that needs to shut up and stay in a corner and doh say nutten unless Easter weekend or Great Race weekend came around. Then we were expected to smile and wave and be friendly and accommodating until the next main event....we were forgotten until then....
If you experience hate because of that well wha ah goh tell yuh.....is probably the result of the history and/or development of the islands.....
Girl fren, seriously, did you read my post? BC if you did, half the things that you typed would not have been necessary. most of the things you said i agreed on in the last post, i also went on to say that the real issue i have wid bagonians is the disgruntled view they have of trinis, and i don't mean the deserved ones, but the simple trini fella who can't even help himself or don't have ah pot to piss in.
allyuh have a right to be angry @ the way tobago was neglected, and i'll give you that, but that neglect didn't come from me the lil black byoi and the other hand tuh mouth black ppl who was in ah woss of position than allyuh,
but rather , their anger should've been first directed towards the british colonials, then the capitalist on the main land like the french creoles, the whites descendants of the colonial masters, and all dem high color rich ppl who doh run nothing to the under privilege and huggin up all the opportunity for them and theirs not even caring bout the rest of the ppl on the twin island, hence the reason most young ambitious under privilege trinidadians (especially the ones from the slums like EDR and leventille) had tuh run out of trinidad looking for opportunity!
they didn't give us shyte, thank god for eric williams, even though "he self" eh give we much neither but @ least he throw us ah lil crumbs and afforded us ah basic education. all this talk of neglect, it had to be infrastructure wise you referring too, BC bago ppl have it cork!!
who eh have live stock have land, who eh have land have boat on the water makin money, who eh have that driving nice car makin paper, the british leave allyuh wid ah nice lil someting someting, but they leave my ppl wid jack squat!!!
just imagine i was ah lil boy, and big hard back men who could be my fardder used to come to me wid all this baggage talking bout
"allyuh trini too thief, and allyuh trini this and allyuh trini that" and the sad part, no sensible elder came forward condemning that crap, come on, something seriously wrong wid that picture, that beyond hatred, that's madness!
on the flip side, when ah bago man fall in in town, we does treat him like family, the most he will get is ah lil pecong, (and ah talkin town trini ) just like country ppl does get pecong if they move in town, but after a month or so all is normal. but bago ppl serious wid dat shyte yow.
bottom line, i am fedup of the way black ppl has been taking their frustration out on each other world wide, and the only thing i could attribute this too is the accessabilty and proximity over the yrs since we've been in this wilderness of post slavery and colonialism. we rarely see the real culprits who directly or indirectly responsible for our condition and covertly manipulate the out come, but rather their neighbors who may have ah different drawl, language or twang.
i ardently hope in the next 100 yrs, BC i think about five generations have tuh fall out the race tuh repair this thing, but nonetheless i hope by then ppl would mature in such a way that they could agree to disagree without any hard feelings.