indians benefited from under the pnm to an extent, but they worked hard to be where dey is. Not all indians had land, however the family structure instilled good moral upbringing and strong emphasis on education so that the next generations wont have to toil in the fields. Education was there for the Africans under the pnm as well. One group made their businesses starting from small, and made their careers from studies, another group benefited more from the PSA and other gov't jobs.
Sammy, this is ah very true quote from ah very good statesman. he said and i quote" until the wealth and opportunity is distributed equally to the masses, there will always have crime and poverty". muhammad ibn abdullah.
sammy, believe it or not, when the british rode out of our country, they left us almost high and dry. when dr williams went to the crown for financial assistance soon after taking power, he was rejected and told to go home make best of the resources he had. thank god for the oil boom of the early seventies BC he would've failed worst than bustamante.
as for indians working hard and sending their children to school, YES! you are totally correct, but had it not been for dr williams who afforded them agricultural land and loans tuh buy tractor and big trucks, giving amar and mutilal moonan all dem big contracts tuh build and repair roads of whom they only hired indians, yuh think yuh would've been able tuh make that statement.
is the poor afro trinis who kept him in power over 30 yrs, and the most he gave them was huge tenements called (plannings) the ppl's mall, 10 days and NHA jobs, which payed almost next tuh nothing.
indians and syrians on the other hand got all kind of assistance from the govt, that's BC they had the things success is made of, land and business property.
trust meh horse, black urban ppl didn't even have ah prayer!! when the british left, all they left us was the clothes on our backs! my mother and her contemporaries were so poor, that some days they barely had food tuh eat, they had tuh watch their mothers work for shillings in white ppl's houses! while they lived in barracks yards ( poor tenaments) in ah one room bongalo sleepin in bedding, (not to mistaken with beds) going hungry many nights.
they( her contemporaries and her siblings) had tuh leave school and find work as early as fourteen in order to survive. ah guess you had no idea how harsh and callous the british was post slavery and colonial era eh? you think is just so ppl does become successful? it takes real know how, and some luck as well my friend.
even dr williams mother was ah maid back in those days like so many black women, back then black urban ppl, BTW who was the majority of the black population , were relegated tuh servitude, (maids, gardenrs and watchmen) barely could take care of their families, let alone educate them properly.
you under estimate culture and a lack thereof my friend! ah lack of culture mixed with poverty is the things failur is made of. when yuh lose yuh culture language and family structure, even dog become better than yuh.
no disrespect intended, but i doh remember little infant indian boys and girls being sold from up under their parents like puppies! but i do remember that happening during the 16 ,17 and 1800s tuh afro trinis , who mind you , worked the land for free and got nothing in return, not even ah start up money and land to live on after the british released them in the wild.
