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Afrikans must know Mc Al promoting race radio
November/December 2004 Issue No. 21
Published in Trinidad and Tobago
By Jawanza Makalani
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The refusal by both Afro and Indo Saxon ploiticans to dismantle the Colonial Order and replace it with the Order of National Justice, will take us down the road to hell via ethnic or racial conflict-seeds sown by Mc Al.
Already we have the Syrian/Lebanese owned Mc Al group sponsoring race hate against Afrikans via its late night talk show. Apparently, the people at Mc Al have foreseen some type of benefit if they could make Trinidad and Tobago a race-war zone just like their ancestral homeland in the Middle East.
Any national of Trinidad and Tobago who listened to Plain Talk on Sangeet 106 on Wednesday September 16, 2004, should be horrified-regardless of their race. The level of race hate and talk of violence aired on that programme showed that Mc Al has race war on its agenda.
While the host, Sadro Mohammed, made it clear that the events at the Parliament Tea Room that involved Minister Keith Rowley and Member of Parliament, Chandresh Sharma, must not be seen as an Indian/Afrikan issue but instead be viewed as a political impasse, he did not discourage the threats of violence that were made by callers against Afrikan people which included threats of suicide-bombing and slicing off people's necks.
In fairness to host Mohammed, he did not stat the fire-he is merely fanning the flames and Mc Al is sponsoring the fuel to keep the fire blazing. The problem is as old as the immediate post-slavery time with the arrival of Indian people to these parts.
Although Mc Al is sponsoring this anti-Afrikan agenda which by extension, becomes anti-nationalist, because if the two major racial groups are at war then we have no nation-Indians, Afrikans and the nation as a whole, have failed this country, by not dealing with racial conflicts in an honest manner.
A number of events took place in this country that fuelled racial conflict, which were not resolved but allowed to die a natural death.
Hulsie Bhagan accused Afrikan men of raping East Indian women-an issue which caused a mini race-war, resulting in the death of one man.
It was alleged that Kelvin Ramnath called Gloria Henry, who was also an MP, a slut in Parliament because she made a snide inference against Basdeo Panday. Former Local Government Minister Dhanraj Singh is alleged to have slapped the late senior Police Officer Norton Registe; Professor Selwyn Cudjoe accused Indian teachers of not teaching Afrikan student with the same passion as they did with Indians; Cro Cro challenged Mr. Panday in song to come in town with his posse to meet the people of Laventille; Eddie Hart was convicted for assaulting former Mayor of Chaguanas; Orlando Nagessar; Mr. Manning implied that a former Minister of Education in the UNC government was a drunk and a furniture thief and most recently, Dr. Keith Rowley is accused of assaulting MP Chandesh Sharma.
Apart from the Hart/Nagessar issue, none of these other events was investigated and resolved despite the fact that all of these incidents involved prominent members of our society-including Cro Cro, who is a prominent calypsonian.
The fact that this country is racially polarized from the top, makes it very easy for mercenaries like the management of Mc Al to perpetrate their nefarious agenda. They know that the divide and rule strategy has always worked for them-particularly now, because of the growth of Indian businesses.
It is of utmost importance that the nationals of Trinidad and Tobago reject those among us, who are prepared to carry us down the road to destruction and hell, courtesy the evil folks at Mc Cal-sponsors of "Race-war".
As we analyse our problems with a sincere desire to correct the injustices on both sides, we must demand of those whom we have elected to serve us that they do their duties in a just manner.
And we must also show companies like Mc Al who sponsor Race War that we can boycott their businesses.
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