By Nicholas Stix
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Contemporary TT is a creation of the quest for cheap labor. The Spaniards enslaved the Arawak Indians, who died off under the whip. The Spaniards and then the British brought in black African slaves to cut sugar cane. When the slaves were emancipated in 1838, and refused to cut cane at any price, preferring subsistence farming, the British induced Indians to come as indentured servants. After indentured servitude was abolished in 1917, the Indians continued to work cutting cane in what was TT’s biggest industry, until the post-colonial government took over, ruined, and eventually gutted it.
Race mixing is celebrated by racial socialists, who claim that “Douglas” identify as black. Thus, as in America, racial congress, promoted as a way of breaking down racial barriers, is actually a stealthy form of black empowerment. Indeed, the term “Creole” in Trinidadian vernacular means “black,” though Indians no longer use it in public in that fashion….
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