{"id":8749,"date":"2015-03-31T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:24:39","slug":"all-ah-we-is-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8749","title":{"rendered":"All ah we is one, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/All-ah-we-is-one-right-298075161.html\">All ah we is one, right?<\/A><\/B><\/BIG><br \/>\n<I>By Reginald Dumas &#8211; March 31, 2015<\/I><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/people.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Trini People\">In April 2014 Jaishima Leladharsingh said in an insensitive Facebook comment said that he was \u201cglad (ANR) Robinson (had) gone forever.\u201d Soon after, he launched a racial assault on Anthony McLeod, whom he didn\u2019t know but who he obviously thought was black. McLeod\u2019s photo in fact shows him a mixed race person. Leladharsingh was clearly misled by the name: he must have assumed that Anthony looked like Errol. The Minister should take note.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor Leladharsingh, McLeod was a \u201cstinking, low-class nigger\u201d who should \u201cf\u2026\u201d himself, who was a \u201cparasite\u201d, and one of those \u201cbastards (who) never had to fight or work for anything.\u201d As soon as his remarks hit the fan, Leladharsingh offered McLeod what he said was a sincere apology, explaining that he had \u201cacted in rage.\u201d McLeod magnanimously accepted those words. I commend him.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, however, that months earlier, in September 2013, Leladharsingh, also apparently in a Facebook post, had sneered at \u201cpushy and gullible niggers\u201d who could easily be manipulated into \u201cenhanc(ing) the look of the (Government).\u201d McLeod was not around then.<br \/>\n<em><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/All-ah-we-is-one-right-298075161.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/B><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><BIG><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/Understanding-the-House-Slave-298074911.html\">Understanding the House Slave<\/A><\/B><\/BIG><br \/>\n<I>By Theodore Lewis &#8211; March 31, 2015<\/I><br \/>\nKeith Rowley finds himself a black man in this society, and he has the ambition to be Prime Minister. We would think that here in the Caribbean blackness would be a somewhat normative expectation for what a Prime Minister embodies. African slaves after all had been brought to the region since the 15th century. Their descendants should find it commonplace that they would number among the region\u2019s leaders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All ah we is one, right? By Reginald Dumas &#8211; March 31, 2015 In April 2014 Jaishima Leladharsingh said in an insensitive Facebook comment said that he was \u201cglad (ANR) Robinson (had) gone forever.\u201d Soon after, he launched a racial assault on Anthony McLeod, whom he didn\u2019t know but who he obviously thought was black. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All ah we is one, right?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,178,396,30,7,154,632,142],"tags":[104,984,60,1015,230,983],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-race-and-identity","category-racism-watch","category-unc","tag-african","tag-jaishima-leladharsingh","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-reginald-dumas","tag-theodore-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}