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Yes to Affirmative action.

A couple years ago when I was a student in the US I told the President of a Trinidad association that what the people in Trinidad want is an affirmative action plan. We were at the discussing the culture that emanated from certain people in TnT. He and a few others couldn't understand why the people of Morvant and Laventille were so backward. Just like so many other people in Trinidad he believed that when he travelled on the Beethham Higway and looked across and saw the eyesore of Jophn John that was Laventille and somewhere in between there was Moravnt. He knew nothing of these communities and the fact that some of the leading lumanaries in the country came out of this environment. And that mind you is the way most people in TnT see Morvant and Laventille. A place where all the men rob and shoot and maim each other, while the women become teenage mothers and go on to bring along fatherless children. It was on this basis that I told him we need an affirmative action plan to give the people of this and areas like it a real chance in life.
Now today, many people are pissed off with the PNM because they want to do something similar for Afro Trinis. What is wrong with this plan?
Absolutely nothing because all the satistics wether it be from Ramesh Deosaran, The police or the layman point to the fact that the Afro Trinis male is the one most underperfprming in trhe society. They have been linked to the kidnapping the murders and general decadence in our beloved TnT. Yet many people are criticising this obvious attempt to have preferential treatment to Afro Trini males who are often discriminated against bercause they come from the Morvant and Laventille.. It is long overdue if they are the underperforming caste in the society. They need something to take them out of the quagmire that there are steeped in. What on earth could be wrong with helping people to help themselves. That is why the PNM, beginning with the Prime Minister must stand up and claim as Rowley is doing that this policy is one that is needed. If the recent crime and kidnapping statistics stand to be true then it is the very Indian community that stands to benefit more that anyone else. They would now be less likely to be the targets of the Skelly's of Morvant and Laventille and the other afro trini males.Perhaps they are afraid that the plan itself succeeds. Then they would have nothing to base their continuous claim of discrimination on.

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