You said: "The proliferation of race talk in Trinidad is indicative of a crumbling society, despite its unprecedented economic growth, continues to freefall into social decline. By scraping the bottom of the barrel respected members of society embrace racism, nationalism, class differentiation and religious differences in an attempt to rally support for their self serving agenda. The fragmentation of society on the basis of race, class religion etc. leaves in its trail horrific memories of the Jewish Holocaust, Bosnia, India, Rwanda and closer to home, Guyana in the 1960’s to mention just a few. In the end lives are destroyed and the painful pieces are difficult to put together again. The promulgation of social division on the basis of race is a sure sign that a nation has lost its way. Evidently, the lessons of history have been lost upon us."

Wasn't most if not every country in the western world created from Racism?

You said," Multiculturalism is a giant myth and I hardly see Canada as an inclusive and model nation. With multiculturalism, the superficial aspects of the cultural traditions of minorities are incorporated somewhat into the mainstream. This pacifies minorities, fooling them into thinking that there is equality. With multiculturalism, the perspectives that challenge the dominant status quo are ignored and sidelined while perspectives and norms that are most weak and non-threatening are embraced and projected as representing the essence of the particular minority group. An integral part of the multicultural myth are notions such are ‘one love’, ‘no race’ and ‘colorblindness’. The logical extension of there being ‘no race’, is that there is no racism presently. This blinds many to institutional racism and the reality of how deeply racism is embedded in the psyche of dominant groups. As a result, the racism that is deeply imbedded within the society is left unchallenged and unarticulated by the people who experience it the worst." Do you feel that way because in your experience, the mainstream didn't/ doesn't reflect the people, opinions, idiology, etc.... of Africa or Africans. You see my brother, we cannot let the hate for white people eat us away into bitterness for controling" the mainstream" when we support them in every way by our actions. We'll touch on that another time.

You said," Rhoda Reddock, in a paper titled Douglarisatoin and the Politics of Gender Relations in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, cites a survey done in 1991 called the National Mobility survey, in which despite the stated tolerance of ethnic intermarriage, in practice the situation appears to be quite different. Overall from the sample, 14.4 % objected to their children marrying Africans, while only 2.8 objected to their children marrying Indians. So we see that in the society as a whole Indians are seen as acceptable marriage partners by all ethnic groups while Africans are seen as the least acceptable.” These finding reveal some important aspects of the colonial legacy that can be clearly identified in the contemporary landscape. The enslavement of Africans was so economically beneficial to Europe that a wide range of reasons were concocted to justify this continued practice. Out of this period, arose notions of African (dark skin) inferiority. In colonial society, the social hierarchy was one of white over brown over black. The social relations were further complicated with the arrival of East Indians; East Indians were seen as inferior to the Europeans but superior to the Africans. The African phenotype was associated with ugliness, his character portrayed as criminal, lazy and dishonest and his institutions, norms and culture seen as pagan, evil and primitive". While this may all be true, you fail to aknowledge the real problem. The diaspora has been so successfull that in many cases the dispersed Africans don't want to marry
Africans from the motherland. Dispersed Africans don't trust their brethren enough to invest in the mother land eventhough many economist have stated that by doing so (investing) would be a win win situation with promising returns and growth. We have to be responsible for the way we a re treted for allowing it to happen. You and I should be setting up shop right now in west Africa especially Liberia. No we would rather discuss the effects of colonialsm instead of doing what we can to use the knowledge that we have reaped to build a stronger Africa. One thats for Africans in the same way the European has Europe, and the Asian has Asia. Social distance is all about money and power. When the gropu with the most resources feels itself losing power, it uses race as a tool to balance things. Multiculturalism is in't fake, but rather controled by the group with the most resources because of the potential to exploit ones self or culture in order to survive.