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Tue, Nov 18, '25 at 9:05 PM

@sgtdjones

Eric was taken out of context also about his "cowshed comments"...


He was indeed.

Indian arrival day 2012:


Many of the national luminaries of Indian descent, primarily government ministers, spoke with much enthusiasm about the sacrifices their forefathers and foremothers made..
As I listened to various speakers the whole theme of the evening revolved around the fabled nature of the cowshed; it being reported by all of the speakers that Dr. Eric Williams called the Hindu schools cowshed and look at what the cowsheds have produced? Sat Maharaj, the grandest luminary of all had to correct the younger ones by letting them know that when Dr. Williams called the Hindu schools cowshed, Badase Sagan Maraj, his father-in-law, declared: β€œIt is better to educate a child in a cowshed than not to educate them at all.

In 1955 Badase was doing his best to build some schools for the Hindu children. Dr. Williams deplored the fact that the East Indian schools looked like cowsheds and vowed to do a better job of school building for all of the children, Hindu as well as Christian children, when he came into power. 
Although present Hindu lore has it that Dr. Williams called the Hindu schools cowsheds he did not intend to denigrate Hindu schools or Hindu children. He merely sought to deplore the condition in which the education of our school children took place.


https://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog/?p=6403


I'm not sure if you are tryng to justify the rampant racism of what is passing for governance and social media commentary of late in TnT, but truth is a better antidote than the bitter pill you've swallowed that may have been passed down from your ancestors.

Tue, Nov 18, '25 at 9:11 PM

@notinsular


So you are now quoting Cudjoe... A Pan-African to the core that worshipped the ground that Eric walked on...

Nice.

Eric lacked practice in effective cross-cultural communication.

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