T&T, with its deep internal race, class, economic and political conflict and with one of the two majority groups (Afro-T&T) increasingly slipping into the position of a social underclass, has the potential to implode in conflict when the internal tensions become unbearable and there is perceived to be no way out of institutionalised inequalities.
In columns going back over the last few months, I have noted the ascendancy of the Indo-Trinidad population at the same time that segments of the Afro-Trinidad community have declined in educational achievement–and this is going back over the last 25 and more years, in economic life, in occupation of the political crease–and is now in serious danger of becoming an under-class.
The column has contended that much of the lag in achievement and decline in social and economic development has been a result of the social fall-out from a dysfunctional family life, poor parenting, teenage and premature pregnancies, the growth in the gang and community sub-culture and the fact that segments of the Afro population have been trapped in a form of political dependency, merely serving as voter banks for the People's National Movement, the party to which those particular groups and communities have pinned their flag.
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