Sure, political, electoral and constitutional change must come to assist with the transformation of the society to ensure equity in human development so that all ethnic, cultural and social groups have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential.However, to halt its slide into second-, even third-class status, segments of the Afro-Trinidad population need to become fully conscious of the danger facing them.
Brazilian educator/philosopher Paulo Freire, in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is fully convinced that groups and individuals living at the margins of society must be the major force to liberate and conscientise themselves.
Genuine community leaders (not gangsters), the black but ever-dwindling middle and professional classes, institutions ranging through church, school, sporting clubs, educational groups to business organisations, trade and credit unions, community steelbands, political parties, which claim to represent this tribe, must ignite a process to reverse the descent into ignominy.
This is not a call for the rise in black aggression towards or hatred of other ethnic and cultural groups; but rather the recognition that this building of community strength has long been at the core of the rise and progress of Indo-Trinidad, of the Syrian/Lebanese Trinidad community, amongst Euro-Trinidad groups, institutions, professional classes, business organisations and associations over the last 50 years.
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