In November 2012, when Jack Warner was still a minister in the Government of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, he chastised the organisers of a major march at that time about the absence of diversity in the march.That became the talking point in its aftermath. Fast-forward 18 months later and the latest talking point about last week's march concerns a couple of racist placards and who paid whom to carry them.
In 2012, Mr Warner was able to frame the post-march debate around his commentary about the absence of diversity in the march at that time. In a news conference shortly afterwards, he said: "Where was the diversity? Where were the East Indians, the mixed faces, the Chinese, the whites; where were the young people?"
In the most scathing part of that 2012 news conference, he said: "Today's march, which I call the failure of the three R's–Rowley, Roget and Ramesh–defined for the nation what Rowley's PNM represents. It was the most non-representative assembly of our nation's citizens, reflecting the narrow-minded thinking of a party that once claimed to be national."In 2014, Mr Warner himself participated in last week's march to express his lack of support for his former leader.
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