Mr Warn­er, as a for­mer lec­tur­er in his­to­ry, you of all per­sons should know in T&T the records would show that rad­i­cal so­cial, po­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic changes have al­ways been, in the main, led and nur­tured by African Tri­nis.

Have you for­got­ten the changes fought for the work­ing class by Tubal Uri­ah But­ler in 1937; the rad­i­cal shake-up of busi­ness es­tab­lish­ments in 1970 lead­ing to the em­ploy­ment of Afro Tri­nis and East In­di­ans in banks and oth­er pre­mier in­sti­tu­tions for the first time, led by Makan­dal Daa­ga and the Black Pow­er Move­ment?

Would you dare to ad­mit that the move­ment paved the way for you to as­cend to the po­si­tion of FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent? Have you for­got­ten the piv­otal role played by African Tri­nis led by Dr Er­ic Williams, Dr Er­ic Solomon, John Don­ald­son, Sir El­lis Clarke, ANR Robin­son, Doo­dridge Al­leyne, in our at­tain­ment of self-gov­er­ment in 1956, in­de­pen­dence in 1962, re­pub­li­can­ism in 1976?

As a his­to­ri­an, you would know that all these bench­marks were at­tained with staunch op­po­si­tion ini­tial­ly from East In­di­ans, Whites, Chi­nese and mixed races who came on board at lat­er stages of the process. If African Tri­nis are again in the van­guard seek­ing to de­mand jus­tice for the Sec­tion 34 coup and pun­ish­ment for the per­pe­tra­tors, then his­to­ry is mere­ly re­peat­ing it­self.

An­tho­ny Lewis

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