I should have pointed out in my first response when you said, "... what is situation like in Trinidad and Guyana regarding Asians and blacks economic wise ...” that many Asians are indeed Black, and some Asians are as African as any Black African in Africa. I assumed you were speaking about the Indian type Asians and Black Africans.

I hear talk about Africans jealousy toward Indians here. But that is crap. As the result of the way Indians internalize Hinduism, they are quite racist.

About 10 years ago, they used to explain on their Hindu programs here that Black people came about when Ram (one of their Brahmin gods) burnt Rawan (a black king from Sri Lanka they use to symbolize evil). I did much work to put an end to that crap on the airways by supplying information as to the African origin of all races.

The caste system is a considerable part of Hinduism and it teaches Indians (especially light-skinned ones) to develop a superiority complex towards darker-skinned people.

This illegitimate children talk is foolishness. I am saying if they want to make a case for illegitimate children (although all children are legitimate) they will have to start by talking about all the African children born in the West as a result of Slavery. The family instructions among Africans were shattered. These were quite deliberate acts. So of course becoming more responsible in general is the result of increasing consciousness. Indians have enough of their own social problems to work out than to be involved in pointing fingers at Africans.

If Africans APPEAR not to be as hard working, it is definitely as a result of a system (including an education system) that opposes their interest. Remember that Africans were torn apart from indigenous social institutions so there is less cohesiveness. Africans here, who grasp a better understanding of themselves, do so much to develop themselves economically and otherwise. They are not the ones in Jail for petty crimes.