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pugboy wrote:Is this retroactive ?
Asking for some chinky eye friends I grew up with
This guy has said nothing new.The_Honourable wrote:You can be jailed for those racist remarks
If you make comments with offensive racial overtones, you can be forcefully summoned by the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC), tried and committed to prison for contempt.
The EOC also has the power to grant an injunction preventing people from using racial language.
And it’s all free.
The offended party does not have to pay for a lawyer. All they have to do is visit the EOC’s Ramsaran Street, Chaguanas, office and make a complaint.
Madam Justice Donna Prowell-Raphael, sole judge of the EOC, reminded citizens there was redress available for racism, during a national virtual symposium on Sunday on race relations in Trinidad and Tobago, hosted by the Faculty of Law, at The University of the West Indies, and the Catholic Commission for Social Justice.
Noting “we’re beginning to see some offensive language on social media”, Prowell-Raphael said this can result in racial hatred.
Newspaper columnist Raymond Ramcharitar, another panellist, like several others at the symposium, traced the recurring race factor in Trinidad and Tobago to politics.
“The State and social systems were designed to create racial strife for political purposes,” he said, “Anti-Indian racism is built into the State and has been from the 19th century.
“Indians have been treated as outsiders and faced a stream of racist rhetoric from the press, the leading citizens of creole Trinidad and other institutions.”
On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.
“How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
Ramcharitar said it’s because Indians are available to be painted as the oppressors in Trinidad. At the same time, he disembodied the notion that Indians in Trinidad are a disempowered minority. He said the reason the People’s National Movement (PNM) has been in power the longest was because of the absence of a viable opposition.
He quoted from the 1974 Hugh Wooding Commission.
“The opposition spent the pre- and post-Independence periods fighting itself, leaving the PNM to take and colonise the State.”
Ramcharitar said United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar showed no compunction in sacrificing the national interest in favour of losing the August 10 general election to retain personal status. He said all her predecessors did it.
“Indeed, the Indian parties are characterised by insiders who, when rejected, return to destroy the party.”
Several testimonials from people who said they were victims of racism were read out at the symposium.
One Afro-Trinidad woman said after a general election which the UNC won, an Indian man told her and her family: “Is we time now to spit on n----r.”
She said, ironically, she and her family had voted and campaigned for the UNC.
Many others of mixed ancestry, particularly of Amerindian ethnicity, said they were victims of verbal racial abuse by both Indo and Afro-Trinidadians.
Source: https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/y ... 12257.html
We gonna be faced with PNM police that will hinder the prosecution of PNM ppl. Files, edvedence and cases will go missing and lengthy delays to wear out the victims.pugboy wrote:Tbh this will likely never work
It will be a bit of work involved to see a judge who then has to make an order of some sort presumably to ttps to go summon the culprit, unless the judges order is strong I don’t see cops going on a beat to find somebody and charge them.
Cops already treat persons with Domestic protection orders with scant disdain.
I guess too many injun police killing black folk and state agencies pressuring black folk....BLMBen_spanna wrote:So the over sensitive over stupid blm crap has finally found its way down here...
What’s next.. there needs to be definitions of what offensive racist comments are....
MaxPower wrote:Don’t really mean to hot up allyuh head eh...
But....
Can a legal Venezuelan appeal to the EOC?
I think this will be a great step to eliminating racial discrimination from jealous Trinis....
and ofcourse vice versa.
“On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
De man on pointDizzy28 wrote:“On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
Raymond Ramcharitar better check his privilege
zoom rader wrote:De man on pointDizzy28 wrote:“On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
Raymond Ramcharitar better check his privilege
88sins wrote:zoom rader wrote:De man on pointDizzy28 wrote:“On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
Raymond Ramcharitar better check his privilege
d man onshit
Then explain how are PNM ppl oppressed when 80% of the time since 1956 they have had a pro black goverment.Redman wrote:88sins wrote:zoom rader wrote:De man on pointDizzy28 wrote:“On the controversial topic of Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, he said: “A relative of the owners write a racial post on social media. People go in a frenzy and Ramsaran’s products are pulled off the shelves.”
He said, on the other hand, a stream of anti-Indian comments and articles were treated with significantly less outrage. Ramcharitar claimed the present racial circumstances are significantly driven by the international Black Lives Matter movement, which has found its way into T&T. However, the core of that movement, that blacks are racially victimised by whites, is inapplicable to Trinidad, he said.How can a group that has been in power for 48 or 58 years be racially disadvantaged?”
Raymond Ramcharitar better check his privilege
d man onshit
Hence ZR's alignment.
zoom rader wrote:Then explain how are PNM ppl oppressed when 80% of the time since 1956 they have had a pro black goverment.
Dizzy28 wrote:No racial group in this country can hold any high ground when it comes to being more or less racist.
It exists as we all know it does and instead of playing Ganges and Nile every time it comes up the country should instead have some level of discourse on the issue. Clearly there are many unresolved matters particularly between the two largest ethnic groups. Something akin to Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
VexXx Dogg wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:No racial group in this country can hold any high ground when it comes to being more or less racist.
It exists as we all know it does and instead of playing Ganges and Nile every time it comes up the country should instead have some level of discourse on the issue. Clearly there are many unresolved matters particularly between the two largest ethnic groups. Something akin to Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
So much truth.
This is why I keep saying untill proper race and discrimination laws including LGBTs are put in place we shall remain a banana republic.Dizzy28 wrote:No racial group in this country can hold any high ground when it comes to being more or less racist.
It exists as we all know it does and instead of playing Ganges and Nile every time it comes up the country should instead have some level of discourse on the issue. Clearly there are many unresolved matters particularly between the two largest ethnic groups. Something akin to Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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