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rspann wrote:Now apologize to the african community who were portrayed as gorillas?
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:rspann wrote:Half my cabinet is Indian ,so take it up with them if you are offended , just didn't cut it.
I still trying to figure who makes up the half
rspann wrote:Al Wari, Rambharat,Franklin Khan and Deyalsingh. Four out of twenty five. Seems to be roughly half
Daran wrote:rspann wrote:Al Wari, Rambharat,Franklin Khan and Deyalsingh. Four out of twenty five. Seems to be roughly half
Well Faris is half Indian, so 3.5
rspann wrote:Kazim and Avinash in the cabinet? I was reading a list and didn't see them on it.
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Daran wrote:rspann wrote:Al Wari, Rambharat,Franklin Khan and Deyalsingh. Four out of twenty five. Seems to be roughly half
Well Faris is half Indian, so 3.5
Faris aka bobby seukaran and it have kazim, avinash and one or 2 others
MaxPower wrote:How come allyuh not begging the residents of Beetham to apologize to Fitzy?
He not a fellow Rastafarian?
Kasey wrote:MaxPower wrote:How come allyuh not begging the residents of Beetham to apologize to Fitzy?
He not a fellow Rastafarian?
Dai chu. Beetam only ha rasta
SDMS Secretary General urges PM to
Apologise to all women for depiction of violence
Gail Alexander
Published: Monday, August 20, 2018
Apologise to all women as well as the Hindu community.
That’s the view from several quarters including Hindu community leaders, on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s apology to Hindus for a controversial PNM skit two Sunday’s ago.
“The Prime Minister still owes the women of T&T—not just the Hindu community—an apology since that skit portrayed violence toward women,” said Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha general secretary Satnarayn Maharaj yesterday.
Maharaj was among those responding on the PM’s recent apology to the Hindu community regarding the skit which showed men dressed as gorillas unravelling a sari from a woman.
It was performed by PNM’s Tabaquite executive two Sunday’s ago at the PNM Family Day in Chaguanas.
Following protests from Hindu sectors and women’s groups, Rowley apologised to the Hindu community during last Saturday’s PNM Malabar meeting. He praised SDMS Maharaj’s stance on the issue.
National Security Minister Stuart Young, who also came under fire for saying the skit was a “lil bit of fun”, also followed Rowley. He apologised yesterday primarily to the Hindu community plus “any and all” offended by the skit.
But Maharaj added, “My take on this is that it wasn’t a Mahabharata (Hindu scripture) scene. This was a scene regarding T&T where women are being raped and murdered. Some people tried to say the garment in the skit was a sari. But the only people in T&T who wear a sari all day are the Catholic nuns of the order of Mother Teresa. The sari isn’t Hindus’ own, alone.
“So the Prime Minister still owes an apology to females who were killed, who survived attacks and women in general. I don’t need praise,” Maharaj said, adding he wasn’t among Hindu leaders whom Rowley said he would meet with on the issue.
UNC activist Devant Maharaj said neither Rowley’s apology to Hindus nor Young’s apology to “all and any” sufficed.
Maharaj added, “While the Prime Minister must be commended for—finally—apologising, he didn’t apologise to T&T’s women since the skit portrayed violence toward women.
“Cafra, Womantra and other organisations protested. Even if Young apologised to ‘all and any’, the Prime Minister is the ruling party’s leader and should have set the example, taking the lead on this,” he said.
“After digging in on the position that allegations of religious, racial and gender intolerance about the skit was ‘foolishness’, Rowley did a complete, unexpected flip. But he still denied the skit portrayed violence toward women and— exhibiting his trademark belligerence—no apology was offered there.
“Refusal to acknowledge that women were offended reinforces the view that ‘PNM’ stands for the People’s National Misogynists. Even Sat Maharaj, who the Prime Minister praised, said the skit was about violence against women,” the former minister said.
Querying who in the Hindu community Rowley consulted on the matter, Maharaj asked why he couldn’t have consulted women’s groups also.
“It’s amazing a 60-something-year-old man in T&T is ignorant about the Hindu population’s culture and ignorant about issues that offend T&T. What’s scary is, this man is the Prime Minister,” he said.
PM dismissed women’s concerns—Womantra
While the Prime Minister’s apology was a step in the right direction, his dismissal of the concerns expressed by Hindu and other women sends a clear message that those concerns aren’t important, says Womantra founder Stephanie Leitch.
She added, “The sign of a good leader is one who can admit they’ve made a mistake.”
“It’s disingenuous to reduce women’s call for an apology to political mischief based on the participation of the Opposition Leader and we are frankly tired of our leaders using our lives as political mileage.”
“In a time when women are on high alert about attacks on their person, our government cannot afford to be tone deaf to how a re-enactment of a woman being undressed by gorillas as a form of entertainment can be insensitive and triggering.”
“The Prime Minister had an opportunity in his apology to acknowledge the hurt his party’s action caused and to admit that he may not understand women’s reaction, which is steeped in fear of our current climate where women’s lives are disposable. It will serve our Prime Minister well to spend more time listening to women. This alone can bring about revolutionary change.”
Apologise to women too—analysts
Former public service head Reginald Dumas said, “This situation went beyond religion. To me, it was more a question of women’s rights and the decent way one should act toward women. So an apology to the Hindu community isn’t sufficient. It should have been made to women in general.
“I was very surprised to hear the Prime Minister say he’d never heard of the Mahabharata. But I agree our education system’s at fault. Society talks about ‘all ah we is one’ and ‘every creed and race find an equal place’ but people don’t know much about one another. Education must be geared to teaching about each other’s culture and religion. If people know more about others, they may not hurt them,” he said.
Political analyst Dr Bishnu Ragoonath agreed Rowley needed to apologise to women also. He noted women’s groups as well as Hindu protested the skit. Ragoonath added, “As opposed to the leadership’s earlier position (on the skit), they’ve now recognised they should apologise and do damage control as there was probably political backlash brewing within the party. For example, a PNM Diego Martin councillor and PNM’s Tabquite vice chairman distanced themselves from the skit.”
Ragoonath said Rowley is now being forced to act on issues—for his personal leadership’s sake—since, in the past, he had been perceived as remaining silent and condoning transgressions like the Tobago PNM’s ‘Calcutta ship’ remark.
Young sorry to ‘any and all’
In a Facebook post yesterday, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, National Security and Communications Young, noted the Prime Minister had apologised for the skit performed by a PNM constituency and “its negative effects.”
Young added, “I’d like to apologise to the Hindu community for the insensitivity of the skit which I was completely unaware had serious religious connotations and was disrespectful to the Hindu community. I admit that I’m not versed in Hindu community and I wasn’t aware of the story of the Draupadi from the Mahabharata.”
“I hereby offer my sincere and unreserved apology to any and all who were offended by the said skit, in particular to the Hindu community, and also for my description of the skit as a ‘little bit of fun’ when confronted at a media conference the day after the skit was performed.
“I have never and will never condone or accept any act of violence to women or children nor do I see race and religious differences as negative issues. I truly believe every creed and race should find an equal place in T&T.”
Ben_spanna wrote:So they baptize they own rep, den he went to the PoPo station to report it even though he somewhat denied reporting anything to a live cam there, now he was praised and welcomed back at the govt rally this weekend gone?
whatever yes!
When will they FINISH building the WALL and closing all the gaps in the wall too?
eliteauto wrote:De Dragon wrote:K74T wrote:eliteauto wrote:how desperate you have to be the claim "rape" was symbolised in that skit? Even Sat Maharaj wasn't convinced, long watery steups
De Sperate
Long time I eh see de tag team of Dot and Ishee in action!
The same lame-O's who froth up when Massive veejo came out
lol @ De Hen
dai dis thread?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=718219
show me meh froth nah? Storytelling musbe popular in your house ,nickname Lionel or Lisa?
rspann wrote:Al Wari, Rambharat,Franklin Khan and Deyalsingh. Four out of twenty five. Seems to be roughly half
ROFL bad gossip, typical of a"man" caught playing jam t**** for butternut on the plant and cut he/her hair in hopes ppl would forgetDe Dragon wrote:eliteauto wrote:De Dragon wrote:K74T wrote:eliteauto wrote:how desperate you have to be the claim "rape" was symbolised in that skit? Even Sat Maharaj wasn't convinced, long watery steups
De Sperate
Long time I eh see de tag team of Dot and Ishee in action!
The same lame-O's who froth up when Massive veejo came out
lol @ De Hen
dai dis thread?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=718219
show me meh froth nah? Storytelling musbe popular in your house ,nickname Lionel or Lisa?
Dot and Ishee 2.0
Don't worry what's popular at my home, study what hustle or robbery you have to put down to afford your rent.
Now that your God JUHN Scarfy apologize, and even Sat, who you quoted as your authority on the skit condemns it, your kant will now hopefully close.
eliteauto wrote:ROFL bad gossip, typical of a"man" caught playing jam t**** for butternut on the plant and cut he/her hair in hopes ppl would forgetDe Dragon wrote:eliteauto wrote:De Dragon wrote:K74T wrote:eliteauto wrote:how desperate you have to be the claim "rape" was symbolised in that skit? Even Sat Maharaj wasn't convinced, long watery steups
De Sperate
Long time I eh see de tag team of Dot and Ishee in action!
The same lame-O's who froth up when Massive veejo came out
lol @ De Hen
dai dis thread?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=718219
show me meh froth nah? Storytelling musbe popular in your house ,nickname Lionel or Lisa?
Dot and Ishee 2.0
Don't worry what's popular at my home, study what hustle or robbery you have to put down to afford your rent.
Now that your God JUHN Scarfy apologize, and even Sat, who you quoted as your authority on the skit condemns it, your kant will now hopefully close.
