[xkaydet65]

The fact that these guys hail from Guyana and T&T is not surprising. There is a Little Guyana community a fifteen minute bus ride on the Q11 from JFK, located in Richmond Hill. Like most Guyanese who come to the US these are the descendants of Pakis who left greater India to work in the British Colonial Service or for Brit companies in colonial areas where the was not a lot of confidence in the qualities of the indigenous population.

One of America's staunchest opponents in South America was the Guyanan president of the 50s and 60s Chetti Jagan (sis) who was an early supporter of Fidel. A lot of anti American feeling down there, now coupled with Islamic radicalism. I'd bet the Feds are looking at many more people in the Richmond Hill area who work at JFK.

[Cicero]

I first read about the mixture of black and Indian islanders in V.S. Naipaul’s wonderful novel, “A House for Mr. Biswas.”

In that novel, as in his African novel “A Bend in the River,” Naipaul presents the Indians, a minority among the blacks, as the civilized ones. I’m sorry that he appears to have been wrong. I suppose when they were moved there by the British, some of them were Hindu and some where Muslim. Pakistan didn’t exist back then.

Naipaul himself is universally despisted by teachers of postcolonial literature, because his views are pretty conservative and sympathetic to western civilization. He’s one of the best novelists in the third world, but suffers from political prejudice.

[wtc911]

Richmond Hill is Guyana.