Dr. Morgan Job speaks.

The followed is posted by kind permission of Dr Morgan Job

Books have been dangerous things. Ideas rue mankind. The only way forward for our janmabhoomi is this: the youth must abandon the Marxist ideas in Eric Williams' books; and the pervasive pimping of an ideas of race, culture or racial identity symbolized by Eric Williams as Black cult leader, Khafra Kambon, Suruj Rambachan, and Sat Maharaj as voices of an Indian, Hindu, or African race.

Marxist ideas informing policy should incite ridicule or laughter, but you hear them from the mouths of politicians, trade union leaders every day! Trinidad and Tobago is an anti-intellectual society that promotes people like Sat Maharaj, Gladiator, Sadro, Harvey Burris, Umbala, Khafra Kambon, Crocro, Aloes, Keith Rowley Camille Robinson-Regis and others to build careers promoting ideas: the same ideas as the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), Afrikaner Apartheid, colonial race theorists, race ideas that made Hitler famous.

The comfort of ignorance often comes packaged in books. Eric Williams' History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago gives comfort to racists in subtle ways, by reinforcing stereotypes, or rubbing out the memory of many important men who helped create the History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago merely because it served the purpose of the PNM Cult or more perversely because their skin colour marked them as undesirable.



Ideas rule mankind. Ancil Roget, and Keith Rowley without knowing it are disciples of Eric Williams History. They have declared war against the people of Trinidad and Tobago the better to serve the idea that PNM is the natural party of government. Their ideas come from Williams' doctrine. They are devoted to Karl Marx' ideas. They must have a statist view. They must desire to "control the commanding heights of the economy", impose redistributive taxes on business/private sector, which they call "justice". They must desire a state monopolized education system run for the benefit of trade unions and politicians, not the true clients:the children and their parents.

Marx' ideas imbibed from Eric Williams' books is part of any explanation for the state of this country: Williams boasted that he wrote History of the people of Trinidad and Tobago as an Independence gift to children.

Williams asserted that "Solomon, Butler, and Cipriani labored in the vineyard, only to produce the barren fruit of Albert Gomes." Williams' statement is a poisoned chalice. It is a wicked, vindictive, malicious, deceitful and tendentious statement. It reminds us of Hitler's "Big Lie."

No individual worked harder or more diligently than Albert Gomes did for decades from the 1930s through to 1956 to create or promote a Trinidadian national identity. Eric Williams was nowhere while Gomes fought on behalf of Shango people, Shouter Baptists, calypsonians, steel pan players, dancers, writers,..In this Albert Gomes Centenary Year, no account of the History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago purporting to be a gift to lift children makes any sense while it dismisses Albert Gomes as a "barren fruit." One vicious sentence naming Gomes a "barren fruit" in a book claiming to be a history of the people of Trinidad. Such a statement can issue from a morbid mind, twisted by the imperatives of political mobilization of mobs in an intellectual barracoon society, a narrow, provincial, midden of tribal feeling.

Job had the benefit of reading Lord Acton's Lectures on Modern Hiistory as an undergraduate in 1964. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago is a demonstration of how not to write history. That is not the way you write history to give children ideas of how to engage the past. It is not the way to help children focus in respect for differences, individual responsibility and productivity. Eric Williams' History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago confirms Acton's wisdom: "A man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another for at home, one for opposition and another for office." The book fails to meet modern standards of rigor. It enslaves Black children in a world of old racist stereotypes, and vulgar prejudices.

Sat Maharaj, Khafra Kambon, and Selwyn Cudjoe are devoted to the kind of parochial narratives that Williams' book promotes. They are champions of a genre spawned by Williams Negro in the Caribbean, Capitalism and Slavery and such ethnic particular works. History of the people is aptly described in Elsa Goveia's words as "New shibboleths for old." When Wendell Stephen rudely sucks his teeth during Job's delivery of the book of the day it says he is manacled like a limpet to PNM Cult ideas derived from the rubbish Karl Marx put in Eric Williams' head.

This PNM Cult polemic as a history book is a trap. It demeans the French creoles. It never elevates the Hindus from the coolie barracks. It keeps the Blacks focused on entitlement, grievance, envy, jealousy, "Massa Day Done. My purpose is to take from those who have had too much for too long and give it to those who have had too little for too long" (Eric Williams) and a moral justification for skulking which leads the mind to love long racist debates about "Reparations" from whites. "Reparations" never involve the African ancestors who hunted, manacled and sold their own people!

Lee Quan Yew never told the people of Singapore such rubbish. Mariano Browne and Williams' apologists who accuse Singapore of succeeding because of an undemocratic totalitarian regime are ignorant of the destructive power of Williams' incitement to Negros in the PNM Cult culture base.

Ideas rule mankind; and Williams' ideas never incited PNM Cult devotees to emulate "Indians", or "Syrians" whom they envied, and sometimes brutalized during election campaigns.

We must emancipate children from the ideas that separate them into Sat Maharaj race categories. Sat and Kambon deliver a toxic cocktail to innocent children as race pride. The races of Sat, Kambon, Cudjoe and Suruj do not exist, but for the purposes of pimping ignorance or ideas of Africa, or India. Eric Williams' ignorance of economics conflated Capitalism and Slavery. His ignorance of genetics permitted the stereotypes of History of the people.

Children must be liberated from our conmen and pimps who imprison their minds with the help of Williams' outdated tribal narratives