Tonight, I feel chilled. No, it's not because of the rain. I'd promised myself that this time around I wasn't going to say anything about politics or the traumatic time we've all had with elections due tomorrow. But I have to say something.
Why am I looking around Facebook and the internet and just everyday life and seeing polarised division based on race? I naively thought that Basdeo Panday was the last of the Mohicans where race politics is concerned. I was wrong. From the nail techs to the entrepreneurs, people on both sides are not only voting race but being very open with their racist philosophies, Facebook statuses et al.
There are a great many people voting for the People's Partnership not because of the many salient points in their manifesto, but because in their opinion, its time for people of the same the race of its political leader to 'rise up' and 'take over'. There are a great many people voting for the PNM not because they believe that they are being taken care of, but because in their opinion having 'those Indians in power' is second only to death by firing squad. I am appalled and sickened by both these schools of thought. And I feel, as Walcott said so well, divided to the vein.
Why is it always them against us? We have to live here, together, come Tuesday May 28. Why can't it, for once, be about we?
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