Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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Yeah, yeah.
No, I think it's fair.
Like, it's...
It's been used much more as a force for dividing us and making us hate each other than it has been for creating a world where we can all live together alongside each other.
Yeah.
This is a digression, but in my experience in Trinidad, what I've noticed is that it's
their efforts to kind of construct, and they have been since the establishment of Trinidad as an independent country, Trinidad and Tobago as an independent country in 1962, first led by Dr. Eric Williams.
There were efforts to kind of build this kind of cross-racial, like overarching, like Trinidadian, Trinbigonian identity, which
I mean, I use that term, trend bagel, in some of my work.
But trend bagel was kind of attached to trend ad against their will.
And even now, there are people who try to push that trend bagel unity.
But there are also people who will assert, particularly people from Tobago, who will assert that, yeah, no, we want greater autonomy.
We want even independence from Trinidad.
And so for maybe certain people unifying purposes, I would use the term, but I try not to give off that impression that I'm using it for a kind of
unifying nationalism, because I think with the nationalism of such a young quote unquote nation, a nation of nations, of various people from all over the world, mostly brought here against their will.
There are these competitions, I think, over the proportionality of the representation of different racial ethnic groups.
the competitions over who gets to define what this Trinidadian nation is, what it means to be a Trinidadian, and efforts to kind of balance or imbalance the proportion of representation depending on which government is in power.
You know, our current government is very much oriented toward a kind of
Indo-Trinadian, Indian focus and have in many ways marginalized all other groups, maligned all other groups, disrespected all other groups within the country to kind of elevate the sense of get back for the Indian people in Trinidad.
And I don't want to go too much down that road talking about that, but it's just another example to me of the frustration and misdirection that comes with investment in nationalism, which currently holds a monopoly both here and in much of the world on narratives of liberation and anti-colonial resistance.
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