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Should we blame Naipaul? Posted: Monday, November 12, 2001 By Auliana Poon Jamaica Gleaner IT IS not so nice when someone of the stature of the Nobel Prize winner, V. S. Naipaul, refuses to accept and acknowledge the fact that he was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Let this be a lesson for all of us. It is easy to condemn Naipaul for his stand. But how many of us blame the past for our perils today? How many of us can say that we are truly grateful for our past because it has crafted us and made us what we are today? But I can tell you, the day that I became grateful for the fact that I was born in Trinidad and Tobago; grateful to Britain for enslaving and indenturing my ancestors; for bringing them to the New World, - to Trinidad and Tobago - just to produce this tiny little soul - this Auliana Poon; that was the day - a day not too long ago - the day that I was truly free; that I was finally emancipated! MORE |
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