I received the following comment on this post:
Thank you for breaking down the poem for us plebs. I enjoyed it, but appreciated it even more with your explanations. I do have to take exception with your characterization of Indo-Guyanese as somehow less offensive than Afro-Guyanese. Perhaps you don't know that Indian indentured labourers came from all over India, those from the south (Madrassis) were considered a different race by the British. All spoke diff languages (Telegu, Tamil, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Rajasthani, etc) and were different religions. Indo-Guyanese is a homogeneizing term that masks a complex background.
