Comments on: The truth about 1990 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2010/07/27/the-truth-about-1990/ Bimonthly review of Caribbean literature and art Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ian http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2010/07/27/the-truth-about-1990/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Ian Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:10:01 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=2101#comment-123 Thanks for the post Nicholas. What bothers me is the number of people - many of them born after the coup, or at least after 1985 - who see this as "a waste of money" or something of the sort. I suppose it makes sense - it has been swept under the rug for twenty years now, how are they supposed to know about it? Would I have cared about a commission of inquiry looking into events of the Black Power revolution in 1990? Or perhaps, to pick something a bit closer to the truth - did I care about honouring Jean Miles in in July 1990? It was ancient history, something I barely understood. I suppose you had to live through it... Thanks for the post Nicholas. What bothers me is the number of people – many of them born after the coup, or at least after 1985 – who see this as “a waste of money” or something of the sort. I suppose it makes sense – it has been swept under the rug for twenty years now, how are they supposed to know about it? Would I have cared about a commission of inquiry looking into events of the Black Power revolution in 1990? Or perhaps, to pick something a bit closer to the truth – did I care about honouring Jean Miles in in July 1990? It was ancient history, something I barely understood.

I suppose you had to live through it…

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