Duke has sealed his reputation

THE EDITOR: Every word spoken is geared to grab that important extra 15 minutes of fame. Watson Duke, leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) of Tobago, made a comment that sealed his reputation for being wilfully discordant and foolish. So what is new?

We, and here I must identify myself as black, do not need uneducated advice from anyone with a charge of sexual harassment awaiting judgement. Until that charge is heard, Mr Duke should remain silent. Why use the n-word and thereby allow people to agree that he is as educationally poorly outfitted?

Wearing expensive, paid for distressed designer jeans at the launch of a party at an upscale hotel did not make him politically beautiful and extra clever. As we say in local parlance, "Who he feel he is, boy, God?"

For whose political benefit is Mr Duke deliberately talking politically obscene nonsense? Black TT citizens must follow his black advice to vote or not vote in a democracy? The sitting People's National Movement bent over backwards to ensure no permanently employed public servant (80,000 on record) lost his or her job between 2015 and 2019.

What is on offer from Mr Duke and his handlers? Sixteen per cent increases in monthly salaries? Paid for by whom and from where? Funds held in waiting in Mr Crapaud's bank account?

For me, the insult to my senses is that Watson Duke believes that TT people of all races must be stupid.

Read my lips, Watson: Gaze into your political mirror at a man with a sign around his neck that reads "Last mentally enslaved black man for sale."

Lynette Joseph

Diego Martin

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