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I'm passionate about

cricket/new ideas

An idea worth spreading

liberalism is intolerant because liberals who believe they have arrived at a higher thinking are intolerant of those who have not arrived at thet "higher2 thinking

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trinidad/thinking/tax/simplicity/cricket/family/jazz

People don't know that I'm good at

cooking

My TED Story

TED makes me think but its too cosy a group -it needs dissent.

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• A comment on Conversation: How did you first learn to be black or African or what was your earliest memory of learning about blackness/Africaness as different?

  Apr 28 2012: It seems to me that people in America confuse colour and race. Black is a colour. African is a race. The words are used interchangeably in America. For example, is Obama black? No , he is mixed race. Using colour makes one myopic and sometimes can cloud your racial origin . Tiger Woods is not black , to identify him by his colour is to cancel his Thai ancestry. Using race makes you think about your origin rather than lumping yourself under some administrative categorisation such as the word black.What do you think ?