MONGREL ?
I find it hard to understand
All this bickering about race,
With so much miscegenation
Going on all over the place.
Here, in this Rainbow Republic,
We have an ethnic callaloo,
Hybrids that transcend barriers
To enrich our cultural brew.
Mestizo, beige, khaki people,
And it have so many ah we,
Making solid contribution
To the uplift of this country.
Half white, half breed, half Chinee,
Brown skin, beke negre, shabeen,
Red people and cocoa payol,
Dougla, and others in between.
We, who is neither fish nor fowl,
But just a little bit of each,
May never know where we come from,
But we know for sure that we reach.
We eh have no mother country:
Spain, China, Syria, Lebanon,
France, England, India, Africa...
We TOTALLY TRINBAGONIAN.
Mongrel is not a dirty word,
Look around you, can't you see
That in another couple years
We go be in the majority?
Even strong roots cannot nourish
Those branches cut off from the tree;
Why should the weaver unravel
This multi ethnic tapestry?
So we have to stop the ruction,
Is we responsibility
To wipe out racial prejudice
In we beloved Tee and Tee.
GENE WILKES
(Mongrel Trini)
Cocoyea.
