Cricket: a colour commentary
Reading Time 1 minsA “West Indian Apartheid” lingered in West Indian cricket until the latter years of the nineteen-fifties: of course the game was merely reflecting the state of play in colour-coded societies that stood blackness in the basement. This writer allows that the “gentleman’s game” was not alone in race/colour prejudices. Young Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize winner in Literature 1992) saw the racism/colorism in Grenada during the three months he spend on the island, teaching Latin and English at the Grenada Boys’ Secondary School (GBSS). Professor Simon Rotenberg [University of Chicago] saw it in the course of a 1952 visit to Grenada. Enough. Back to the Oval A campaign to… Read More »Cricket: a colour commentary