Cornel refuses to answer the questions and provide a full disclosure about himself and his family. Has he invited the castes he champions TO HIS HOME to break bread and meet his children? And sincerely hoping for a long fruitful relation? A sampling of his statements from his post below are analyzed: (They are similar to his other writings)
Statements: 1, 7: and other descriptors like "lightweight", "nonsense", "rubbish", and other personal judgements, are PURELY casteist statements - enhancing one's ego / resume by demeaning another Goan / institution. In addition, for those who needed proof why I refer to him as casteist the following is classical Cornel .... and classical Casteist. (Meaness without presenting any intellectual content). Another recent sampling of his writings to another polite and civil poster, "you display an incredible feudal mind-set but masquerade as though an educated and enlightened contemporary individual with a modern life-style. Regretfully, you fool nobody and it is time you took stock of your racist and casteist views and your supposed attachment to Catholicism. You really have made the anti-casteist case for us. Clearly, those close to the problem, and are indeed part of the problem like you, are too blinkered to see and understand the racist and casteist beast we have been attacking from afar." ------------------------- Statements: 2, 3, 4, 6: So where is the beef? Most Goans, including those that in his casteist arrogance, he has pigeon-holed as "caste apologists", have moved beyond caste. All of us are saying, "please do not bother us" with a stymied mind set. What part of this sentence is in a foreign language? ----------------------- Statement: 5: Makes a problem where none exists. Thus he can justify his time and importance ... not uncommonly seen among academics. ---------------- The question about the 'Goan scholar': Is Cornel being a purist (in the way he analysis the past or other posts), or is he being intellectually dishonest, or plain argumentative, or just over the top? Until I know here he is coming from and where his discussion is going, (in practical terms) it is a clear a waste of time for me. Several others have stated the same conclusions. Saiba boggos ... let's hope for his sake and our collective sanity ... that 2008 is better. Yet the lurkers who propped him up may make their appearance. I hope they at least have more substance than empty rhetoric. Kind Regards, GL ----------------- CORNEL DACOSTA 1. With the greatest respect to Gilbert, I must ask what rubbish he writes from a feudal mind-set whilst living (presumably), in a modern life style? 2. For crying out loud, many people in the Goan Diaspora haven't got a clue about caste among so called Catholic Goans. A majority arrived here from East Africa, and again, significant numbers were never introduced to the notion of caste in Goa. 3. That was the priority of a minority who wanted to propagate it with mother's milk! I am led to understand from a reliable recent source in Goa that, this minority is some 1.5% of the 'Catholic' Goan population in Goa. 4. In my Goan High School, Mombasa, Kenya, the word caste was definitely never ever uttered in the Goan Community context and in our Goan club it simply did not feature. 5. I personally had no clue about caste among the Christian Goans, until I became an activist against racism, as a university student and later as a college and university lecturer in London. 6. So many Goanetters have informed me that they had had no clue earlier about this evil called caste among Catholic Goans and, 7. with respect, for Gilbert to want to casteicise such people (as village Goa does ever so well) through a perverse sense of inherent casteism, illustrates most clearly I would suggest, how deeply this nonsense of caste adherence is for some people.
