----- Original Message -----
From: Godfrey Pereira
To: Floriano Lobo
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Goanet] Fred on Bleddy Goans.. and all that- comments as
posted on www.goasu-raj.org
Hey Floriano, if you can please post this reply of mine somewhere. Thank you
so much for keeping me in the loop
Will keep in touch. It's Spring Time here in The States. I can't wait till I
come back to Goa. It will happen soon.
Hope that you are doing fine. Hello to your family.
Vaya Con Dios my friend
Peace
Godfrey Pereira
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Whoever this guy Eugene Correia is, he does radiate some good light. Hello
Eugene, Peace from The Jersey Shore..
Once again I would like to stress, this artcle was not an anti Goan piece.
It was a gut scream that hoped to wake up somebody, anybody, hopefully The
Goans, to the pain I felt.
I do not have any problem, with Goan mothers because their sons work in The
Gulf and Canada. What I was trying to say is despite the cash flow that some
or many Goan mothers receive, being silent, and being being apathetic is not
an option for the Goan WOMAN right now.
Women are STRONG. They can influence their men. They can literally turn
things around. Perhaps I could have explained it better. Mea Culpa, Mea
Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.
And, I don't need to leave Jersey and New York to help "my" East Indian
Community. What I have done to help in that fight, I know, so we will let
that go for now. I do not see myself as an East Indian to begin with... but
when I see a place like Goa being raped... I cannot be silent and run to
America. That is why I wrote what I wrote. How can you stay silent when you
see a sign saying "Indians Not Allowed" in Goa. How? Where were the Indian
voices, THE GOAN VOICES, when these signs were put up. Where? You can
criticize me all you want, at least I cried out aloud, in pain and anger and
shame, when I seen this injustice.
I could have walked away... I am not a Goan, hell I am not even an Indian
Citizen, but my heart beat is Indian and many, many parts of my
consciousness lie strewn all over Goa, that's why...I am what I am. If you
want to shoot the messanger, go ahead, shoot me but after that, you had
better stand up and do something about your silence.
My anger and frustration is better than the collective silence that I was
hearing. The Goan sound of silence here, my friend is a terrifying state of
fatal lethargy.
And lastly, Yes I am aware of some of the campaigns that have been run. The
proof my friend is in the pudding. And right now, from human feces and urine
in the Mandovi river to openly corrupt politicians and police and miners and
foreign drug runners, the Goan Pudding is looking like Bibic, left out in
the sun too long, the scavengers are moving in. And The Goans are watching
this tragedy with a funeral like silence that is frightening.
If you do not have a problem with that, then my friend, YOU ARE PART OF THE
PROBLEM.
Peace
Godfrey Pereira
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fred on Bleddy Goans.. and all that- comments as
posted on www.goasu-raj.org
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:48:30 +0530
Comments:
Well done, Eugene.
Not because you have mentioned my name. Names do not matter when Goa is
fighting the hands that are strangulating her.
Yes, Godfrey Pereira has opened a lot of eyes and ears here in Goa, mine
too.
That is why I have been one of the first ones to thank him profusely, but
importantly, not to ridicule or dismember our very own Goans.
Sometimes, things have to be taken in stride, forgive people et al.
The least I can say is thank you for overlooking my little indiscretions
towards you. But then, not to justify them, I have been always looking at
the larger interest of Goa and Goan. My consistency will prove this.
Today, Goa needs the replay of the 'BATTLE AT KRUGER' available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM, thanks to Dr. Ferdinand dos Reis
Falcao.
And the need of the hour is the furtherance of the PPS movement.
Once again, thank you for being objective.
B/rgds
Cheers
floriano
Coordinator of:
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Correia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fred on Bleddy Goans.. and all that
