Professor Adolfo, the need of the hour is a Goan Catholic Truth Commission. It could be in Cyberspace.We Goan Catholics are guilty of a whole lot of discrimination, both within our community and without.We discriminated against each other because of Caste, although supposedly there is no room in the Catholic faith for Caste, as that was a Hindu concoction.We discriminated against tailors mechanics and cooks, as supposedly they were not of our social status, though our social status was that of lowly clerks n the colonial administration..We discriminated against, non-Goans including Mangloreans even though they are of Goan ancestry,Hindus, Muslims, Anglo-Indians, Seychellois, Chinese etc. etc. In the African colonies, we discriminated against the indigenous Africans, mimicking the discrimination inflicted on us by the white man.We need to bare our souls and cleanse ourselves of the baggage that is weighing us down.Who among us has the moral fibre and personal record to lead such a commission but thee ? On Tuesday, 07 April 2020 13:14:37 IST, Adolfo Mascarenhas <adca...@gmail.com> wrote:
Tony Thanks a million for your Message: 5 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 202022:46:48 +0530 Mge-ID: <CAPsceg_UiEKtZQX8o_akrR4Xw6kekELZ2fcom>From: Tony de Sa <tonyde...@gmail.com> Subject: [Goanet] The Goan Club - EastAfrica The same Goans so proud to be Western discriminate against fellow Goans in this case because he was a Goan Hindu Police man . I will leave the story below xxx. I want to write about heroes in Moshi: both Goans and Non Goans: 1) The Shah family decided to employ handicapped people to man the leather goods factor...they made caps, calendars etc. 2) Have you heard of the Martin Family I meet them in Goa about 14 years ago. Dom Martin is a great artist but also a poet. He is in defense of the rights of the Palestinians. Than you Tony .....Your Perspectives stand not like some who pretend that Goan Clubs make us Dark Skinned English Regards Adolfo I can remember a peculiar situation in Moshi, then Tanganyika. We had a club called the Goan Association and we were given a plot ofland for a clubhouse. We first had a wooden clubhousewhich came down one day and we had a new one built at the top of theproperty. One fine day a Hindu Goan whose name was MoluDesai and was from Cuncolim walks into the club demanding membership. Themanaging committee of the club was in a tizzy. Such a situation had neverhappened. Most of our community laboured under a delusion that allGoans were necessarily Catholic. Molu Dessai was reluctantly granted membership.But he also joined the Hindu Gymkhana where he felt he was morewelcome. Molu Dessai worked for the Tanganyika Police. Regards, Tony de Sa Technical Editor ? Graphics ? IT Stuff