Disappearum Sanctum Keeping Up with the Trini Thompson's from Across the Lapeyrouse Cemetery

The Hon. A. A. Thompson, having worked all of his work life in the colonial Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and co-founded the then named Civil Servants Association (CSA), now called the Public Service Association (PSA) with his friends and colleagues, Mr. Eric Patience and Mr. Joseph Superville (both of whom were local white Trinidadians), in order to establish rights for government employees, long before the country became an independent nation from Britain. A. A. Thompson in 1961 won elections in the country, thereby becoming a Member of Parliament. He in fact was the chief proponent and catalyst of Independence, having been experientially all too familiar with the rigours and dependencies to the British Crown. Based on his qualifications and background, he was thus initially put to the forefront of the ministerial leaderboard by the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Dr. Eric Williams. However, due to rising opposing factions that were colour-centric and racially bigoted against him, since my father was neither white or black, and held strong moral values, which at time in the early sixties, were being rebelled against by the masses. He was thus relegated to the Ministry of Local Government and Social Welfare, but due to his ability to speak multiple languages, was the one chosen to go abroad to various countries around the world on official duty, promoting and discussing the country's new ventures. For all his hard work, dedication and intellect he was pressured for having "too much privilege", who was "not white" yet who was not "black enough in a Black country" to exclusively represent them overseas. Then as a result of a sudden outbreak of dangerous riots in the country in 1970, out of a copy-cat spin-off of the Black Power Movement in the United States, the Honourable A. A. Thompson's position within the independent country which he had just helped to form with the new governing PNM party, became tenuous.