Giller prize winner didn't do her homework

The latest in the left-wing conga line of Giller Prize winners is Esi Edugyan, who took home the gold with her acclaimed novel "Washington Black". The Giller Prize was founded by good mensch Jack  Rabinovitch in honour of his recently departed wife, Doris Giller.

The Giller Prize is always given out to books that exemplify the Jewish worldview - namely, the evilness of Christianity, the inherent goodness of diversity/multiculturalism, the ineluctable moral superiority of people of color (PoC) over Europeans, etc. Past awards have been given to books about the sordid abuse of children by Catholic priests. While I have no problem outright slandering the Catholic church, I notice that the Giller Prize committee is somewhat reticent about extending the same honors to books about abuse by Rabbis.

At any rate, "Washington Black" concerns a slave born into captivity in Barbados. The unfortunate young man is the property of a cruel slavemaster named 'Erasmus Wilde'.

And right there we lose all credibility.

The author apparently didn't do much research into the history of Barbados, nor into the owners of the large plantations on that island.

If she had done so, she would have figured out that the slave industry in South and Central America was in Sephardic Jewish hands. The odds of an 'Erasmus Wilde' owning a large plantation in Barbados are next to nil.

How convenient for the Jewish Giller Prize to go to a book that effectively covers up the complete dominance that Sephardic Jews had in the plantations of the Caribbean and South America.

Not to mention that the first slaves on Barbados were actually white, the unfortunate souls who lost the war against Cromwell and the Puritans. Life expectancy for whites in those climates was around a year, due to disease. The white slaves of Barbados are probably unknown to the author.

At any rate, well played. I'm sure the middle-aged white cat ladies will engage in an extra dose of self-flagellation, thinking about cruel 'Erasmus Wilde' and all of the torments he imposed on his charges. Meanwhile, Jews are victims with no history of oppressing people of color.