Is Race an Issue in the Caribbean? Signs of Mistrust and Intolerance

As we know, the Caribbean is racially and ethnically diverse. But is Race a factor that leads to mistrust and intolerance in the Caribbean? Is there tolerance or intolerance on a Racial level? 

A History of Racial Intolerance
The Caribbean's History shows racial discrimination and intolerance among the different racial groups. The sole fact that West Africans were captured and used as slaves by the Europeans- being dehumanized and abused- shows that the Europeans had a high level of intolerance towards the blacks. They did not treat the Africans as humans with equal rights, thus they did not tolerate the Africans' human rights. Also, Africans did not trust whites. After the emancipation of slavery, there was the establishment of a White Immigration Scheme for a relatively short period. There was a high level of mistrust from the blacks concerning this scheme (Hall 52). This mistrust is illustrated in the following quote:
"All the great, lazy, big-bellied fools send for Emigrants to do we harm, and now dat we find Emigrants cant harm we, it is we business to tick out for good wages whatever come”. (Francis Munroe, black carpenter. Wilmot, 52).
Furthermore, there was racial prejudice and discrimination against the East Indians during the period of East Indian Indentureship. There were stereotypes and myths associated with the Indians. 
According to John Gladstone: “they had no religion, no education and in their present state no wants beyond eating, drinking and sleeping." They were called pejorative names, such as 'low life manual worker' and 'Coolie' (Hall 39).

What about now?
A study by the In­ter-Amer­i­can Com­mis­sion on Hu­man Rights (IACHR) has found that the prob­lems of race are most per­sis­tent in the Caribbean, com­pared to oth­er parts of the Amer­i­c­as (Guardian).  Prof. Rose-Marie Belle An­toine says "While we pat our­selves on the back for be­ing rain­bow coun­tries, the re­al­i­ty is that there are still race ten­sions in our so­ci­eties. In more mod­ern times this has man­i­fest­ed it­self most promi­nent­ly in the re­la­tions be­tween In­do and African-Caribbean peo­ples, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go" (Guardian).  

According to Cecily Jones, the colonial past is still present in Caribbean societies today. Jones states that "whiteness continues to signal social and cultural capital to this day, This is evidenced by the concentration of white and lighter-skinned people within the elite." Jones further states that this issue gives rise to "the ubiquitous and dangerous phenomenon of skin bleaching practiced by women and men of all social classes" (Jones).

Emilio Pantejas Garcia further reiterates this issue as he states that Dominicans refer to Haitians as "blacks" or "negros" while the lighter-skinned Dominicans are termed as "Indians". 
Garcia states that there is also a history of mistrust among "West Indians" and "East Indians" within the English speaking Caribbean, especially in Trinidad and Guyana. These ethnic and xenophobic prejudices, which should not be confused with national pride, hamper also the development of a Caribbean project of economic integration (Garcia 65).