Winston Bernard Coard (born 10 August 1944) is a Grenadian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister in the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) of the New Jewel Movement.
Coard left Grenada for the United States, where he studied sociology and economics at Brandeis University and joined the Communist Party USA.
They become resentful and bitter at being told their language is second-rate, and their history and culture is non-existent; that they hardly exist at all, except by the grace of whites.Coard's thesis was widely cited, even long after his revolutionary career, as a summary of the role of institutional racism in the relationship between race and intelligence.
A 2021 BBC One documentary Subnormal: A British Scandal describes the events surrounding the racism of a leaked school report, leading to the publication of Coard's booklet.
[4][5] Produced/directed by Lyttanya Shannon, and executive produced by Steve McQueen,[6] the film features interviews with people who were put into ESN schools, and activists, academics and psychologists and others who worked to expose the scandal at the time, such as Gus John and Waveney Bushell.
Influenced by Marxists such as Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro, Bishop established the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) of Grenada with himself as Prime Minister.
However, Bishop and seven others, including several PRG cabinet ministers, were killed soon thereafter, under unclear circumstances, by firing squad in the Fort Rupert courtyard.
Just after US Marines landed in Grenada, Coard, along with his wife Phyllis, Selwyn Strachan, John Ventour, Liam James and Keith Roberts, were arrested.
He served his sentence in Richmond Hill Prison, where he was engaged in teaching and instructing fellow inmates in many subjects, including economics and sociology.
In September 2004, the prison in which he was held was damaged by Hurricane Ivan and many inmates took the opportunity to flee, but Coard said he chose not to escape, saying he would not leave until his name was cleared.