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“You are going to witness a return of larger and larger numbers of Caribbean peoples back to the region, and significant numbers of Hispanics back to Latin America.

In the context of a massive migration out of Eastern Europe into the US, we are going to witness in the next year or two the changing demographics there,” Sir Hilary said.

This will have an adverse impact on the global economy, he added, saying, “We are going to see the deepening of the world recession, because three quarters of humanity will assume that the US no longer possess the moral authority to direct the world.” Addressing a online forum yesterday on, “The Caribbean say on the US today” at the UWI Regional Headquarters in Mona, Jamaica in the wake of Trump’s victory, Sir Hilary said that based on history, Trump’s victory was “entirely predictable and expected. As a humanist, an idealist...it was fearful.” On some important lessons to learn from the election result, Sir Hilary said, “I have no doubt we are going to see a political strategy that imagines North America as a centre of a reconstructed White global supremacy ideal.” The foundation has already been laid for a massive migration out of Europe into the US and North America, and with Trump’s migration policy, the re-migration of Non-Whites to their original homeland, he said. In modern history, Beckles said that this will be the third phase of such a migration, the first phase being that which led to the first phase, the construction of “Plantation America.” After the second phase, the emancipation of slavery during the middle of the 19th century, Sir Hilary said, the black community was on par to become a significant part of the society in terms of demographics.

“At emancipation the black community was about 40 to 50 percent of the overall population,” but a massive migration out of Europe to North America pushed back the Black community from a 50/50 potential to a ten percent of the population.

The millions of Europeans who went into North America after emancipation, he said, created the kind of structure that led to the Ku Klux Klan, the forcing of Black and native Americans off their lands, and the marginalisation of their communities that led to the rise of White supremacy in phase two.

“Phase three is going to come where we will see an even massive majority of migrants coming out of Europe driving the so-called Brown/Black alliance into an even smaller minority position,” he said.

A similar situation, he said, occurred when former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979. “That was the beginning of a net migration of Caribbean citizens out of Britain. I was one of those who left on a one-way ticket,” he said.

What the US elections has shown, Sir Hilary said, was that a large white unskilled working class, excluded by globalisation due to the rise of technology, responding to Trump’s rhetoric through ethnic solidarity. “They have responded to global exclusion through ethnic solidarity, the identical process has happened in Britain. The exact process has happened across Europe.

If you place Brexit and the US circumstances in the same context, you will see there is a preference for the past,” he said.

An 18-month bitter and acrimonious election campaign culminated in a shocking, resounding victory by Trump over pre-election favourite and former Secretary of State in the Obama Presidency, Hillary Clinton - the Democratic candidate.