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Do not mix up the African community with criminals

Jul 20, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye wrote in SN a letter titled “African concerns under-represented”, (3/7).
Mr. Ogunseye tends to equate criminals who are of African descent with the African community. His statements such as, “the government and the police’s crime fight is more a war on African crime … the war on crime in Guyana being a war on Africans and the African community.”

Criminals are of every race, and criminals do not represent any race. The fact that criminals incidentally belong to this race or that race is of no consequence. Criminals are just criminals, pure and simple, and their ethnic background has nothing to do with their evil ways.

I therefore beg Mr. Ogunseye, in his writings, to stop mixing up the African community with any kinds of criminals. No one mixes up criminals of Indian, Chinese or Amerindian descent with the Indian, Chinese or Amerindian communities. Why couldn’t Mr. Ogunseye do the same for the African community?

Please stop the identification of criminals with any specific community, since they belong to no community, except their own gangs, which often happen to be multi-ethnic.

V. Redman

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