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Analysing things Sir Ronald Sanders mentioned in his column
DEAR EDITOR,
Sir Ronald Sanders writes: “Not that the abolition of slavery did much more than formally release blacks from ownership, for the heel of white America’s foot remained firmly placed on the neck of black America”.
He conveniently forgot to mention that it was the Democrats who opposed the freeing of slaves, and the “white America’s foot” was really the foot of Democrats for the most part. Sanders writes: “The election of Obama will be America’s proudest moment to date”. Oh yeah?? What about out sacrifices in WWII, without which this world wouldn’t have been like it is now?
Sanders writes: “For, the American society will have cast aside that stain of race that has disgraced them”. Hey, Sanders!
How about substituting “Guyanese” for “American” and writing about them and their all too known racial pattern of voting? Sanders writes: “By then, it had become clear to those who held the reins of power in the US that their society could not survive “half-free and half-slave” as Republican Abraham Lincoln had put it in”.
“Republican Abraham Lincoln” was the one who freed the slaves, as you may remember, Sanders. Sanders writes: “This, incidentally, is something that the non-white peoples of the world, including those in the Caribbean, have to understand. Barack Obama will not be the “black-American” President of the United States; he will simply be the “American” President. In all things, America will come first.
“That is why countries in the Caribbean who want Obama’s attention should recognise that they will not get it on the basis of race. He will be preoccupied with the problems of the US, not least an economy in recession that requires urgent fixing; getting out of Iraq; resolving Afghanistan, and coming to an accommodation with a resurgent Russia.
“To get Obama’s attention, Caribbean governments require a mix of solid diplomatic work in Washington supported by well-placed lobbying groups”. This is true.
Brian Samaroo
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