Tomorrow the PNC destroys itself

Aug 21, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The obvious question that comes to mind on reading this title is why not wait for the voting on Saturday and do a article on the self-destruction of the PNC. I don’t have to do that because I know how the voting will go. I have other things to write on for Saturday and Sunday. One must always remember that given the cascading scandals that are like a carcinoma sucking the blood out of the life of the PPP, one writer can do three essays daily.
Mr. Corbin will be voted in as leader of the PNC tomorrow. Why wait tomorrow or Sunday to write about a fact that fate and destiny cannot prevent? What makes Mr. Murray, Dr. Van West Charles and their supporters think that within the space of a year, the PNC leadership that rejected a transparent balloting to allow Team Alexander to contest the headship and successfully pulled of the just concluded plan that ousted Mr. Norton from the Georgetown helm of the PNC, will stay away and watch another PNC contender take the top spot?
Tomorrow, Mr. Corbin will collect more votes than his competitors. Even if outside observers supervise the show (for want of a better word), the point is not how they voted but how they got there to vote in the first place. This is the stratagem that defeated both Alexander and Norton.
What this author and other commentators ought to write about is what becomes of the PNC after the shadows of the evening swallow up Congress Place and the delegates go off to taste the night life of Georgetown, one of the world’s miasmic and faeces-ridden cities.
Will the PNC survive? That is not an easy question to answer. One can be cynical and say that its demise may help Guyana to have a future. On the other hand that cynicism can be interpreted as racist. Let us examine both perspectives.
The ubiquitous fear among all Guyanese, wherever they are, who feel that the PPP has exhausted every ounce of commonsense, decency and competence, is that East Indians will vote for the PPP because they see the PNC as winning if they don’t. Many people I know well don’t put it exactly like that to me when I ask them what they are doing with a party like the PPP but their sentences mean exactly that.
In 2011, Guyana stands its best chances of getting rid of the PPP. There are no Jagans. Jagan’s son, Joey, will be on the trail as an opposition candidate. There will be new Indian faces on the opposition slates. The PPP will not have competent people to spin for them (this has been their nemesis – competent people in their party) and the PPP will not be able to defend a sordid balance sheet (I am assuming all of this if the US doesn’t confront the Guyana Government by then on its involvement in the drug trafficking affairs of Roger Khan).
In this scenario, if there is no bogeyman, as the PNC is in the elections, will Indians vote for an alternative party? The chances are great that they will. Once the PNC runs, the PPP at thousands of bottom house meetings in the East Indian parts of this sprawling territory will say to the attendees that the election is between the PPP and the PNC.
On the other hand, if you want the PNC to disappear what does that say about your feelings for African people. There can be no doubt about it; the PNC was born out of the embrace of African Guyanese. For all its destructive policies, the PNC under Burnham (not so much Hoyte) catered for the prolongation of the African existence in Guyana. Burnham knew his people were ensconced in education, administration, arts, law, and the entire public sector that takes in every sphere that comes under the State. He knew these areas of life in Guyana had to be maintained because African-Guyanese were not entrepreneurs and didn’t have the land holdings to make them a landed petty bourgeoisie class.
As I research the history of Forbes Burnham and the PNC, I see the mind of Burnham at work. And no other politicians understood that mind more than Dr. Ptolemy Reid and Hamilton Green. This trio knew that once the East Indians got into government they would have destroyed the economies in which the African Guyanese were inserted.
Thus rigging elections was the only option. The East Indians are now in Government and I say with all honesty in my blood and heart, African-Guyanese are facing their worst moment of despair since Emancipation. Burnham is mad with anger in his grave.

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