King Kong sent his goons to disrupt the conference

Jun 28, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

You had to be there to see before your very eyes the tragedy that is a country named Guyana. Unless this country purges itself of the governmental dominance of the PPP, we are going to implode so terribly that there will be no recovery. As the goons tried to break up the proceedings of an academic confabulation, I looked across the room to see if I could read the eyes of Desmond Trotman, Andaiye and Dr. Nigel Westmas, three leaders of the WPA who would have seen that kind of terror on countless occasions during the regime of Forbes Burnham.
The time was Saturday last. The place was the conference hall of the National Library. The event was the annual academic conference of the Guyana Historical Institute. I was the first presenter of the third panel. As I began my delivery, six goon elements, sitting among the audience, three women and three men, got up and began to destroy the event. The Chairman, Dr. Thomas Singh of UG, displayed bravery. He confronted them. The audience would have none of it. Dr. Nigel Westmas and Desmond Trotman of the WPA showed their resentment.
The beasts left and returned during the question period. Mark Benschop had arrived and his voice was resoundingly assertive. They knew Benschop would have taken them. They began to use their cell phones and apparently were given orders to exit which they did. Then Randy Persaud and the son of the Attorney-General, Charles Ramson got into the act. Like the goons, they were not allowed to succeed. By this time Benschop, Trotman, Tom Dalgetty and the audience had enough of the uncivilized and bestial intentions of King Kong. This incident should be a stark reminder to every citizen of this country that Guyana has not left the bad days of the seventies. The dictators that rule over Guyanese citizens are expanding their fascist terror.
One of the greatest ironies in Guyanese history occurred in that room last Saturday. My paper was a comparative examination of the factor of race in the presidencies of Forbes Burnham, Cheddi and Janet Jagan, Desmond Hoyte and Bharrat Jagdeo. My conclusion is that the previous presidents except Hoyte played up to their ethnic constituencies but missing from their policies was any ingrained instinct of ideological racism. I posited that the difference with the Jagdeo presidency is that his exercise of power is driven by the practice of ideological racism.
How ironic was the moment in that room. My paper was on the anti-African racism of the ruling elites but those very elites sent six African Guyanese to disrupt a presentation based on an elaboration on how African Guyanese are being discriminated in their own country. The contempt for African Guyanese by an Indian racist regime has reached horrible levels. This cabal runs Guyana in favour of the East Indian population but uses their very victims to bolster their diminishing power base. Where else in the world would you find another manifestation of this particular political pathology?
The man who threw the filthy substance on me, which we have later found out led right back to King Kong was African. The men waiting in the car for him were African-Guyanese. The six persons who came to destroy the conference were African-Guyanese. The daily picketers outside Khemraj Ramjattan’s office no doubt sent by the ruling cabal were all African-Guyanese. No East Indian is seen doing dirty street work for the governing clique. All of the dirty foot soldiers are African-Guyanese. Is there an explanation? A racist, Indian oligarchy bent on pulverizing the African race in Guyana cannot find one, single Indian to recruit for goon service.
The answer is that the PPP doesn’t want to conscript Indians for terror duties. It is ideological racism at work. It is part of the Freudian desire to degrade African people. Do you mean to tell me that Freedom House and the Office of the President could not have found at least one Indian to put them in that mob that was picketing Ramjattan’s office. Are Indians so angelic that you cannot locate at least one of them to go and break up a meeting? Do the Guyanese people here and abroad and those who are looking on as fascism in Guyana takes on macabre shapes not see we are witnessing the dehumanization of an entire race in Guyana? Isn’t it time African rights organizations confront this fascist version of a deadly racism never before seen in these parts of the world?

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