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Ravi should support Granger’s addressing of Indian security concerns

May 21, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I respond to my old ROAR comrade and friend Mr. Ravi Dev’s column, “Ignoring Indian Fears,” (Kaieteur News 05-15-11). Before I do so I must say that it was rather unfortunate that the Kaieteur News deleted parts of my earlier letter, “Ravi should educate Indians about racism,” (Kaieteur News 05-11-11). My heading was, “Ravi should educate Indians about PPP racism.”
One of the themes of my letter was that what we are experiencing was PPP racism as distinct from Indian racism. Ravi therefore only read part of my views and responded to what he saw in Kaieteur News.
However, I have to reply to what he wrote.
The purpose of Ravi’s last two columns was to rebuke Dr David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye for recently failing to even acknowledge Indian security concerns. But I have to take umbrage with Ravi for not focusing on the PPP regime for not addressing Indian security.
Why go after the African activists but ignore the real culprits the Indian elected PPP which has been in power for 19 continuous years? The Africans are not the problem here. It is the PPP, as is evident in Ravi’s column.
He wrote inter alia, “Malcolm is concerned that I am not deconstructing the PPP. To what end? Are Indians too dumb to assess the world around them? Many Indians become defensive when Cheddi and the PPP are chastised…in my estimation Indians will remain in 2011 with PPP…and the opposition will once again blame them for being racist.” Ravi as an intellectual has stumbled here.
If educated Indians adopt Ravi’s posture then Indians will forever remain political slaves of the PPP. Ravi was very vocal when physical violence was meted out to Indians by Africans but wants to ignore the mental and emotional enslavement of Indians by the PPP over the last 60 years.
It is the PPP’s monopolization and racial brainwashing of Indians that makes us very susceptible to racist emotionalism.
This is why Ravi, and Indian intellectuals, must deconstruct the PPP and educate Indians as to who is their real oppressor. It is not the African.
It was not Africans in power for the last 19 years. It was the PPP, and the PPP cabal has by far much more power than Forbes Burnham’s PNC of 1975 to 1985.
Yet the PPP, instead of addressing Indian fears, has kept it very much alive for exploitation at elections time. In this respect the biggest failure of the PPP is its refusal to balance the Security Forces.
In fact when the PPP got into office in 1992 it told its supporters, “coolie man en able wid army life…yuh all en gon able run wid dem blackman…coolie too weak fuh jine army.”
This callous exploitation of Indian fear to vote PPP is the equivalent of the PNC rigging elections in the 70’s and 80’s. In fact it is worse because the PNC never monopolized and brainwashed Africans as was evident by the large numbers of Africans who marched against the PNC in the 1970’s and 80’s, and the large segment that voted AFC in 2006. The PPP regime is far worse than the PNC yet Indians have not taken to the streets, and if we think like Ravi we never will.
Ravi mentioned the Mahabharat. I am sure he will agree with me that if we were to make an analogy then the PPP are the ones on the side of Untruth, Evil, and Wickedness as is reflected by the scandals out of the Office of the President, and that the PNC Presidential Candidate David Granger represents Truth, Morality, Ethics, and Religious Values. On whose side will you stand Ravi?
By the way, Granger has on more than one occasion publicly stated that should he become President he would share the government, balance the Army and Police, and establish regional militias. Now Ravi that very much sounds like addressing Indian security concerns and if we use your arguments then you should be supporting Granger too. If Indians voted rationally on issues then we would all vote for Granger. See why we must deconstruct the PPP and educate Indians?
Malcolm Harripaul

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