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Guyanese have one string left on their political harp

Sep 17, 2011 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
After the Presidential Appreciation dust is settled, the lasting legacy would be the bitter socio-economic and political reality of poverty and deprivation for one section of the Guyanese society, and feasting and gluttony for the other section comprising political elites and their friends. Unfortunately, some people are satisfied with the crumbs from the glutton.
They fail to recognize the nefariousness of the gormandizers and plunderers.
Han Granger’s call for Guyanese to ‘think’ (SN Sept. 13) is timely. Guyanese have got to have the audacity to hope, to think and to act decisively in order to bring about urgent transformative change.
This will only be achieved by joining hands and forces with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) with its message of national unity and a good life for all.
Dr. Martin Luther King once said that the arc of history is long, but it bends slowly towards justice. The arc of history, however, would not bend on its own volition.
The arc obeys Newton’s First Law of Motion and will only follow a particular path unless powerful combined external pressure is exerted.
That is why the APNU coalition is so vital – this is not the time to grandstand.
The title of President Barack Obama’s second Autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope”, was taken from a sermon delivered by his former Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In that famous sermon, Rev. Wright was describing a painting which had the title “Hope.” It showed a woman sitting on top of the world, playing a harp. At first glance, the image the painting conveyed was one of power. After all, it seemed the woman was in total control of the world upon which she sat.
According to Wright, “As you look closer, the illusion of power gives way to the reality of pain. The world, on which this woman sits, our world, is torn by war, destroyed by hate, decimated by despair, and devastated by distrust. The world on which she sits seems on the brink of destruction.
Famine ravages millions of inhabitants in one hemisphere, while feasting and gluttony are enjoyed by inhabitants of another hemisphere. This world is a ticking time bomb, with apartheid in one hemisphere and apathy in the other.”
In many respects, this is an apt reflection of the socio-economic and political reality of Guyana. Based on Rev, Wright’s sermon, “in spite of being on a ticking time bomb, with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and to hope.”
Guyanese have one string left on their political harp. It is APNU. It will take an expert Harpist like King David, the author of Psalm 23 and a man after God’s own heart (I Samuel 13:14) to provide the Harp therapy which Guyana so desperately needs to bring peace and harmony to the nation.
Harp therapy is reputed to have a healing affect on people. During the reign of King David something profound happened to people when the harp was played, and so they found the ‘best harpist’ in the land to ease the suffering and bring peace and well being to the people.
Guyanese have been blessed with their own David. Brigadier David Granger may not be a rabble rouser, as some people would like, but he is the ‘best harpist’ to provide the expert therapeutic leadership which Guyana so desperately needs to bring it into the new reality of reconciliation and prosperity for all.
Standhope Williams

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