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RANDAL BUTISINGH’s TRIBUTE OMITTED HE FLED BUXTON

Jan 04, 2013 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
In the Stabroek News Diaspora series written by Ms Alicia Trotz in the SN of 31-12-12 titled “A constant teacher, a constant student: A collective tribute to Randal Mohan Butisingh” there were significant glaring omissions.
Mr. Randall Mohan Butisingh  of  the USA who lived most of his early life in Buxton feared for his life and fled the 1960’s  riots to the nearby Indian village of  Annandale as did Pandit Sama Persaud (died in Guyana)  and Mr. Rampersand Tiwari, (in Canada) amongst many others.
With this tribute being inspired by his “close friend” Mr. Eusi Kwayana, who was an early migrant from Lusignan to Buxton, long after Mr. Butisingh’s Buxton’s presence they struck up a friendship.  Mr. Kwayana was a well known and regular visitor to many of Buxton’s Indians homes prior to the outbreak of the racial animosities of the 1960’s.
The tribute to the esteemed gentleman is not complete when such significantly important details are left out. It is ironic that Mr. Kwayana who is renowned and a consistent lifelong advocate of black culture and political empowerment remained loyal to his beliefs and opinions throughout his history. Mr. Kwayana must be commended that, inspired by his Indian connections to stand up for “something”, “he never fell for anything” akin to “I am as constant as the northern star” (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar). In his early life in Buxton, Mr. Butisingh is portrayed as an   original nurtured Hindu but then Christian convert (Buxton) who later found nirvana in his original Hinduism (Annandale) only to finally find solace in Islam’s richness in Florida.
Has Mr. Kwayana found “redemption” as is attempted by his close protégé Ms Trotz within the juxtaposition of the other “contributions’ to the “Buxton Indian”?  Mr. Kwayana’s leadership and prominence in Buxton was significantly still unable to safeguard and protect Mr. Butisingh’s family during the 1960s racial attacks in Buxton causing his friend to flee.
In Mr. Kwayana’s concession that the entire King family  (his original name)  was occasionally supported financially  by his good friend Pandit Sama Persaud  and his father Pandit Latchman Persaud it is a good example of friends helping out. There is no shame in being poor as the majority of Guyanese so well know. But in times of need one depends on one’s friends when they come under  life- threatening attack.
In being “born again” Mr. Kwayana can redeem himself significantly more, long before more of his other “friends” pass on. My condolences to the Butisingh family.
Sultan Mohamed

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