The black intelligentsia out foxed by Bharrat Jagdeo and Goons

Feb 20, 2013 Letters

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Dear Editor,
It is time for Afro Guyanese to hold the opposition accountable by vehemently exuding their anger and frustration upon the gang of black leaders who continue to vacillate forestalling in the process their efforts for change. I speak directly to Afro Guyanese because they are the community most affected by the PPP’s race hate.
As with each day that passes the sorrows Afro Guyanese would rather not choose multiply, thrusting them further and further away from chance, opportunity and change, while the leaders in whom they continue to have faith daily betray the peoples faith and trust with meaningless verbiage, inconclusive debates, inordinate game plans and volatile strategy,which has exacerbating the peoples woes, compounded their frustrations while hastening with much speed the PPP’s agenda.
Never in the history of the post independent Anglo-Saxon Caribbean has there been on display the nature of inept politics the likes of which is articulated, portrayed and played by a naive PNC/APNU misfit who have failed in all terms to preclude themselves from becoming the ‘politics of laughter’ across the entire Caribbean.
Where else in the Caribbean save Guyana, can you visualize inconsequential politics from a political opposition? On November, 28th last, the people in a quest to free themselves from the barnacle of the PPP curse, overwhelmingly went to the polls and sought out that change while others,smitten by fear and ignorance and not wanting change that much, stayed away from the polls.
The result was a redefining of the political landscape in Guyana. The context became an opposition majority house governance which saw the APNU by accident and circumstantial fate (the people wanted change at any cost) secure a plurality of votes within the opposition fence, while the new and endearing kid on the block the AFC was not given the imperative to blow the fresh wind of change Guyana deserves because of the continuum of racial voting.
While time will offer its enduring argument that neither David Granger nor KhemrajRamjattan were creditable and competent enough to lead the change the nation beckoned, they both have been absolute failures on the other side, the criminals of state remain, and we are condemned for yet another tour to deal with ‘DEM’.
While the people who fought for change won big in a small way the lost big in others. One will argue what have they won when in fact the destabilization of their forte continues unabated.
When their chances slim as always has been reaffirmed by insensitive leaders, who caught up in a preoccupation to preserve their bread and butter alienates the very drive of the people upon whose mandate they were called to deliver.
And what have they delivered in the context of a new dispensation? Fourteen months later, with a majority controlled house where are the increments and dividends payable to the people? How can they possibly boast of success when the people in Linden whose struggle they refuse to lead and own continue to buffer under a real and present threat of economic genocide. These constituents fourteen months later have no jobs, have no means of feeding themselves, have no prerogatives within their own communities while the PPP goons are let alone to invade and engage in give aways to their kit and kin.
How can they give credit to themselves when their preserve Georgetown festers in filth and a real and present threat of a potential health hazard while they sit within deliberating in futility with a racist regime that starves their constituency of funding at a risk to life? When the land of our native Amerindian brothers are taken away and given to PPP goons?
How can the majority house opposition beat its drum and dance while the racist Jagdeo/ Ramoutar cabal are allowed to proceed with a Mariott hotel project expending the states funds in futility, denying Guyanese employment while they import and hire Chinese nationals? The PPP cabal continues to hold ransom the states funds in NICIL while they use those funds to press their agenda and the majority house looks on?
It is obvious and clear that the PPP has continued to execute its agenda in clear view, uninhibited by the ‘ house’. How do we as a nation change the play? Any political opposition who abandons the arsenal of protest in any political dispensation is condemned to fail in its agitation for change and its ability to rein the deviant political ass.
The opposition can only succeed in its challenge when it willingly executes the will of the people. Not seizing the momentum evident on November 28th has forestalled the will of the people, led many adrift and fueled apathy. The solution to our nations woes does not rest in shared governance but in enhancing the realization of our people to rise above politics of hate and politics of divide, creating the prism that fosters trust, confidence in each other and a level playing field for all. To achieve this we must be true to the thesis of our founding fathers and live out our creed that we are all one people, one nation with one destiny.
Resetting the battle now is necessary and the opposition must mobilize the people for a final push which must overflow into the streets forcing the tyrants to acquisce to the demands of the people. They must cease feeding the dog that bites them. They must not push the people beyond the point where they will no longer return. They must understand the deeper reaches and cynicism of the PPP criminals.
John Talbot

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