We need to reply to these types of poison

Feb 24, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
There is a quota of East Indian supremacists in this country that know what to do with their agenda – publish it in the press and keep publishing it. For them it is the natural thing to do if they are to succeed. It means then that these people are no fools. They do not write at random but their activities are governed by logical thinking. It is for us who detest their outpourings to be logical too in our thinking and reply to them
The list, headed by Ravi Dev, includes, Vishnu Bisram, Vassan Ramracha, Annan Boodram, Devanand Bhagwan, Suresh Pillai, Prem Misir among others. These ethnically driven supporters of the PPP (Mr. Dev should clear the air on his association with Guyana Times) have their African based fulcrums in the PPP, of which Dr. James Rose may be the de facto head.
Rose in defending the site chosen by the Government for the 1823 monument publicly said that it was not necessary to erect the structure at Parade Ground because Parade Ground in itself is a monument. I never had any respect for James Rose, his opinions and his so-called academic work. I never will. But such asininity only proves that Guyana has indeed become a failed state. Rose is the Director of Culture who alongside the Director of Sports, Neil Kumar must make Guyana the circus of the entire world
This letter here is a reply to Devanand Bhagwan (“Freddie Kissoon did not address the salient points,” KN, Friday Feb 22, 2013). Mr. Bhagwan is typical of the PPP mentality, a mentality bolstered by power and not intellect. We need to reply to the ethnically motivated propaganda of these State supporters because in doing so, we educate a generation that needs to know. Here now is a complete and comprehensive exposure of Bhagwan and I will ask readers to digest the small quote twice just to get a big picture of why we need to reply to these ethnic texts
Here is what Bhagwan wrote in KN of Feb 13; “Why have East Indians become more successful in business in Guyana and elsewhere? Whether it is in Trinidad, US, UK, Canada…the Indians have made their mark…the eminent (sic) and consummate business acumen of Indians is universally known…their hard wuk is reason for their success… while some are asleep from their late night dance THEY (emphasis mine) get up early in the morning and start to work.” (end of quote). Any fool, any moron, any imbecile, any clown, any jackass, or even a baby would know that THEY in this quote means East Indians. None of the world’s greatest philosophers can argue otherwise. Bhagwan meant East Indians when he used the word, “THEY.”
This clown of a man wrote on Friday that by THEY he meant other ethnic groups too. Why did Bhagwan try to get out of this? Because we replied him and showed him (and proved) that other ethnic communities in Guyana have historically worked hard just as the other racial communities and continue to do so. Before I move off this topic let me inject a personal note. In living in Guyana, I found that the Portuguese and Africans in Guyana tended to run their businesses along more professional lines with less criminal violations of the laws and exploitation of labour than Guyanese Indians.
Now for Ravi Dev’s perennial cry of ethnic balance in the police force which the other Indian supremacists have taken up. Bhagwan claims that after examining my work of over more than three thousand pieces over a ten year period, he has not seen me mention ethnic balance in the police force. I am not going to be dishonest and reject that. Bhagwan may be right. Well, better late than never. I did mention the need for ethnic balance in the police force last week in my reply to Bhagwan and I am doing so now.
But let me warn Bhagwan and the whole of Guyana including Bhagwan’s party, the PPP and his PPP Government – there must be ethnic balance in all spheres of the paramount structures of this nation.
It must include business, commerce, resource ownership, governmental contracts, foreign paid consultancies in the public sector and in agriculture. Nothing less will be accepted. Let me warn Bhagwan that I belong to a group that will fight tirelessly for this all-embracing racial balance in our country and we will not accept to be intimidated in our goal
Finally, as to his religious credentials, I reassert what I wrote. If God can make humans like Bhagwan and Vassan Ramracha then I have a problem with the way God operates. But then again, I know Bagwan and Ramracha are not the true representation of how God feels about the humans he created
Frederick Kissoon

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