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These people cannot enhance any crucial discourse
DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to M. Maxwell’s letter in KN of July 16, 2013 in which he wrote; “Unlike Freddie Kissoon, I will not relent to the shamelessly convenient reasoning of Minette Bacchus.”
I believe even my fiercest critic would admit that I am not afraid to advance my argument and I have never been. As a person involved in the discourse to bring essential freedoms to the people of Guyana, you have to decide who you are going to publicly debate.
People like Lincoln Lewis, Mark Benschop, Ramon Gaskin, all of whom I have replied to, and others, I will willingly respond to in the newspaper. They are committed, multi-racial Guyanese that I know and believe have important roles to play as Guyanese seek constructive platforms for achieving unity and freedom. Such debates form part of a narrative that Guyana needs.
I will not argue in the newspapers with people like Vishnu Bisram and Minette Bacchus. They are two sides of a coin that Guyana does not need. I don’t think they can enhance the discourse that Guyana must engage in. Bisram writes about six letters a month on me collectively in the Kaieteur News, Guyana Times and Chronicle. I will not write back. I refuse to dignify his anti-Kissoon obsessions. PPP executive member Hydar Ally criticizes me in his Chronicle missives. Why would I carry on an argument with a PPP leader? It is a waste of time.
I chose not to further follow-up Bacchus on her bizarre theories of Walter Rodney’s death because I honestly don’t want to dignify her extremism, and my frame of mind does not allow me to recognize her as someone that can help Guyana. Unlike Maxwell, I have seen dozens of e-mails from Bacchus sent to well-intentioned Guyanese and their contents are so racially extremist, politically macabre and exceedingly crude, that I will not engage Bacchus at any level in the future.
Also I believe further discussions with Bacchus feed her ego and delusion that she has intellectual qualities that she can bring to the polemical table. Bacchus lives in New York, isn’t coming back, isn’t going to struggle to change Guyana, and is someone we will not see on the ground in Guyana participating in struggles to change Guyana. She is happy for people like Maxwell to write so she can mouth-off. If Mr. Maxwell chooses to engage Bacchus, that is his right. He isn’t going to get an intellectual response. He isn’t going to get Bacchus to explain points of fact because she cannot and that is not her purpose.
Dr. David Hinds put it brilliantly when Chris Ram in a television interview asked him why the WPA is not participating in the press on the debate about how Rodney died. He quite succinctly said WPA will not get involved in any shouting match. I honestly feel it is best to ignore people like Bacchus, Hydar Ally and Bisram.
Frederick Kissoon
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