The ‘Sultan Mohamed’ group is becoming less and less viable to fool this generation

May 27, 2014 Letters

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DEAR EDITOR,
Back in 2012, I addressed a letter to the pseudonym ‘Sultan Mohamed’ where I demonstrated that the PPP is constructed as a Cult and not as a Political Party capable of evolution. Firstly, I must address their twisted political logic, that, it is no longer a speculation that your Pradovilles are constructed on the sweat, blood and legitimate rights of the race-divided Guyanese, because that situation serves your divide-and-rule purpose.
Georgetown is how it is, because of PPP politics post-1995. Look at the disgraceful shameless behaviour of your planted representative there in 2014, and we are well aware of the conduct of previous Local Government Ministers.  As one letter writer termed it ‘you borrow money to steal’, I must inform your group, that some of us Afro- and Indo-Guyanese have concluded to humble living because our upward movement, based on our talents and skills, have to be accredited and rewarded outside of Guyana, because we are victims of what is now established as ‘Ideological Racism’ plus spite, and it was the manipulation of race, not ideas, that have always been the factor to exist of the PPP, with the Indo-Guyanese as your pawns, and they’re not accepting the bottom-house ‘Black man ah déblé’ anymore.  You know nothing about me, thus, it’s a waste of time to address the rest of your assumptions.
I penned a letter on Tuesday May 20, in the Kaieteur News, questioning the prudence of an advertisement placed in Kaieteur/Stabroek on May 15, by the Indian High Commission, on the requirement of ‘Race’ as the qualification for some Scholarships offered – because I have never seen an advertisement placed by any other Nation with ‘Race’ as a requirement to facilitate acceptance for anything hosted by those Nation/s.
In the Kaieteur News of Saturday May 24, ‘Sultan Mohamed’ group became the mouthpiece of the Indian High Commission, with a letter which did not address the substance of my letter but entered into irrelevant, rage-driven fabrications and his/her innate racism, with a diarrhoea of diatribes outside of the context that my letter was written in. Even implying their [the Sultan-group] own illness of racism to me, accusing me of despising Indians, naturally among them my own relatives.
I will address the only area that can truly be attributed to me by Mohamed, quote: “that India stands out as the host nation of the infamous Bramanic cult with its bizarre ideologies of racist oppression” (Unquote). I also referred to strong efforts in India, by Indians, to resist those practices.  I was trained in the rudiments of Scientific illustrating in the discipline of Archaeology, techniques, materials and the social aspects of icons was a must-know, and I have never stopped exploring. However, this is none of Mohamed’s business, except to say that my literary studies on this subject are predominantly from Indian sources on the functional, current Bramanic system, and are well grounded.
Practical experience lies in several areas; I will cite one such experience.  In the late eighties, during the 150th year of Indian Indentureship celebrations in Guyana, I was employed-in-training at the Walter Roth Museum. My friend, Dudley Charles, was Programme Assistant, Department of Culture. I accompanied him to the Cyril Potter Training School, where the performing arrivals from India were to be settled.
The first arrivals posed some surprising problems which I will not mention in this letter, but eventually they were settled in. Then came the second wave – this no one was prepared for. This group refused to use the bath facilities, rooms where the first group occupied or had used, on the grounds of caste. We argued with some hostility that this was what was available, unable to comprehend the normal range of such bigotry. If this was not bizarre, then what?
For further reference read Cheddi Jagan’s references to the Caste system in ‘The West on Trial’, and I presume that you did not attend Dr Clem Seecharan’s latest reading at Moray House where he dealt on the negative afterglow of that experience?  A great Internet site for readers of this letter with an interest in Child welfare and this subject to visit would be, via Google: ‘Sleeping with the Goddess’ by Shelly Ngo with Sanjay Sojwal – www.houseofrefuge.india.org/sleeping_goddess.html.
I have extended my response because of the innocent readers who may not have read my letter on the May 20 and may construe that the letter by ‘Sultan Mohamed’ was grounded in actual racist inferences made by myself. There was a time when I would have responded to each paragraph of the letter by the Sultan group, but thanks to Mr Moses Nagamootoo’s public insight to the PPP’s race-baiting methods, I will deal only with the relevant facts that constituted my letter and some rebuttals of Mohamed’s intended propaganda ruses.
The ‘Sultan Mohamed’ group must understand that it is becoming less and less viable to fool this generation with opportunistic, racist garbage. ‘Dis time nah long time, even duck back does get wet now’.
Barrington Braithwaite

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