A MASQUERADE OF DELUSIONED CRUSADERS

Jun 16, 2014 Letters

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Dear Editor,
Is it a mental problem to constantly indulge in fossilized repetitiveness in defiance of simple common sense?  I wrote a letter in Kaieteur News on May 20. Questioning an Ad placed in the Independent News papers on the 15, May by the Indian High Commission inviting applicants for academic scholarships where the principle requirement was the race of the applicants.
India is a member of the Commonwealth with ambitions to be taken seriously as a world opinion maker, thus, this Ad seemed off. I mentioned the aspect of the Indian social order that revolves around the inhumane practices of its caste system as grounds for my alarm at this ‘other normalcy, included in the mentioned Ad. I also stated that vestiges of prejudices based on those Asian dogmas have affected this country.   On May 24, the political [PPP] group masquerading behind the pseudonym ‘Sultan Mohamed ‘ instead of finding this Ad out of sync, could not comprehend the common sensitivities  innate  to  the fraternity of nations on such issues that I was referring to, penned a letter of insertions and race based diatribes, quite laughable in its composition and logic. Then came Vishnu Bisram on May 31.2014 Kaieteur News. I had decided not to dignify Bisram with a response, who I had demonstrated in a letter on Mon Feburary 25, 2013 pg. 5 Kaieteur News  to be a pathological racist who chooses to, strange enough, live in multi ethnic North  America, and not reside in South India.   But a good friend insisted that I clarify some of the hyped distortions of our History he penned, a kindred vice to his now known fabricated infamous polls.
[A]  Bisram declared that the from 1965-1992 this country had an ethnic dictatorship. Tthis is the most asinine statement from Bisram for this year, but from him, not surprising.
However, commentators who wish to make presentations on our modern history cannot fix their grasp on the orthodox propaganda and truths directed at the PNC’s ills without recognizing that the PNC era was preceded by the fact, that the PPP had waged an ethnic civil war for power, that tore villages, communities and friendships apart from 1961 to 1964. No honest social critique of that era can begin with 1966. Excluding that from 1961-64 it was the PPP who utilizing the very vestiges of the Aryan caste system mentioned, mobilized its mainly rural ethnic support using fictional racist intoxications pushed many of its constituency to launch this country into a racial civil war. Some tidbits of that era should suffice…[1] A grenade thrown into a school bus. [2] A bomb placed on the Sun Chapman, killing mainly women and children. [3] The assassination by immolation of the Abraham family. [4] Dozens machined gunned at Mahaicony and other areas by Cuban trained  PYO terrorists. Incidentally, the Cubans were conned into thinking that they were supporting a national anti-Imperialist conflict and not a partisan racist crusade for power.   And to support the claim of religious racism, [5] Daily Chronicle 13 June 1964, reads…” letters were sent to certain ethnic teachers by a group calling themselves ‘The removal gang’ to certain schools between Crabwood creek to No. 60 Village Quote: “ The letter was signed “The Removal Gang” and carried the tracing of a Swastika. It advised the recipient to remove from the district before a certain time failing which “We will kill you” and was posted in the Skeldon area.”
Burnham did not place the Jagans before the court, though Jagan admitted; see, ‘Evening Post June,1964. ‘He tells the truth to Dr. Williams Jagan Admits Responsibility for Terror Campaign’    and the biographers of that era detailed his guilt. Read  Jai Narine Singh’s ‘Guyana Democracy Betrayed’ among other works,  Burnham’s PNC proceeded to bury that past, to look towards the future. It’s not by chance that one of the leading authorities on African Dance in this county is an Indo-Guyanese female, I’ve known Amerindians who earned Government scholarships and Afro Guyanese. How many came back is another question. That was why by the time my training required me to leave Guyana to go to Scotland to fulfill a crucial area, I was told that I couldn’t  go because with my skills I wouldn’t come back. Frustrated, I directed my skills elsewhere, developing a new career. Someday,  a list of those qualified by their academics and skills would be made public and it will be demonstrated that there was no ethnic philosophy in education. For example, skills training in the Youth Corps and National Service was open to all. It was the PPP who misguided Indo Guyanese not to enlist, those who enlisted and who were my peers as  pioneers at Kuru Kuru College and the GYC will contradict Bisram’s victim syndrome foolishness.
The PPP was seen as the bogeyman of my early pre teen years, and  by most groups who were their targets and though in the 60’s those groups were mainly Portuguese and Afro-Guyanese, yet Indo Guyanese were their first victims. Those who were the members of the MPCA, for the Trade Union were the first steps to Power for the sake of Ideology and not ‘People’, and their methods then were in the same vein as the Roger Khan-Jagdeo period.  For those interested in the events of this tragic era of our modern history, see our libraries for ‘ The Communist Martyr makers’ a publication of the BG TUC.  Therefore any writer wishing to discuss the subject above has to take it from the top, to re-quote Clive Thomas from Arnold Gibbons’ book on Walter Rodney ‘Identity and Ideology’ “Both Africans and Indians brought to Nationhood the racial animosities learned in the pre-independence period. And covert if not overt hostility debilitated energies that should have gone into productive independence. Sectional rather than National loyalties prevailed.”
The grounds to activate those animosities were well in place before the PPP and PNC with joblessness, poverty and a social caste system for certain jobs, and the battles started by Hubert Critchlow still being fought, though Critchlow would turn in his grave for what has become of his legacy.    None can question the transformation from socialism towards the uncertain, deceptive grounds of the free market state for the national interest, boldly initiated by former President Desmond Hoyte, and the continued effort to forge  a national political philosophy with accountability for national prosperity that became APNU in 2012, with the AFC, all recognizing that power must be reflected in the wellbeing of the people. Only the PPP remain stagnant, willing to practice ‘Race Baiting’ to sell our interests as a kick back puppet to questionable Chinese  Mandarins. They, like the illegitimate mother of the Solomon romance, that would rather murder the child that is Guyana rather than admit, that the age of its race and spite politics is over, and it has to work with the best we have, or continue to become the  fossilized Barabbas, of political dinosaurs.
Barrington Braithwaite

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