THE PROBLEM OF BISRAM

Jun 29, 2014 Letters

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Dear Editor,
When I penned the letter on the insensitivities of the ads placed in the media by the Indian High commission on Thursday, May 15 in both independent Newspapers I hardly anticipated the rhetoric of folly that would follow. My letter was published in Kaieteur May 20. Since I have elaborated on the grounds for penning the letter on the 27,May  and on the 16, June to the political PPP group ‘Sultan Mohamed’ and Vishnu Bisram, and suspecting that the Indian High Commission did not commission either of them to defend the undeniable, I will move on from the impetus of this preamble. The ads of contention. However, Bisram’s letter on June 18, takes me back to my school days, to the mouthy class   instigator, usually tolerated by the teacher as he’s constantly passing her complaints, including some she doesn’t need to hear. Then you pray for recreation to get your hands on the twit, and he runs over to the girls and screams’ on who placed the mice in so and so sewing kit, then you wait for Friday after school when all scores for the week are settled, and he doesn’t come back to school after lunch.  I have attacked Bisram’s racist obsessions and he accuses me of disrespecting ‘Indians’ in the same school profile I mentioned above.
My reference to caste racism in India is a fact, that vestiges of those prejudices were brought to Guyana, is another fact. However, it does not mean that every member of that group recognizes and applies it in their lives. Human beings do abandon old traditions that no longer make sense.  After the first 100 years of slavery, Afro-Guyanese abandoned the tribal reserves that still existed that had become meaningless. Indo Guyanese who came indentured and were subject to severe caste pressures from their own group, became part of the new African villages. This is Guyanese History, learn it.
Racism is defined by collective stereotypes that are the result of hidden inferiority complexes. Such stereotypes impose on the believer someone to direct his hate venom towards, his feel better boast. Let me illustrate two examples of hate-venom at work; Vishnu Bisram,  Stabroek News 3,Feb 2005: Quote…” While Afro-Guyanese are getting the bulk of the relief. I am told that some people who did not have three meals a day before the flood now have many meals a day while supporters of the PPP are neglected. I am told that some people who did not have a mattress before the flood now sleep on a mattress.”    This was during the 2005 flood and is a classic case study of chronic racism. I accuse you, Bisram, you are the subject of my contempt, not Indo-Guyanese or the Indian High Commission, with the above it’s you.  Another manifest public media pit of racism is the ‘Sultan Mohamed ‘group, by a man’s works shall he be known… Thursday April 17, 2014 Kaieteur News, the group penned a letter titled ‘Prisons, cemeteries, garbage and Mashramani should be privatized.’
The letter constituted the same nonsensical arguments, but its racist vein was intact throughout,  Quote; “ Afro Guyanese flock to fill Guyanese Jails, and they also currently manage its daily affairs.
Who is best equipped to make it a business venture? “ And they continued as follows “ If perchance a predominant Afro Guyanese company ventures into running the prisons will they be more successful in dissuading their kith and kin from going back to jail repeatedly?” unquote; It is obvious that racism impacts a collapse of progressive intellect and a considerable loss of humanity, but it also exposes an administration’s inability and petulant reluctance  to manage arms of State responsibility not under their limited expertise, which have been managed well without a fuss by previous administrations who utilized the best persons available and not political and racial loyalists. History has taught us some severe lessons, The Nazis blamed the Jews for all their previous war mongering; that led to their post WW1 sorrows, contrived an Aryan master race mythology and ended up exterminating millions of Jews and Slavs. In a country of 50 million Germans how did less than a million German Jews have such an impact, notwithstanding the Rothschilds and their intrigues with the British, ect.
Bisram mentions the Chinese in accusing me of racism. Well the Government’s undisclosed deals with their communist now capitalist shadow deal making buddies, the alleged plan to settle 50.000 Chinese in Guyana, with special privileges, Chinese counterfeit products have already began to target local manufacturing, it must be remembered that a Chinese counterfeit children’s syrup killed over eighty children in Haiti over a decade ago. The Chinese Government is harsh on these violators as a deterrent, but they persist.
The PPP has left it open to all types of piracy and we must remember that it was a PPP parliamentarian who had brought counterfeit milk into this market. It was Kit Nascimento who then had exposed it. They, our protection agencies, are not empowered to institute charges with severe consequences against businesses who violate, so this imposition on our unprotected IPS with indifference to the development of our own small businesses has all Guyana peeved. Guyanese pay too much economically and psychologically for everything, with high unemployment for our young people especially. We pay the highest VAT in the Americas, electricity charges are a major burden, there is no comprehensive housing planning and I have just started.
We know of a better Guyana, we live now in a retrogressive narco-state, so Bisram come home to our junkie, filth-smelling flooded town and coast and then write letters based on experience, or join a support group in Queens and get a life.
Barrington Braithwaite  

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