De female warriyah with de feral weppaan

Jul 08, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Very few countries have a population whose sense of humour is as evocative as Guyanese. I like the way they put Creolese phonetics into English words. Fire becomes fyaah – “mo fyaah pun deh backside, maan.” Freddie becomes Fredaay – “Fredaay, wuh yuh writing tomorrow, bhaai?” Weapon becomes weppaan –”bhaai, dem police tek out dey weppaan and start shooting like mad.” Warrior becomes warriyah – “ya’ll hear Luncheon say Manickchand is a warriyah, bhaai?”
Indeed, Luncheon referred to Manickchand as a warriyah with a feral weapon – her mouth. Manickchand’s mouth and other attributes may portray her as a warriyah but is she a warriyah?
For the sake of argument let us agree with Luncheon that she is. What she and the PPP have done and have been doing may not be in harmony with good manners and protocol but in the context of the political and ethnic divide, it has a purpose – the will to fight back.
It is the Opposition that lacks the will to fight back and lacks the warriyah instinct. The PPP is involved in the naked exercise of power yet unlike the rulers in the Burnham and Hoyte Governments, the PPP is willing to fight, is fighting and is telling its activists and leaders to go out and be warriyahs.
Compare Burnham with the PPP Government. Burnham was so pressed by a combination of opposition parties that in many instances, he failed to aggressively respond to them. No doubt when it came to life and death situation as the Walter Rodney factor and the Rupununi uprising, Burnham was pro-active. But as the head of an unpopular government, Burnham was a very restrained man.
Hoyte was in more boiling water than Burnham. So colossal was the weight on Hoyte’s shoulder that he literally agreed to hand over power. I need to remind readers that part two of my theories of Hoyte being one of the best post-colonial leaders will be published soon. It is just that in Guyana events always overrun what a columnist plans.
You may not like what Manickchand did to Jaipaul Sharma and the American Ambassador; how Luncheon was gloating over what Manickchand did to the US Ambassador; how barefaced is Rohee at his press conferences. But give jack his jacket, the PPP leaders are not retrained or deterred. They know they are unpopular and undemocratic governors but they will come at you hard.
Give them credit for that.
The PPP is not fearful about reaction from the society. For example, if Burnham and Hoyte had presided over a capital city that was the most fetid in the entire world both Presidents would have backed down on government hosting the annual meeting of the Caribbean Tourism Association. The PPP did that and pulled it off without any opposition demonstration outside the conference hall.
There can be no question about it, if there is a conference being planned about the progress of Black people in the New World, the PPP Government will jostle with other Third World governments to be host. The PPP leaders will not be scared by the thought that there are mountainous cries of discrimination against Black people in Guyana. This is the PPP.
The leaders see themselves as warriyahs. The headline in the Chronicle on the day Cheddi Jagan died was, “A Warrior Has Fallen.” Sharief Khan the editor said that he was given that headline by the PPP bosses.
It is the opposition parties that lack the warriyah instincts. The opposition and pressure groups need to have a few Priya Manickchands that behave with more dignity than Ms. Manickchand but possessed of the warriyah instinct. Go to anything opposition sponsored demonstration and you will see a tea party structure.
Placard-bearers must be careful not to shout too loudly. Beware not to shout things that are illegal and make sure which part of the parapet they are on.
Here is an example. A pressure group called a picket exercise outside the Ministry of Health on Brickdam in support of Colwyn Harding, the boy allegedly sodomized by police ranks. Dennis Atwell of the Alliance for Change and I were next to each other in the line.
There was rejection of certain slogans Dennis was shouting and my suggestion that we move across the road on the parapet directly in front of the Ministry was also rejected. Atwell, a veteran of picket-demonstrations, decided that he was not at a picnic and left. Of course I came with him so I departed out of solidarity. If it was a PPP led demonstration, the picketers would have been at the gate of the Ministry.

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