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Stop the references to race

Jul 27, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Today I read your Dem Boys Seh article titled “Have faith, your cries will be answered,” and as usual was pleased with the way in which you continue to expose the excesses of the elected officials using a language all Guyanese could understand.
However, there is one area where you display a total disregard for all our citizens in your use of the inappropriate and unacceptable names (buck and coolie) to describe our ethnic diversity.
This intolerance of yours was articulated in a letter sent to you about six months ago by my brother but it seems you never gave it a second thought.
You appeared quite comfortable in your missive by referring to some of us as “buck and coolie” but seemed to take a pause and then use “black” instead of that more damning “n**” word for which you would be pilloried from Guyana to Alaska.
As someone whose mother is Arawak, I know how it feels when this intolerance is excused as “he knows when I call him “buck” I don’t mean any harm. We’re friends!”
Please don’t fool yourself because “buck” to me is not a term of endearment.
It is time to get past the name calling and focus instead on the excesses of our administrators and help to formulate a plan for the development of a more prosperous and tolerant society we all hope for.
Richard Correia
Mabaruma.

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