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Man-kisser, the beacon of truth and human mystery

Aug 31, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Civilization will go on for thousands of years, and knowledge of what makes up the human being will be greatly expanded, but the mystery of the human will go on. We may live forever, but it is doubtful we will ever understand what makes people do the things they do.
Last Sunday, a speeding driver ran a red light and almost killed my cousin, William Cox and his wife. At the station, the erring driver apologized and asked for leniency. Then an incredible thing happened. When both drivers were asked to produce their documents, the driver in the wrong had three missing papers – driver’s licence, vehicle registration and insurance.
What makes people do what they do? You would think that someone behind the wheel of a vehicle and not in possession of vital documents would be extra-careful. Last week, I was in conversation with a Guyanese I knew when I was a UG student. He has returned to invest and live in Guyana. With a broad smile on his face, he said he always found it funny when he read the online edition of the Guyana Times and the many instances it referred to me as a man-kisser.
He said he told his wife he would like to meet me one day to find out where this man-kissing thing started, because he cannot conceive of me being a homosexual. My first reaction was that I don’t read the Guyana Times often and I don’t know they refer to me as a man-kisser regularly in their pages. He said quite often they do. When I explained who labelled me a man-kisser, this gentleman opened his mouth wide, wide and started to laugh loudly.
The guy couldn’t believe it, I cannot believe it up to this day and I suppose all, not most, but all Guyanese in and out of Guyana cannot believe it. I was publicly called a man-kisser by a man who is nationally perceived to be a man-kisser himself. He is one of the most powerful politicians in the leadership of the PPP at present and once thought he was the monarch of Guyana. Not one person from the time I was born up to the present time ever hinted that I was homosexual.
There is nothing I have done in my life that would cause anyone to think that I am a homosexual. And I am not a homosexual. But please note I have absolutely nothing against homosexuals. I have been married for thirty-six years to the same woman, fathered a kid and I find women aesthetically and sexually attractive. The comical irony is that the person who called me a man-kisser is believed by most Guyanese in and out of the country to be a practicing homosexual.
His common law wife told the Guyanese people that one week after their religious wedding he evicted her from the martial bedroom. She refused to answer a question from the media as to if the union was ever consummated. This politician is never seen with women at any public event be it a visiting performer, international football game, international cricket match, a national event of importance. Always, he is in the company of men. There is no visibility of a woman in this man’s company in public events. As a bachelor he doesn’t seem to date females. At fifty-one, he is not a father and remains unmarried.
He has facilitated a number of homosexuals in top public jobs. I repeat; I have no objection to homosexuality and no objection to gays being in top position in the public sector. My issue is why would such a person try to deride me by calling me a man-kisser when he is the man kisser? Why try to derogate me by putting a label on when the very label you wear.
We come back to where we started. Could we ever understand people? The Guyana Times that often refers to me as a man-kisser needs to identify the man-kisser who is a powerful figure in the origin of the Guyana Times and is believed by many to be one of the owners along with major shareholder, Bobby Ramroop. The Guyana Times makes you think that indeed we will never understand human beings.
On the masthead of the Guyana Times are the words – “the beacon of truth.” But the Guyana Times hides the truth every day. Each day, the Guyana Times produces four published letters signed by people who hide their real names. That is 28 fictional signatures a week.
If the Guyana Times is the beacon of truth, let readers know the truth behind its letter writers’ names. But most of all, even if the Guyana Times calls me a man-kisser, the Guyana Times has an obligation to its motto – the beacon of truth – to tell its readers who is the real man-kisser.

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