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My response to Freddie

Sep 12, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Purely in the interest of clarity, permit me a few lines in response to some recent comments from Mr. Freddie Kissoon following my column in Stabroek News on ethnic separation in Guyana.  In the first place, in dragging in a reference to the United States as a point in the subject, Freddie is harking  back to a previous column, written some two years ago, on a completely different subject, with a completely different tack; it does  not appear in any guise in the recent column.  As a columnist, Freddie is certainly free to go down any path he chooses, but this foray is puzzling both in timing and in relevance.
More pertinently, the subject being addressed  in letters from Ruel Johnson, Abu Bakr, and now me in the recent column, is the ethnic divide between the two dominant groups in Guyana that constitute the major impediment to the country’s progress, and it would be useful if at some point Freddie could be addressing that problem. As debilitating as corruption is, if we were to somehow magically eliminate it completely from our country, the greater dilemma of our two dominating groups having almost zero regard for each other will continue to beat us down as a nation.  As Ruel Johnson put it, “Unless we speak honestly and openly about these divisions and about what is necessary to heal them, no system of government will work.”
If Freddie is going to join the discussion of the problem, it would useful for him to turn his talents to making some practical remedial suggestions.
Dave Martins

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