An aging pit bull who wants to be vicious

Sep 28, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I didn’t know that Ralph Seeram had referred to me as jackass last week until it was brought to my attention that the Chronicle made reference to it last Friday. I don’t know who Ralph Seeram is; don’t care to. Never met the gentleman; don’t want to.
My understanding is that he is an aging journalist living in Miami. I could be as acerbic as Seeram by referring to him as a tenth rate journalist living as a tenth rate citizen in another land, but I will refrain from hostile semantics for the moment.
I can’t remember any Ralph Seeram in the seventies. He must have been pretty invisible or didn’t distinguish himself, because I could rattle off my head the eminent or popular journalists of the seventies and eighties in Guyana.
Some years ago, this gentleman got angry with me and penned an article with the caption, “Freddie Kissoon is a jackass.” He doesn’t seem to have a wide vocabulary, because this is the second time he uses the same appellation. After this column, he may refer to me as a donkey. At least that will show that he is not stuck on one word.
So why did he caption his article in such a way? Because I described Ralph Seeram as a profound fool, an idiotic man, and a really stupid fellow for composing a picture of then President Jagdeo that was utterly asinine.
According to Seeram, he went to a party the PPP group in New York hosted for the visiting Guyanese president. He wrote he was delighted that President Jagdeo granted him a five-minute conversation. He elaborated on his feelings for Jagdeo by saying that when he looked into the eyes of Jagdeo, he saw a man who wants democracy for Guyana and will make his country great. I don’t know at the time if Seeram was still a journalist when Jagdeo gave him that five minutes but if he was, then, journalism can produce some ignorant people.
So how did Seeram know that Jagdeo was interested in democracy for Guyana and will be a great president? Because he saw it in Jagdeo’s eyes and he got that impression by a short, five-minute chat.
Can you tell a president will lead his country into greater freedom by looking into his eyes and from a five-minute chat at a party? And to think Seeram actually wrote this.
After my column on this pathetic nonsense of Seeram, I got several e-mails telling me about Seeram. I didn’t know that Seeram was enamoured with Jagdeo because he, Seeram, and Jagdeo shared a similar character trait.
But surely if you belong to the same sub-culture of a person or you share a certain membership with him in a certain closed society, that doesn’t mean you should insult your dignity by telling people that you can predict what he will do for his country by looking into his eyes after a five-minute chat.
I admire profoundly Nigel Hughes, Khemraj Ramjattan and Dr. David Hinds. I have looked into their eyes millions of times. I still can’t tell from those looks what they will do when they administer the affairs of Guyana.
So in reaction to that column, he called me a jackass. Seeram went on to praise Mr. Jagdeo in several more articles. For me this man was so silly, I stopped reading what he writes. I would have replied with an earlier column if I knew he had said that of me since eight days ago.
Now Seeram is into his jackass thing again. And this is because I took umbrage at PPP supporter, Oscar Ramjeet, an ethnic soulmate of Seeram, for referring to Carl Greenidge as writing trash (Ramjeet’s word) after Greenidge exposed the PPP’s interference in the judiciary.
Now brace yourself for the bad man, the big warrior named Ralph Seeram. Here is what he wrote of me; “You attack me, I come after you like a vicious pit bull and take you down in the gutter with me.” So the Guyanese readers can expect a pit bull attack on me. The only problem is that it will be an anti-climax. Seeram’s pit bull viciousness is for the bees and insects in the cocoon where he carries on his existence.
Unlike Seeram’s “democratic” president, I never put my wife out of the marital bedroom after one week of the union. In fact we have been together for a few months short of 36 years. So Seeram has to go into the gutter with someone else. Maybe the pit bull will invent some dirt as they did to Raphael Trotman. But it won’t work with me. The Guyanese people know me. I live among them.

Editor’s note: This is the end of the ad hominen attacks by anyone contributing to the pages of this newspaper. Perhaps I should have ended it a long time ago.

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