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Issues are not the overriding thing here

Oct 24, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I was mildly intrigued by a couple of items that appeared in the other daily. On 20/10/14 by GHK Lall, “Deal in making to stave off no confidence vote,” and Mr. S Samaroo, of 9/10/14, “We’re a global people of poor self image.” First Mr Lall, I must confess that you left me in “stitches” (a term for hilarious laughter) after reading your either “tongue in cheek” or “serious naiveté” description of your humongous discovery.
All the issues that you have put forward that could shame a government into resignation, mean nothing to the Indian voter. Issues are not the overriding thing here: race is. For the Indians what ever the complaint, it only affects black people. Therefore there are no outraged Indians. There is no reason for the Indian voter to be on the picket line, for even though he suffers the same humilities he identifies with the government. It is his government. Therefore when that columnist characterized the people collectively as sheep, he is not addressing black people with that sheep characterization. History is a good teacher.
When the PNC was in control the black middle class bourgeois were incensed with Burnham and his policies. These intellectual black people decided to pick up the cudgel and run with it. Black people went after Burnham. “Rodney, Lewis, Hinds, Ogunsaye, Kawayna, Holder, Thomas. It was about issues they said, not a thing about race, they were patriots. What form of Government these bright black people were going to deliver to us after they got rid of the PNC only they know. “The greatest stumbling block in the way of progress in the race has invariably come from within the race itself.” (Marcus Garvey.)
During that period Dr Jagan proved where he was really an astute politician. He laid low and allowed the Black people to fight each other. He kept his ears to the ground, his powder dry, and awaited the conflagration, which eventually came. Leaving us with the fall out up to now.
Mr Lall, I gather from your writings that you see our future in dire straits. I do not for one minute doubt your assessment. For when things happen, you wonder. APNU has a leader who has the audacity to become incensed when and if he is picketed, he pickets the President every Tuesday and does not see the irony. The people ask when the Parliament will be reconvened? The part time politicians don’t have a clue. They scream that the constitution says this, the constitution says that. The metaphor for the constitution is “our present traffic.”
Mr Samaroo, you are quite the bleeding heart aren’t you? You are so sweet your sweetness could lead to diabetes. I am just wondering, however, if your sweetness is not dis-ingenuousness. I know that you have been around since KN came on board.
However, I must confess that I cannot remember you writing anything during that time about what was going on. Maybe you were not around. But now you would entreat us all to hold hands and go down the street singing kum-ba-ya. No, it will not be that easy. The wounds are still raw. You said that; “Guyanese all over the world dream with great nostalgia about our homeland with great fondness.” I know you have not spoken to any of my family. You further said that “Guyanese everywhere express shame about the decline of our nation.” Which is it Mr Samaroo, “fondness or shame.”
I was very happy to read the words that you wrote about the slaves. It was commendable. But do you know that the lands left by the builders of Guyana for their inheritors is being confiscated? Do you know who is the point man in this assassination? And do you know why this individual was made the point man?
There is a solution to this problem, and we all know what it is.
Milton Bruce

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