The devil wears Prada and drives Prado

Feb 06, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I am hearing it all the time. Young, the not so young, the old, the not so old, are telling me about retaliation against Indians if the PNC gets back in power.
I participated in an AFC picket outside the Ministry of Finance, yesterday, and after the demonstration which ended at 1.30 p.m., I went shopping for different things. Near to the High Court, I met a young Indian lawyer. There is no question in my mind that he is an AFC supporter, because I know the family well. He said that he has heard that if Granger gets into power, he will institute land redistribution.
It was clear to me, he knows where that was coming from. He knew it was the PPP at work. With this lawyer it is land. With the young lady at the gas pump, it was taking away employment from Indian people. With the country folks, it is revenge against Indian people.
This is what I have heard. This is what I am hearing. This is what Indians are asking me about. It started since the Parliament was prorogued. And it will get nasty, acidic, volcanic and morbidly dangerous, as we swing into the election campaign. When we hear these things from the PPP, those of us who are old enough remember the sixties.
For a majority of Indian people born after 1960, the PPP fed them a most poisonous diet not only of PNC evil, but of African people hating Indians. The sixties were presented to them as an African rampage instigated by the PNC against Indians. Fifty years after the racial conflict of the sixties, the entire world is seeing who the race-baiter is and the myth of the sixties is exploding.
I have already done a column in which I have presented revisionist history of the sixties and the violent role of the PPP in that era, based on released archival documents from the Czech Republic, known as Czechoslovakia during the communist era in Eastern Europe (see my January 24, 2015 article, “The PPP requested guns, grenades, ammunitions and electoral resources.”).
Did the PNC instigate race violence in the sixties and the PPP merely reacted? Or did the PPP like the PNC try to outdo each other? But why go back to the sixties. Why don’t we look at race incitement in 2014 and at the moment? Who in the PNC and the PPP are preaching race vitriol? Where is the evidence to accuse the PNC?
Where is the evidence to accuse the PPP? It is in the Chronicle in July 2012. An editorial in that newspaper was the worst open, public racist statement ever made in the history of this country. It was written by a female Indian PPP activist, who works for the PPP, and is attached to the Chronicle. One cannot think of any racist statement made at a public meeting from 1957 to 1968 that was so venomous and stink.
That editorial put an end to any misconception as to which political party in this land is comfortable with the public advocacy of racist incitement. This is not to say that African politicians do not give off nasty racist sentiments against Indians on private occasions. But where is the proof that they have done that publicly? There isn’t any. But the Chronicle editorial is there.
It was written by a woman that Mrs. Jagan was close to, a woman that the PPP has embraced, a woman that will be a main campaigner for the PPP in the 2015 election campaign. Since the PPP got inebriated with power and became semi-fascist, it has reacted to its declining popularity by invoking the ghost of race.
This has been going on since February 2002 with the crime spree. And this lava of churning, racist heat is not confined to second tier leaders in the PPP. It is spewed by the leaders who take holidays in foreign lands, come back with Prada clothes and Prado vehicles, and live in luxurious villas in gated communities.
The devils in their Prada clothes and Prado vehicles know that if they are going to survive in power, they have to visit the cemetery and release the jumbie of race. This is what they have been doing since the election bells began to ring.
When the PPP releases the jumbie, one wonders what goes through the mind of African Guyanese like those in the security forces. But what about the private sector? Why doesn’t it stop the monster from running amok in Guyana? Once this thing gets out of control, it will devour Guyana in its entirety.

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