Latest update April 16th, 2026 12:40 AM
The polarizing period is here
Dear Editor,
There is something about this elections period with its polarising energies and the drumming of fear and contempt in the language of the politicians. There are supposed to be mechanisms in place to ‘monitor’ and prevent this, but the thing is, these mechanisms are after the fact, after the damage is done.
Many persons have realised that you cannot be fighting racism, by calling the ‘other side’ racist. There must be ways to talk about ‘black’ and ‘coolie’ and about the past which is not seen as racist or we will always all be racist every time we try to talk about race..
There must be different words in the arsenals of the politicians other than jackass, donkey, fool, dim witted, ass, racial and there must be other pull quotes which are not about war and fighting and who is good and evil.
After every cuss down , there is time and energy spent on saying that is not what we said and the ‘issues’ do not get mentioned really because there seems to be no issue beyond as one politician reportedly told his supporters “If you think we bad, then the Devil coming”?
Are the supporters of the different political parties expected to view each other as valued Guyanese citizens with equal rights, when the people they voting for seem to think that each other are donkeys, jackasses, asses, fools, dim witted, criminals (without convictions), etc?
Vidyaratha Kissoon
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