When does the past begin?

Apr 28, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

It is foolish to think that educated East Indians will not support the reelection of the PPP. Such people are not confined to Guyana. There are countless educated people in the US that will gladly vote for a white candidate that is openly anti-Black. When it comes to race, Humans have a dangerous fault line.
It is doubtful that the Nazi Party could have remained in power if they had murdered six million Germanic people. For the average German, the Jews were not their concern. One of the greatest ironies in American foreign policy is that one of the tightest security relations the US has since WW2 is with Saudi Arabia.
Yet it is Saudi Arabia that has contributed heavily to the emergence of the Islamic State. The answer lies in ethnicity.
Homo sapiens as Arthur Koestler so brilliantly argued, will willingly become a savage because the tribal instinct is uncontrollable. There are educated Guyanese who probably have deep contempt for Bharrat Jagdeo and think that Bheri Ramsaran should be exiled. But the tribal instinct will drive these people to endorse and vote for the PPP on May 11 even though such a victory will deepen the presence and power of Jagdeo, Ramsaran and others.
It doesn’t matter if the victory will mean a convicted rapist will become a minister, a child molester will be head of a public institution; a convicted thief will be appointed to an important job, the object is to protect the tribe over and above all sacred values. Make no mistake, Rickey Singh isn’t coming back to Guyana but he wants his tribe to rule Guyana.
When Ryhaan Shah talks about teaching young people about the past, she is referring only and only to the period of Forbes Burnham. It is Ms. Shah’s way of helping her tribe win the 2015 elections. When Dolly Hassan wrote, yesterday, that the past needs to be shown to young Guyanese, she is referring to the PNC in power and not 23 years of the PPP because the PPP consists of her tribe.
Professor David Dabydeen will never settle his family in Guyana but he wants his tribe to govern his country of birth.
Once you studied philosophy (particularly Koestler’s work on the nature of Homo sapiens) you will not be surprised that Varshnie Singh, the grieving, abused common-law wife of Bharrat Jagdeo, has sailed into the PPP election camp. The problem is Jagdeo, not the PPP. The PPP is of the same tribe with Ms. Singh so she had to come on board.
Thousands of Guyanese East Indians in “Little Berbice” in New York have hopes that their loved ones will join them in New York even if the US and New York have permanent Black leadership. But they will remain fanatically tied to the PPP because their tribe is in power in Guyana and they want the PPP to continue to dominate the other ethnicities.
There is talk about the past as the present election campaign gets into the final stage but those who want young Guyanese to be educated about the past have a convenient starting point. By the past they mean the period that fits in with their racial instinct. They see the seventies and eighties as the past, not the nineties and not the past twenty years. They have another name for that period but it is certainly not the past.
For them the past is about a Black man named Burnham and his ban on flour and channa. The past is not about 2004 when drug traffickers tied to powerful politicians devastated the social fabric of Guyana. When these educated Indians refer to the past and the need to teach it to young Guyanese, they mean the 1980 constitution of Burnham not the 1992 constitution of the PPP which is the same Burnham constitution.
When these “learned” Indians ruminate about the past, the name Burnham must be centre-stage not the personality of Cheddi Jagan who in 1984 sat down with Mr. Burnham and decided to contest the 1985 elections as one united formation in which he would run as the prime ministerial candidate.
Those who talk about the past are running away from talking about the present. The present is about corruption where Mr. Jagdeo built a house worth five million American dollars. The present is about the collapse of the University of Guyana, the imminent ruin of the NIS, the breakdown of law and order.
The present is about those who want the young Guyanese to know the past while their families live beautiful lives in other countries where people don’t care about the past. Guyanese certainly need a break from the past.

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