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Feb 28, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am not interested in politics and I have never written a letter to any newspaper in Guyana but I feel compelled to do after reading the exchange between CR Peters and Mr. Vishu Bisram in Kaieteur News last week. Mr. Peters responded to Mr. Bisram’s charge by saying Mr. Bisram sees race in everything. Instead of proving Mr. Peters wrong, to my mind Mr. Bisram replied and proved Mr. Peters right. I would like to go back to my parent’s arrival in New York in the seventies. We are Indians. When our parents left Mahaica for the US, my brother and sister and I were young children. But the memories I will always keep close to me
We were warmly welcomed by Guyanese of every colour. Indians and Blacks from Guyana were kind to my parents. Our parents built close friendship with Guyanese who were both Indian and Black. My siblings and I became friends with all types of Guyanese of all types of races. I write this letter because I am familiar with two persons who are the children of my parents’ friends that are in that committee to plan the 50th anniversary of Independence here in New York.  I don’t know the extent to which Mr. Bisram knows these people who are Black Guyanese but to say that these two persons would ever think of their fellow Guyanese in terms of Indian versus Black people would be the Devil’s deed
I never thought I would write a letter to a Guyanese newspaper because I am simply not that kind of person but Mr. Bisram’s accusations against the Anniversary Committee and Mr. Peters shocked me to my senses. It has caused me to inquire from Mr. Harris, the editor what standard he uses to publish letters. I read all the newspapers online though I admit I am hindered in my access to the Stabroek News because it is not a free online service. Most Guyanese in New York in their fifties and onwards, I believe read as a matter of routine the Guyanese newspapers online. The Kaieteur News for me is the most interesting. I like the Kissoon columns, the letters section and Dem Boys Seh. People here in New York love Dem Boys Seh. Most of all the Kaieteur News brings the news of Guyana into the homes of Guyanese-Americans
I don’t know Mr. Bisram. For all my years in New York, I have never met him but to be honest I have never attended a Guyanese political event. I am not interested in such matters. I read the letter pages before anything else and that is so even though I would not miss the Kissoon’s columns and Dem Boys Seh. It is through the letters I am familiar with the writings of Mr. Bisram, and others like Mr. Ogunseye. These two persons have nothing else on their minds but race. I would like to know if Mr. Harris has a certain standard by which unpleasant race ramblings are judged
I am in complete agreement with Mr. Peters’ sentiments on Mr. Bisram. I don’t know Mr. Peters at all. I don’t know if Peters is him or her since the person did not state their entire name. Mr. Bisram fills the letter pages of the Kaieteur News daily with race rhetoric. You read any letter written by Mr. Bisram today, last year or five or ten years ago and as night follows day, the contents are about Indian people. I have not read a letter by Mr. Bisram that is not on Guyanese Indians and always it is about how Blacks mistreated Indians.
Haven’t we gone past that? Should we not leave that part of Guyana behind? Mr. Bisram brings it up in every letter. We had good Black neighbours in Mahaica. We never had any quarrel with our Black friends and neighbours in Mahaica. It is unnerving to go on the net, click on Kaieteur News and there is always a letter from Mr. Bisram on Indians. Mr. Ogunseye is always writing on Black people but he does not write as often as Mr. Bisram. I think Guyana needs to move beyond race. It is time we do.  Happily my four children have missed that boat and I think they are better Guyanese for it. My children have close white, black and brown friends. I would urge Mr. Bisram to move on. All of us should
Rajendranauth R. Singh

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