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Donald Ramotar is nothing but a hypocrite

May 18, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

‘Comrade’ Ramotar continues to “open his mouth” in yet another feeble attempt to convince Guyanese that our suspicions about his capacity for cogent formulations were sound. The former president is obviously in a lonely world, and is suffering from the latter stage of self-inflicted selective amnesia. Now here is a man who accidentally became President of Guyana has suddenly, seemingly, experienced an epiphany of consciousness about discrimination against African Guyanese.
What makes his hypocrisy even more insidious, and bordering insanity, is just over a year ago he was President of a Government that spent 23 years discriminating against, and marginalizing African Guyanese.
Mr. Editor, let me not waste the public’s time recounting the evidence of ‘Comrade’ Ramotar, his party and Government’s discriminatory practices against Guyanese. If this issue was serious, I suspect that most Guyanese reading his last letter would have burst out laughing over the absurdity it represented. Or, maybe a well deserved segment in ‘Nothing to Laugh About’ or a quick laugh in a rumshop setting over a few bottles of High Wine. Let me, instead, reference one poignant example of the kind of racial antipathy against African Guyanese, that emanated from the PPP under the failed Presidency of ‘Comrade’ Ramotar.
Under his short lived Presidency, an editorial appeared in the Chronicle, the state owned newspaper controlled by the PPP and Government, in which it was stated that the parents of African Guyanese train their children to rob Indian Guyanese. Despite the furor that erupted over the use of a state owned media entity to cast such racist aspersions upon the reputation of the African Guyanese collective, there was not one word of condemnation of that article, or censure of the sources behind its authorship and publication from ‘Comrade’ Ramotar, his pathetic and anti-poor Government or party of atheists. Their silence, beyond a shadow of doubt, loudly informed all and sundry that they shared the sentiments expressed in that article.
I am not here to defend the actions of the coalition Government (hopefully those in government today will come around to defending themselves against the PPP, instead of attacking those who are largely responsible for standing up against the infidels) so I refuse to pronounce on the issues involving Juan Edghill who likes to be called a ‘Bishop’ and who shamelessly proclaimed that Jesus Christ would have voted for an anti-Christ party, and the other person he identified as an African Guyanese. African Guyanese are quite familiar with, and we are of course, a population group uniquely armed with centuries of experience with identifying and recognizing racial discrimination.
And there is no face, no character, no persona in Guyana that is more representative of the source of that experience than the last two PPP Presidents and their Governance. There are hundreds of African Guyanese who now lie in repose as direct or collateral casualties of the PPP’s institutionalized racist policies in Guyana. I call on ‘Comrade’ Ramotar to take a backseat in his dark and lonely office, and to desist from parading a few dirty character ‘negroes’ as being victimized by this current regime.
Mark A. Benschop
A victim under the PPP Regime

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