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All Dr. David Hinds can do is criticize
Dear Editor;
Every time, I read the utterances of David Hinds I often wonder if he is coming or going. His latest salvo in KN on the 1st August 2016, where he is castigating Black people; “they still have to emancipate themselves from self hatred and cultural blindness or simply put– mental slavery.” He alone sees this and knows this. He goes further “African Guyanese are guilty of derailing the foundation of their ancestors.” To quote from Democracy in Black, by Eddie S Claude JR; “In the end Black humanity gets squeezed between claims of our failures and concerns over our deficiencies.
Lost beneath both is the fullness of who we are.” While other groups are positive in encouraging their people to take back this land that Black people built, we get condemnation from our own. There is nothing that Hinds and his group will talk about at their forum on Sunday 7th August that was not put forward by the Burnham government during its tenure. But at that time it was, out of step with the times or so they will say. Hinds should know about hatred; he and his Black cohorts could not have gone against Burnham because he was culturally blind. No, their ulterior motive was deeper than that. These political babes in the woods are still political babes in the woods. They’re like their other friends, can only criticize. Ask them for one, not two or three good political ideas that will move this country forward. It would result in a blank stare, unless of course they quote from the great thinkers of yesteryear. These people at best are just trying to stay relevant in the scheme of things.
Milton Bruce
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