This writer. like Donald Trump, was clearly absent from his civic classes. Africans were not brought to work for the British like Portuguese and Indians. Africans were forcibly enslaved.

It is this kind of ignorance that racial prejudice spring from. That there is no editorial reaction to this insulting assertion is further evidence of the different standards applicable to groups in Guyana. An insult of that nature connected with any other group would have elicited an editorial comment.