This whole mess started with Vincent Alexander

Apr 26, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is indeed ironic that in the very edition (KN, Sun. 23 April 23, 2017) which carried the article regarding the massive injustice being meted out to Cox (myself and Ras Marcus) that the answer as to ‘why’ this is so, is also given in two other articles (see “Government refuses to pay small judgements” and the Freddie Kissoon column with the caption; “Relentless class bestialities in Guyana.”). Perhaps at the end of the day, millions will be expended on legal fees to ‘flog a dead horse’ at the CCJ, as if to say our home-grown judges are numbskulls.
The Attorney General seems to think that apart from himself, Mr. Vincent Alexander is the only other bona fide legal luminary in Guyana and so tax payers’ money must be wasted to try and make his devilish decision stand. No compromise or settlement for the ‘lowly’ school teacher Cox but billionaires such as B.K. and others are made even richer by merely threatening to sue!
It would be interesting to hear how Dr. David Hinds and other ‘Black’ activists explain, politically and socially, this blatant injustice being done to Cox. There is the general view that Indians marginalise Blacks but here you have a perceived ‘Black’ government who ranted, while being in the opposition, about that perceived notion on marginalisation, but now refuses to correct even minor wrongs done to Black people by the past ‘Indian’ government.
Instead, they dance merrily to the tunes of the super wealthy, who happen mostly to be Indians! (Perhaps Ravi Dev and his crew may care to chime in and explain how it is that these wealthy Indians ‘break roti’ with the big, bad black PNC but generally share not a crumb with their less fortunate ‘Jahajis’).
Bear in mind that this whole mess started with Vincent Alexander who, out of scores of students who had defaulted on their student loans chose only Cox ,who incidentally still had about two years more to repay, to ‘apply the law’ against. It is to be noted also that Cox is very well known among those who stride the ‘corridors of power’, yet not a single soul from among them came to his rescue. In his response (KN, Monday, 24th, April) to the article on Cox, Mr. Alexander appeared to be making a desperate attempt to weasel his way out of this mess.
First he spoke about some ‘imaginary’ collusion between his staff and Cox (along with Marcus and myself) to write exams. Was any of the said staff disciplined for this said ‘collusion’? Then he seemed to insinuate that Pro Chancellor, Dr. Misir ‘ducked’ the court summons meant for U.G. so that Cox could win by ‘default’. If Mr. Misir indeed did that, then good for him. At least here was Social Cohesion at work, an Indian trying to help a Blackman from the wickedness of another Blackman!
But what about the Appeal? Didn’t UG run to the Court of Appeal? Didn’t their million dollar lawyers inform the Judges about ‘collusion’ and ‘ducking’ and the rules and regulations of U.G. as it relates to payment of fees? Is Mr. Alexander also suggesting that the three Judges of the Court of Appeal was also involved in some sort of ‘ducking’?
The new government had thereafter released a list of defaulters on the student loans. I cannot recall the ethnic composition of that list but one thing for sure is that all on the list seemed capable of repaying their dues. In other words, since many of them are popular ‘big shot’ lawyers, money was the key link among them.
It is not that I am saying that awards and rewards should be distributed based on ‘colour’ but it is the politicians who use ‘colour’ to achieve power and once achieved, they become colour blind. It is to their advantage that they do not share the secrets for upward mobility with those of their ‘own colour’ but rather keep them at the bottom of the ladder. Come next election, political security is assured as long as there is the ‘other colour’ to shoulder the blame for all your miseries and worries.
And herein lies one among the many lessons from Cox’s dilemma for the common man. The race problem is not as terrible as what the politicians and certain social activists make it out to be. The fact that it generally raises its head at election time proves that it is a convenient tool of the politicians and those social activists who want to see their own colour in power. Money is the key. The colour of the bearer is insignificant. If Cox was in the ‘big league’ do you honestly think that he would be preparing to face the CCJ over such a trivial matter?
Sheik Mustapha

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