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The vital role Kaieteur News and Freddie Kissoon played

Jun 04, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write in response to Nigel Hinds letter dated 24 May regarding your columnist Freddie Kissoon’s alleged unwarranted criticisms of ex-President, Bharrat Jagdeo. Nigel Hinds’ letters are impressive indeed; well constructed with extensive vocabulary and quotations they reflect a sound grounding in the use of the English language which his parents and those Guyanese responsible for his education can be justly proud.
However this facility with the Queen’s English (1) only serves to emphasize the stark contrast between beautiful form and disreputable content. It also raises important issues about the use abuse and purpose of education itself. REF: Sparrow’s “Dan is the Man.” As the late Edward Said put it in his BBC Reith Lectures on the role of the Intellectual in Society, the first duty of the intellectual must be to the truth i.e. to speak truth to power.
The UK Guardian newspaper Comments section issues a daily warning rarely heeded: “You are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.”
Clearly anyone passingly acquainted with the predations of the Jagdeo regime and the vital but dangerous role Kaieteur News and Freddie Kissoon have played in chronicling and exposing them will not dispute that Nigel Hinds latest letter fails abysmally on both counts above. Moreover this brazen attempt to mishandle the truth is now compounded by the apparent ‘outsourcing’ of his fine intellect in the service of a truculent and unapologetic anti-African Bharrat (India is well in Guyana) Jagdeo who seems incapable of thinking as well as Hinds can write.
Therein in microcosm lies the tragedy of the African in Guyana: First Black bodies bought and sold worked to death for 400 years then colonial, then Black then Afro-Saxon masters of the Masters English (like one Forbes Burnham).
Now intellect for sale… ‘outsourced’ to Bharrat Jagdeo who for good reason prefers Africans like Hinds and Dr. Roger Luncheon (in the High Court) to defend him.
It is now being alleged after the 2011 election, Jagdeo like any European Plantation owner started feeding Nigel Hinds’s body and seeding his mind by scattering corn in his direction – with lucrative auditing contracts which as far as I know he has not denied.
Nigel Hinds must now answer Kissoon’s questions, respond to Ogunseye’s allegations and apologise (if needs be) for failing to transparently declare his financial interests when Kaieteur News unfortunately allowed him space to spew his smokescreen of erudition in the direction of your many readers at home and abroad..
It will take a Fanon or Florida’s Prof. Naim Akbar to plumb the psychological depths of this post slavery and post-colonial self-hate among even educated and so-called professional Africans in the West. Like the PPP”s Sam Hinds, Nigel Hinds in turn will be thanked and even liked but will never be trusted nor respected since he seems to respect neither the truth (of racial discrimination in particular ) nor himself. One must quote James Baldwin as he is relevant here; “The principles upon which the English language has been constructed form part of the architecture of the black man’s prison. The real Mckoy -THE ACCOUNTANT (played by the late Black UK comedian Felix Dexter from St Kitts).
Errol Harry, London, UK

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