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African Guyanese must be equal with other communities
Dear Editor,
Up, you mighty people! With much pride in the post emancipation period Africans have sung “First of August come again.” This reminder of the struggle that finally broke the physical chains of bondage on 1st August 1838….179 years after there’s still ways to go to secure other forms of emancipation.
Having had the opportunity to visit and interact with many predominantly African communities, I am acutely aware of what the African family has had to live with. The stench of hardship, deprivation, marginalisation, negative public images, criminalisation, and demonisation lingers. Some among us have been agents or pawns of a system of cannibalising their own in pursuit of self-interest.
But this must not be seen as evidence that Africans are lesser than, or incapable of. This must be used as reminders of what Africans must not be and must strive at all cost to avoid.
If ever the time is ripe, it is now for Africans to be the change we want to see and deserve. It is time to take our rightful place in this nation, to be equal partner with other groups. Historical struggles that led to success when people came together for common cause must see this power use to secure our advancement and upliftment.
This power must also be used to hold all who act on our behalf accountable, even as we so hold ourselves to conduct our lives in a manner that would be of honour to the race.
Up, you mighty people! The struggle must continue for mental, economic, political and social emancipation. An investment in you is an investment in equality, society’s growth and development.
Sharma Solomon
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