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We are a doomed nation
Dear Editor,
Many are skirting the utterances of Volda Lawrence and Joe Harmon. They are putting twists and spins to what was said in plain language: You are not PNC, you are not entitled to Government jobs and Government money!
Question: Are Government jobs Volda Lawrence’s or Government money Harmon’s?
If the pontifications of Lawrence and Harmon are validated, tacitly or otherwise, as they are by Adam Harris and a host of others, then should Jagdeo and Irfaan and others in the PPP be prosecuted when they took what was Government’s and, by extension, what was Guyana’s?
My wife (of Indian descent) has me over the barrel: These people are drawing ethnic lines. Are they mad? My answer to her is YES! Whom the gods wish to destroy, he first makes them mad.
AFC, WPA, etc. have evaporated! Like UF and GUMP, etc. Change of names, but still the old PNC! Only the PNC.
Adam, if the PPP had made such a statement, Kaieteur News would have been calling for their heads for the next month. Kudos to KN, they helped to overthrow the PPP regime. What will KN do now? Be convenient apologists?
Even an economics novice can translate the net contribution to Guyana by ethnic groupings. Shouldn’t there be an open day for discussion on this in light of Lawrence’s and Harmon’s postures and its implications?
I have called for partitioning by echoing Eusi Kwayana’s call. The man had vision! He saw what will eventually happen in Guyana. Only partition will solve this country’s ethnic issues. Set up all the Commissions we wish, express all the platitudes we can dream up; we WILL NEVER bring the races together! Our political leadership nurtures that and feeds on it.
That is why I also advocate for us NOT to go to the polls as a means of telling our politicians that we DO NOT need them; they need US. And, so long as we lack the fortitude to be the voice rather than the voiceless, our politicians will use us as their footballs, as if they are the very air we breathe.
Come on Guyanese, THINK! These people used to drive some S—t boxes for vehicles. When they get into power, they each have several PRADOS and outriders and they smirk at us. When they wanted our votes, they were on their knees. When they get in power, they s—t on our heads.
What has made us so subservient? Our ethnic mindset. And that has been drilled into us for several decades now, thanks to the British and American powers in the early sixties. Today, the ABC countries are watching on us and laughing heartily.
If we do not remember our past, we are bound to re-live it. We are living it – with what Lawrence and Harmon recently said.
Freddie Kissoon is on the ball: We are a doomed nation.
Charles Selman
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