A useful call for racial harmony

Dec 14, 2018 Letters

DEAR EDITOR

It is good that former US Ambassador Perry Holloway believes that our politicians need to work together to diffuse racial tension in Guyanese Society. Let us for a moment forget the part that his country (the USA) played in the past in stoking racial tension during the Cold War and focus on what it would take to build trust in Guyanese Society.
To understand the problem is the key to finding a solution. There is definitely a Trust Deficit Problem in Guyana.
When we examine the situation we see that the heinous crime of slavery has moulded into African Guyanese psyche that they cannot TRUST another race to chart their destiny.
Come what may, African Guyanese will chart their own future and rightly so. African Guyanese feel that they have to FIGHT for everything that they want as opposed to negotiating and working with others for mutual benefits. They feel that they are in a protracted “war” to “prove” themselves. When people believe that they are in a war they will make preparations for war and act accordingly.
At some level people will need to understand that you need to work together for mutual benefits. That is the basis of Consensus Politics: Working together to build trust, mutual understanding and mutual respect.

Yours Faithfully
Sean Ori

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