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Emancipation at a glance
Emancipation! There is a certain soaring expansiveness to the mere thought, a reaching for the meaning and holding close of that word, a cherishing of all that it holds and promises. Man was made to be as free as the wind, as unshackled as a storm in a crashing symphony of dauntless human spirit, human will, human potential.
It came not quite two centuries ago for a people long stripped and punished with knee and face pressed into stone of the ground. It was the cruelest of times. And yet, by the work of Providence slowly making its way through the hearts and voices of insistent men, there came a rising and emancipating with the rich wholesomeness that ever so often comes to characterize the handiwork of man in his dealings with his fellow man.
Nothing can undo that terrible legacy, except for one thing, one conviction: that that fate must not be repeated in any shape or degree in any place in any manner. It can be a struggle, despite the best of intentions, the noblest of visions.
For today, this country–long numbed, enduringly frozen, perpetually torn and troubled–gropes to emancipate itself. From a history that would not let go. From all of the crippling memories that refuse to fade into blessed blankness.
From the gritty austerity of bigotry, and all the related mindless insensibilities that flourish and whip a whole nation into a shadow of what it could be, should be.
From the fetters of foul, tormenting fields of long ago that cannot be forgotten, there is today the rare opportunity to forge fortunes out of nothing that was sown or deserving. It is a bounty for which many nations thirst, but remain parched.
It is there off the shores of Guyana; there waiting to be touched and tasted in the black liquid gold now resting under the waters of this land of many waters, and many peoples. All can win, only some will. That is, unless there is the clarity of sight, the liberty of mind to discard the social traumas of all the self-defeating yesterdays, and encircle the coming dawn with the widest of embraces, linking a nation in sharing, in prospering.
Today, it has to be honestly and fearlessly recognized and admitted that, the coming dawn of a new day that promises so much freedom is ominously cloudy: among countrymen, among brethren all. There is already a frenzied gathering of swarming sharks committed to attacking, blocking, battering aside, and locking out those perceived to not belong, not deserving.
The rich emancipation in store is trapping and laying low the many citizens who should be united in harnessing this grand moment of release from the drudgeries of unrewarding labors, from the hobbling limitations of what was desired to happen, but did not because of circumstances.
The call on this day of freedom is: Free self. Free from the lures and lashes of the latest master, who reigns supreme on plantation oil.
Emancipate from who built and who should inherit. Emancipate from who has capitalized; from who wasted and who is usurper. Emancipation is not lived by turning back the clock; but only by turning a new page.
The pages of the history of this country contain enough hard, overwhelming feelings to bury alive forever, to enslave eternally. As a new page is turned, let a whole new book of ideas and visions percolate and take root.
All Guyanese are in desperate need of emancipation. All citizens, regardless of origins and longevity, have to reflect on what the many negatives have delivered. Only then, will understanding come that starting over is the only option. Emancipate self. Start today.
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