EMANCIPATION REAL OR FAKE?

Aug 06, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Emancipation was recently celebrated in Guyana, but what is being celebrated? Everyone has their version of emancipation to celebrate and that’s ok. Poor people will never be emancipated, look in Guyana how they work and live. In the ABC countries where the diaspora lives, they have to do two jobs and with travelling, it accounts for about twenty hrs per day out of a 24 hr day just to make ends meet. True emancipation means not only physical but also financial and mental emancipation. Slavery is the most profitable way of doing business since the beginning of time and no investor turns away from the most profitable way of doing business. In Guyana and the third world, slavery has morphed from whips and chains to shackling a country by resource exploitation and indebtedness, in other words, the people may be free but the country’s economy is enslaved. If Guyana was financially emancipated, why with a small population and abundance of resources has so much debt? Why with so much land space, are there Guyanese with multi-million dollar mortgage debt for houses, student loan, car loans, and other debt? If Guyana was mentally emancipated, firstly, the leaders would not have to be lectured to by the ABC countries on how to manage Guyana’s resources and its state affairs. Secondly, if Guyanese were mentally emancipated they would not be voting for two political parties, which have done nothing for them since independence. The same ABC countries, which lectures Guyana on governance for unity, (since exploitation is easier with stable governments), have all elected right-wing anti-minority leaders or have the right-wing gaining in their parliament. The leaders of Iraq, Libya and Venezuela, recently declared their emancipation by announcing that their country’s resources were for the people of the country. The ABC Coalition then proceeded to show them how emancipated they really were. Real emancipation means a country’s ownership rights to its assets, so the poor citizens can have a decent job, housing, right to basic health care, right to education, peace and security and can afford to live and travel freely all the country. The rich can feel emancipated but the poor who were celebrating emancipation, I only hope the food and drinks were free since that is the closest to emancipation you are going to get.

R. David

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