Had David Hinds become psychotically racist?

Jun 18, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Did you listen to the words of David Hinds in the midst of a raging continuation of white paranoia against non-White in which born Americans, who are not white, are being told to go back to their country?
In the context of what Hinds said, American Blacks should denounce him. Here are his words on his reaction to the CARICOM recount report which has gone viral and which first came to my notice because Ruel Johnson posted it: “…we (Africans) have an instinct against domination, an instinct against other people coming in and telling us what to do and I suppose we have that task now to push back.”
Dissecting his emanations (and there is more if space allows), these are my conclusions. African Guyanese came from a long tradition of oppression and do not want non-Africans to dictate to them. How does that apply to Guyana when the Portuguese, Chinese and Indians also came and when they came they met the Amerindians?
By push back, I interpret that to mean that now the CARICOM report is in, and the official declaration cannot be denied, African Guyanese should not accept the election result. Here is more of Hinds, “What is left now is for supporters of the coalition to hold the line and to defend Guyana’s sovereignty.”
I am a Guyanese living in Guyana, while Hinds belongs to the US. I do not know of any prominent NGO, media house, civil society grouping, opposition party that see Guyana’s sovereignty under attack. If a poll was taken today, the resounding outcome would be the world, including friendly countries and our CARICOM partners, saved Guyana from election rigging and domination by the APNU+AFC, Hinds’ party of which he was a candidate in the 2020 election.
Here is more that calls into question if Hinds has lost his sense and sensibility: “… it (the election) is not just about who wins or loses but about the very sovereignty of Guyana.” Then he contradicts himself in the most vulgar way by saying this: “…if the coalition wins the election…it may be the best thing for Guyana because it is very clear once the PPP gets into office our sovereignty would be compromised….”
The first question is who is it clear to? I repeat, I live in Guyana, Hinds does not. It is not clear to me, and it is not clear to a majority of people in this country that if the PPP wins, Guyana’s sovereignty will be compromised. I think the majority of people would like to have that explained. I can explain it.
The concept of the violation of sovereignty in international relations means that an outside power has infringed on the Treaty of Westphalia of respect for the rights of nations to pursue their own goals. Violations of sovereignty since the Treaty of Westphalia have inevitably been done by big powers who subjugate smaller ones for imperialist purposes.
This has been the history of international Affairs. After decolonization, the United Nations further developed the value of sovereignty but the UN also incorporated an interesting article in its charter named collective security. All UN members subscribe to collective security. It means that international society can intervene to prevent a member state from committing acts of war against another.
There is of course another subtle form of sovereignty violation. This is when multi-national corporations through manipulation of corrupt, local leadership, exploit the resources of weaker states. It is pathetic nonsense to deny a country’s free elections because if one contestant wins, the sovereignty of that country is dissolved. But the absurdity of this goes even deeper when one takes Hinds’ position even further. Why if the PPP wins, Guyana loses its sovereignty? I live here. I did not see any difference in the foreign policy of the PPP administration and the APNU+AFC’s.
Here now is the real motive behind Hinds’ exclamation of sovereignty lost. He has in mind international society which intervened to stop a cabal named APNU+AFC, of which Hinds is a part, from trampling on the sovereignty of Guyana and the rights of the Guyanese people.
Hinds is masking his support for ethnic domination and electoral terrorism in Guyana under the pretext that international society has trampled on Guyana’s Independence. This is not only foolish but dishonest. But it made sense to people like Hinds since the only way to deceive APNU+AFC supporters is to claim the White man is trampling on Guyana’s sovereignty. The first group to sound this false alarm was ACDA which cried tears of re-colonization as early as March. International society saved Guyana from electoral terrorism which Hinds continue to defend.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper