Build better role models from a basis of educational enlightenment

Dec 05, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Mr. Muhammad Alli in his letter on December 3, 2021, totally misunderstood and consequently misrepresented the importance of Minister Charles Ramson, Jr.’s statement and what’s going – on in USA, United Kingdom and Canada. The sad reality is that the Minister’s sentiment has been oft repeated in all three countries to detract from the true achievements of out of power groups. Of course, the statement was patently false from its first utterance. We’re in a world where thoughtfulness takes the hindmost position to feelings.
The Minister’s statement was not innocuous. In fact, the statement underscored his social bias, myopia and misunderstanding of what’s the true make-up citizens of Guyana. In Guyana, where we laud the reality of six peoples, Minister Ramson’s statement blows up that image. So, all six peoples need to look to their own for success images? For the most part, two groups have dominated the politics and power since Independence.
The basic idea that I recall from school days is that if one person, be they white, blue, black, pink or whatever, can do something, then I can do it, too. Education was the process of building your own models. What I did was look for favourable characteristics in people and strive to model. It seems that one of the true functions of government is to provide upliftment opportunities to all six peoples. The motto should be if one ‘people’ succeeds, then another ‘people’ could, and should, because this is Guyana. Of course, on this score, the governments in the last decade and a half have failed the citizens. What has been taking place all along is basically – Get the ball bowl, out fuh play!
Based on the facts on the ground, what has been happening is the obvious and evident outsized forward progress of adherents and sycophants of the party in power. Mr. Alli’s reference to the three countries is laughable. The USA, United Kingdom, and Canada were built on the premise of white supremacy. The reality is that all the citizens of those countries made sizeable development contributions. What has been going on over there is the drive for equitable overall representation and rejection of the white supremacy nonsense.

Sincerely,
Phil Edwards

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