I condemn all forms of racial injustice, not just Brazil's

I condemn all forms of racial injustice, not just Brazil’s

Jan 27, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Mr. Eric Moseley queried whether I (and Mr. Kit Nascmiento) have no feeling for “groups being slaughtered and sidelined … by Bolsonaro regime” (his words, not mine). I can’t speak for Nascimento. Moseley also asked what is the relationship between rigging in Guyana and racial injustice in Brazil. Rigging in Guyana was/is related to the quest for racial dominance and by extension discrimination against others.
May I point out to Moseley that as someone who studied (and recipient of PhD Int’l Rels) and International Law and taught same, Mr. Bolsanaro is the legitimate representative of our neighbour Brazil. It is a superpower in the region. As the democratically elected leader of Brazil, no Guyana government of Guyana (including coalition) can ignore him. Guyana’s relationship with him is not in a private capacity but as the legal representative of Brazil. The voters of Brazil will determine his political faith later this year in elections. Should those who tried to rig the elections and Guyanese racist leaders be banned from other nations?
I agree with Moseley that “All human beings deserve compassion and justice” (Jan 26), including Indian Guyanese. It is just that I object to the selective cherry picking of groups being slaughtered and sidelined by letter writers who would ban Bolsanaro of Brazil from Guyana but remained mute when the same kinds of atrocities were committed in Guyana. So I pose the same question to him as he asked me. Where were members of the group and Moseley when Indians and indigenous Guyanese (Amerindians) were sidelined and or slaughtered in Guyana between 1966 and 1992 and between June 2015 and July 2020 and when Indians were slaughtered on Jan. 12, 1998 and various dates thereafter? As Freddie Kissoon asked, why didn’t members of the group express similar sentiments on racialised violence against Indians in West Berbice in September 2020, Agricola 2012, and in so many other cases that are well documented? Is it because of racial affinity and or political affinity? Where is/was the compassion, justice, and compensation for Indians and Amerindians? Does Mr. Moseley not recognise the hypocrisy of members of the group (and perhaps himself) on the issue of racism?
Moseley also queried whether I don’t have feelings for Black and Amerindian Brazilians because I don’t belong to either racial category. As an Indian, I don’t condemn injustice on account of race. I am race and colour blind. I empathise with all victims of injustice. We must be consistent and condemn all aspects of racism and racial violence irrespective of the ethnicity of the perpetrators and victims.

Yours truly,
Vishnu Bisram

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