Who is more deranged?

Feb 04, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I read Freddie Kissoon’s column …Kissoon, Gaskin, Roopnaraine: More notes on race and class – Kaieteur News (kaieteurnewsonline.com) and read Tacuma’s spiel in the letter section on the very same day…..Addressing Kissoon’s attack on Walter Rodney – Kaieteur News (kaieteurnewsonline.com)
We have been reading Freddie Kissoon’s column for decades. Our youngest sibling made it a point to read Freddie’s column every day until he passed away suddenly in 2008. I noticed the subtle change since the last elections. And then I noticed the naked attacks on him by people who were once his comrades with the letter by Tacuma just another one. Almost every one of them who suddenly discovered that he is not up to par (sic)….”David Hinds recently declared me a madman and wrote that I am compromised. Mark Benschop said the PPP pays me $500,000 monthly. Adam Harris said he would not be surprised if the PPP is paying me. Dr. Melissa Ifill said I am concerned about earnings.” (Freddie Kissoon K.N.)
While Tacuma remarked about Freddie’s ” fast diminishing base of readers outside the PPP/C.” (sic) K.N Friday 28th Jan. 2022 and went on to remark that ” “Those whom the gods want to destroy, they first make mad.” Addressing Kissoon’s attack on Walter Rodney – Kaieteur News (kaieteurnewsonline.com”
The Pan Africanist is very mistaken on both counts. The ones that have been made “mad” certainly is not Freddie Kissoon. From the black pudding man to now Tacuma, who really sound more crazed? As long as Freddie did not write about his Indianness and was critical to Indians, the Pan Africanist and Afro Centric Guyanese were his bosom buddies but now alas, alas, he is now in cahoots with the Indian rights activists…’ ‘Kissoon seemingly relies on the support of new allies like Messrs Vishnu Bisram.” (Tacuma Ogunseye KN Jan.28th 2022.)
Bisram is a long time relentless Indian rights activist and Freddie shows no bias based on his ethnicity in his writings. To hear these onetime associates of Freddie calling him racist goes to show how bigoted these people are. As long as Freddie beat their tribal djembe, all is well, but the moment Freddie exposed that he used to clap jaals and sing chowtaals, Freddie is no longer good company. Freddie must not talk about Indians, their rights or anything pro Indian then he becomes “mad.”
This is the hypocrisy of life in Guyana. One set of people alone must be allowed to show off their tribalness. They alone have a right to defend their kith and kin even though some of the very ppl they idolise because of tribe, have made them suffer just like everyone else in Guyana. Aunty must be happy to see now her son who she was carrying when she used to go and tear down (in her own words) Indian women clothes. She told us many a story about those days and her activism for her Comrade Leader who by the way told her that he never told her to go tear down anyone’s clothes!! But those days nah matter now, cause is we own so the suffering is not punishment just like when nutcase Odo made all of them line up for soap and oil at his “Knowledge Sharing Institutes” (sic). Lunatic Burnham is a hero cause is we own!!
When Dr. Bisram fights for the rightful place for Indians in Guyana, he is deemed racist. When Freddie talks about the genuine sufferings of Indians in Guyana under “ALL” governments, he is deemed “mad” according to Tacuma! Who is more deranged, the ones who are not afraid to voice injustices against a people (Bisram, Freddie, et al) or the ones who demand for their own kind and will not allow others to enjoy that same right (Guyanese Pan Africanist)?

Yours truly,
N. Sahadeo