Forget Freddie’s English, read his hints, carefully

Aug 14, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Unlike some of the known racist Indian writers , like Bisram, Misir, Charles Sugrim, Paul Tennassee, Ramsawack, and Vishnu Ramracha, etc. Freddie Kissoon’s Column has my readership. Those barely-disguised anti-black, anti-Afro-Guyanese journalists are currently enjoying their middle-aged (or is it elderly) ecstasy as the PPP/C led Administration romps strong and strident. Freddie’s more subtly, cynical, putty-knife style of writing still intrigues me enough to read him. And I recommend it.

Yes, this now greying ex-academic, UG-student agitator, Indian boy who grew up in Wortmanville (of all places) in the 1960s and 1970s. This self-declared journalist, who writes about his musical tastes of the 1970s and 1980s, his daughter’s passage through UG, his early morning walks though the National Park or along the Seawall with his dog, etc. this matured and well experienced political commentator has seen and felt a lot in Guyanese political evolution, and therefore correctly has a lot to say.

I read two of these missives last week and, in the second KN issue , on the 12^th also read two letters complaining about him. This letter here is no defense of the great man. He can, and certainly will defend himself. I write to solicit something that many of his critics deplore – read Freddie’ s column carefully . Despite his continuing struggle with the English Language , he mostly has at least a tit bit of juicy , if not significant factoid of Guyanese reality that no one else has yet touched on.

I know some readers will jump to criticise me , or like my friend who says, “Freddie? You reading that …?” But I say, “Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.”

There is some important information here. For example, back in 2016, when the APNU+AFC Administration had just ‘reinstated’ Jagdeo by returning his passport, etc. It was Freddie Kissoon who implied that maybe a mistake was being made, and perhaps a phoenix might emerge (I know that Freddie will remember his exact words). The rest, as we say, is history.

Whether one is a PNC-R supporter or not, it is obvious that Freddie’s writings (here I reiterate), unlike those of his Indian ‘friends’ mentioned above, are worth reading – if for nothing else but it’s double extended , innuendos and yes, gossipy details.

Carl Brathwaite

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