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Jan 26, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
Please let me join Hydar Ally in marking Martin Luther King Day, January 20.
In recognition of MLK Day I too listened to recordings of both the speeches Mr Ally cited, “I Have a Dream” and “I’ve Been to the Mountain-top” and was moved to tears by the powerful oratory and inspirational ideas which have so changed America and much of the world.
I cried more at the failure of application of those ideas in my own country, where too many of my sisters and brothers remain downtrodden in savage exploitation for the enrichment of a few.
I wept in despair of change in a system of materialist greed that uses politics and corruption to keep even decency, humility and dignity unreachable from a mass of degraded poverty.
That is the status quo of open money-grabbing from which the Guyanese form of democracy is unable to rescue human values.
Hydar Ally’s letter reminds us of the partial success of MLK’s leadership, at the price MLK was willing to pay, in a place and time that Guyana’s decision-makers have left far away.
Gordon Forte
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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