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Aug 24, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
I write this letter in response to Mr. Eric Phillip’s article on the African-Guyanese post-slavery experience. It was not an easy road, however we made choices that did not lead to the creation of.sustainable wealth.
Agriculture was then, and still is the corner stone of village economies, but we moved away from it. Much of the land used by Indians for cultivating rice was sold to them by us. We allowed much of our ancestral lands to be lost through prescriptive rights.
In other words we abandoned them, and they were squatted on. We had 27 years of a government that was supposedly friendly to African-Guyanese, and we did not emerge from that period with a large business class.
The marginalization of African-Guyanese for the last 23 years has been well documented.
What we need now that there is likely to be a level playing field, is African-Guyanese pooling their financial resources like our forefathers did when they purchased land post-slavery, to get things started.
With access to funds for agriculture and small businesses, as promised by the current administration, and a “can do” attitude, we will make it. I salute the African-Guyanese businesses that survived and grew during the period of marginalization.
Mr. Phillips your experience as a very high level manager for a large US company, positions you to be of great assistance to African-Guyanese business initiatives at all levels. We do not need handouts, we need visionary leadership.
Emerson Kendall
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