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Sep 28, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
I refer to the article “The essential experiment” by Lennox Bruce in the September 25, 2009 Kaieteur News, where he proposed an experiment that he thinks may lead to racial unity among the two largest racial groups in Guyana.
In the experiment, 50 children will be indoctrinated in the values of racial non-discrimination for 20 years from cradle to college and dispersed to practice, preach and disseminate these values. In addition to the potential pitfalls mentioned in the article, 50 is far too small a number and each graduate of the experiment must be a very charismatic leader.
The majority of the villages in Guyana remind you of the evolutionary fact “birds of a feather flock together” and each would need its own Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King to change the racial mindset in these communities.
To achieve the noble objective of Lennox Bruce, the Guyanese in the following poem found a more practical solution:
Sweet Will Be One Nation
He searches for the village, Harmony,
Where love transcends race;
He hopes to make race disappear,
As he looks in his neighbour’s face.
But history tells him it will never happen,
Unless race is itself displaced.
He knows race is not really human,
But a political creation;
Politics has made it his enemy;
He must now change direction.
One people, one nation, one destiny,
Was the hope at conception.
He must not leave that which divides
To his descendants when they are born;
Maybe if all follow Obama forebears
Then Sweet will be one nation.
No greater gift can he leave them, than
To have his daughter marry one.
Kingsley Harrop-Williams
Feb 17, 2025
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