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Mar 10, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
My incessant advocacy was that we must reply to people like Ravi Dev and other supremacist who desperately want ethnic balance in the police force but is euphorically pleased with frightening ethnic imbalance in commerce, business, land ownership, property ownership, construction industry, import-export trade, agriculture. My point was that we must educate those who need to know about the abominable ethnic imbalances in this country. We are replying and we are seeing some back-pedaling.
First, Dev is silent about his perpetual cry of ethnic imbalance in the police force. Dev knows we are going to ask him why would an ethnic mix in the police force help stabilize Guyana and not in other areas like wealth possession? Then there is Devanand Bhagwan who threatened to sue for libel because he claimed I misrepresented him when I substituted the word “they” for “Indian.” Bhagwan was only making himself a fool. With replies by Leonard Craig (from the People’s Parliament) and Barrington Braithwaite (of ACDA), Bhagwan now admits that by “they” he meant “Indian.” Let’s trace his dishonesty.
Bhagwan wrote; “Why have East Indians become more successful in business and Guyana and elsewhere? Whether it is in Trinidad, US, UK, Canada…the Indians have made their mark…the eminent (sic) and consummate business acumen of Indians are universally known…their hard wuk is reason for their success…while others are asleep from their late night dance THEY (emphasis mine) get up early in the morning and start to work,” (end of quote). Here is Bhagwan in his own words when I wrote that by THEY he meant INDIANS; “Mr. Kissoon is well versed in the world of libel and so he should know that he is sitting on dangerous ground to so misquote a person…Mr. Kissoon substituted the word “THEY with INDIAN…such dishonesty is defamatory and libelous.” (end of quote).
I responded to this sickening nonsense of Bhagwan by openly stating that any jackass, imbecile, moron would know that by THEY he meant INDIANS. In other words, I reasserted myself. All of a sudden, we are not hearing about libel and defamation any longer. Mr. Bhagwan looked like a total fool, a complete idiot by denying that by THEY, he didn’t mean INDIANS. Mr. Bhagwan wants to save what he doesn’t have –credibility. Here is his new explanation of what THEY and INDIAN mean. I quote from his most recent missive in KN of March 5. He wrote: “The sentence was never meant to offend, cause consternation, or cast aspirations on any ethnic group… there is a wide range of nuances in that sentence and one can make mincemeat out of it…”
I didn’t make mincemeat of the sentence at all. What I did was to substitute INDIANS for THEY, which is what Bhagwan meant. And Bhagwan shouted libel and defamation. Now we are told that the sentences have many nuances and we can grind it like beef into mince. Of course we will avoid grinding it into mince because Bhagwan may resurrect his libel threat (he will have to journey from India to Guyana for the case) if we do so. If we correctly wrote that by THEY he meant INDIAN and he wanted to sue over a colossal truth, what will he do if we make mincemeat out of his racist rant that while others in Guyana are asleep from their late night dancing, Indians are up early to go to work The reason why Bagwan backed down from his THEY versus INDIAN libel threat is because Craig and Braithwaite exposed him for his racist outpourings.
Poor Bhagwan, he dug his grave with his letter of March 5. Ravi Dev, Vassan Ramracha, the PPP, and all their stooges will be out for his blood. It will be a massacre. Here is the self-destruction rant from Bhagwan that got him into trouble. Every Indian supremacist must be looking for Bhagwan. Here goes; “When you consider that Indians comprise 43% of the population (compared to 33% for Africans), one can apprehend the ethnic equation imbalance better.” (end of quote)
The difference is only ten percent between Africans and Indians but look at the imbalance. Almost 90% of downtown businesses are owned by Indians. Almost 99% percent of contracts from the State go to Indians. Almost 90% of private lands are owned by Indians. Almost 98% of properties valued over forty million Guyana dollars are owned by Indians. Almost 99% of expensive SUVs in Guyana are owned by Indians. Almost 90% of the import-export trade is controlled by Indians. Almost 90% of commercial transactions in Guyana are done by Indians. Almost 99% of large scale, private agricultural production is in the hands of Indians. Almost 99% of construction going on in Guyana in the area of commercial structures and expensive homes is in the hands of Indians. Almost 99% of private financial houses are in the bosom of Indians. Almost 90% of liquid cash holdings in Guyana are in the repositories of Indians
Bhagwan’s supremacist colleagues must be mad at him for giving us a chance to advance our case. We can now use Bhagwan’s 43 percent versus 33 percent model to argue and demand that there must be ethnic balance in Guyana in all social and economic spheres. But what about the security forces and the wider public sector? Of course! Yes! By all means there must be ethnic balance in those areas too. I end by stressing the words. “We must demand.”
Frederick Kissoon
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