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May 01, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
People who see race as an impediment to our progress as a nation are ethnically insecure. Having many races does not make us weaker as a nation. It makes us stronger. We just have to find the solutions to our problems.
Some people propose power-sharing, partition or federalism to our problems. My personal belief is that federalism would not work, as one Federal State can overspend on its budget, leading to the other states needing to bail it out (case citation: EU- Greece, Spain, etc). We are too integrated for partition to be an option. So, that leaves only power-sharing or the present system.
I am not against power-sharing. I just do not like the way it was being proposed. For power-sharing to work, we need mutual trust, mutual co-operation and mutual respect for each other to promote mutual understanding.
We all want the same thing. That is, to see Guyana move forward economically, politically and socially. This is why I believe that consensus politics can be practiced by our politicians. Consensus politics will eventually lead to the three conditions above (trust, co-operation, respect) being developed, leading to power -sharing. That was why I temporarily joined the AFC (because the PPP/C and PNCR-lead APNU were not practicing consensus politics) until I realised that the AFC was also not practicing consensus politics.
There is no such thing as a homogeneous race. That is, there is no pure blood Indian, African, Amerindian, Chinese, etc race.
Sean McLean
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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