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Jul 19, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Donald Trump has a mindset that embraces him with frightening ideological zeal. Trump can commit any criminal offence or say the most immoral thing, and they back their guy. Trump attracts large numbers at his 2019 rallies. Around the world, there is the continuing confusion as to why large numbers of Americans would support a politician like Trump. Across the ocean, Britain is set to get its UK version of Trump –Boris Johnson.
Long before the fanatical supporters of Trump came on the scene, there was a nationality that embodied the racist soul that numbs body and mind – Guyanese. It got worse when the Indian-oriented PPP got into power in 1992. After almost 30 years of PNC rule, Guyanese expected a higher, richer quality of governance from the PPP, led by one of the Third World’s enduring personalities – Cheddi Jagan.
Had Jagan stayed beyond his four years, four months in office, he would have obliterated his legacy, aspects of which are still intact. From 1992, the shape of the PPP’s exercise of power was distasteful, repugnant and unmodern. But it was under Jagdeo that the PPP’s leadership style deteriorated with terrible consequences.
A ubiquitous chagrin permeated Guyana under Presidents Jagdeo and Ramotar. African Guyanese folks felt it was a government for Indians only. African Guyanese suspicion of Indians deepened, because in the fifteen years of Jagdeo and Ramotar, they felt that Indians tolerated sickening abuse of power because their people were in government.
My personal feeling – and I have been doing research on this the past ten years – is that the massive disappointment of the PPP’s approach to the race dilemma, destroyed the WPA’s faith in multi-racial politics. So aggrieved at the lack of Indian denunciation of the PPP’s semi-fascist hegemony, the African leadership of the WPA, without exception, went back to its ASCRIA roots, and transformed itself into an African rights entity. Today, that once glorious multi-racial party doesn’t even care to project an Indian face, even for window dressing purpose. It doesn’t want to have Indian membership.
There will always be hope among civilisation members and hope came to Guyana in 2011 and 2015. Significant pockets of Indians, that Black Guyanese so reviled for the succour, they gave successive PPP presidents, defected from the PPP’s electoral bandwagon and turned the PPP into a minority regime in 2011 and defeated the PPP in 2015. For those African Guyanese who are still in unforgivable mood, they had better wake up and grab some coffee of reality – it was a percentage of Indian voters that made 2011 and 2015 possible.
After 2015, governance was not of a higher quality. It was now the turn of Indians to become bitter with African Guyanese. Life is strange and ironic in Guyana, and it will continue to be so until Nietzsche’s Übermensch comes, if he ever will come. The very African Guyanese that spoke in countless numbers to this columnist about Indian support for the PPP’s totalitarianism, are now behaving in identical fashion in relation to what they see as their people in government.
Africans cannot escape the accusation of ethnic succour when for the past four years, they have refused to condemn glaring misrule and ethnically-driven policies by the present government. Issues of misrule and ethnic bias are tumbling down like water from Kaieteur Falls, and Indians are asking the question that Africans asked when Jagdeo was ruling – “Where are their voices?”
Not one African Guyanese in this country has come out against what happened to Vishnu Persaud at GECOM. The man was overlooked for the position of Deputy Chief Elections Officer, even though he served in that capacity for years, had superior qualifications than his sole competitor, and was judged unfit by a GECOM chairman who couldn’t explain why he characterised him as unfit.
If former GECOM chair Surujbally had done that to an African Guyanese during the reign of the PPP, all hell would have broken loose.
Charrandass Persaud was literally and virtually demonised, with the Chronicle newspaper carrying ministerial outbursts that he took a bribe to vote against APNU+AFC. When the PPP ministers misused the Chronicle that way, it is being tolerated today. There were picket lines in front of the newspaper that this columnist joined outside the Chronicle with Mark Benschop, Lincoln Lewis, Gerhard Ramsaroop and others, and with African rights activists like Penda Guyan outside NCN. An image of our NCN picket can still be seen on YouTube.
African Guyanese and their Indian counterparts have made Trump supporters look like jokers. When you want to see a nationality whose collective psyche is dominated by racial instincts, you have to come to this tragic land named Guyana.
Freddie kissoon column
Guyanese prove they are sicker than Trump supporters
Donald Trump has a mindset that embraces him with frightening ideological zeal. Trump can commit any criminal offence or say the most immoral thing, and they back their guy. Trump attracts large numbers at his 2019 rallies. Around the world, there is the continuing confusion as to why large numbers of Americans would support a politician like Trump. Across the ocean, Britain is set to get its UK version of Trump –Boris Johnson.
Long before the fanatical supporters of Trump came on the scene, there was a nationality that embodied the racist soul that numbs body and mind – Guyanese. It got worse when the Indian-oriented PPP got into power in 1992. After almost 30 years of PNC rule, Guyanese expected a higher, richer quality of governance from the PPP, led by one of the Third World’s enduring personalities – Cheddi Jagan.
Had Jagan stayed beyond his four years, four months in office, he would have obliterated his legacy, aspects of which are still intact. From 1992, the shape of the PPP’s exercise of power was distasteful, repugnant and unmodern. But it was under Jagdeo that the PPP’s leadership style deteriorated with terrible consequences.
A ubiquitous chagrin permeated Guyana under Presidents Jagdeo and Ramotar. African Guyanese folks felt it was a government for Indians only. African Guyanese suspicion of Indians deepened, because in the fifteen years of Jagdeo and Ramotar, they felt that Indians tolerated sickening abuse of power because their people were in government.
My personal feeling – and I have been doing research on this the past ten years – is that the massive disappointment of the PPP’s approach to the race dilemma, destroyed the WPA’s faith in multi-racial politics. So aggrieved at the lack of Indian denunciation of the PPP’s semi-fascist hegemony, the African leadership of the WPA, without exception, went back to its ASCRIA roots, and transformed itself into an African rights entity. Today, that once glorious multi-racial party doesn’t even care to project an Indian face, even for window dressing purpose. It doesn’t want to have Indian membership.
There will always be hope among civilisation members and hope came to Guyana in 2011 and 2015. Significant pockets of Indians, that Black Guyanese so reviled for the succour, they gave successive PPP presidents, defected from the PPP’s electoral bandwagon and turned the PPP into a minority regime in 2011 and defeated the PPP in 2015. For those African Guyanese who are still in unforgivable mood, they had better wake up and grab some coffee of reality – it was a percentage of Indian voters that made 2011 and 2015 possible.
After 2015, governance was not of a higher quality. It was now the turn of Indians to become bitter with African Guyanese. Life is strange and ironic in Guyana, and it will continue to be so until Nietzsche’s Übermensch comes, if he ever will come. The very African Guyanese that spoke in countless numbers to this columnist about Indian support for the PPP’s totalitarianism, are now behaving in identical fashion in relation to what they see as their people in government.
Africans cannot escape the accusation of ethnic succour when for the past four years, they have refused to condemn glaring misrule and ethnically-driven policies by the present government. Issues of misrule and ethnic bias are tumbling down like water from Kaieteur Falls, and Indians are asking the question that Africans asked when Jagdeo was ruling – “Where are their voices?”
Not one African Guyanese in this country has come out against what happened to Vishnu Persaud at GECOM. The man was overlooked for the position of Deputy Chief Elections Officer, even though he served in that capacity for years, had superior qualifications than his sole competitor, and was judged unfit by a GECOM chairman who couldn’t explain why he characterised him as unfit.
If former GECOM chair Surujbally had done that to an African Guyanese during the reign of the PPP, all hell would have broken loose.
Charrandass Persaud was literally and virtually demonised, with the Chronicle newspaper carrying ministerial outbursts that he took a bribe to vote against APNU+AFC. When the PPP ministers misused the Chronicle that way, it is being tolerated today. There were picket lines in front of the newspaper that this columnist joined outside the Chronicle with Mark Benschop, Lincoln Lewis, Gerhard Ramsaroop and others, and with African rights activists like Penda Guyan outside NCN. An image of our NCN picket can still be seen on YouTube.
African Guyanese and their Indian counterparts have made Trump supporters look like jokers. When you want to see a nationality whose collective psyche is dominated by racial instincts, you have to come to this tragic land named Guyana.
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