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Reply to "How about a National Hero for East Indians ? Please keep this thread clean."

Demerara_Guy posted:
yuji22 posted:

 Ok Folks,

Cuffy has been declared a National Hero for Afro Guyanese.

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Monument of Cuffy.

From a historical perspective Cuffy is/was a hero for ALL Guyanese.

Perhaps then, one should advocate for Amerindian, Chinese, Portuguese, etc., as national heroes.

From 1957 plus the few months when the PPP was in office in 1953, there has been roughly an equitable time when the PPP and PNC are/were in power.

One should view issues from an historical perspective rather than selecting individuals based on ethnic backgrounds.

Yes, he is a national hero from the little I know of him, and ALL Guyanese should pay respect to all of our heroes.

BUT if you think ethnicity was not a consideration into building such a huge monument in the middle of GT under the Burnham regime, then you are as naïve as some of the people here. Heroes are people who appeals to people's emotions based on a significant contribution they made to shaping people's lives and the world in which they live.

My point is you cannot separate the historical perspective from the ethnic emotional attachment. A case in point...Cuffy is seen as an African hero (yes, wrongfully so), but is Gandhi and Jagan seen as a hero for Africans?

 

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