I don't know why 50 years later we are still blaming the British for our dysfunctional ethno political environment. At some point we have to bite the bullet and admit that we are 100% to blame.
Let us hope that the Ministry of Social Cohesions does something other than waging some stupid campaign telling us to love each other.
The problem is ethnic insecurity, and that is where the discussion should focus. Starting with PPP claims of ethnic cleansing. Are they valid? Is the disproportionate % of Indians sent on leave ethnic cleansing on the part of APNU/AFC, or is it ethnic cleansing on the part of the PPP, as most of those who they appointed were Indians?
THAT is where the discussion should focus on. Further discussion should be an honest assessment of the role of ethnicity vs. nationality among Guyanese of various ethnic groups. The PPP, seeing its support dwindling, waged a highly successfual campaign to mobilize the Indian vote by screaming that Moses "isnt Indian".
When Trotman said that he is "mixed" did the PNC run aaround LOUDLY telling its supporters not to vote for him because he "isnt black"? No they found other things to say about him.
Africans are less interested in "coralling the tribe" than are Indians, and this has a lot to do with how each of the two major groups views the other. So much so that no one in Guyana can say for sure who is mixed or who is black. In fact even to determine how Afro Guyanese should describe themselves is in dispute, with "Afro Guyanese", "African", "black", and "negro" all in use, and with some having very spirited arguments as to why they are one and not the other.
This should be the conversation, and not having little kids hugging each other, because that is basically just avoiding discussion of the problem.