caribny postedAfros were NOT strongly tied to the PNC in 1980. The WPA attracted the intellectuals of all races, including Indians, and the African grass roots. Some Indians wished the WPA well as they saw them as being more likely to rid Guyana of the Burnham curse than was the weak and gushing Cheddi. So there was some weak support, especially among the younger more urban Indians.
One can say that the WPA under Rodney galvanized all who were against Burnham, and skeptical of the PPPs ability to remove him.
The PPP was too enamored with Burnham's nationalization of Guyana's to fight him, plus his slave masters in Moscow and Havana told him to be a good boy, and not give Burnham trouble.
So did this mean racial unity? No, because with the death of Rodney, the WPA ceased to be a force, and so as it weakened it lost its grass roots support base.
The WPA used to have HUGE meetings in G/town, despite the fact that attending these meetings meant that one risked being beaten up by House of Israel thugs, and civil servants and state corporation workers would have been harassed for being "WPA", and "anti government".
You have to rely on what others told you. I was in my early 20s at the time.
Yes the Afros were slaves to the PNC. The few that you knew may have been in support of Rodney but not the rank and file. You can't claim to speak for all Guyanese Blacks, especially since you are rejected by them as an outcast. Without an elections with Rodney involved, no one can definitively say how much Black or Indian support he enjoyed.
WPA and Rodney was a flash in the pan, don't make him out to be more influential than he really was based on urban legend rather than facts.