A response to what Granger considered a threat to himself and the Afro-Guyanese from Indians on FB. You be the judge!
http://guyanachronicle.com/guy...st-facebook-comment/
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Guyanese outraged at Granger’s insensitive, racist facebook comment
January 8, 2013
SCORES of Guyanese have expressed concern over what they say is a highly offensive and racially charged comment made by Opposition Leader David Granger on social media. The comment has attracted criticisms from not only Guyanese of East Indian decent, but of African lineage that are strongly rejecting any appeal to politics or pandering to race by politicians to score cheap political points.
Granger stated via the social media networking site Facebook, in essence, that Indo-Guyanese were allegedly everyday literally responsible for killing, raping, maligning and murdering their fellow East Indian brothers and sisters. He also argued that those in power were failing to protect their own.
“Readers of Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, Demerara Waves, Capitol News, and even Guyana Times will rapidly form one stark conclusion: it is not APNU or PNC political propaganda that every day a tragically and rapidly ballooning mass of Guyanese of Indian descent are being murdered, raped, mutilated, kidnapped, hijacked, pirated, trafficked, and extorted by other Guyanese of Indian descent – typically those sheltered by the very people in political power saying that ‘apaan jhat’ will protect”.
Immediately after the comment was posted, scores of Guyanese took to their own Facebook pages expressing their dissatisfaction with the insensitive statements and the underlying rhetoric therein.
Trinity Watson in her post stated that “it’s such a shame that the leader of the opposition would reduce to such a statement…what is he trying to incite here…..”
“What is he trying to do? Start another race war?”, Rahm Ramdhani quizzed while “Fenton Goorahoo stated “can you imagine the price one would have to pay from a political and so call[sic] leader viewpoint, with a statement of this nature in any other multicultured and democratic country….his head would be chewed off and asked to resign….”
Others have also expressed their concerns over the distasteful political blunder made by Granger, who said that APNU was not a party formed to talk race or interested in race politics but merely focused on establishing a government of national unity.
“If Mr Granger sincerely cares about the welfare of Indians in Guyana then he must apologise for the atrocities committed on Indians by the PNC regime of which he[is] part and also the deliberate targeting of Indians during the opposition street protests. Also the murder, rape and robbing of many thousands of Indian businessmen and women by opposition-inspired Afro-Guyanese criminals…Otherwise it’s just empty words!!!!”, another Facebook user commented.
The statement made by Granger is merely an excerpt from another politically insensitive piece penned and posted on his social media page. Already some politicians say that they are ready to ask the Opposition Leader to explain what is meant by the loaded and allegedly racist statement.
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Hmmm. This is the PPP Chronicle, who screamed that all blacks do is kill, rob, and live off the "hard working" Indians.
We went through this already. The PPP was screaming that all crime in Guyana is committed by blacks, and that only Indians are victims (then they wonder why blacks hate them).
Granger cited examples of Indians who are murdered by other Indians.
How dare he say that! He was then lambasted as a Indo hating racists.
And the only blacks who objected were Kwame, Sam Hinds, and Luncheon, and others of that ilk.
We are still waiting for an apology from the PPP for that infamous editorial!
baseman posted:I have always contend, onlysome interracial crime has to do with race. Much are just human conflict. Same here in the US, Black kills White or vis versa it more contentious, yet there is much more violence among the races themselves.
Take a look at the FBI report.
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David-G wants to trample of freedom of expression on one race that he must diminished from all fronts. He only cares what Indians say about him and his people, but careless of what Blacks say about Indians. If you read his statement carefully, you will notice how he was telling Jagdeo that he has no control over HIS people. Davis is out to divide a nation and hold Indians as enemies of the State. This way, it would give him the right to oppress the Indians without fear of being called a dictator. All of this mighty power he has, is made possible by Indians that feed him with useful information on other Indians for a hand shake or photo ops like Derrick Basdeo.
Indians are never see come to see. They don't know a quack from legitimate politicians. They just want to be seen among important people and brag about it all over Facebook how important they are.
SCORES of Guyanese have expressed concern over what they say is a highly offensive and racially charged comment made by Opposition Leader David Granger on social media. The comment has attracted criticisms from not only Guyanese of East Indian decent, but of African lineage that are strongly rejecting any appeal to politics or pandering to race by politicians to score cheap political points.
"Granger stated via the social media networking site Facebook, in essence, that Indo-Guyanese were allegedly everyday literally responsible for killing, raping, maligning and murdering their fellow East Indian brothers and sisters. He also argued that those in power were failing to protect their own."
I agree. with what the man said.
The point cobra is making is that Granger was wrong to expose the bigotry amongst East Indians and the PPP. He was also wrong to expose the level and variety of the crimes that East Indians are involved in. The simple fact of the matter, as far as the PPP sees it, is that East Indians are peace loving souls who only murder black people. They do no murder their own.
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