D2 posted:
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Constitutions are to be developed by a cross section of our people with our thinkers and legal scholars guiding the path. Every community should be invested by having the principal portions that define the government be vetted locally and informed opinion develop when it is put to a referendum. What the Granger regime did is passed it off to political elites, some of whom are greedy bitches.
This process is as I described. I use the term Civic but the process is the same and both you and I are concerned that this process should NOT be in the hands of the politicians. Once a constitution is developed than it goes through the parliamentary process and is subject to referendum. If the population agrees with that which is then presented to them (as developed by civic stake holders and not political parties) then it is implemented.
My concern (and not yours) is that the political structure is not the only reason for our ethnic angst.
If the second largest group feel that the political structure blunts their ability to respond to private sector bias against them they might be forced to use methods outside of the legal system. At the end of the day its bread and butter issues which concern people.
That is why I insist that while we work on the constitutional aspect we need also to analyze the underlying reasons for the ethnic angst, because I can assure you that Afro Guyanese frame their dilemma within economic terms. The ethnic angst is way more complex now than it once was and Amerindians can no longer be ignored from this debate. Nor can this "mixed" group who will be the largest in a generation.
Long gone are the days when this is seen purely in terms of whether the PNC can win elections are not. Volda's crude rant was because blacks were claiming that they were still being economically excluded, even with a PNC dominated gov't.
South Africa didn't deal with its underlying ethnic angst which is why its a boiling cauldron now.