VishMahabir posted:"Given that blacks are numerically outnumbered and economically dominated they can ill afford to encourage this nonsense."
This may be true but Afros are not totally helpless, as you seem to point out here. To say that Indos dominate the economy is a fallacy...a few Indos are filthy rich...but the majority of them (like Blacks and Amerindians) are poor...I have seen this fallacy being peddled and it has been a colonial construct which is being used to inflame passions.
This myth has been peddled and remains unchallenged. In addition, an argument can be made that Afros control real power in the police, army, government, etc, but somehow this argument has not been advances. In addition, Afros can exercise power in the sheer fact that they can resort to protest...as they have effectively done in the past...
Here are truths.
1. At least 30% of the voters self identify as "black" and at least 40% as "Indian". This means that APNU has to win another 20% whereas the PPP needs to win at least 10%. Clearly the PPP has a built in advantage.
2. While most Indians in Guyana aren't rich most rich people in Guyana are Indians so the PPP also enjoys an advantage in funding its election campaign.
So clearly APNU and its coalition partners need to run a shrewder and more cunning game than does the PPP. As is the PPP has only lost won election and in fact has obtained the majority of the votes in all but 3 of them. I don't include the elections of the Burnham era as clearly these were rigged.
It is also a fact that the PNC has never on its own won a free and fair election.