Reply to "Jagdeo's Real Pension - An Eye Opener"

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by Kari:

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Originally posted by Mara:
The AFC are indeed in an unenviable dilemma. Their relevance and success lies not in expediency and compromises, but progressive whittling away of support from both sides through patience and understanding and staying the course with intact values and principles.

Excellent observation. In Guyana what you can do to make the country better, or what your vision for a better Guyana is, do not matter. The two over-riding dynamics are:

1. The ethnic majority of Indo-Guyanese.

2. The fear of Afro-Guyanese by this ethnic majority.

The old adage makes makes sense - you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Mara's thinking that Afro-Guyanese interests would be better served if they were to not alienate Indo-Guyanese holds some truth here. It would contribute to reducing this advantage the PPP has.

I beg to differ with the views expressed above pertaining the AFC and our ethnic-based voting pattern. Anyone who attended the AFC meeting in Richmond Hill could not help but noticed the early appearance of racial division in that party. Hard core Blacks with very little or no affinity for Indians congregated around Nigel Hughes and Trotman while the Indos shyly flocked around Ramjattan. One can noticed that the Indos as well as Afros do not show any genuine friendship towards each other. The AFC cannot and will bridge the racial divide any better than the PPP. The last elections results showed the AFC got only 3000 votes of its total of 28000 from region #6. How do we know how much of those 3000 are AFro-Guyanese from the Courantyne. The AFC won its seats based on ethnic voting. IT cannot claim title to being broadbased. Leave that for another day.

The AFC cannot solve the racial problem on its own nor can the PPP or the PNC. Only an idiot would expect that. The AFC's base from last voting patters were the young and the racially blended groups primarily due to resistance of the population to respond to race neutral solicitations. Something else has to be done but first unlike the PPP, they acknowledge the problem

I lived in RH and it is an Indian enclave and most of the people are from the bottom rung of the ladder. They brought their home grown racism with them. What happened to Cheddi at York college with respect to hinds selection as PM? There was open audience hostility for him selecting a "blackman"

You folks have a lot of nerve calling the AFC racist when we the PPP has been in office 19 years and to the is point fail to acknowledge we have a racial problem. The AFC understands we do. They also understand they cannot do a damn about peoples behavior except speak against it and acknowledge it exists.

They have a plan to make sure the thing that drives this racial prejudices, capturing the state as an ethnic prize via an autocratic presidency will never happen with them in power. They already insist a reform of the constitution will be in the work to take care of to make our system race neutral through institutional reforms.