And let us look at different reactions. David Hinds, Andaiye, Eusi Kwayana, Walter Rodney and others have spoken out against racism by Afro Guyanese towards Indo Guyanese. They remain well regarded by most Afro Guyanese, and are even seen as heroes by some.
Let us see the reaction to these comments by Sugrim. Did he single out Indo Guyanese. No he made a false equivalency between Indo and Afro Guyanese, even though he knows full well that Afro Guyanese identity is very embedded in being Guyanese and that Afro Guyanese have a creole culture, which by definition absorbs influences from all sources, and doesn't have barriers to entry.
Yet its the Indians here who lambaste Sugrim. Very few endorse his views and the few who do and then attacked as joining blacks to kill off Indians.
You will deliberately ignore the difference in reaction but the evidence is clear.
In fact one can even look at those who accuse me of having "lost" my culture and then cite my inability and lack of interest in speaking an African language. The irony of course is that almost none of them are fluent speakers of any Indian language. NONE of them use this as their first language, and many of them in fact speak Creolese which is a dialect of English with AFRICAN origins.
So ironically Afro Guyanese are more likely to speak in a form which has African influences and it is the Indo Guyanese who speaks an African form of English. Yet will scream that their culture is "pure" and that of the Afro Guyanese being non existent.
One day people will understand that which ever of the myriad cultures that exist in Guyana, including various combinations of these cultures is what makes them GUYANESE. So to lambaste some one who says that he is a Guyanese (by nationality) and not Indian (because he is Guyanese by nationality) is in fact indications of clannishness.
And note that it isn't just Sugrim who is treated like this, but so is any Indian who is honest enough to describe Indian attitudes to non Indians, or the degree to which Indians prioritize their ethnicity over their nationality and exclude those who fall outside of this grouping.