Vigil for Slain Officer in Little Guyana Emphasizes Unity
- Sunday, 25 October 2015 17:28
- Written by Demerara Waves
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Randolph Holder Sr., the father of the slain officer killed in East Harlem last week, with Sherry Holder, the officer's sister, second from right, at a vigil in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Saturday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
Vishnu according to New York Times
http://caribnewsdesk.com/news/...ana-emphasizes-unity
Reproduced from New York Times by Liz Robbins
For the 200 or so.....
(a) family, friends, (b) officers and (c) passers-by (Liberty Avenue Shoppers) who gathered in the triangular intersection off Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill, a neighborhood known as Little Guyana,
Further according to NY Times.....the modest vigil underscored a powerful message. “Unity is strength,” Mr. Holder said.
The area there is predominantly Indo-Guyanese, the majority ethnic group in Guyana. Late in the week, (1) the event’s organizing group asked (2) State Senator James Sanders Jr. of Queens to invite Mr. Holder, whose family is Afro-Guyanese.
When Mr. Holder accepted,.....(a) family, friends,
he brought 50 relatives and friends in several vans with a police escort. Together, the groups mourned by candlelight, dismissing ethnic divisions that have long marked their homeland.
“This has become an opportunity for us to become Guyanese all over again,” said Vishnu Mahadeo, the president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council, which organized the vigil.
“One of our own was shot down and we need to be there for each other.”
If as Guyanese ....we were trying to be there for one another....why do we Involve James Sanders ....when there are many Guyanese Officials and Groups we can work with?
(c) passers-by & Sybils Customers....another 50 Gloria Jardine, 58, came from the Bronx to shop for traditional Indo-Guyanese items. She learned of the vigil from a handwritten sign in Sybil’s Bakery and then stayed, she said, just to shake Mr. Holder’s hand.
Officer Holder’s death has resonated back in Guyana, and some diaspora leaders see a boomerang effect. Six months ago the country formed a new coalition government with leaders from both Afro- and Indo-Guyanese parties.
(b) officers.....about 40
(d) Rickford Burke group another 50
“The country has been coming together, there has been a sense of healing, of reconciliation, of national pride,” said Rickford Burke, president of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy, based in Brooklyn. “And that has affected the way people are approaching this tragedy — that period of oneness that has taken hold.”
Question besides the .....
(a) family, friends,(60)
(b) officers (40)
(c) passers-by & Sybills Customers (50)
(d) Rickford Burke Supporters (50)
where was the following or supporters of
(1) the event’s organizing group
(2) State Senator James Sanders Jr. of Queens.
Richmond Hill needs to Unite....
“Unity is strength,” Mr. Holder said.
Guyana Elections Over....PPP Lost...
Support and Promote your own Guyanese not James Sanders...
Or Rickford Burke and others
will continue to highlight our Failures
in our own Back Yard.