What about a Black Guyanese entrepreneurial class?

Let me be effusively unambiguous, graphically pellucid and illuminatingly clear – I would agree with any critic of the AFC-APNU Government who points to the consistent predominance of state appointments that is in one ethnic direction only. It will exacerbate the 60-year-old tragedy that is a country named Guyana.
My revulsion against the rule of the PPP beginning with Cheddi Jagan in 1992 was that the PPP control of the state was premised on favoritism towards East Indians. The man, Jagan, himself had an employment bias towards Indians during his presidency. It is a stain that is written largely on the biography of Cheddi Jagan. Only a blind researcher or an indecent one would gloss over that fact.
If Walter Rodney was alive to see Cheddi Jagan as President, Walter would have driven Jagan out to sea. The bitter sin that African-rights activists have accused Walter Rodney of possessing was that he was too obsessed with bringing down Burnham that he didn’t care about seeing the essential philosophical flaws of Jagan. Those flaws were nurtured and fertilized by Janet Jagan. Those flaws led Jagan to throw Bharrat Jagdeo upon Guyana. Those flaws made Jagdeo throw Ramotar upon Guyana. The rest is history.
I long suspected that the PPP, but particularly Bharrat Jagdeo, (in another column I will deal with Justice Chang’s injunction against me which still stands but which I have been able to get around because you can use different words to convey the same meaning) were tilting towards ethnic cleansing in a non-violent way (but also in a violent way which led to the 2002 Mash Day jailbreak).
At the level of the eyes, you couldn’t see it. I saw it when I spent two years researching employment and scholarship policies of the Jagdeo regime. I saw a horror story which I presented to an academic conference in the form of a paper titled, “Ethnic Power and Ideological Racism: Comparing Presidencies in Guyana.”
What African Guyanese suffered under the PPP, we should of course never forget but to keep carping on it is psychologically unwise. Thinking about it leads to unhealthy thoughts. We should move on. Guyana needs to move on. One hopes that what African Guyanese had to endure under the PPP, Indians won’t have to under the coalition government.
We simply have to kill the Medusa of racial suspicion that has frozen the future of Guyana almost sixty five years ago. Medusa was a monster in Greek mythology that when she set her gaze upon you, you turned into stone. And that is what race-based policies by past governments have down to Guyana – turned it into stone.
Mr. Clairmont Lye, not known at all to be a supporter of the PPP when the PPP was in office, has complained bitterly of the low level of East Indian representation on the state boards. No doubt this will hand the racists inside the PPP an anti-tank weapon from which they can fire their salvoes against the Granger/Nagamootoo unity team.
Whether contextually it was not possible to have an infusion of Indian faces, the claim of ethnic bias will cause reflections. Can you blame Lye if he sees it this way? The answer is no. But at the same time our sociological analysis must be methodologically holistic not ethnically slanted.
Ravi Dev has consistently argued that Guyanese Indians have an ethnic security dilemma that could only be addressed by ethnic balance in the security forces. Mr. Lye wants ethnic balance on state boards. But Indians who have these fears have to be analytically objective. African Guyanese have an ethnic security dilemma too. Dev admits this but proposes solutions to the Indian problem.
That is understandable- he deals with solutions for his community. But if we are to save Guyana we must examine the dilemmas all our ethnic communities have.
What about ethnic balance in the economy? What about ethnic balance in entrepreneurial formations in Guyana? Go to any part, and I mean any part of this 83,000 square miles of territory, and you see the monstrous ethnic imbalance in the capitalist nature of the Guyanese formation.
East Indians dominate the economy ninety five percent to one percent for African with other races making up the other four percent. Among other races in Guyana, outside of Indian Guyanese, land-holdings are extensive. It seems that the only race that does not possess vast plantations of land is African Guyanese.
I know some Portuguese Guyanese who have countless acreage of land that the combined population of African Guyanese do not have. It is time for ethnic balance in Guyanese capitalism.

Ravi Dev has consistently argued that Guyanese Indians like Randolph have an ethnic security dilemma.

 Kruger is an ASS, a bloody FOOL, A DUNCE and worst.  Why he dont address the imbalance of the Public Service and Army and Police and Customs, and Govt?????  This ASS wants people who dont take RISKS be given hand outs. This DONKEY braying cause he hungry for Grass.

 Does this Jackass knows that in the most DEMOCRATIC Country in the World AMERIKA, dat White People OWNS and CONTROL 99.5 PERCENT of the wealth, Land, and everything else??  BLOODY IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!

randolph posted:

I can see one people here. Birds of a feather.

Look, in Uncle Tom's Office he is the only Indian. Call me racist for stating the FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a bunch of gay people visiting their minister. It is a pity Indians are not there because there are proportionally just as many gay folks from among Indians. These gay folks are possibly still in the closet least they get lynched in the Indian community!

These gay folks are possibly still in the closet least they get lynched in the Indian community!

Storm, what makes you think they are gay people? I prefer to deal with gay people than dangerous people. Gay Indians in Guyana are not closet gays.
You see your racism and hatred for Indians here. You label us racists, yet you take pride in accusing Indians of lynching the negroes. Far from the truth. Both races of homosexuals do get along with everyone better than heterosexuals. Like I said before, before you write an ocean of hogwash here, go visit Guyana.

skeldon_man posted:

 

These gay folks are possibly still in the closet least they get lynched in the Indian community!

Storm, what makes you think they are gay people? I prefer to deal with gay people than dangerous people. Gay Indians in Guyana are not closet gays.
You see your racism and hatred for Indians here. You label us racists, yet you take pride in accusing Indians of lynching the negroes. Far from the truth. Both races of homosexuals do get along with everyone better than heterosexuals. Like I said before, before you write an ocean of hogwash here, go visit Guyana.

SASOD meets with Ministry on LGBT discrimination

• ^{February 28, 2016 | By KNews | Filed Under News} 
• ^{The Society against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) met with the Social Protection Minister, Volda Lawrence, and other officials on Thursday last, to discuss a human rights approach to social protection issues in}
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• ^{From Left: Alana DaSilva, Secretary of the Board of SASOD; John Adams, Ministerial Adviser on Social Protection; The Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence; Managing Director of SASOD, Joel Simpson; SASOD Advocacy and Communications Officer, Schemel Patrick; and SASOD Social Change Coordinator, Jairo Rodrigues. (Aubrey Odle photo)}

This is a meeting with Gay activists and a Minister being used as a agit prop by Randolph.

Also read carefully. I said "These gay folks " the subject of the previous sentence, "Indians" are  possibly still mostly in the closed  because they are scared of community repercussions. Thats a fact jack. If black people are homophobic Indians are twice so. The picture is one of many you van cull from the press an they all bare this out. Few Indians are openly gay. Vidyaratha Kissoon  and Leon Suseran are and they get lampooned often  enough

Maybe Randolph and some other Indos can join this gay organization so that they can be more representative...

RiffRaff posted:

Maybe Randolph and some other Indos can join this gay organization so that they can be more representative...

Do you have to be gay to join a gay organization? Just wondering.

skeldon_man posted:

RiffRaff posted:

Maybe Randolph and some other Indos can join this gay organization so that they can be more representative...

Do you have to be gay to join a gay organization? Just wondering.

ANyone can join...even you

Ray, You should have listened to the British Oscar winner for the song from the Bond Movie.

Can't stand his songs.....

RiffRaff posted:

Can't stand his songs.....

The Chap called for unity and Peace for all mankind. He has a sweet voive BUT last night Lady Gaga hit it out of the Park by miles. Lord, what a powerful performance!!!

I was hoping for some rap music

RiffRaff posted:

I was hoping for some rap music

It was a white event Bro.  Even Chris Rock had to dress in white.

baseman posted:

That Chopra lady looked real good and classy!!

Priyanka is dah Bomb.  She grew up in Flushing NY, went to HS there.

Nehru posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I was hoping for some rap music

It was a white event Bro.  Even Chris Rock had to dress in white.

Lol!!!

Nehru posted:

RiffRaff posted:

I was hoping for some rap music

It was a white event Bro.  Even Chris Rock had to dress in white.

white folks are the biggest purchasers of rap music

Nehru posted:

baseman posted:

That Chopra lady looked real good and classy!!

Priyanka is dah Bomb.  She grew up in Flushing NY, went to HS there.

http://www.biography.com/peopl...iyanka-chopra-090315

Early Years

Priyanka Chopra was born on July 18, 1982, in Jamshedpur, India. Both her parents are doctors, and her father was in the army, so Chopra’s family moved quite a bit as she grew up. She studied at the La Martiniere Girl’s School in Lucknow before relocating to the United States for three years. She started high school in Massachusetts before moving to British Columbia, Canada. From there it was back to India, and Chopra then attended the Army Public School at Bareilly. It was during this period that Chopra’s life would begin to switch gears, as she entered and won the May Queen contest at the Bareilly Club.

Duh does not seems true.

RiffRaff posted:

skeldon_man posted:

RiffRaff posted:

Maybe Randolph and some other Indos can join this gay organization so that they can be more representative...

Do you have to be gay to join a gay organization? Just wondering.

ANyone can join...even you

No need to join. I accept gays as human beings. I trust them more than some of the people I know.

Who values the political perspectives of Freddie Kissoon?  This man has turned journalism into an advocate profession like law. He argues for the party he favors rather than what's truly just for the society. I think he is a biased fella who hides behind academia thinking we won't recognize his hypocrisy.