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Apr 04, 2020 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0 Comments

You never know the inner Freudian drives that reside in the subterranean parts of the human mind, until an occasion arises and those neatly repressed instincts escape from the id, finds a seat on the ego, and the flaws of the human character are laid bare for the world to see.
You may never know how anti-homosexual a person may be until a gay makes a pass at him and like a raging bull, he gets up and says, “don’t talk to me, gays should go to jail.” You are shocked, because you know this liberal-minded person all your life, and never knew he felt so bitter about homosexuality.
You may never know how anti-Muslim your longstanding friend has been until one day the talk is about the resumption of India playing test cricket against Pakistan, and he says something that betrays his Freudian dislike for Muslims. Two examples should suffice.
There was a very popular jazz personality on a Toronto radio station. He didn’t know the microphone was on during a commercial break, so he took a call from his friend to have lunch. He declined, saying that he preferred to stay away from Toronto, because there were 400, 000 Blacks (he used the N-word) on the streets. He was referring to the Caribana parade. How can any expert in jazz, a discovery of African-Americans, be anti-Black?
A basketball club owner was caught on tape telling his girl friend he doesn’t like her socializing with Black players.
Here in Guyana, we have seen the Freudian drives of those who profess to be adherents of democratic principles, but in their souls they care not about rights, justice, rule of law, democracy, Guyana’s future; just ethnic domination occupies their mind.
The 2020 election nightmare has brought out the worst instincts in some humans in Guyana. This is not basic instincts, but uncivilized descent where basic instincts become bestial rampage.
We have seen these bestial directions from all types of people – trade unionists, university lecturers, lawyers, those who call themselves Rodneyites, politicians, etc. They see nothing wrong with what Clairmont Mingo did. They want Guyana to have a new government based on the Mingo declaration.
What is the Mingo declaration? It is the virtual and literal de-recognition of the rights the ancestors of the current generation fought for, and in which untold numbers lost their lives.
What Mingo did does not exist in the real world. You only read about it is novels about the dystopian future of the world. But it happened here for ten days – March 4 – 13. One of the world’s famous history books is entitled “Ten Days that Shook the World.” It is about the Russian Revolution.
In Guyana, there were ten days that shocked and shook Guyana. It is about a man named Clairmont Mingo. He acted like a magician, only he was playing with the future of the people of a modern Caribbean nation. Mingo put his hand in a bag, came up with some numbers, and for ten days shouted, “eureka.” He discovered who won the 2020 general election, not by tabulation or counting, but by Draculean, bestial logic.
Then the logic of hypocrisy took over. Trade unionists clamoured for Mingo’s magic to be made the official results of the 2020 poll. The AFC, the party that was supposed to remove dystopia from Guyana and introduce utopia, embraced Mingo’s blood bank. The Rodneyites on Thursday in a motion before the GECOM commission voted for Mingo’s “black box” to be declared the official results.
The Burnhamites were the ones to introduce the motion. Now that was the only understandable thing that has occurred among those who rode on Mingo’s bandwagon. It did make sense. Under Burnham, national elections were rigged. But those in GECOM who are Burnhamites have vulgarized the intellectual finesse of their founder-leader.
Burnham was too enamoured of his special character traits to tolerate Mingo’s comical statistical masturbation. He would have banished Mingo from the face of Guyana if he saw how Mingo was going about rigging the 2020 election.
With an insult laced with Latin phrases, Burnham would have told Mingo he was a national embarrassment. Indeed Mingo was. (I say “was” because Claudette, the mysterious figure in GECOM, did not vote with the Rodneyites and Burnhamites on the commission to ride Mingo’s bandwagon.)
His paper bag with the numbers that he shuffled for ten days became porous and the numbers dropped out. But those who wanted his magic to govern Guyana are left stranded on the banks of the three great rivers of this country. Should we live with these monsters in the future?

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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Freddie Kissoon supported these monsters in the past. One should remember his rage against the PPP and Jagdeo.  I am so glad that the coalition kicked his backside from their circles.  TK should know what I am talking about.

R

Freddie is only right when he speaks out against APNU but against the PPP is a no no? 

 Which party person threw shit on him and which party people right here on GNI supported that nastiness and spoke highly about it? I don't have to tell you.

Yes, he had a blasted right to speak out against the PPP.

cain
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In history, some men rises to the occasion. In these times, Clairmont Mingo is THE MAN.

Clairmont Mingo is the name associated with this present fiasco, but there are others and many others behind him. These election events is equivalent to the fiasco of emanicipation. Talks and lots of talk between the abolitionists and the British Parliament and then the talks between the British Parliament and the Planters. No one was too keen on giving in to emancipation of the African Slaves in the British Colonies. Anxieties ran high in the slave communities. Rumors of freedom from the house slaves messaged down to the field slaves. For decades, only disappointments in waiting for that day to come. 

But that day did come, out of shame and shock.

In the colony of Demerara, on Planation Success, a God-fearing man was bonded to John Gladstone's Estate. He was a deacon in a church at Pln. Re-Sovenier, the neighboring plantation. His son, a skilled barrel maker was free to move around the plantations plying his trade. He took the news around the plantations concerning the progress of emancipation.

Frustrated by broken promises, the slaves became agitated.

A church meeting at Pln. Re-Sovenier, the slaves discussed the prospects of emancipation. The decision was the Demerara Slave Revolt. The planners enquired from the deacon his thoughts on the matter.

And Quamina agreed.

He was not involved in the revolt, yet his punishment was severe. The British Authorities deheaded him and displayed severed head and body at the Parade Ground.

The British Public read about the events. Apalled. Public opinion, boycott of British West Indian goods and Thomas Clarkson's endorsement of British India goods and commodities be purchased instead.

The public outcry and actions was the decision maker for the House of Commons.

Emanicipation.

The named Quamina is around several places in GT, perhaps as a reminder to Guyanese. 

Today, it is Clairmont Mingo. 

Perhaps, for a moment he is demanding that we think of the consequences, even though he is wrong in his actions.

We need an emanciption of the minds. For generations we know that this country needs an inclusive government.

This is the time for it, let there be a public outcry 

S

Good article by FC. A good example is that Benn Chopsticks. A Koolie anti koolie. Mocking the word pronunciation of Guyanese East Indians to promote the narrative that the koolie is an inferior sub human?  Worthy of death I say?

Prashad
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