Jagdeo - Deficient of Testosterone - Inspires a Profusion of Bloodletting

“Life is perpetual; it only changes its form in its course of progress. The death of one form of life of existing things, is but the beginning of another form of life of those things”
“Stereotyping is perhaps the most insidious of all problems in our society, today.” Sonia Sotomayor – New York City, 1998
I take it upon myself to intrude upon your privacy. The need is to acquint you with an article on the subject of decentralization as a philosophy of bringing to an end the unhealthy practice of politics of ethnicity. I charge some thirty years ago; The Most Honourable Walter Rodney (1942-1980) dubbed 1979 The Year of The Turn.
I believe. It is fitting to realize that most of the people, connected to Guiana; are so indoctrinated, so blinded by the fever of racism that they simply refuse to recognize, and/or accept truth and rights, whenever and wherever they perceive same to display their politics and their religion in bad light. According to the rhetoric and the actions of the membership and fanatics of the Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP), the Blackman of Guyana must be eradicated in Guyana. The Blackman must be handcuffed. They must be marginalised; for the African communities are producing neither food nor industrious people but are graduating terrorists of East Indians, their property, their communities and their nation. Nothing good can ever come from Buxton, Nabaclis and the African villages in Guyana. The image of the Blackman has never been worst in the sight of the ruling class in the Americas. However, those of us, who are familiar with the history of our people, must be vigilant. Social scientists and commentators must not allow politicians and their lackeys to highjack their nation. Social commentators and activists must advocate on the basis of truth. Those who know must reveal truths wherever and whenever they encounter them.
A Wesleyan Minister, Reverend E. Biscombe, resident in the city of Georgetown in the colony of British Guiana, observed and wrote in a letter dated Monday, April 24, 1871, “The most hopeful feature for the future of the colony is in our day schools. I was quite surprised at the number, respectability, and intelligence of the boys and girls, fully equal to the same class at home. The prospects of our work are good.”
Fellow Guyanese, you are well aware that numerous scholars and outstanding citizens of Buxton and the African Villages and elsewhere, were produced having experienced that system of education in the colony of British Guiana. It cannot be denied Blackman from Buxton and the African Villages and elsewhere are found in any listing of academics between July 31, 1834 and May 26, 1966. How is it that between March 1992 and Tuesday, June 16, 2009 only illegal narcotics trade, thieves, and murderers decorates the news media in Guyana? It is so nauseating me. I very rarely access news out of Guyana in recent times. On every occasion I access the news, it seems I am made aware of civil and human rights violations against several of my relatives in Guyana. It is as perplexing as it is nauseating. It is the politics of the PPP and the PNC and Guyanese who support those entities who have done deeds to us during the last 55 years which only people fitting the description as enemies; enemies of our people would do to us.
I believe Reverend Biscombe and numerous souls who were in the colony of British Guiana in the nineteenth century would be very disturbed by the results of the politics in the era of independence of British Guiana in today’s Guyana. As I recall and reminiscence of the life and times of the Hero of the post independence struggle against the Burnham regime and its policy of Paramountcy of the Party, Dr. Walter Rodney, I wonder, how many possible Walter Rodney’s have this current administration buried at a tender age?
Let us recall
A brief example below reflects Rodney's eloquence. In 1976 at a public street meeting in Guyana, Rodney spoke about race:
“You see, we have had too much of this foolishness of race. I'm not going to attempt to allocate the blame one way or another. I think more than one political party has been responsible for the crisis of race relations in this country. I think our leadership has failed us on that score. I think external intervention was important in bringing the races against each other from the fifties and particularly in the early sixties. But I'm concerned with the present. If we made that mistake once, we cannot afford to be misled on that score today. No ordinary Afro-Guyanese, no ordinary Indo-Guyanese can today afford to be misled by the myth of race. Time and time again it has been our undoing.”
“Does it have anything to do with race that the cost of living far outstrips the increase in wages? Does it have anything to do with race that there are no goods in the shops? Does it have anything to do with race when the original lack of democracy as exemplified in the national elections is reproduced at the level of local government elections? Does it have anything to do with race when the bauxite workers cannot elect their own union leadership? Does it have anything to do with race when, day after day, whether one is Indian or African, without the appropriate party credentials, one either gets no employment, loses one's employment, or is subject to lack of promotion?”
“It is clear that we must get beyond that red herring and recognise that it is intended to divide, that it is not intended in the interest of the common African and Indian people in this country. Those who manipulated in the 1960s, on both sides, were not the sufferers. There were not the losers. The losers were those who participated, who shared blows and who got blows. And they are the losers today.”
“It is time that we understand that those in power are still attempting to maintain us in that mentality - maintain us captive in that mentality where we are afraid to act or we act injudiciously because we believe that our racial interests are at stake. Surely we have to transcend the racial problems? Surely we have to find ways and means of ensuring that there is racial justice in this society? But it certainly will not be done by a handful of so-called Black men monopolising the power, squeezing the life out of all sections of the working class, and turning around and expecting that they will manipulate an issue such as the Arnold Rampersaud affair and get the support of ordinary black people because we will say, ‘After all; is only an Indian. We could hang him. No sweat.’”
“Because, as I said before, you start with one thing, you end with another. The system doesn't stop at racial discrimination. Because it is a system of class oppression, it only camouflages its class nature under a racial cover. And in the end, it will move against anyone irrespective of colour. In the end, they will move even against their own. Because, don't believe if you are a member of that party today, that you will be protected tomorrow from the injustices. Because when a monster grows, it grows out of control. It eats up even those who created the monster. And it's time that our people understood that.”
Jagdeo's treatment of his former wife is simply sickening. It is a travesty. It is however consistent with his repulsive behaviour. It is simply very childish. It is also extremely rude. It is unbecoming of a leader of any civic organization, much less a head of state. I guess the old adage you get what you voted for is applicable. Jagdeo has contributed to Guyanese becoming the laughing stock of the Caribbean basin.
If Jagdeo is acting upon the advice of others; he ought to immediately distance himself from them. Jagdeo ought to try to salvage his horrendous image. Whenever I look at Jagdeo, I imagine an imitation of the Kabaka albeit a rather mediocre one at that.
George Lamming in his introduction to Walter Rodney's classic literature – a history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905; reminds readers of one the weaknesses of the democracy as reflected by Eurocentric ideals in multiethnic societies – it is the arithmetic of the ethnic groups – the numbers of one group supporting their own as opposed to the best candidate. Thus, because of this acceptable feature of the democratic process, the ethnic majority will always hold the political clout in Guyana and similar societies. The other groups will have to struggle for their share of political representation – and/or aspire to achieve a self-government. I believe ultimately the best scenario for Africans in Guyana and around the globe is to struggle for self-determination. I would be a traitor to my people if I suggested anything less than a self-government is an acceptable condition.
Africans in Guyana have always faced and survived an uphill battle for survival and self-emancipation. They are yet to catch a beak. Many will point to the disastrous PNC dictatorship between 1968 and 1992 – and claim it was an African administration but the tribulations of numerous afro-Guyanese bear ample testimonies to the sordid episode in the African Guyanese experience. Walter Rodney, Frederick Mahaica, Shirley Field-Ridley, several members of the WPA, ASCRIA, Trade unionists and professor of the University of Guyana, Members of Local Authorities and descendants of Shareholders of the African Villages in Guyana all attest to the paramountcy of the PNC was very detrimental to Africans as it was to other ethnic groups of the Guyanese society who did not support the PNC regardless of ethnicity.
Jagdeo is as petty and as repulsive as Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham. However, a young Forbes Burnham was quite a ladies' man as he was an orator. Perhaps only alcohol was preferred. I am positive Jagdeo is as poor a choice as one can present for comparison to Forbes Burnham. It is clear Jagdeo's Affair with the beauty from Enmore was an arrangement. I cannot accept it was a marriage of physical love. I am that convinced Jagdeo is deficient of testosterone. I think Jagdeo has no yearnings for females. It was a sham – a con job upon the people of Guyana. I am sure it was a convenience to fulfil the requirement of the constitution of Guyana. In fact – the constitution of Guyana – ought to demand the Head of State of Guyana lead an exemplary life. A life which includes a spouse and children – and is married at all times while in office. Jagdeo is an embarrassment. He ought to demit office and just disappear from public – and/or be impeached. Certainly he must be replaced soonest for the good of the nation. Someone capable enough of stopping the carnage, the unending hurt which the underprivileged working class people are enduring daily in Guyana is needed and necessary at this particular period in the history of Guyana.
Again Jagdeo is so terrible in the field of public and ethnic relations. It shows clearly he belongs at the bottom of the Mahaica River Basin where he was birthed. How upon this god forsaken earth, such a being is allowed to trod upon creation, much less masquerade as a Head of State is beyond my simple mind set?
Where have you gone Dr. Cheddie Jagan, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham and Desmond Hoyte? And for that matter the British Colonial Administration is also sadly missed in Guyana today. I did not believe in May 1966 I would make such statements in 2009. But however, today, mediocrity is disguised as national leaders, reigns all over the planet and abundantly so in Guyana. Bloodshed and mayhem, the loss of life and disregard for both their human and civil rights - is the price the underprivileged working class people pay for affording the ruling class to oppress them; daily. Where are this generation's Eusi Kwayana, Balram Singh Rai and Walter Rodney? Certainly, credible voice of reason and voice of dissent – are all rather silent and/or indeed absent. Clearly from every location in and beyond the political boundary of Guyana voices must be raised in unison against the genocide being committed in the African Communities, under the guise of eradicating criminal activities in Guyana. The young fellows who are based at Agricola and Buxton and Friendship districts are importing neither weapons nor illegal narcotic drugs. They are not the real beneficiaries of the illegal narcotic drugs’ trade. The misguided babies are certainly not laundering money. What do they own if they are forced to go out into the communities to rob the working class people including preachers, mourners and others of rather insignificant items such as small amounts of legal tender, cell phones, cameras, and computers, etc.? Only total lunatics and racists would believe and accept the low-level criminal behaviour is responsible for the current state of affairs in Guyana. The PPP/C Administration is not fooling anyone. It is simply a race-based group of thuggery which they are perpetrating against the people and the state of Guyana. Is this the character of your leadership? Good lord have mercy. The struggle continues.