I have written over the years of the Alternative and The
Third Force, these political groups did came forth in the country.
Unfortunately, they only sought membership from a list of old acquaintances. It
was evident from the onset that they would be no different than the Peoples
National Congress or the Peoples Progressive Party. They came out of political
systems that were not creative in the governance of the country. And they got
tarnished in corruption just as their mentors.
Disillusioned, I sought a new path-it was the Peoples
Movement. With the No Confidence Vote, racism became the driving force which
numbed the country. The Peoples Movement never got the attention of the
country.
Our history has been a troubling one. Today, the society is quietly fashioned. Citizens of Guyana will find themselves perplexed as to how it was possible to lose a country. I guess some Afro-Guyanese asking the same question of a heritage.
This land has to be recued by those who are not diehard supporters of the major political groups. Only by a majority of citizens of a nationalistic and patriotic fervor.
Guyanese will have to regain their history of One Nation One People One Destiny. It is not achievable under our present state of governance, but it is a nationalistic dream. There is hope in the words for the better days of our country. Now, there are only patriots with personal agendas.
So the need to provide another kind of leadership is most urgent as always. As the saying goes, "in the absence of a possible solution, even the ridiculous idea has the possibility as a plausible one."
The current political system is primed with distrust, corruption and deceit. It breathes poverty for the masses. And the pundits say, it is the parent of revolution and crime. Crimes we already have, revolution was more like ethnic cleansing in Wismar and the years of disturbances in our towns and villages..
For those, at the eve of their lives and were politically involved in the state of affairs of this nation, surely must remember what this colony was like seven decades ago. We were young and free and free of political schemes in our teenage years. Unlike our forefathers, we grew up in an era of self-determination plague by the Cold War. Our leaders failed the generations that came after us, for we are locked in a Gordian Knot. You could help unravel the bind we are in as a nation with the years of your wisdom. Leave this dear land with a Guyanese Brand, not a Russian or American or Chinese Brand as our leaders sought and seek for us as a fledgling nation. Give Guyanese your words of wisdom for the future-for we must build and continue to build this land as the first day the enslaved African dug his hand in this nameless track of land identified as the Wild Coast. They gave us a country. It took four centuries for us to inherit it as Guyana. Those four centuries has diversified us. We must be tolerant. And we can be.
On social media, the educated claim they speak for Afro-Guyanese, they are the elites. Whilst a few of the common folk of the major races vent on racism. Both with an opinion never to accommodate each other. I believe the majority are real quiet and go about trying to survive the difficulties of life in Guyana.
We emerged as an independent nation divided on ethnicity, a dilemma that is fed daily and the rhetoric cannot be escaped. Can there be a perfect moment? The country awaits.
