TODAY more and more Afro -Guyanese middle class people, and even rank and file, have been moving away from the PNCR  because of deception over the years. They have turned their attention to the social and economic dimensions of empowerment, and are seeing the problem as one of equal security under the PPP/C and guarantees for their secure future. The PPP/C is willing to find creative ways of returning to the notion of political solution in the context of a plural, multi-party democracy. Class, is more fundamental than race. This does not mean that there is no such thing as ethnicity, that there is no racial problem. There is a problem. And it must be addressed. It must be neither underestimated nor over estimated.
At the same time, it must not be seen as an unsolvable problem. It all started in 1964 East Indian employees were only 20 percent of the security forces, 33 percent of the Civil Service and 27 percent of the labour force in government agencies. Since functionally specific sub-groups within the economy normally parallel distinctions of race and colour, there was a high correlation between ethnicity and socio-economic status.
This becomes translated into differentials in social privilege and political power along ethnic lines. It is evident that in the face of tremendous challenges ahead, and continuous rising expectations from the trade union movement and the oppositions, we need to work for national cohesion and national unity, and to create a better state for all Guyanese.
What needs to be done is the recognition of the racial problems and the implementation of co-operation. Cracks have started to appear in the PNCR hierarchy, groups and among middle strata support base since the formation of a coalition with other smaller parties. This could lead to a no-win situation with lesser seat in parliament and all regions. The PPP/C will continue its campaign for a culture of peace, racial harmony and tolerance.
Perhaps the hate showed to the PPP/C from the PNCR and the smaller opposition parties camp has become the bulwark of our democracy and freedom in Guyana, and the co-operation of the African communities with our party today.