Dr David Hinds, in a letter to SN on 11-10-11 titled “African brothers and sisters should think carefully about the choices”, must also recognise that his appeal to race in harnessing African votes will lead to confrontation with his political opponents. His open and bold affirmation to “his people” that “let nobody tell you that race does not matter; race matters because it is a powerful part of our identity”,  is being inflammatory and rabble rousing.
Can this mouthful explain why APNU supporters disrupted PPP/C meetings in Buxton and Victoria?
Certainly, no one will deny that disruptive behaviour and appeals to race could find retaliatory justification by other groups to create trouble in our country. This cannot be desirable or right.
Something is fundamentally wrong with Dr Hinds who actually believes that the significant amount of black people who choose to identify with the PPP/C and the AFC are all fools. In fact, such extremist black activists seek to define them as ‘unblack’ and not worth anything.
Yet if they were to submit themselves within APNU to Dr Hinds’ dictum then they are worth something and are better people. Scandalous!
Dr Hinds’ fulminations flies in the face of legendary Dr Martin Luther King’s sermon that people should not be judged on their skin colour.
When an obvious Afro-centric activist openly and brazenly insists in shepherding black people to only vote for APNU on the basis of their race, this can only lead to race conflict. Who can fail to become frightened by the discredited GDF chief Edward Collins openly joining another former GDF commander, David Granger, and former police chief Winston Felix in a powerful black military alliance which threatens democracy and racial stability in Guyana?
This cavalcade of former military strongmen, lined up for an onslaught on November 28, 2011 is certainly alarming. Is anyone so foolish to believe that these old military heavyweights are embarked on a course of Gandhian non-violence on election day and subsequently? How are the intended targets expected to react?  Do they have similar rights for self defence to avert a looming attack and certain racial annihilation?
How many are to suffer under the gathering military forces recalibrated under APNU? The PPP/C has not racially balanced the armed forces to ensure ethnic security for their supporters despite 19 years in power.
Note also how quickly our alleged “saintly” Mr Eusi Kwayana (who is the mentor of Dr Hinds) glides in to support his student in a letter to SN on 11/12/11 titled,  “I been in town too long”.
Criticising the PPP/C for daring to enter Buxton to campaign, Mr Kwayana dismisses the disruption of that party’s political rally as insignificant. Where there is confusion and mayhem  in Guyana we always will find him punctually perched like a bird of prey. His record has always demonstrated this kind of behaviour.
What has changed in Guyana? Not a damn thing among the old race baiters. Mr Kwayana justifies the disruption of the PPP/C meeting at Buxton with: so what if there “was vigorous heckling”?  Mr Kwayana excuses “a bonfire of gifts that the PPP so brazenly relies on, with its control of money and its power to buy a lot of people” as an affront and disrespectful. In my long political experience from 1947 I have never heard about or seen party tokens or gifts put in a heap and set on fire. This is what people will do when gifts come without respect”.
Shouldn’t APNU Buxtonians have likewise already burnt down the PPP/C rebuilt (taxpayers money of course) Tipperary Society Hall because it is bribery and corruption, and the $50 million of monumental disrespect? Now that would teach the PPP/C a good lesson, wouldn’t it?
Won’t failure to do so be damaging Buxton’s longtime reputation?
Actually setting tokens afire has been an old tradition amongst some in Buxton if the truth be told. Which explains the beating of neighbouring Enterprise resident Mr. Harry Rattansingh, the torching of his hire car with an Enterprise female passenger being slowly roasted alive to painful death at Buxton in the 1960s?
Burnings in Buxton is something which Mr Kwayana certainly cannot honestly claim ignorance of as “being so long in town”. Mr Kwayana will be most welcome to also explain what prompted him to approve, if any, the burning down  of Buxton’s only  cinema (Indian owned)  or his “friend” Mr Ramphal’s home  when he admitted being in charge of that village’s defences in the 1960s.
That cinema was never rebuilt. So which people suffered in the long term, with no place for movie entertainment?
Obviously our discredited black sage sees only what is convenient. Now perched atop whilst in town, Mr Kwayana yet fails to see that there was also a sizeable black Buxtonian crowd in front of the PPP/C podium sporting the PPP/C red tee shirts and singing its praises. Was Mr. Kwayana too busy feeding?  Obviously all black people, even Buxtonians, are not all violence prone.
Or did the PPP/C also bus in black supporters …from where … and so now even dissenting black people are irrelevant? Are black people only good when they support APNU, despite all their magnificent contributions in rebuilding Guyana during the last 19 years and more?
Here we have the typical Kwayana  attack on the PPP/C,  that it is their fault for going to seek black votes in Buxton, dismissing “this campaign of ( PPP/C) abuse against Buxtonians because their meeting ran into a volley of unexpected heckling, and two rotten eggs”.
Mr. Kwayana has already confessed he has changed his strategy but not his beliefs. Aha! How appropriate is “upus pilum mutat, non mentem, the wolf changes his coat, not his nature”. Can Mr. Kwayana now escape parallel comparisons? Who is he fooling now? Has there been any evidence whatsoever that WPA Indians are as Indo-centric comparable to those current black WPA activists?
If one were to let this confounded nonsense of Dr Hinds and Mr. Kwayana go unanswered, it would be a gross violation of the equal rights that all Guyanese possess for self defence and survival.
Like a pugilistic boxer, Dr Hinds hits again in another letter to SN on 11-12-11 titled “APNU is the only party offering something new” would like to hoodwink us that his championing of black unity and ascendancy are something new.
For him, the sky is not falling anymore, yet he would like us to accept that the WPA, combined with the PNC, is the only group better equipped to hold it up.
What is certainly new all right is the hijacking of Dr Rodney’s WPA by some discredited leftover black extremists who camouflage their  racism in a quest for political power in a skeleton WPA bereft of absolutely any credibility  amongst its former non-black admirers since Rodney’s demise.
Many of Rodney’s former comrades and family members view this lust for political power as bothersome and shameful; yet we find the current WPA leftovers as betraying his ideals and examples of non-racism. What honour is there in lying with Rodney’s murderers similar to Hamlet’s mother marrying her husband’s murderer?
The present black-controlled WPA is still to explain their alliance with former GDF chief, Mr. David Granger, who was in charge of the GDF during Rodney’s assassination.
In fact, Dr Prem Misir wrote on his blogsite “Misir Note” that “nevertheless, the book ‘Assassination Cry of a Failed Revolution – the Truth about Dr. Walter Rodney’s Death’ by William Gregory Smith & Anne R. Wagner, claimed that (the former GDF soldier) Smith admitted to preparing the explosive device that killed Rodney.
And Granger was GDF Commander between 1979 and 1990, which obviously takes in 1980, the year of Rodney’s assassination.”
What is the complete truth in Mr. Granger’s role in Rodney’s murder?  Has Mr. Granger now become a “good man” becau
se the WPA extremists now say so?
Dr Roopnarine could have kept Rodney’s legacy alive like Hamlet, a loyal family member, who could not accept how his revered leader was killed; instead, he is most overjoyed to serve as a cloistered conjugate with Rodney’s killers.
Where is any convincing evidence that Dr Roopnarine resonates with Indians even as he is absolutely bankrupt in his own cultural lineage, which he completely loathes. How can the current WPA escape this marginalisation of Rodney within APNU?
This rallying of the “kith and kin”  by Dr Hinds can be more confusing, especially when he claims  that “for the first time since independence voters get the opportunity to vote for the party of their choice  (who have black people been voting for since the PNC was formed in 1955?)
“And in the process vote for something more profound — a Government of National Unity.” Surely Dr Hinds does not believe he can hoodwink us that the present, consolidated black APNU is the crystallisation of the entire and complete Guyanese dream?   Dr Hinds must have a serious rethink if he really believes that what they alone want is what is entirely good for all Guyanese.
Shared government is not the complete or best solution for our problems, as it is temporary. Inevitably,  the cats and dogs will show their true nature and resume their brawling.
Yet Dr Hinds is so convinced that he is right that he emphasises that “APNU has pledged that whatever the results of the election it is committed to the setting up of a government that includes all political parties interested in moving the country forward. If you are not a member of any of the parties  in the APNU, but you are committed to national unity and stability (sic) of Guyana you get a chance to vote for the APNU as a partnership that symbolises that commitment.”
Dr Hinds must explain how black people voting for the PPP/C or AFC deny their endorsement for national unity to move the country forward.
He must explain why a vote for the PPP/C or AFC is not completely and unequivocally an invalidating rejection of his appeal to racism and APNU. Dr Hinds must also further revisit his mentor’s offer of partitioning Guyana. Federalism allows us to all live together but each running their own affairs.
The choices for Guyana’s future are either Eusi Kwayana’s partition or federalism. Shared government is a temporary solution for national disaster and official mayhem.  The PNC’s record is one of brutal massacres of Indians in all its history. Rebuilding Tipperary Society Hall in Buxton or the rest of Guyana cannot be portrayed as bribery and disrespectful to anyone. How long must one segment of the Guyanese population tremblingly submit to the other because of its military power, racism and bullying?
Unemployment and poverty do not exclusively only visit one race. It is better to live free than be forced to live in harmony under military subjugation. We have choices to make and mine is not APNU’s, especially with the military extremists on the warpath.   Military men only know how to shoot and kill; they have no experiences of running a country. Again defenceless people will be their targets.
Come results of the November 28 elections, I will not be surprised if APNU unleashes its womenfolk and former army veterans in violent military precision rampages across Guyana.
Given Guyana’s past, and the track records of Granger, Felix and Collins, the pre-elections skirmishes at Buxton and Victoria are only signs of frightening things to come.
Extremism harms us all. We still have to live together after the elections.