DOES Mr. “M” Maxwell realise how preposterous he has become with his bizarre claim that former Guyana Speaker, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, SC, is not really different from old time PNC/APNU Afro-centric Mr. Hamilton Green? Something is seriously amiss with Mr. Maxwell’s motives in his letter to KN of 3-4-12 titled “is Ralph Ramkarran really different than Hamilton Green”. This has to be a serious error in judgment … surely he has not lost his mind? Unless It of course underlines Mr. Maxwell‘s masterful excellence of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, Law of the jungle …“for the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack!” Only Mr. Maxwell can disprove these perceptions.
When  writers blatantly paint even the few Indo-Guyanese nationalistic leaders (and Mr. Ramkarran absolutely has not even celebrated his Indian culture, not that it would be wrong), with the same brush of our openly Afro -centric extremists, they must be held accountable for their culpability in any responses which they evoke.  Mr. Ramkarran is owed a sincere apology.   Even as  Mr. Maxwell  nevertheless gets some credit for his  bold  admission  that the targeted Guyanese  Indian population has been rapidly declining ever since their numbers were seen as an aberration (ACDA’s  Barrington Braithwaite describes Indians as a “numerical anomaly” ,SN,11-27-11)) which made them guilty just by their everyday existence.
“The PPP/C has seen a steady decline in its support” was how KN on 2-13-12 tagged Mr. Maxwell’s missive wherein was highlighted the insecurity facing Indians. Posing as a friend of Indians, he boldly endorses a quick, cosmetic fix (equating all Indians as PPP), urging that “the future of the PPP/C lies in using the next five years to implement serious changes to erase ethnic imbalances so that it can regain its crossover votes, minimise ethnic insecurity and bring fairness and equity back into the fold. The PPP/C must start with serious ethnic balancing of the armed forces” So far, the PPP/C has been a colossal failure to achieve the last objective. Mr. Maxwell must however be commended for going where few have not gone before.
While there can be no denial of blacks to political power, it is a frightening reminder how they previously used it to decimate the Indian population by crimes, persecution, rigging elections, racial discrimination, starvation, ethnic cleansing, cultural degradation, aggressive intermarriages and mass immigration. Complete partition or federalism of Guyana is increasingly now becoming a more acceptable solution than a return to the PNC. Yet the PNC has consistently failed to apologise or make amends for its past. Listed below are just a few ways where the distinguished former Guyana Speaker is fundamentally different from Mayor Green. Mr. Maxwell is as shamefully wrong in his comparison as the two subjects are as removed and different from each other as the Sun is to Pluto.
(1) Mr. Ramkarran has only been known by one name. Mr. Green changed his name just prior to the 1968 rigged elections to Mohamed Bilal to influence Muslim votes for the PNC. Where is the evidence that he has ever either practised Islam, fasts during Ramadan, refrains from pork-eating or drinking liquor?(2) Mr. Ramkarran is a dignified, educated senior lawyer and very successful in his law career. Mr. Green has just a few subjects at GCE Ordinary Level. Whether he finished high school or dropped out is a mystery. (3) Mr. Ramkarran was married only once and has always had a stable, decent family life. Mr. Green was married twice with his first wife (former PNC Information Minister Shirley Field -Ridley)  who subsequently died. His current wife is an Indo-Guyanese.
(4) Mr. Ramkarran comes from a prominent and prestigious patriotic family (his father was the loyal PPP Deputy leader Mr. ‘Boysie’ Ramkarran OE). Mr. Green has always been involved in race hatred, leading  street marches. (5) Mr.  Ramkarran served as Speaker of Guyana’s parliament and was recently a candidate again for Speaker. Mr. Green was expelled from the same PNC to which he claims allegiance and is now a prominent spokesman.
(6) Mr. Ramkarran is a senior partner in a prominent Guyanese law firm. Mr. Green presides over a stinking Georgetown which the PPP/C inherited and keeps afloat by constant handouts. (7) Mr. Ramkarran is a relatively younger national leader. Mr. Green is a political dinosaur who refuses to retire so youths can move up.
(8) Mr. Ramkarran is a law-abiding citizen of Guyana. He was never accused of corruption, nor was he subjected to any investigation.
Yet we find Mr. Maxwell has the gall to conclude that “I do not find Ramkarran’s any better”. Even as he  writes  “ lines (to) expose ) Green’s weaknesses and shortcomings, It’s the same Mr. Maxwell who further emphasises that “there is no logical validity to Green’s quantum leap …. Because of that troubling lack of rationalisation, one can only surmise that Green was letting that age-old raging race infection  corrupt his reasoning. Its very lack of logical dignity makes it believable that it was placed there to appeal to race.” These are all Mr. Maxwell’s own words  to describe Mr. Green.
While Mr. Maxwell has not described Mr. Ramkarran likewise, it only questions his judgment in his comparison of the two politicians. His culpability makes him equally offensive and he is obviously no better. He must apologise to Mr. Ramkarran to wash himself clean if he has any self respect. What is more surprising is that Mr. Maxwell only  woke up to Mr. Green’s inadequacies  after  Mr. Ramkarran drew attention to the Mayor’s  racist bilge in opposing the Indian-funded and staffed specialty hospital for  Guyanese. Do any of these two have any alternative suggestions for Guyana’s progress;? Furthermore, why is the PPP/C always constructing major projects in Demerara?
Certainly Mr. Maxwell must be aware that ignoring Mr. Green’s many provocative letters to the press are  not the same as ignoring the PNC archaeological fossil’s failure  to clean up Georgetown, where even the dead at Le Repentir cemetery cannot even rest in peace. Quite a   frightening reminder what Guyanese can expect when the PNC/APNU gains power in Guyana.
Mr. Maxwell could have asked Mr. Green to present the evidence that the 1960s Marxist -oriented PPP sought to import Indians to Guyana from the communist-dominated Kerala state  of  India. This is a monumental figment of Mr. Green’s imagination. If such a plan were in the public domain, let Mr. Green present the evidence. But Mr. Maxwell seems to accept Mr. Green’s allegations as gospel truth. How ironic that in the 1960s, Mr. Green became so fearfully threatened by conjuring up  Indians socialists from Kerala, India coming to “socialist” PPP Guyana but he yet surprisingly now tolerates “socialist” Indians’ prominence within APNU! Can anyone be so dimwitted not to see what Mr. Green actually finds repugnant is anything but “evil” socialism? His opposition to the Indian specialty hospital is just a cover for his prejudices and worse. Opposition leader Mr. David Granger certainly deserves credit (sucking sugar cane and whistling at the same time) in harnessing such amazing diversity within APNU.  In any showdown between Dr Roopnarine and Mr. Green everyone knows who will have no roti. Previously, I had some regard for Mr. Maxwell’s writings. Not so anymore. His repentance is his choice. His castigating of Mr. Ramkarran to equate him with Mr. Green has effectively damaged his credibility. He cannot escape culpability in the current mess in which he delights in wallowing. Few have been able to recognise or comprehend the Indian fear of the PNC’s return as APNU in disguise. The certainty of a new Indo-centric country is already in the making. Just read Professor Dr Mohan  Ragbeer’s two-volume “the indelible red stain”.  Sooner or later more will flock to this goal. When one reviews the pursuits of Guyana’s aggressive Afro-centric leaders, one must admit that we may not all be together in the distant future. Mr. Maxwell may yet stake a claim to black empowerment with much pride.