(Continued)

Old Kai has a few simple questions for those individuals who seek to divide our society by laying the blame of issues experienced by some in the African Guyanese community on the current Government:
Is our Afro Guyanese community better off or worse off post 1992 under the PPP/C, as compared to the 28 years of PNC rule?
Was our Afro Guyanese community provided with more employment opportunities under the PNC as opposed to post 1992?
What percentage of the Afro Guyanese communities owned their own homes under the PNC as opposed to today?
Were there more Afro Guyanese entrepreneurs in the small, medium and large business categories pre 1992, as opposed to today under the PPP/C?
What percentage of Afro Guyanese children had access to education under the PNC as opposed to the PPP/C?
If they were to answer this handful of questions, they would come to the conclusion which they dread admitting, and that is Africans have been more empowered under successive PPP/C Governments than they ever were in any previous point in our history.
They will then say OK, but Africans are not being provided with top Government positions under the PPP/C. Actually, they have used this argument before, but Old Kai will firstly remind that the Opposition has waged an unrelenting campaign to attack any Afro Guyanese professional who partners with the Government to move our country forward. They have used this strategy expertly to instill fear into those who may genuinely want to come forward and join the progressive drive.
I can immediately recall that Bishop Juan Edghill was called all manner of names, including ‘house slave’; there was an opposition protester in Linden during the unrest with a placard which read ‘kill Sam Hinds’; the PNCR=APNU published a list including African business people who were considered too close to the Government  for their supporters to boycott, and how can we forget that just recently, those PNCR members who were fighting against rigged internal elections at their Congress were accused of being influenced somehow by the PPP, and as a result, they were subjected to all manner of insults, including reports that one of David Granger’s driver/bodyguard referred to an individual as a ‘dog’.
When some ignoramus burnt the multi-million dollar Linden primary school complex in a string of arson during the Opposition-instigated unrest, and they realized their mistake, they accused the PPP/C of being responsible.
The Opposition had then publicly announced that they will rebuild the school and started collecting bags of cash from the supposedly poor and downtrodden, and then nothing happened after that. It was the PPP/C Government which again had to come in and pick up the pieces and provide over a hundred million dollars to rebuild the institution.
These are just but a few instances where the Opposition constantly drills into the African psyche that it is the PPP/C which is the enemy, that it is the PPP/C which wants to oppress them, that it is the PPP/C which is responsible for some being poor or some of their children being involved in crime. The PPP/C is always to be blamed for any and every problem experienced by an Afro- Guyanese family or community.
This is the nasty propaganda which the Opposition continues to peddle and then pretend they are angels, and it is the PPP/C which is really responsible for sowing the seeds of division in our country.
So on one hand they have continuously sought to create an atmosphere of fear and distrust for Afro Guyanese to withhold working in conjunction with the PPP/C Government, and on the other, they accuse the PPP/C of sidelining this segment of our population.
They accuse the PPP/C Government of neglecting certain Afro-Guyanese communities, but they do not want these communities to work with the Government.
So if there is anyone to be blamed for the reality of some African families and communities today, it is the political leaders of the Opposition who have nurtured their traditional constituents to believe that their current problems are not of their own doing, and in the event that they want to reach out for help, none will be forthcoming from an uncaring system.
Thus, some never bother to make the effort, and their challenges remain and these opportunistic leaders and groups will then come around and say, we told you we were correct.