Dear Editor

M. MAXWELL is not a real person. He is not in the GECOM database. M. Maxell continues the odious deception of using a fictitious African name to speak on issues affecting Africans when he is indeed of another ethnic origin.This prominent lawyer/professional is well known to us. His most recent intervention was his argument that the APNU is abusing the Cummingsburg Accord. Having been a close friend of Cheddi Jagan and a Burnham hater, he has transformed himself into the cowardly personality of M. Maxwell, who hides behind a curtain of deception to address his historical problems with Burnham, which have metastasized into a general hate for Africans in Guyana, including those in the current government.

If newspaper editors continue to print his letters, fully knowing no such person exists, I would recommend they read the proposed Cybercrime law. In any case, I will respond to him the next time using his real name. Failing all, I will ask Christopher Ram to use his forensic auditing skills to find out the true identity of this intellectual coward and Peeping Tommy.

Now to the matters the invisible M. Maxwell has raised. His first issue is similar to that raised by Paul Chekana in his article in the Guyana Times entitled “Eric Phillips has offended the Guyanese Indigenous People”. In that article, Paul Chekana claims “The Wai Wais, like all indigenous peoples, have been nomadic peoples before settling in the land which is now known as Guyana. As such, the entire South America belongs to us, and the national boundaries which created Guyana have not stopped us, even now, from engaging in cross-border activities with our brothers and sisters in Brazil”.

M. Maxwell seems to take the same position that the Indigenous People came first and own all of Guyana (and South America).

Most of the upset seems to be because I exposed the inconvenient truth that 3 tribes in Guyana, who have already received some of the 13.8% of Guyana by Law, came here 100 to 200 years after Africans. No one, including Maxwell, has disputed this historical fact.

Maxwell speaks about Amerindians being the first, followed by Europeans then Africans third. But for a man of many degrees, M. Maxwell seems to be uneducated. Were Maxwell to read Guyanese born Ivan van Sertima’s book “They came before Columbus”, Maxwell should feel ashamed of himself. Secondy, were Maxwell to read the epic story “The Journey of Man” by American Scientist Spencer Wells — who proves by genetic analysis that Africans were the first people on Earth; and in India, and in China, and in Australia, and in the Americas, including Brazil and the USA — Maxwell could be better educated about the facts of life.

Finally, if both Paul Chekana and M. Maxwell were to google the name LUZIA, they may, to their own horror, find that LUZIA was the name given to the African skeleton found in Brazil in 1995. That skeleton proved that Africans were here before Amerindians. This is perhaps another inconvenient truth for Maxwell.

With the logic of both Maxwell and Chekana, Africans should own the entire world. But Maxwell knows all these facts, the educated man he claims to be. His ethnic interests and his innate desire to deny Africans their rights and contributions have created subliminal and personal clashes with moral, ethical and legal truths.

Next, Maxwell shows his disdain for Africans in Guyana by asking pseudo-intellectual Darwinian question such as: ‘what would Africans do with the land? What about mixed people? What about those in the diaspora? Etc, etc.

Strangely, M. Maxwell has never asked this of Amerindians, who already have 13.8% percent of Guyana; and to the Waispaichan, who already have part of that 13.8 per cent but want another 10 per cent
Regards,
ERIC PHILLIPS