IF you do not like the government, you will find something to denounce the government for. What has happened in Guyana since the PPP won the March 2020 general election is the final realisation by those with class and race thinking that the possibility of having a Mulatto/Creole based government as was the dream in the 1940s, is very dim.

What is happening in Guyana with the Ali presidency is the realisation of the PNC (the AFC and third parties will not survive the 2025 poll) that the dynamics and dialectics of society are reshaping the sociology of Guyana that makes it a completely different horizon from the Guyana we knew from Independence onwards.

The PNC fears that the decline of race politics has jeapordised its electoral future. My own academic position on future electoral competition is that the PPP will increase its seats in 2025 and beyond. As a consequence of this future configuration, the PNC’s politics has now deliberately become one-dimensional – concentration of cries of ethnic discrimination.

What we have in Guyana then is that both, the official opposition party, the PNC and the anti-Indian race-based Mulatto/Creole class will use racially based narratives as their agenda because they see that methodology as the only game-changer for them. I offer you one of the most graphic examples of racially driven discourses in Guyana.

If you cannot accept this as an attempt to preserve race-based instigation in Guyana, then you are either naïve or dishonest. A group of 42 members of the Mulatto/Creole class published a letter in the Stabroek News of November 13, 2022 asking the government to stop oil production because the resulting emissions kill African people.

They chose not to name another ethnicity but only that of the African race. Why would any environmental group tell us that greenhouse gas kills African people? Basic commonsense should tell you it is harmful to people in general.

Unfortunately, the General Secretary, attorney, Timothy Jonas, of the small opposition party, ANUG, has not come to grips with the changing dynamics in Guyana so he still clings to the traditional theory of two hegemonic ethno-centric parties – the PNC and PPP. Dialectical changes and economic assets have undermined that theory and research-based facts can testify to that.

Jonas argued in a letter in the Stabroek last Wednesday that the pubic must confront the danger that inheres (my word) in the competition of the two ethno-centric parties – PPP and PNC.

There are two colossal errors in that opinion. The rest of this column is devoted to such an argument but space constraints may necessitate another article.

A caveat is in order. I write this analysis here in my capacity as a trained, unattached academic. I do not have any relation with the PPP and the Government of Guyana even in a thin way. I hold not even a tiny, employed position with the government or the wider state sector. I am not a paid columnist for the Guyana Chronicle.

The nature of the Ali presidency and the oil-producing economy have opened up possibilities of the Guyana Government diluting the existence of racial suspicion of governmental intentions on the part of non-Indian communities.

I believe that Dr. Ali has embarked on a legacy-creating journey that will allow him to make huge dents in the sociology of ethnic ramparts.

Guyana is seeing it daily with his presidency. I believe Dr. Ali is a unique man that may climb above Jagan and Burnham as the iconic statesmen of Guyana as we know them to be. It is dishonest to deny that both PPP and PNC emerged as race-based parties. But that was over 70 years ago. Is Timothy Jonas telling us that given our rich economy, the PPP does not have space to manoeuvre to bring about ethnic reconciliation? No society cannot remain so stagnant.

Secondly, ethno-centric biology is not a monopoly of the PPP and PNC. I would argue that in today’s Guyana there are more dangerous ethno-centric mentalities that can be found elsewhere. One is the WPA. The PPP and PNC have far more pleasant multi-racial personalities than people associated with the WPA both home and abroad.

Another is the world of civil society in Guyana. There are certain civil society groups in this country, particularly three women rights organisations whose agenda are race-based. Closer to the life of Mr. Jonas are people with ethnocentric thinking. He is the legal representative of the Stabroek News and a member of its board of directors. The Stabroek News churns out dangerous race-based adumbrations almost on a daily basis that makes the anti-Jagan, anti-Indian newspaper, the Daily Argosy of the 1960s look like child’s play.