NO period since Independence has seen the open, shameless class solidarity of the Mulatto/Creole class (MCC) than the years after the August election victory of the PPP/C in 2020. The period August 2020 to the present has witnessed the relentless outpouring of vitriol against the government by members of the MCC out of complete solidarity with their race and class grouping.

Perhaps the ugliest forms of this class defence come from two quintessential members of the MCC – Nigel Westmaas who lives in New York the past 25 years and Percy Hintzen who migrated to California over 50 years ago. Westmaas fictionalised the talent of national poet, Martin Carter (an MCC personality), by arguing that Carter was the most profound thinker Guyana produced.
Hintzen was equally comical and offensive by praising Red Thread in the following way. “Red Thread might become the deus ex machina that ends the tragedy of Guyana. They may be able to stimulate the requisite popular support for transition to participatory democracy.” A man who writes such nonsense accused me of not doing adequate research.

In my 14-part series of articles in the Guyana Chronicle on the MCC, Hintzen observed that it is “a series of ill-informed, poorly argued, badly researched and frequently factually inaccurate articles in the state newspaper”.
Did he do competent research when he noted that Red Thread may generate popular support for Guyana to transform itself into a participatory democracy?
Two points before we put some questions to Hintzen about the MCC. First, Hintzen must be the only West Indian academic that sees no role for trade unions in the creation of democracy, a role they have historically performed. Secondly, why Red Thread and not the historical sugar union, GAWU? In a million years, Red Thread would not have accession to the masses that GAWU had and has.
The answer is that Hintzen, like Westmaas is writing in solidarity of the class they come from – the MCC. A quintessential MCC group like Red Thread would be a natural pick for Hintzen. GAWU is a sugar union that caters for the peasantry and rural proletariat. Such a class in Hintzen’s analysis would hardly merit recognition.

Hintzen disparages my work on the MCC. He is not the only one. Mike McCormack, of European extraction and an enduring member of the MCC dismisses my class analysis of the founders of the Stabroek News – David DeCaires and Fitzpatrick. For doing class analysis on these two men, McCormack accused me of slandering the two men. What a graphic manifestation of class solidarity!
Here are the questions for Hintzen. They are based on the conclusion derived from my research that argues that the MCC which came to power in the form of the Granger led PNC, the elite middle class party, the AFC and the WPA, believes that the MCC should have entitlement to power as a historical right.

That power has eluded the MCC since Burnham betrayed them. With the reclamation of power in 2015, the MCC believed that Indian rule had finally ended. It became a nightmare that was unbearable when the PPP/C won the 2020 election. What we have had since then is an inexorable assault on the PPP/C by an entire class based on colour and class standing with the Stabroek News being the main vehicle.
My analysis and research do not put the Kaieteur News as part of the MCC even though its vulgar and immoral attacks on the government exceed the vitriol found in the Stabroek News editorial. What is striking about politics after August 2020 is the open class solidarity shown by individual MCC personalities and groups. And it is done shamelessly.

MCC personalities have thrown caution to the wind and are openly barefaced in their embrace of colour and class and anti-Indian instincts. A good example of that is Hintzen himself whose scholarship has become propagandistic.
Here are the questions for Hintzen to answer. When he does, if his scholarship is presentable, I will apologise and stop writing.
1-Why there is to date, no written or spoken condemnation of the five months of election rigging in 2020 by Red Thread?
2-Why Alissa Trotz in those five months and to date has not assigned even one article in her Stabroek News column, “In The diaspora” to the election disaster of 2020?
3-Why Moray House administered by MCC personality and Stabroek News co-owner, Isabelle DeCaires has, to date, not included in its monthly symposia, the topic of the March election disaster?
4-Why the Guyana Human Rights Association stayed silent throughout the five-month horror show?
5- Why the Stabroek News, during the five months of rigging, did not direct its columnists that they cannot justify the illegalities because the paper had a policy of denouncing the rigging?

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