WHEN I saw that image in the Azruddin Mohamed election campaign of children hungry with empty bowls in their hands except one White, blonde-haired boy, it immediately came to mind as to who did that montage. Since my guess is on target, I don’t believe it is Mohamed’s campaign lady, Odessa Primus.
That montage was drafted in Mohamed’s campaign team by someone related to him. That person has a Eurocentric mind. It came as no surprise to me when I saw it. But Primus couldn’t reject it, knowing that she has no say in Mohamed’s campaign strategy.

Poor Mohamed, he had to see it and indeed saw it but couldn’t deconstruct the meaning of it. But even though he didn’t understand the Freudian underpinning of the two images, I don’t think he was mentally uncomfortable with it. That image tells the story of so many people in this country whom the Guyanese people should never listen to much less vote for.
On the Freddie Kissoon Show, I exclaimed any human in Guyana that would leave Irfaan Ali and vote for Azruddin Mohamed should be forcefully committed to the lunatic asylum. Die-hard anti-Indian racists ran wildly on Facebook highlighting what I said. Insane criticism of me I have never for an ephemeral moment given any consideration of.

I have been in human rights and political activism for 57 years and, in those almost six decades, have remained unmoved by criticism against what or who I am. I assert with extreme energy that one has to be a congenital fool to leave Irfaan Ali and vote for Azruddin Mohamed. No Guyanese should so disrespect their ancestors by being so ignorant and mentally limited.
The image of the children should be a lesson for those who think there is something positive about Azruddin Mohamed and those around him, including Kian Jabour. Mr. Jabour has not resigned from ANUG and since he has not, then I am assuming that he is part of Azruddin’s outrageous outfit.

The Guyanese people have given Jabour a free pass, something inconceivable in the era in which I spent my formative political years. Mr. Jabour mouthed off two horrible perspectives on the Freddie Kissoon Show that a proud, anti-colonial country like Guyana should not have allowed to pass without a condemnation.

First, he said that the reason there are no crimes in the Western world is because they have systems in place to make people accountable. Secondly, when asked why he singled out the West and not India he cynically and flippantly dismissed India saying people are raped in India and everybody knows that.

Can one imagine a local politician praising the West at a time when the West is siding with the worst country in the world—Israel? And why is Israel the worst country in the world? Because its army and its government (and its people, who are giving support) are committing perhaps the worst crime humanity has seen since history began.
It is the systematic genocidal killing of women and children of another race. No war in the history of the world has killed more children, aid workers, nurses and doctors, and journalists than Israel’s war on the Palestinians in Gaza. And a prominent politician in Guyana tells the nation that the West is a place where they have accountability systems in place. If you could give succor to people who are committing genocide, then tell me if you have any moral compass about you.

Lenox Shuman, in a Facebook post three days ago, said we in Guyana should not look to the West as a moral example. He was referring to the West support for what is taking place in Gaza. After Independence, we should never have looked to them because they are racist and imperialist. Our own Guyanese international economist, Maurice Odle, in his recent autobiography, described for this nation that the West has formally given us Independence but they still control our economic destiny in what he calls the New Imperialism.
After that horrible, colonially-soaked mind of Jabour comes the image of the hungry little children, except for the white, blond boy. This is the party Guyanese are going to vote for? Azruddin knows full well the person who put the little White boy as the only one not holding an empty place. That person and Azruddin share the same ideological space on the races of the world.
The image of non-White hungry boys and one little happy White boy from the Azruddin campaign team should open our eyes as the national election draws closer. I repeat, unapologetically, you have to be insane to watch the giant of a man named Irfaan Ali and vote for someone like Azruddin Mohamed. Please maan! Yuh could do betta! Yuh have to!
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