Why is it so important to Afro-Guyanese how Indo-Guynaese think of them?
FunnY. Indians spend a whole lot more time constructing a narrative about ethnic relations than do Africans. The only time Africans worry about Indians, is when the PPP is in power. Given that the PPP is an Indo KKK party, then they have obvious reason to. Aside from that Africans embrace those who consider themselves to be GUYANESE, and ignore those others huddled in their own little tribe corner.
The vast majority of Guyanese of mixed ancestry are PART black. These mixed Guyanese are more likely to be accepted by their African relatives than by the others. So on what basis can any one scream that Africans are the most racist people in Guyana.
There is a white colonial narrative which placed Africans at the bottom, with only the "savage and heathen" Amerindian being placed below, as they were seen as a subhuman species.
The Portuguese, Chinese, and the East Indians adapted the white view of the African, and similarly began to feel superior. Obviously Africans reacted to this new racism, in addition to the centuries old variety that they had suffered from as slaves.
What is interesting in Guyana is it is OK for non Africans to pour scorn on Africans, using the same stereotypes which they learned from the white man. When Africans react to thise we are called racist.
Note how Indians react to me and to Itaname, even though all we discuss about Indians is their attitude towards Africans. NEITHER of us employ stereotypes commonly used to describe Indians.
Now seignet is now ascribing moral superiority to Indians, funny after we have seen 23 years of some of the most corrupt governance in the English speaking Caribbean.
But he and the rest of the Indo KKK will be tacitly supported by the vast MAJORITY of Indians here, yet they will find the time to call me a racist.
These same Indians who were SILENT when the PPP was openly racist, are now screaming that APNU is engaged in a pattern of ethnic revenge. What evidence? That most of the people who have been fired are Indians. They do not even stop to think that the vast majority of the agency heads (under the racist PPP) were Indians, so who else is there to fire!