Ray posted:“Well I got news for you: The only friends I got is PNC, so the only people I could give work to is PNC. And, right now, I looking for a doctor who can talk Spanish or Portuguese and ah want one that is PNC,” she is heard saying.
NO ONE is defending those comments. They are egregious, stupid and ignorant. Speaking of handing out jobs to friends is not anyone in a ministerial position should be doing, and after examination she should be relieved of her position.
However, her comments about wanting to recruit people that look like Bharat and pointing out that the PPP won LGE because they ran "people that look like we" are NOT racist. Neither are her remarks about party members going out into the community! She is actually advocating (in a dumb, braddar kinda way) that the PNC recruit and welcome Indians into the PNC.
What y'all miss is that there are TWO issues here. Villify her for wanting to hire only party people, but do realize she is not being racist by advocating for Indians in the PNC.
But is typical Guyanese stylee to lump everything together. There are TWO issues here that need to be reviewed separately.