I am fine with being labeled East Indian. Don't mind Indo-Guyanese or Indo-Caribbean. I am definitely not Indian. So what's exactly is the problem here?
Don't encourage this madman. "Indian" is used narrowly here as a race and among Guyanese people as shorthand to describe ethnically what is specifically a subgroup of Guyana and the Anglophone Caribbean.
Moses made a mistake. He should have said he is East Indian or Indo Guyanese. These guys allow the PPP and its proxy groups to shift the focus. Seems like the communist/atheist President Ramotar gets it...the man even doing pooja during this Navratri. The former board member of World Marxist Review do doing lil pooja.
I am inclined to agree with you. He made a stupid mistake. That's all. Politicians even cannot be expected to always get every sentence right.
"I am not Indian. I am Guyanese" is a stupid thing for a Guyanese Indian politician to say. Why couldn't he just say "I am Guyanese" if he wished to affirm his loyalty to the Guyanese State. (Why he felt that was in question is another matter) He had to deny being "Indian" (a term every Guyanese Indian understands what it encompasses and what it doesn't). I'm even sure his non-Guyanese hosts in India did not think he was an "Indian" as they understood the citizens of India to be.
Who de rass was Moses talking to that day in India?