Kari you live in an Indo Guyanese world and are clearly not privy to much of the conversation going on.

1.  Africans of all classes feel threatened by what they see as social, economic and political genocide.  When they complain they are demonized, much as you and Chief are attempting to do to me and redux now.  Unfortunately for you this isn't Guyana, so your attempt to demonize falls flat.

2. A younger generation of Africans are now arising.  People who do NOT know what life in the 80s was all about.  They hang to the myths of the early 70s when black people were better off than they are today and they credit Burnham for it.  They view attempts to discredit Burnham as an attempt to discredit a black hero.

3.  Most of them don't care who is in power.  They vote PNC only because they feel that this is the only entity which they think can contain INDIAN power, and dominance.

4.  Telling them that most Indians aren't any better off falls on deaf ears.  they see a land of tremendous inequality with the money in Indian hands. Rural Indian poverty is too remote and not visible  to them.

BOTTOM line is that your suggestion about black people apologizing to Indians is dangerous, unless you balance it with a similar apology of Indians to blacks.

Or better yet, just abandon this whole apology nonsense.

APNU will get votes when they convince Guyanese of all races that, not only do they have ideas, but that they will use their power in parliament to IMPLEMENT these ideas, and to go to the people if blocked by the PPP.

Now if doing this means that they aren't going to get Indians support then they aren't going to get it any way.