| Guyanese outraged at Granger’s insensitive, racist facebook comment |  |  |  |
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| Monday, 07 January 2013 22:22 |
SCORES of Guyanese have expressed concern over what they say is a highly offensive and racially charged comment made by Opposition Leader David Granger on social media.The comment has attracted criticisms from not only Guyanese of East Indian decent, but of African lineage that are strongly rejecting any appeal to politics or pandering to race by politicians to score cheap political points. Granger stated via the social media networking site Facebook, in essence, that Indo-Guyanese were allegedly everyday literally responsible for killing, raping, maligning and murdering their fellow East Indian brothers and sisters. He also argued that those in power were failing to protect their own. “Readers of Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, Demerara Waves, Capitol News, and even Guyana Times will rapidly form one stark conclusion: it is not APNU or PNC political propaganda that every day a tragically and rapidly ballooning mass of Guyanese of Indian descent are being murdered, raped, mutilated, kidnapped, hijacked, pirated, trafficked, and extorted by other Guyanese of Indian descent – typically those sheltered by the very people in political power saying that ‘apaan jhat’ will protect”. Immediately after the comment was posted, scores of Guyanese took to their own Facebook pages expressing their dissatisfaction with the insensitive statements and the underlying rhetoric therein. Trinity Watson in her post stated that “it’s such a shame that the leader of the opposition would reduce to such a statement...what is he trying to incite here.....” “What is he trying to do? Start another race war?”, Rahm Ramdhani quizzed while “Fenton Goorahoo stated “can you imagine the price one would have to pay from a political and so call[sic] leader viewpoint, with a statement of this nature in any other multicultured and democratic country....his head would be chewed off and asked to resign....” Others have also expressed their concerns over the distasteful political blunder made by Granger, who said that APNU was not a party formed to talk race or interested in race politics but merely focused on establishing a government of national unity. “If Mr Granger sincerely cares about the welfare of Indians in Guyana then he must apologise for the atrocities committed on Indians by the PNC regime of which he[is] part and also the deliberate targeting of Indians during the opposition street protests. Also the murder, rape and robbing of many thousands of Indian businessmen and women by opposition-inspired Afro-Guyanese criminals...Otherwise it's just empty words!!!!”, another Facebook user commented. The statement made by Granger is merely an excerpt from another politically insensitive piece penned and posted on his social media page. Already some politicians say that they are ready to ask the Opposition Leader to explain what is meant by the loaded and allegedly racist statement. ** USE File PHOTO of David Granger |
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