Dear Editor, Worrying about Guyana’s shambolic economy, the criminal spike, unchecked corruption, the fussing about non-issues, and the acts of  intolerance coupled with the coarse and polarising public debate now in vogue? With SN’s imprimatur as the  given partisan outlet to the likes of  France-based Abu Bakr, he has been afforded adequate shelter which  blocks responses to his diatribes. Yes. The APNU-AFC coalition is now empowered and it makes them happy. So what accounts for the perception that the hopes which the PNC-led coalition had offered – is fast slipping away? Why have the highest levels of the government, including President David Granger, not spoken up against the incidents of hate speech? When they have eventually done so, they have often sounded scripted and remote.  By all intentions Bakr has with impunity become the new coalition’s John the Baptist rearguard of their hardened designs. Certainly by the huge social media backlash against Guyana’s downturn is found a growing sense of reflected disquiet, that a few African supremacists are signalling their response how they will treat the possibility of the coalition’s quick demise. How is the carving out being marshalled by their Black pincer strategy.  Firstly,we know  Bakr’s  SN printed barcodes are clearly representatives of a  buildup to standoff with any incoming PPP/C government. Even the maverick KN daily columnist has conceded that the PPP/C will be returned to power in 2020. If Bakr’s boys seem extreme they hope that the alternative anti-coalition discredited Black fringe may be palatable to the PPP/C , so they think. True to script here comes, secondly, the other incoming claw led by Eusi Kwayana who is born again preparing for power-sharing la de da atop the PPP/C. Wasn’t that idea simply dead and buried by the current coalition’s birth existence?  By artificial wailing against any ducking of the Rodney Commission of Inquiry (RCOI) report they slingshot seek political power when the coalition is defeated at next year’s  2016 local elections and in 2020. Kwayana always relished the spotlight of himself as the  eternal trekking great big Black hope. Right now he is an integral part of PNC coalition things falling apart. Dr Rodney dubbed it the reverse Midas Touch. Anxious to jump the sinking ship he is grabbing onto Brer Anancy’s web and by such positing he  hopes to Tarzan swing into political power atop the incoming PPP/C elephant, fully empowered. Remember the story of the hungry monkey who lined up the alligators to count them whilst he effectively crossed the river? Bakr’s threatening oleaginous boast in SN that:  “I look forward to the manifestation of the avatar being summoned, the ‘Indian Intellectual.’ Believe me, we are equipped (sic) and confident” is no accidental boast. Guyana’s armed forces still need to be racially and ethnically balanced to guard against ethnic cleansing. Now there is this public emergence of what a blogger calls a “species of hardcore supporters” of Guyanese Afro-centricity. They are not the fawning, old-fashioned sycophants that Guyana’s leaders are used to. Their identification with extremism is unprecedented in Guyana. Some of them behave more like racist self-appointed intellectual guardians and anything goes in their holy books. Whether they seek Kwayana’s partition or Federalism no one knows. So what accounts for the emergence of the uber supporter? Many believe, it follows from fragile self-esteem. Many APNU supporters appear to be defining nationalism by the hard, irreconcilable position of instinctive race loyalty rather than the noble values that Guyana should stand for. Completely race united in 2011 they wanted 11 per cent Indian crossover votes in the 2015 elections – openly said so – and Gecom ensured by rigging they got it with AFC compliance. Prior to the 1992 election of the PPP/C, the WPA claimed it should have, after Dr Rodney’s murder, be recognised as the sole natural inheritors to his legacy. Imagine Dr Rodney’s historical subsuming of race to class becoming an all-African affair, not Guyanese institution?  Their position was debunked as a total fallacy- most shamefully at that 1992 elections. Was Forbes Burnham’s warning that the WPA was the Worst Possible Alternative (WPA) completely vindicated? Thirdly – and most disturbingly – is this tendency to tell Indians and others, that they should be grateful that Guyana was carved out of the Atlantic by Africans, and for this they are owed a debt. Were our happy Amerindians not minding their own business in their Guyana until the new arrivals? What unspoken debts are they most owed? Is there any doubts that there is a sense among the practitioners of majoritarian politics in the ruling coalition party of a fantasy world of politics where all others in Guyana, including Indians, don’t matter? Now race prejudice and entitlement is openly expressed without describing somebody as Indian or whatever. Far away from the shrill echo chamber of social media, the majority of Guyanese may prove to be calmer and more sceptical. The results of the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) may be an indicator of the country’s genuine preferences if Gecom can decapitate and keeps its intruding Statement of Polls (SOPs) within its pants. Too much to ask, isn’t it? President David Granger knows he is perceived as anti-Indian (Wikileaks confirmed) by the united rejection of half of his countrymen to his 2015 election. Why his government has not guaranteed that every Guyanese, irrespective of race, religion or creed will be safe and protected may not perhaps be of major concern to him in the long run. That crime spiked immediately after he took over is most suspicious. Was it a plan with a definite objective which is also in shambles now that African youths are drifting to the PPP/C? Every week the PNC-led coalition keeps backpedalling from what they loudly told Guyanese that the PPP/C did wrong. Now in office we hear Guyana is not actually bankrupt to give them a 50 per cent pay raise, Amaila Hydro project is good for Guyana and the Speciality Hospital makes good sense. In that case GuySuCo will not die yesterday. Promptly pay Guyana’s hard-working sugar workers their deserved Annual Production Incentive (API). They do not seek anything close to the 50 per cent which their bosses have pocketed. Let’s get it on. Fair is fair.

Sultan Mohamed