Lately, I have read comments here that contain the word douglarization.
One viewpoint holds that a APNU-AFC victory on May 11 will lead to douglarization, something that Indo-Guyanese must be wary of.
I wish to state that the PNC did not invent douglarization.
That phenomenon began way back to the mid-1800s with the arrival of boatloads of male East Indians in a predominantly black colony named British Guiana.
East Indian men started douglarization by cohabiting with black women and producing the first crop of douglas. At that time there was a shortage of East Indian women in the sugar plantations. Dem bhai couldn't jack themselves all de time.
Even after sufficient female Indian immigrants arrived and produced girl children, douglarization continued.
Afro-Guyanese men decided to get into the act on the principle: coolie man screw black woman, black man gon screw coolie woman too. Exchange no robbery. Consensual affairs.
In the 1950s, as a little boy I observed a few inter-racial marriages in Uitvlugt. A female black teacher with a male Indo tailor was one example. Then, in the heat of the 80-day strike in 1963, the Sunday Graphic frontpage carried a photo of a bridegroom named Khan of Vergenoegen with his bride named Miss Sam of Uitvlugt Junior Staff Compound. They got married during a PPP government and at the said moment of ethnic violence in BG.
The point I wish to make is that politics or no politics, Indos and Afros will continue to cohabit and produce dougla offspring. No one, no politician, no political party can reverse this process.
Douglarization marches on while all around the racists are barking.