Absolutely, THis is a very good first step. I am glad he sees it that way and did not include his usual racist, slanted ways.

He's skeptical because he thinks this "coalition" cannot withstand the tsunami of "apaan jaat"

Nothing wrong with being skeptical. The main thing is that he is willing to give it a chance. I like his new approach. I was expecting him to rant about the PNC oldtimers who are being left out in the cold or some other issue.

his skepticism is principled and rational . . .

informed, of course, by contemplating the antics of "apaan jaat" spear carriers like u

“Apaan Jaat”

A slogan perpetuated by the late Forbes Burnham to harm the PPP.

If Burnham love yuh Backside....

yuh get wuk...

He is skeptical because he truly believes in African domination. He has said this time and time again he is extremely pro african and any culmination of defeating the racists on all sides essentially neutralizes his game.

Therefore hinds will never be happy with any kind of coming together of races in Guyana to create mutual respect in GY.

Read all of his letters in the papers and you will get a real feeling for who David Hinds is.

He is skeptical now prior he said APNU

should contest alone,hoping the AFC

gets more indian votes,and bingo

APNU wins.

That would have been an infinitely more doable strategy than asking a huge segment of the Indian population to vote PNC.

I read a few can't digest,he is too bias.

i think you guys are being unfair to David Hinds

i have yet to see anyone post (on this BB) the damning racial shyte y'all accuse him of writing

some here are simply bandwagoneering on a manufactured Afro demon trip

please put up or shut up

Either way APNU wins,now the winning question which

is better to erase the indian "Fear" APNU/AFC or APNU.

You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to my own opinion.

indeed!

DG

Burnham coined this term to whip up racial tensions.

Apaan Jaat: Then and now

The PPP has been in power since 1992. And with each passing day, the mirror reveals its hidden tales. As the years come and go, the sixties have been made simple, ironically by the PPP, for those who didn’t know about that period. But more importantly for those who were brought up to think that the sixties was a period of violence and racial hate instigated by a bad organization named the PNC against a school of good humans named the PPP. This historical caricature was virtually preserved as the precious national truth by the autobiography of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, “The West on Trial.” This preserved “truth” lasted from the middle sixties until the middle nineties. For almost three decades, “The West on Trial” was the only bible available to Guyanese on what happened in the first half of the 1960s. It was like a village that had several lawyers, doctors, teachers, accountants, engineers, business people who built it and made it into a modern economy. Then one day, one of the businessmen who were there from the beginning decided to write the history of the village. And the pages from start to end are filled with grand patriotism of the businessman and his family and no one else. Even though the canvas painted by “The West on Trial” has been seriously dented by recent books of formidable scholarship, the real facts and the essential truths about the sixties come from the type of rule we have seen from the PPP itself since 1992. It has become a revelation to the post-1970 generation in this land, of the devious and selfish role the PPP played in the cause of the conflicts of the first half of the 1960s, now that we see what it is made of in the 21st century. We were brought up to think that racial hostility was the exclusive preserve of Mr. Burnham and his party, the PNC. The story of who invented the slogan “Apaan Jaat” was that it was done to harm the PPP. The story of how crazy about power the opposition was, rested in the attitudes of the PNC. The story of who made their party more powerful than Guyana itself was that it was the Machiavellian dream of the PNC. The story of how the media could be used to incite ethnic conflagration was the example of the opposition-controlled Argosy. And there were lots more tales and sagas and dramas of the bad guy (PNC) inventing evil things to harm the good guy (PPP). More than forty years after “The West on Trial” was written, the nature of the exercise of power by the PPP has revealed to this nation who really was the culprit of the sixties. The signs are graphic and compelling. The PPP and “The West on Trial” didn’t tell us the whole truth. Was Apaan Jaat (to each his own) the work of the PPP’s enemies from 1957 until 1964? The answer is no. At every election since 1992, the bottom-house meetings of the PPP are filed with the smoke and fire of Apaan Jaat. It was the PPP that openly said that race intimidation by the opposition was present in the 2011 election. No other party accused any other of racial violence during the voting. A nasty, racist editorial in the Chronicle has been met with total silence in Freedom House. Maybe silence means approval. Is this the party that told us people used Apaan Jaat against them in the sixties? Young Guyanese were serenaded with large volumes of PNC’s use of violence against the PPP during the sixties. But from 2001 onwards, State violence included marauding drug barons facilitated by ruling politicians that were used to kill a large amount of citizens, suggesting that the PPP was no innocent victim of the sixties, but may in fact have been the instigators. Cheddi Jagan cried tears that reached every ocean in the world of how dangerous the media was in the sixties and that under Peter Taylor, the Argosy incited violence against his government and party. But the Chronicle under the same PPP in 2012 has made Peter Taylor look like a schoolboy journalist. And finally, what about power? Who was more obsessed with having power in the sixties? The same PPP that put the blame on the PNC is the party that has been in office since 1992. For this columnist, the terminologies of dictatorship and fascism are useful tools in understanding just how crazy the PPP is about power. And one would like to think it was like that in the sixties.

And also one should remember that “Apaan Jaat” is profound statement by Forbes Burnham.

For his statement solidify the approach of the PNC for ages ... “Apaan Jaat” ... always maintain your votes for the PNC.

Issue is, whether one accepts it or not, the current trend applies to both major political organizations.

While one would rightly state that Indo-Guyanese primarily vote for the PPP/C, it is also correct that Afro-Guyanese vote for the PNC.

You keep remembering dat..........dat is all you can do remember how forbes violated you.

Actually he like me thinks that defeat isn't inevitable, provided that APNU/AFC do their work.

The coalition have to provide a new vision of Guyanese politics to re-interest the 60k thousand people who either stopped voting or never bothered.

Even I all 10k Nagamootoo PPP voters return to Ramotar out of fright, of the coalition can tap into some of those potential voters they can win.

These are people who think that voting is a waste of time and that the PPP, PNC, and AFC, in their old forms are useless.

Granger and Nagamootoo need to excite Guyanese the way that Cheddi and Burnham did 62 years ago.  It isn't inevitable because after being let down for 60 years, Guyanese are way more cynical about the process than they were then.

Oh yes Burnham was fluent in Hindi and also knew how fluent his support base is.

This is a PPP slogan that was aimed corralling the Indian vote after the Burnham split.  And you know this.  When Burnham left he took some Indians with him.  The PPP wanted to ensure that Indians didn't split their votes with the UF or with the Burnhamite Indians.

banna, u so wanna have it every which way, eh?

lol

The slogan - “Apaan Jaat” - was first coined and used by Forbes Burnham.

Lying doesn't suit you.

1.  The ethnic demography in BG didn't assign a racial advantage to the majority African PNC.  The PNC would have only been able to win in an election if it split the Indian vote. In those days seats were allocated by winner take all electoral districts most being in the rural coastal areas, giving the PPP an obvious advantage. 

So what did Burnham have to gain by mounting an explicitly race based election?  Obviously it was the PPP which had the most to gain.

In fact the PR system was developed to reduce this advantage and to allow a PNC/UF alliance to command the most votes in 1964.

2.  When Burnham left he took some Indians with him.  Maybe there was fissure between the middle class urban Christian/Muslim Indians vs. the rural Hindus.

3. The PPP transformed itself from a party which sought victory from cross ethnic alliance among the working class to cross class alliances within the Indian community.  With most African working class leaving the PPP needed to consolidate the Indian vote to ensure victory, and was afraid that some would leak to the PNC, or to other my capitalistic oriented parties.

Some right wing racist Indian group developed the slogan and the PPP adopted it.

now, why would Burnham use a Bhojpuri concoction like that to exhort Black people?

Oh gentle man of ignorance.  Burnham couldn't rig elections in the late 50s or early 60s. There were more Indians than Africans, and there were also more rural coastal seats than urban seats.

So why would Burnham wage a race based political strategy which would have doomed him to defeat at a time when he couldn't manipulate the results?  He could only win if he split the Indian vote, so he couldn't wage a race based campaign.

The PPP with the large Indian vote could win, just on this alone, knowing that the Portuguese, Chinese and coloreds weren't going to support Burnham, reducing his voting base even further.

So why would the PNC and not the PPP wage a race based political war?

.

Because Burnham was God and had magical powers

I am sure that you didn't read a thing.  You saw that I wrote it so you oppose it.

You see unlike you so stuck in dogma that you cannot budge I accept what Nagamootoo did, even though I have my concerns.  Having driven his car into a ditch he needs to get it out.  I offered my opinions last night, and here comes David Hinds with many of the same solutions.

Brilliant way to win an election when all your opponent needs to do is to engage in racial panic and woo 5k more votes.

If the AFC/APNU doesn't focus on wooing every anti PPP supporter that they can find then it is simple.  They will lose as the PPP is already engaged in racial panic, vote buying, and voter suppression tactics and have 3 months to perfect it.

Your entire statement is unrelated to the issue ...

... “Apaan Jaat”  ... statement used by Forbes Burnham."

nah, i read every line

Oh gentle man of ignorance ... yet, another statement to yourself, Caribny.