Inside the mind of the Guyanese Indian supremacist
There isn’t any Guyanese observer of politics who could honestly say they weren’t surprised at the sudden shamelessly barefaced support given by certain Indian Guyanese to the PPP campaign. It was such a change in attitude that it obviously stunned the average person who takes an interest in Guyanese politics.
Every Guyanese knows the following – Rickey Singh is a sycophantic supporter of Indian rule; Ravi Dev is a devout preacher of Indian domination of Guyana; David Dabydeen’s PPP embrace is race-determined.
Peter Ramsaroop went back to his Indian self. But out of nowhere came Indian faces that were long invisible and their outstretched hands were holding the PPP flag as high as where the stallion meets the sun (as Barry Manilow sung in his famous song).
So-called novelist, Ryhaan Shah sprang up out of the blue demanding that Guyanese be told of the bad past of the PNC Government. So-called swami, Mr. Aksharananda, whom we all thought had gone to live in permanent meditation in India, told us that voting for the PPP is an act of Indian pride; Baytoram Ramharack, who disappeared almost a decade ago, now informs us that once you are Indian then the PPP is the party for you; an Indian letter-writer, Rakesh Rampertab who just like Ramharack had long gone into hibernation, now serenades us with the qualities of the so-called swami.
These “rediscoverees” have been joined by the “transformees”. Other acts in the transformation business include former PPP enemy Asgar Ally, sacked KN journalist Leon Suseran, and sacked Stabroek News columnist, Shaun Samaroo. Bulkan still cannot believe that these “transformees” who just two months ago were condemning the horrific misrule of the PPP, see the PPP as the party that must win the election.
What do the “rediscoverees” and “transformees” have in common? They are Indian supremacists. An Indian government in Guyana must be preserved even though it has descended to the bottomless pit of immorality, criminality, murders, drug trafficking, money-laundering, extra-judicial bestialities, pathological kleptocracy, sickening incestuousness; family domination of state institutions, habitual domestic abuse, conspiratorial attempts to physically harm the media, and semi-civilized conduct that makes Philistine behaviour look like child’s play.
For these Indian supremacists, any depraved Indian government would be better than a government in Guyana headed by African people.
For these Indian supremacists, Indian people must vote for the PPP because it is an Indian party. Its decadence and repulsive rule are inconsequential because Guyana is a permanent struggle between Indian blood and African ethnicity – there isn’t anything in between; Indian people must accept that in periodic elections, they do not have a choice.
Guyanese Indian supremacy is a very dangerous game, because it is a permanent recipe for racial instability. It reminds African Guyanese that their efforts at making Guyana a democratic country during the Burnham era were a silly act.
This is where the supremacist mind is very evil. It disrespects the bravery of African Guyanese who fought an African-dominated regime in the seventies and eighties.
In other words, the Indian supremacist says everyday to African Guyanese who weakened the Burnham Government; “You were stupid to go against your own race, people don’t go against their own ethnic government, we will not go against the Indian PPP Government.”
This is enormous disrespect for the African Guyanese who fought for democracy and free and fair elections. The list includes some great Guyanese – Clive Thomas, Walter Rodney, Eusi Kwayana, Dr. Omawale, Dr. David Hinds, Tacuma Ogunseye, Professor Rudy James, Professor Harold Lutchman, Andaiye, Llewellyn John, Lincoln Lewis, Kwame Apata, Bonita Bone, Bert Wilkinson, Ohene Koama, Gordon Todd, George Daniels, Brenda Do Harris.
I have to stop here because the list is exhaustive. These names just came to mind. To these great Guyanese, the Indian supremacist says – “you were all fools to do what you did.”
The Indian supremacists cannot recognize this superlative era in Guyanese history because if they do, it exposes the evil in their mind. This fantastic period in the evolution of post-colonial Guyana reveals that the African Guyanese was more concerned with safeguarding the freedoms and liberties gained in the anti-colonial struggle than the ethnic group that controlled the post-colonial state.
The Indian supremacist mind shuts out the memory of Desmond Hoyte. Desmond Hoyte is the nemesis of Guyanese Indian racist supremacy. If there is anything the mind of the Indian supremacist cannot accept or even recognize is the era of the reign of Guyana’s most excellent President, Desmond Hoyte.
