Originally Posted by Kari:
Caribny, you're wasting your time engaging in useless thread about beating one's chest and shout "I'm Indian" or "I'm African". What relevance does this have with Monday's results?
Oh so you really believe that on May 11th Guyanese will suddenly move away from racial voting? And that the ethnic angst will suddenly be irrelevant.
I think not. In fact should the APNU AFC coalition win it will become a subliminal conversation WITHIN the gov't as people see who gets appointed to what, and whether there will be a new mono racial governing elite, or a more multi ethnic one.
That will be a potential trap which both Granger and Moses will have to be quite nimble to avoid. This will be how does one give Africans/Afro identified mixed the sense that their exclusion, foisted by the PPP is over, without creating anxiety among Indians, including those who supported the coalition.
And this is WITHIN a coalition.
So what of people who are discomforted by the very notion of the coalition and its premise?
If ethnicity didnt matter then the AFC would NOT get 12 seats or 40% of cabinet. They got that deal because ethnicity in Guyana does matter. The PNC cannot get Indian support, and most likely will lose if they don't have a way of taking some away from the PPP.
Reality is that this election offers to ways of dealing with our inter ethnic problems. The OLD way, as represented by the PPP, or the NEW way as APNU AFC are attempting to do.