We've seen a hardening of Caribny's position - an unrelenting obstinacy about who the PPP party is rather than what the PNC was.
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The PNC does have a sordid record and yes you can suggest/demand an apology for that. Its rigging of elections was based on the African insecurity dilemma which was based on being out numbered by a group who they saw as ethnocentric and clannish. With 22 years of PPP rule their fears turned out to be quite valid.
Many blacks will claim that the rigging was an ends to a means, and that was defending themselves from PPP racism and Janet vindictiveness which was quite manifest when the PPP ruled, especially after 1961.
They will ask if the apology is for corruption, incompetence, and the use of unlawful ways of keeping power than why shouldn't the equally guilty PPP not also apologize?
To make such a demand only of the PNC (supported by over 90% of the blacks) is to them another manifestation of "black man bad, Indian good, so black man has to apologize". And for the past 22 years they have been humiliated because of what people claim that the PNC did.
So they will laugh at you while you claim that there isn't any racial bent to this, because they endure this, not only from the PPP, but from just about every Indo dominated entity in Guyana.
I need only quote to you what people from islands like Jamaica, St Vincent, Grenada and Barbados have said. They have seen AfroGuyanese transform from a proud people who they had a high degree of respect for to a people who are treated like the skunks of Guyana.
Afro Guyanese feel that they are in a no win position. A defeated people. Read David Hinds for his specific descriptions of the symptoms of this malady.
So when you do your political arithmetic based on one part of the population, and you do not factor in how the other major part will react, you are committing a HUGE error.
I am very certain that is not what he means since I have argued with him on paths to solutions many times.
Further, people who are oppressive can seek solutions on their own terms and if it means uprooting a crooked government then that is their "legitimate" right as humans.No one can take ones right to be free of abuse. Look around you; that has happened, is happening and will continue to happen because it is what happens when human being feel ignored. Further, legitimacy of the PPP to govern as a minority government rests on a dictators constitution. Their haughty demands for autocratic rule in this present circumstance is also salt in the wound. And one is not even referencing their shooting of protestors. In any modern society that would mean a reason to recall them.
They will again form the next government because the odds of them losing 15 percent more of the vote is unrealistic given our politics of race. They can retain the government even if they are 34%. However, if thy even pretend to act like they currently do with no respect for the opposition then there is "legitimacy" to boot their asses out of office by any means. It would be the moral thing to do.
One cannot stand by and pretend to be a renter in ones own house. Guyana is communal property and the right to stamp out abuse is the highest form of legitimacy one can possess. The constitution is an agreement to live by rules but it is already a set of rules we did not agree to. They did not agree with it and labeled it illegitimate.
The PPP cannot hide behind that fake document in the next cycle and demand autocratic rights if they are below 40% of the electorate They do not have the authority of the people even now since most of the people did not agree with them!
I don't know caribny outside of what he writes here and so have to assess him based on that and his above writing suggest that his solution is that if blacks can't get things the proper way then they should resort to crooked ones. One would have to sugarcoat his statements to suggest otherwise.
I respect you so wouldn't argue with your comments above but I don't accept rogue approaches to dealing with any conflict because eventually those fighting for what is 'right' resort to doing what is wrong.
He never said blacks should resort to "crooked" ways. He always maintain that oppressed people will express their sense of injustice as humans do.
No one accepts rogue approaches but a minority government demanding autocratic rights and running financial schemes that are opaque as steel is itself a rogue government. One has a human right to fight against rogue authorities by any means necessary. That is the fundamental nature of legitimacy.
Stormy, Seriously, you know to read and understand????!!!