Dear Editor,
About two weeks ago I read a letter from Sir Lincoln Lewis titled, “I am in pursuit of racial justice.” The letter was in response to narrative by Vishnu Bisram who set out to argue that America’s new Vice President, Kamala Harris was influenced more by her Indian mother than her Black father. Mr. Editor, I have given myself a good two weeks to recuperate and quarantine after exposure to Vishnu’s diatribe. That is my standard practice whenever I have to engage trisomies who endeavour to make stupefying ignorance the nucleus of Guyana’s vernacular. By the way, I made no attempt at reading Vishnu’s piece since it is likely in one of Guyana’s toxic waste disposal services that masquerade as Newspapers.
First let me set the record as straight Indian hair. Mrs. Kamala Harris has a Black father and Indian mother. Further, it is important to differentiate between race and ethnicity. Race is based on one’s biological makeup. Ethnicity is a socio-cultural construct. In effect, one’s ethnicity has to do with what one identifies as. For it is a fact that Kamala identifies as Black. She went to a Black University. She is into Black culture. She loves rap. She loves reggae. She dresses Black in Timberland boots. She fought for Black issues as Attorney General and Senator. If my memory serves me right, she has never protested in India in support of their rights to have Kashmir. Even further, the Indians in America were supporting Trump because of his racist policies and his Anti-BLM, Anti-Black position. Going much deeper, Mrs. Kamla Harris is where she is off the support of Blacks. More than 80% battled Covid to vote for her. Joe Biden recognise this and said as much “You had my back and now I have yours.” As a result, I am surprised that Vishnu would have allowed his judgement to be blurred by cassava rum. Or is it just plain racial superiority being championed by Vishnu. For this I need a precedent to establish pattern of thinking by Vishnu.
It was last year when I was on social media when Stanley Ming shared a video involving Vishnu Bisram and an Indo-Trinidadian gentleman who were being interviewed by an Indian hostess. For this, Vishnu had the first go at littering the interview room with literary and historical garbage. With racist saliva escaping the corners of his lips he asserted that Indians built both Guyana and Trinidad. Yes you have read right. Black slavery is a myth. A lie. Misinformation. Disinformation. For the Revisionist Historian, who boast that he has four PhDs, argued that it was the Indians who did the hard work. Clearly the Black slaves spent 400yrs imbibing Hennessy while having handcuffs and ankle shackles wild orgies. Ignore those keloid scars on their backs, those were down to good old fashion love spanking. Then after 400yrs of partying, Vishnu’s Indians arrived to rescue Guyana and Trinidad from a state of intoxicating frolic.
Mr. Editor you must have seen this, since I did. The whole of Guyana must likely did. Indian woman falls in love with Black man and produces a Dougla baby. Indian Lady family, that looks and thinks like Vishnu, disowns both Indian daughter and Dougla baby. Why? She has baby for Black man. So why Vishnu and many Indians now showing Dougla Kamala Harris mad love. Indeed she is Dougla which is forgivable since she is the second most powerful person in the world. She can champion their narrative of Indian Racial Supremacy. To reinforce this, Vishnu and his likes would would try to erase the Black father from their racist eyes. Sir Lincoln called it emasculating but I call it erasure. Psychologically, Dr.Harris Blackness is too painful for them to swallow but the daughter who epitomises his Blackness can have a pass once they can Indianise her. That’s at play here. Good old fashion racism.
Undoubtedly, I have little patience with folks like Vishnu. The moment they raise their racist head, I rush to burry them with the entire library of history books and a trolley full of Oxford dictionaries. And the four Phd Vishnu boasts of is likely the acronym for Purchasing Higher Degrees.
Regards
Dr Mark Devonish
