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Ethnic Power & Racism in Guyana

Staff Reporter by Staff Reporter
July 10, 2021
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Attorney Nigel Hughes 

Attorney Nigel Hughes 

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Race and racism in Guyana are amongst the most contention issues running the gamut of denial to frontal practice and daring the affected groups to claim otherwise. Even amongst the most intelligent there is the attempt to deny the presence of race and racism.

Race is a social construct because science has debunked any theory that we are humanly different.  But it is the same social construct that remains a major divider in the society creating ethnic tension and division in the distribution of wealth, access to opportunities and marginalisation of the other. To the extent that some deny this construct and others use same to perpetuate notion of racial superiority, racism will continue to haunt Guyana because the purveyors of this evil will not be exposed and held accountable for their covert and overt actions.

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Guyana needs to have conversations, as the United States, on race, racism, and racial injustice. Conversations like these are not pleasant but of necessity they must happen in effort to achieve racial equity, respect and dignity. These are basic rights and values to be enjoyed by all but which some are bent on denying.

Listen to Nigel Hughes’ perspective in this detailed presentation of the issues in Guyana, tracing back to the arrival of Christopher Columbus to present. As he takes the historical journey, he addresses the systems that perpetuate the inequities and oppression, relationship of the various racial groups with the other, the impact of race in the political, economic, cultural and social spaces, and the forces-internal and external- of division.

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