by Shane Headley
Black people in Guyana continue to face unprecedented challenges, enduring discrimination and unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the PPP government. The lack of understanding among the Black community that no amount of appeasement will lead to true equality and justice is concerning. The core leadership team of the PPP is destructive and hateful, and their goal is to subjugate the citizens of Guyana to a ruling elite. The PPP has embraced the western model of wealth transfer to a select few, ensuring generational wealth for decades to come, while the masses are left to accept their fate.
Historically, the Portuguese and white colonials have dominated the gold, diamonds, bauxite, sugar, and rice industries in Guyana. While some of these assets have been transferred to a few East Indian families, today, approximately ten families dominate the ownership of Guyana’s resources. Many of the nouveau riche or wannabe nouveau riche are politicians and their friends, eyeing the oil and gas industries. Those who try to thwart their plans face the wrath of PPP gangsters.
Fundamentally, the Black, poor East Indian, and Indigenous communities are not part of the PPP’s wealth transfer plan. In fact, the PPP has decided to take over African ancestral lands for their roadside development projects, transferring the lands to their cronies and families. The Mocha atrocities are just the beginning, with the PPP planning to take control of lands already leased to many Black people in the Mocha community.
African people in Guyana must realize that their very existence is under threat. Appeasement, and bending, and stooping will not work; the PPP fears the strength and resilience of the Black community. The PPP envisions a future where Black people are relegated only to low-wage jobs like security, taxi driving, army and police service, hotel service, call centers, teaching, and healthcare. These are jobs most of their supporters have no interest or ability to perform.
Black people must resist the sin of cowardice and resist PPP’s plan for ethnic domination in every possible way. Education, saving money, entrepreneurship, circulating funds in their communities, and supporting the struggle for freedom from PPP oppression is critical. If a new day is to come for African people in Guyana, they must be the ones to bring it.
