Monday, July 14, 2025
Village Voice News
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Village Voice News
No Result
View All Result
Home Op-ed

Anti-Blackness is now operating on steroids in my Dear Land of Guyana

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
September 12, 2023
in Op-ed
Chairman of the Guyana Reparations Committee, Eric Phillips

Chairman of the Guyana Reparations Committee, Eric Phillips

0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

READ ALSO

The Blind Eye of Business, Guyana’s Chambers Ignore PPP Corruption Crushing the Private Sector

The Folly of Fragmented Afro-Guyanese Leadership, in Guyana’s ‘Oil Rush’ Economy?

by Eric Phillips

As I read the multiple egregious comparisons of indentureship equalling slavery, there seems to be a conflux of PhDs and academic felons who are therefore boldly indicating to the Black and Jewish Communities that Indentureship and the Black African and Jewish Holocausts are the same. Globally, the latter would be termed Anti-Semitism with corresponding international repudiation and other consequences.

Pathological liars, racial entrepreneurs, and immoral PhDs are now peddling this grotesque insult to Africa, our Black African ancestors, and all People of Black African descent. They seem to be bolstered by an unhealthy dose of ethnic triumphalism and the generational implantation of superiority over anything that is Black African.

The greatest insult and disregard are on full display by equating indentureship with the Trans-Atlantic Trade of Enslaved Black Africans. How can a 400-year criminal enterprise, now legally defined as “a crime against humanity” by the United Nations, be equated with indentureship?

In Guyana, 473,000 Africans died to build this country during 200-plus years of the criminal enterprise called slavery; this is in addition to the loss of culture, language, names, religion, family, lands, and community. Indentured servants, not “the indentured enslaved”, were mostly paid though poorly, able to retain their names, religions, foods, culture, and a sense of original community. Rape and terror were full-time industries during slavery. So was the absolute loss of All Human Rights. Indentureship has hallmarks of modern-day human trafficking, another awful criminal enterprise, which must be addressed accordingly. Descendants of “a crime against humanity” in Guyana have endured the most inhumane racially charged emotional abuse in the form of normalized name-calling, such as hungry belly dogs, monkeys, thieves, half-humans, beasts, and, more lovingly, black man or nigger.

Additionally, the cultural campaign of racism at the last election exposed a number of ignorant, educated racists who were given carte blanche to flourish in an atmosphere created and nurtured by those of evil dispositions. Academic immorality and professional dishonesty have taken root in Guyana, reminiscent of Martin Carter’s famous poem, which talks about an academic “carnival of misery” by men of odious and despicable character. I stand in horror to believe that these odious characters, some paid, others not; some African, others not, would stoop to such a low level to poison young minds in Guyana and their Diasporas. Perhaps they are consumed in a pernicious “circle of self”: self-denial, self-hate, self-importance, self-deception, self-deceit, self-indulgence, self-denial, and self-destruction.

Some questions our Guyanese society should ponder:
Why is there this psychological warfare against Black Guyanese? Why this virulent anti-Blackness? Why don’t we actively highlight the significant contributions of our Enslaved Black Africans to our society? These daily purveyors of hate and anti-Blackness remind me of “Fishhooks” McCarthy, who was a person who lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was right-hand man to Al Smith, the prototypical political person of his time. “Fishhooks,” the story goes, was devout. So devout that every morning on his way to Tammany Hall to do his political work, he stopped into St. James Church on Oliver Street in downtown Manhattan, fell on his knees, and whispered every morning the same simple prayer: “O, Lord, give me health and strength. We’ll steal the rest.”

These proponents of the “indentureship equal slavery” and, therefore, is equal to the “Black African and Jewish Holocausts” narratives are individuals who want to create waves of “distrust and mistrust” in Guyana. These individuals will fail and will forever be known as characters who create vertically integrated “communal shells” of misinformation and misdirection. These modern-day Fish Hooks make the original Fishhook look like a Saint.
ShareTweetSendShareSend

Related Posts

Op-ed

The Blind Eye of Business, Guyana’s Chambers Ignore PPP Corruption Crushing the Private Sector

by Staff Writer
July 12, 2025

In Guyana's oil-soaked economy, where billions flow like the Essequibo in flood season, you'd think the business community would be...

Read moreDetails
Op-ed

The Folly of Fragmented Afro-Guyanese Leadership, in Guyana’s ‘Oil Rush’ Economy?

by Staff Writer
July 12, 2025

As Guyana stands on the cusp of unprecedented wealth, with projections of oil revenues potentially soaring toward $100 billion by...

Read moreDetails
Vendors sell produce at Stabroek market in Georgetown, capital city of Guyana, South America.
Op-ed

Lall: What the 2025 Elections Mean for the Ordinary Guyanese

by Admin
July 12, 2025

GHK Lall- When all the communities large and small have been visited, when all the flourishing speeches have been made,...

Read moreDetails
Next Post
China UK Photo: VCG

UK’s ‘Chinese spy’ farce exposes undercurrents of anti-China force, chaotic views on Beijing


EDITOR'S PICK

CADTM Photo

Come July NIS and Old Age Pension will be paid same date

June 22, 2023
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony

Free testing, treatment for Hepatitis C to be available later this year

March 21, 2022
GHK Lall

Linden police killings: why the wait, whither urgency, what fix is in

April 9, 2025
Criminologist, social activist and  Straight Up host Mark Benschop

Benschop calls for ‘protest wine’ against Govt ministers at New York Labour Day Parade

August 28, 2024

© 2024 Village Voice

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us

© 2024 Village Voice