By Nigel Hinds- The racialist and apartheid routine that restricts citizens from leading organizations due to their racial grouping is pervasive in Guyana and is a retrograde and most repulsive situation in Guyana.
Any practice by political parties to have provisions articulating the ineligibility of the Prime Minister to become the President on an ongoing basis; due to his or her race, is the plainest way of saying that the political party is a racist party and condones racism.
What clingy and perverse character traits allow a man or woman to insult the populace by saying it is okay to deny me the right to hold the office of the Presidency merely because of my race.
Our pundits and media are quiet on this deplorable, despicable and disgracefully racist trend in our Political, Business and Non-governmental organisations.
It’s Guyana’s partial Jim Crow custom that is insidiously being normalized into our political system, culture, land distribution, contract allocation, legal and economic systems. It is a sickeningly retrogressive, suppressive, oppressive and depressive system.
Discrimination on the basis of race is supposed to be illegal for the following: employment, promotion, land allocation, bank loans, access to health, access to education, construction and other contracts, appointment of ambassadors, use of public property, board appointments and suchlike; yet in Guyana it is okay for Political Parties to enact, entrench and broadcast a racist.
This sick, miserable and rotten practice must be eliminated by the political parties, it is an act that is offensive to human dignity and human rights.
What does it profit a man to gain a status that drowns his character, disrespects his family, friends and insults his race within and across geographic borders?
How can an individual reach his or her full potential when he or she embraces a shameful apartheid system of voluntary subjugation to racist programs that encourages, normalizes and compounds even more racism at every level of our political, economic, social and cultural systems.
Guyanese are being buried deeper into racial divisiveness, disunity and backwardness.
Let us not strengthen this dreadful gloom that has been strangling Guyana for far too long. It seems to me that that the reasons educated leaders do not disassociate and disavow this reprehensible development are primarily due to their obsession for status and entitlements, while remaining un-bothered and embracing the racist poison being promoted and spread in Guyana.
Thomas Paine, American political activist and philosopher left us in his debt with these words: “Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
Nigel Hinds
Chairman
Economic Independence Movement
