27 april 2003
how long will it take before the guyanese government feels pity for the population that they have successfully suppressed, and help them? how long before the full force of the army, the police, and all foreign strands of help are unleashed against the criminals? how long before the government moves into buxton and capture the criminals that have been slowly and leisurely murdering guyanese? how long before the government does something about this great racial divide in guyana? how long before we refuse to raise our children in a country of 18 and 19 year old murderers?

how long before we start asking question like: where are the criminals getting guns? could it be the army? are inventory assessments done on all weapons allowed to the army and police force?

ask questions and demand answers.

does the son of a minister have to be shot while cruising the sea-wall on sunday night in his car before the criminals are extinguished? does a banks d.i.h. chairperson's daughter have to be kidnapped before something is done? does a bullet actually have to miss an innocent guyanese and hit jagdeo in his chest before he decides to get rid of the criminals? does a us diplomat have to be kidnapped before something is actually done?

oh yes, a us diplomat _was_ kidnapped (on saturday 12 april), and the police response was stunning.

why are we not at the united nations condemning a war in iraq, to liberate iraqis, when we ourselves, guyanese, need liberation from this corrupt system in our country that does nothing for us while we are each being killed.

what has to happen before we acknowledge the outrageous atrocities that have been taking place in our country? we have become so desensitised to murder and carnage so gruesome that even american movie-goers would be shocked by the theatrically-executed violence. what has to happen before the government/police/army does something? in fact, what has to happen before _we_ get up and do something? does some one we know have to be killed first? does a relative have to be killed first before we become personally involved?

the government is slow in helping us, if at all. so who will help us?

are pizza-hut, kfc, nike, beenie-man, pepsi, jagdeo, timberland, jay-z, hbo, omai, bristol, banks d.i.h., or any of the others going to help us? no.

no.

no.

are any of these presences in our lives going to help us? no.

is _any_ profit-driven leech going to help us? no.

we have a lot to free our minds of before we rise as the resilient people we are. we can never rise as long as our young people are working hard for two months with their only goal being to buy the latest nike footwear with their two months pay.

what i'm trying to say is similar to what tupac calls on his people to do in his song "changes":

i wish and pray to whatever i know there isn't, that guyanese will soon snap out of the hypnosis that the politicians have for decades shrouded us with--the hypnosis that we are racists, the hypnosis that we hate each other because of our different skin colours. i wish that we would all recognise that these are slave-owner techniques to keep slaves divided and weak, fighting among themselves while those in charge get to benefit off the labour of the slaves and the control in gives them.

let us recognise that hate, ignorance, and discrimination can be passed from us to our family, friends, and to our children, and vice versa. let us therefore stop these cycles of teaching each other the hate that corrupt local and foreign leaders have poisoned us with.

let us also grow powerful in the fact that honesty, righteousness, and national unity are also contagious.

let our goals not be credit cards and wars in the name of liberation; let our goal be the freedom that man deserves by virtue of his humanity, by virtue of his life, by virtue of his presence and his place in this universe. let's strive not for "freedom" that is trademarked by a nation, but true freedom--that which we have almost forgotten globally. let our goals be the rights of all humans, rights that are accredited to them by virtue of their own instinctual definitions of good and evil. rights that are guaranteed to all things in this universe, all things that...feel.

hate is hate. you can't fight fire with fire.

we don't have to burn the elite, overthrow babylon, or become murderers who hide in a village, lurking out occasionally to rain terror.

we have to educate ourselves, our children. with books, with common-sense, with our feelings--feelings that more precisely define good and evil than any law book could. we have to have complete control over our mentalities and our sensibilities. we have to chant and sing every last detail of what we _do_ know to our countrymen who don't know.

knowledge is power.

we have to develop or minds and bodies to recognise political deception. we have to discontinue the deadly tradition of the race vote, of the racist talk, of racism.

i have never believed there to be racism in guyana. am i to believe that two neighbours, indian and black, who are like brothers year round, turn on each other in savage fury when their politicians request it of them? politicians have guyanese by their brainstems.

no, i don't feel guyanese are racist people, but there _is_ a racial divide caused by superficial things. right now, the racial divide is nurtured by the criminal rampage that has instilled contempt in many guyanese because the criminals are associated with a particular ethnic group.

we _must_ free ourselves from the mental chains that these politicians have had on us from not long ago when we were still slaves and indentured labourers. this freedom from mental slavery is true freedom--a freedom that the most "freedom-loving" nation on earth doesn't even have.

i've seen speeches in which politicians just mention slavery to arouse anger, then indirectly mention an ethnic group to direct that anger. what makes me weep is not the politicians' shameless trick, but our susceptibility to it. i've also seen speeches where politicians say that a particular opposing party wants to keep guyana in the past, wants to impede it's growth, then the audience's anger is directed towards an ethnic group that constitutes most of that opposing party.

the media in guyana is unquestionably biased and controlled by one man at the top--the station owner, who is either ppp or pnc. television stations are either black or indian. step back for a minute and observe, objectively, the ridiculousness of this. despite the obvious political agendas behind the stations' programming, many, many guyanese are still brainwashed by the station owners.

another obvious trick of the ruling party is to get all caring and helpful to guyanese near elections. the next elections are in march of 2006, so, unfortunately, guyanese will just have to deal with being brutally murdered until it's voting time again.

kill the crime. kill the race vote. kill the war.

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