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letters of october, 2001
green text is text of the letter.
white text is my reply or correspondence
initiated by me.
cyan text is an inserted note.
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21 october 2001
this is the final letter that i have received from guyanaspice. see
guyanaspice letters, starting here.
i have your emails up
next time you use my graphics on your site, you may want to ask me.
i won't mind as long as you don't edit them. think about copyrights
with other's shit.
i deleted by accident the emails that i sent you. hopefully you would
be kind enough to send them to me so i can put them on the site. hehe,
i didn't think you would. if not, then i will add comments to my site
anyway.
i will have more things about you dumbass on my site. about your hate
for the US. and so on.
i know you like it b/c people may visit your shitty site, and your shitty
flash.
but, i put your emails on a part that is not clearly accessible.
29 october 2001
I respect your ability to transfer your thoughts onto a website. My
father is Guyanese born and lives in the U.S. I agree with most of your
radical ideas of the complacency of Guyanese-Americans. I'd like to
extend that argument to say it includes immigrants from other third-world
countries as well so it is not restricted to Guyanese-Americans.
I am dismayed that my father's tales of Guyanas were merely fantastic
revisions of the truth. My belief is that he, and the rest of his family
were truly concerned with what happens in Guyana they would involve
themselves in changing the dynamics that exist, particularly poverty.
However they have been seduced by the red, white, and blue, quickly
asssimiliated to American Carribbean life that glorifies food and music
and forgets violence and poverty
I've become more interested
in Guyana as I study the political motivation for ethnic conflict.
As I learn more, I realize how disadvantaged women, particularly indigenous
(Amerindian) women in Guyana.
I'd offer a suggestion for your site. Perhaps you
can include ways that Guyanese-Americans can maintain their connection
to their country that is more involved than simply reading newspapers
etc. For instance I am establishing contact with a Guyanese woman (outside
my family) who mobilizes her resources for women in Guyana. My hope
is to eventually go to Guyana and engage in establishing a greater woman's
consciousness to empower women.
I think the more people feel engaged in their culture,
the more they feel responsibile to help change. Unfortunately many Guyanese
disengaged themselves from Guyana the minute they stepped onto a plane.
Signed,
Visitor to Your Site
It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse
its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.
-Albert Memmi author of The Colonizer and the Colonized
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