Dear Editor,

Political discourse in Guyana can be draining-the sometimes meanness, emptiness, foolishness, narrowness and the disrespect for whole communities are a turn off. Take for example, Minister Clement Rohee’s recent letter captioned “Mr Ogunseye’s approach in rejecting compromise and realpolitik as reflected in the day to day struggle for a better Guyana leaves the political arena open to the worst elements in our midst” (08.03.21). There is a heavy dose of meanness, narrowness and ethnic disrespect in that letter. Because the minister treats with a subject that he obviously knows little about and because his intention is to demolish his “enemies, ” he ends up insulting a whole group of Black leaders, including the PPP’s token Black hero, Walter Rodney……