Monkey Mountain is an actual place

Dear Editor,
Could someone please inform Kwame Mc Coy that Monkey Mountain is indeed an actual place in Guyana.  This is what Freddie Kissoon said in is column captioned, `Ten years of Jagdeo: Faustian journey’. “Burnham would have never tolerated a Kwame Mc Coy as his spokesperson.  Burnham would have consigned Mc Coy to a platoon in the National Service on Monkey Mountain.”

Kwame Mc Coy, Freddie Kissoon did not exhibit racist behaviour and he certainly did not associate you with a monkey.  All he said to you indirectly was that you are an incompetent and should not have held the position of spokesperson in your present employment.  I submit that if Monkey Mountain weren’t a real place in Guyana, I would have lost all respect for Freddie Kissoon. I despise racist people.

I suspect that Mr Mc Coy is attempting to make some political mileage out of his complaint to the ERC; in a broad stroke he also wants to paint the columnist as racist so that Afro Guyanese may question his credibility.  It is actually quite comical of Kwame to attempt such.  But most of Kissoon’s critics and detractors in government and otherwise will continue to find out how unshakable it is to remove the man from the platform of truth on which he stands.
You can’t blame Kwame Mc Coy for trying.  He has to please his boss constantly.
Yours faithfully,
Norman Browne

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