Dear Editor,
My letter relates to a SN report on 21/04/08 captioned ‘Gunfire at Bounty Killa Show’. I strongly believe that Bounty Killa and the DJ have no respect for Guyana and Guyanese by inciting lyrics and comments that can cause hate crimes and further criminal activities in a very sensitive environment (Guyana) that had experienced two massacres.
The utterance of “batty man fi dead” is an explicit hate message that incites murder of gay persons based on one’s personal intolerance, prejudices and hate. In addition, the utterance of the DJ calling “bad men from Buxton and Agricola to represent” the Five Star General [Bounty Killa] that was about to perform further reinforced the stigma that these villages produce and harbour criminal elements. They messages by these personalities were very irresponsible.
