Dear Editor,
On May 27, Mr Rickey Singh made a vitriolic attack on me in the Stabroek News, in response to my letter criticizing the editor-in-chief/publisher, Mr David de Caires, and his newspaper for pursuing an anti-black agenda. The baleful machinations behind the publication of my letter notwithstanding, I stand by my contentions and cede no ground to those who would pervert human nature in their exercise of prejudice.
Singh, an apologist for the PPP, penned a letter characterized by hypocrisy, which conversely epitomizes his own circumstance. He claimed that I am racist for denouncing Stabroek’s anti-black posture; that I have an “enormous personal ego;” that I spew “rabid racism”; that I offered no evidence to support my criticism, and that he has personal knowledge that Mr de Caires made no deal with the PPP government in exchange for the restoration of government ads to his newspaper – all a maze of hyperbolic hot-air.
Despite his loquaciousness, he did not address or contradict any of my assertions. Let me be clear, I condemned what I believed to be an anti-black agenda. I did not condemn Mr de Caires, his race or him because of his race. I mentioned as a passing fact that, like my grandfather, he is Portuguese Guyanese. This constituted or intended no offence. Mr de Caires knows that I have incessantly expressed concern over the agenda of Stabroek News.
