A reflective Emancipation weekend to all. The point has been pounded recently: that the physical, legal freeing of the BG Colony’s slaves necessitated the arrival of all the other immigrant–labourers here. Hence the act of full-freedom Emancipation has impacted upon all who now comprise the nation of Guyana.
But I’ve decided not to go on this year with my annual lament about the status and condition of African Guyanese and the reasons and causes.
Such anniversaries swiftly take on a political characteristic of triumphalism and exclusion these days. I know that wronged people, themselves excluded from equitable distribution of the country’s resources, must pay heed to the political dimension and causes of discrimination. So this concerned citizen
