I am tired of hearing it. I heard it again this week. In a private group and later in a public session I heard it again: Guyanese are an ethnically divided people, with racist attitudes, and (here’s the tiresome part) it is shameful that we are unwilling or unable to overcome this problem. Hardly a day goes without some variation of that comment coming before us in private settings or public expression, and the lamentations for our degradation are both plentiful and lasting.
Let me be clear going in: I am not disputing the ethnic division between our two dominant racial groups. Neither am I disputing that it is a problem we must engage with every sinew of our being – it is the biggest impediment to our progress because of the divisions and antagonisms
