Being “One”? Unity? A Myth! I Tire…

Hello there my nationalistic, patriotic Guyanese friends, please try to tolerate my vastly different view and perspective – perhaps provocative – on the issues mentioned in my lead caption today.

You see, fellow Guyanese, I’m past seventy years living here in Guyana and nowhere else. So I tire, truly, these days of hearing talk and calls for national, racial unity, since I became intelligently aware of such matters around age twelve.

(That’s after the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had won the 1957 General Elections.) Ironically, I think it was the PPP’s Brindley Benn who contributed to the national Motto, “One People, One Nation, One Destiny” before the post – 1961, election political/ racial violence of the