Local election campaigning is presumably underway. The exchanges will not be civil, to say the least. Indeed they will probably be nastily ad hominem, verging on the vicious. The danger for the country is that viciousness is so often reflected in a racial prism. When that happens, civil society in Guyana deteriorates further.
Every single one of us must make a deliberate effort to resist strenuously and repeatedly any semblance of racial stereotyping or appeal to race for race’s sake.
Years ago a jazz quartet, the Gary Burton Jazz Quartet from America, visited Georgetown. The quality of music was the outstanding attribute common to the group. It was to be noted, also, however, that all their skins were white. Thereupon the music critic of the daily newspaper filed a review praising the excellent performances of the
