Believe me friends: it is not laziness that drove me to recycle most of the following sentiments which were first penned in this column four years ago.
I do believe they are still evergreen and provocatively valid as an initial contribution to this 2017 Black History/African Heritage Month. Because thoughts and sentiments relative to human liberty; to freedom of mind, spirit and body, are ever-present, significant and vital to humanity’s very acceptable existence. The USA, after emerging from the darkness of racist slavery, loves to boast about its embrace of rights and freedoms. With some earned, evidential credit and validity. In Guyana, there did emerge, along with so-called “Independence,” disastrous elements of political repression wherein dissent, opposition protest were frowned upon and harshly dealt with. Yet we can claim a proud history of rebellion against oppression inclusive of that ultimate repression – slavery.
