In 2008 95% of African Americans voted for Barack Obama to become president of the United States of America and most Guyanese saw nothing wrong with that, so why are we making so much fuss when 95% of Africans and Indians vote for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP/C) respectively? The answer is simple: it is because we are confusing who these significant groups of people wish to be ruled by with a Western colonial method of how they should be ruled! We are being procrustean: trying to fit the concrete political expression of the various groups into an arbitrary political construct left us by our colonial masters!
