(In tribute to the late columnist Allan Fenty: Stabroek News will be
running some of his earlier columns in his regular Friday slot. This one appeared on Friday July 31st 1998)
‘Emancipate’: “to release from power/influence and from legal, social, political, intellectual, mental or moral restraint or yoke.”
The above can be regarded as a working and realistic definition, by which those who will celebrate Emancipation or Freedom Day this weekend, can make some reasonable assessments and judgments – of themselves and their condition.
My friends, I crave the indulgence of yourselves and my editor – as I repeat once more, previous thoughts this column shared on the subject. (Brazenly I say to my Afro-Guyanese ‘relations’ You cannot blame this government for decades of any-thing!). Now, for the repeats: “Emancipation? Black what?”
