Dear Editor,
I take this opportunity to advise Harry-Voglezon that my name is Modibo, not Mobido, and I wish to be addressed accordingly. His letter titled “Louis Farrakhan advised African Guyanese to learn skills of economic empowerment from Asians” (07.12.14) in response to mine lacked focus, content and context. It did not fit the intellectual scrutiny he required of others but presented the opportunity for him to show how much he thinks he knows. The argument of Africans’ abilities to be wealth creators, the Indian caste system, blah, blah, are but another poor attempt to shift the focus of genuine discussions about Africans rights. What is even more ridiculous about the approach is the evident determination to ignore the initial and continued positions of my arguments which remain:
1. The protection and preservation of African human rights at the political and parliamentary level by the AFC, and
2. The fact that Khemraj Ramjattan gave a commitment to Berbice Indian supporters to go to parliament with the AFC support and attend to their grievances but such similar commitment is yet to be given by AFC African political leaders (viz: Cathy Hughes, Raphael Trotman, David Patterson and Sheila Holder) inspite of the insurmountable problems affecting the African community. Harry needs to tell Africans if the above raised concerns are wrong, unnecessary, irrelevant and unimportant.
Then he needs to say if his position that “a primary responsibility of the Afro community is to ensure that its leaders are people of integrity [and] he who lacks integrity could never protect your rights” includes AFC African leaders.
Yours faithfully,
Osafo Modibo
