“I mean, since David Granger opposed Nagamootoo because, ipso facto, the defecting may very well be a ‘spy job’ in the making, then what exempts Trotman from that kind of suspicion (from the rest of the lot)? Mr. Nagamootoo, what principle are you talking about? You and Trotman are in the same cesspool. By way of further explanation, if this is the qualifying principle David Granger is using (former connection), then Moses Nagamootoo has failed his people. He was bullied into supporting APNU’s racist agenda of putting a ‘black man’ in the chairs of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. So in Nagamootoo’s case, he is not only a traitor (PPP) but a chicken (APNU).” (Baldeo Mathura: “Nagamootoo’s Contretemps:” Guyana Chronicle: 18/01/12)
What initially attracted me to Mr. Mathura’s letter was his suggestion that when persons claim that they are acting according to principle one is never sure what they mean, and this concern will be the basis of another article. However, a few paragraphs in, I was struck by the penultimate sentence of the above quote. The Jagdeo 2011campaign may have been crude, but I have no recollection of it descending to the level of racial vulgarity portrayed above!
My first reaction was to ignore the letter, but on reflection, four factors suggested that I should not. Firstly, the