Dear Editor,
All of a sudden there is a chorus from some PPP front-men, for the AFC to stick to its ethnic rotation policy and name an African Guyanese presidential candidate. Really? Are these people seriously championing Black rights and ethnic fairness? A certain pollster has even revealed that his polling confirms this new concern for ethnic democracy. And a certain newspaper has been calling on me to protest the marginalizing of Africans in the AFC; that I must insist that the party names a Black candidate. This same newspaper curses me every day for defending Black People against official marginalization.
Thanks, but no thanks. Although I don’t like the presidential thing, I know their rejection of Moses Nagamootoo as the AFC’s presidential candidate has nothing to do with ethnic fairness. I didn’t hear them call for ethnic fairness when the PPP, in 1999, skipped the African who was next in line for the presidency and promoted an Indian to replace Mrs Jagan. Some people have no shame.
Yours faithfully,
David Hinds
