Rickford Burke, well known Guyanese anti-PPP political activist in New York, has finally landed a political gold mine. Burke’s long and unrelenting campaign alleging racism against the PPP and its governments occupied the fringes of the political discourse in the New York diaspora for many years. Burke’s distance from some past PNC leaderships had relegated him to a sideshow in Guyana’s opposition politics in New York. Burke, now in favour, has creatively linked the vote of the African Guyanese diaspora in Brooklyn, New York, with African American politicians in New York who rely on those votes for re-election. Burke can no longer be considered a fringe or marginalized political activist. How far his campaign, marked by dedicated persistence, will go cannot be predicted although its influence on Guyana’s political direction will remain limited to being a vocal irritant.
