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I never cease to be amazed at Guyanese

- Dear Editor,

I never cease to be amazed at Guyanese. The selective nature of our anger, disgust, and sharp steely reactions to things that are partisan. Yet we stand as statues of indifferen­ce when the whole country we say that we love, the government that we definitely adore, and our own individual dignity are all unpardonab­ly insulted. Where our rage is then, and where is our sense of vilificati­on and violation?

Editor, I am writing of what occurred re Superior Concrete, Inc., and at the hands of two of its senior officials. Officials of a state agency were humiliated to their faces and in full public view. Then, to top it all off, and as if that was not enough and that a certain kind of degrading putdown had to be delivered, a minister of the national government, a lawmaking member of our parliament, and an accompanyi­ng Chief Executive Office, also of a state entity, were made a mockery of, and demeaned in way that I would not have thought likely. Who is running this country? Who is significan­t and who is supplicant? Who and which place is considered so low on the totem pole that they are not worthy of any minimum courtesy? As I gather it, that would be us (me and you); and I don’t like that one bit. No sir, not this Guyanese!

That is me, but where are the other outraged Guyanese? Where are they, when one of their own is embarrasse­d like this? Where is the galloping swiftness to denounce in the loudest terms? Is it because what happened lacks partisan stings and torments? Is it because it is first a white man that did the dirty deed? And then quickly and even more outrageous­ly followed by another foreigner worshipped? I was expecting the rafters to come off, with Guyanese scribes and Guyanese pundits rushing to the front to show some sort of support and solidarity for one of us. Where are the partisans and their righteous indignatio­ns

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