Well, well, well!! Folks are getting pretty testy now that the elections sweepstakes are around the corner!! Imagine a Big Man – who went to school here and all the way in farrin to be called a “dacta” – was reduced to calling folks who just happened to be the same race as he is but chose to support a different party than his – “bamsie lickers”; “ass lickers”; “bottom lickers”; “BT lickers” and every other word he could think of that described what in the Guyanese countryside is called “ka-ka hole”!! Ewww!!
Frankly, your Eyewitness found it more than a tad weird that this man was so fixated on this part of the anatomy to go on and on finding words to describe it. After all, if he didn’t want to use big words to say that the folks in his crosshairs – mostly successful folks who’d done well – were “ingratiating”, “obsequious”; “cringy” or “unctuous”, since he lives in America he could’ve gone along with their expression “brown nosing” or “suck up” – which is pretty graphic if you think about it – but has passed into acceptable usage over the years!!
So is the fella anally-fixated?? Nah…your Eyewitness doesn’t think so. He was just taking the easy way to avoid analysing why the objects of his insults thought differently than him – since that might show that he really had no solid reasons. How exactly can you tell someone not to vote because of the policies or activities or programs of a party – but just because of the colour of THEIR skin!! He said over and over again he was talking about “Black People”!! Ironically most of the folks associated with the PPP that earned his ire also have black skin!!
But what he was doing was using the gutter language of the masses to insult people for their choice of party to support so as to RIDICULE them!! It’s been found that even if they disagree with the sentiment, most ordinary folks will “skin their teeth” when “big ones” are ridiculed!! They’re being brought down from their presumed pedestals. So the Big Man was actually taking cheap shots – going for the easy laffs. But in doing so, he was also mocking the intelligence of his audience – implying they wouldn’t be able to REALLY understand the rational reason why the “big ones” were making the choice they did!!
And this is ultimately what’s most sad about this descent into the gutter by the Big Man. He ignored a teaching moment when he could’ve enlightened folks to look beneath the surface of what goes into the making of political choices.
But then, he would’ve been revealed for the charlatan he was, wouldn’t he??
…for $100,000
News is that the rest of the $100,000 cash grants gonna be distributed in the coming weeks. From what your Eyewitness understands, a little over 600,000 persons were registered for the handout – including farriners – but only around 160,000 were shared out on the first go around. Schedules and distribution locations have been circulating but your Eyewitness is worried that from his first experience with about the same number of locations and three times the number of recipients, the crowds and the rush might be even worse this time.
But he expects the government would be aware of this logistical challenge as he is. And would be taking steps to streamline the process. In the fag-end of the first go around during the REGISTRATION component he saw scads of red-shirt PPP volunteers turned assisting the officials. And they certainly made a difference!! This mobilization should be replicated from the beginning of the process – and your Eyewitness might finally collect his $100,000 check.
Which has already been spent, thank you!!
…for Mash
Your Eyewitness was happy that the kids were out in their preview of Mash 2025. They looked like they enjoyed themselves. But shouldn’t they have been encouraged to express more of their sentiments about Republic Day and patriotism??
