Dear Editor,
Happy Independence to all Guyanese. As I sat and was going through Facebook, I saw APNU was live, so I decided to check to see if they have their own PNC Independence celebration and flag-raising ceremony.
However, there was the former Minister of Finance talking up village economies and development within the various villages, especially the strongholds of PNC, as they launched a Market Day in Ithaca. What shocked me about three minutes into watching was when that very former PNC Minister told the gathering there in Ithaca, that when they see people who don’t look like them, don’t chase them, but use them.
We all know that Ithaca is predominantly Africans, and for the former Minister to make such a statement, it really shows the racism deeper in the PNC and its top brass members that walk this country trying to win votes by using race.
My understanding of that statement is that Mr Jordan is telling the predominantly African-populated Ithaca that when people of other races, such as Indians, Amerindians, Chinese, Portuguese and all other races who don’t look like Africans, come to your village, use them. Use them in what form I don’t know, but Jordan will have to answer to that, because of those other races entering Ithaca to visit their Market Day, it means the other races will support the people of Ithaca, and not be used by the people of Ithaca.
Jordan and the PNC fail to realise that “Massa Days” done, and the days of slavery are long gone.
I don’t know who the people of Ithaca can use, and as an Indian, I will be bluntly clear to Jordan and PNC in saying that “NO ONE CAN USE ME IN NO WAY if I go into Ithaca or any village of this wide Guyana.
Mr Jordan should also tell us if it’s true that he recently took his vehicle to a wash bay in his village, and when he parked and came out, everyone that was sitting there walked away from him, leaving him alone there, causing him to go away. Is this true, Winston Jordan?
Winston Jordan, the people of Ithaca won’t listen to you because they live peacefully and united with their partner villages of Blairmont, Shieldstown and Rosignol. They live in unity and share ideas and even meals at times. They drink together and dance together. They travel together. They go to church together. They play sports together. The children go to school together.
The people of Ithaca, since I have been visiting that area as an Indian, never ever show any racist side of things to me or anyone else from another race who enter that village.
The people of Ithaca are not racist like you, Winston Jordan, and therefore stop going about trying to cause racial tension that can bring more harm to Region 5. Your good friend in PNC, who is a lawyer, did that a few months ago and caused the region to suffer because of racism that is being used by PNC to gain some sort of attention.
Jordan, you need to tell this nation why you would tell an African-dominated village to use people of other races when they visit their village? What do you mean by “using them”? Why would you use the term “use them” and not “embrace them”?
I call on the ethnic Relations Commission to investigate this statement made by the former PNC Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Wednesday 26th May 2021 in Ithaca.
Please, ERC, don’t wait for any report to be made, just call Jordan and ask for the tape and listen to him saying, “When people come here and don’t look like you, don’t chase them, but use them.”
I call on Winston Jordan to tell us what you mean by “use them” if they don’t look like you when they enter Ithaca.
I find that Winston Jordan is an outright racist, like several of his affiliates, and the most surprising part is the newly-wed in the PNC, the former AFC (AFC is PNC) leader Khemraj Ramjattan, and several of those former AFC (AFC is now PNC) political opportunist MPs and members stood there and allowed Winston Jordan to use that term without even walking away in protest.
Anyway, I understand that if any of you former AFC (AFC is PNC) MPs talk against any statement made by PNC members, David Granger as head of the list will kick you guys out as MPs.
So, Winston Jordan, please stop spreading race hate in this country, and try to defend your failure as a former Finance Minister under the PNC five years in government. I will deal with village economies, development and empowerment that you are preaching now, and could not have done in those five years in a later missive.
Stop being a racist Jordan, and allow Guyanese to live as “One Guyana”.
Regards
Abel Seetaram
Fmr Reg 5 RDC
Councillor
