The PNC has once again brought shame and destruction to the black community

Dear Editor,
It is with a heavy heart that I pen this letter as a young black professional, to witness the destructive force of the PNC as it was once told to me by my father.
In the 70s, Burnham tricked my father and many others to bring all their wealth to Guyana on the promise of prosperity. They knew little of his criminal apparatus that eventually destroyed their lives, and by extension made it very hard for me and my siblings.
Like many black kids back then, we never understood the level of suffering the PNC would bring into our future. The PNC then and now was never concerned about lifting its political base up, much less for the country.
Its focus has always been to create a small elite group of supper rich friends and families as it sucks the life out of the country. It has always been comfortable, like Granger today, with watching the black community suffer as it tricks them to march the streets in the name of “black development”.
This mindset of the PNC first made its major impact when PNC people strategised to destroy the WPA, and eventually killed the first and only true black leader Guyana ever had, Walter Rodney. From then to now, the black community continued to suffer from the PNC cabal, with no mercy or compassion.
The actions of Burnham to destroy the WPA are very similar to that of Granger today. As Rodney became the most influential black thought leader and global icon for underdeveloped countries, Burnham got scared, as he knew Rodney would destroy his scheme to keep his knees on the black community and all Guyanese.
As stated in his book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, the updated introduction outlines the following: First Burnham cut off Rodney’s ability to provide for his family by blocking his appointment at the University of Guyana, he then moved to have the police force murder two senior members in the WPA. After that the PNC blew up a government building and blamed Rodney to silence him.
During Rodney’s trial, Father Bernard Darke was killed while observing the proceedings in the interest of fairness.
When Burnham saw that Rodney was winning his trial, he made the judge postpone the trial for three months, during which time a plan was hatched to assassinate Rodney. And that was the end of it.
Sounds familiar? It’s because we see the same approach being used from the moment 34+32=65 to Lowenfield’s report. And the common thread to all of this is none other than David Arthur Granger, who was a protege of Burnham, who appointed him commander of the military. And of course we know now that it is the military apparatus that carried out the operation to assassinate Rodney.
Like many other upstanding blacks in Guyana, I do not want to be associated with Granger and his cabal criminal and thuggish behaviour. It is the kind of degenerate mindset we have been working hard to remove from our community from the time of slavery to now. PNC consists of a group of elitists who use black people’s suffering as a means to their end, and in turn they get rich.
I want a leadership that opens opportunities for all Guyanese, and not just a few. I want democracy and good leadership. We want to have leaders who care for everyone, and can inspire positive change in the black community, like Walter Rodner did.
The PPP has always been the only party that was founded on the premise that all races must be a part of Guyana’s development.
Granger must stop this shameless behaviour and concede to the results of the elections of March 2 and allow Guyana to heal.

Sincerely,
Malcolm Watkins