Deh future and Deh seriousness of tings - so wuh we gon do? Some thoughts of bridges between us

So, I started this blog with the idea that I will follow the path that has taken me these last few years from questioning and hesitating to action.  Change - no anger, no impossible obstacles, no power struggles, no "politics," no stagnation... It is go and do and do and go and move and move and mek it happen - do an' don' wait...  listen listen and learn learn and believe in possibilities and hope and hope and remember that most people want to live good and eat.  Remember that for every no there are nuff nuff yeses.

Collected information - I am listening to people as much as possible so that I avoid jumping to conclusions based on short observations.

My philosophy is to put what works first and use it and talk about the idea of solutions first.
In Guyana there are a lot of Indians and blacks who live side by side and get along. Use this.
Lots of women work together. I've observed that in the markets there are many women - black and Indian.

Solutions: Use the technology to have a permanent place for Indian history and African history to run side by side - one after the other - era by era - transparency. (Literacy projects - dynamic and relative).
Use the young generation to collect a lot of this information.  Let them do it together - teach each other, teach the community.

Guyanese groups - Indian and African most - Amerindian, Chinese, Portuguese - some. Groups were  brought by oppressors and colonizers for various reasons and under a variety of circumstances.  The larger groups who seem to be in a struggle for recognition and power are of Indian and African ancestry.

There is a history of oppression and domination that brought the groups to Guyana.  There is that history that lessened the numbers of the Amerindians.  World history is important.  There are many avenues to gathering information and ways of looking at that information critically.  Information can create discussion and give the audience a chance to form opinions.  One important component of Critical Literacy is that no author is the expert, nothing is always right, everything will have some sort of bias depending on the motives of the particular perspective.

Bechu:Bound Coolie Radical in British Guiana, 1894-1901 - by Clem Seecharan

In the Shadow of Mother India - Clem Seecharan 

A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 - Walter Rodney

Race and Ethnicity in Guyana -edited by Kampta Karran

The Powerless People - Andrew Sanders

I believe that colonization and empiralism, among other things, had a major impact on the Guyanese peoples.  I feel that the results keep affecting the circumstances today.  But, that is my take; there are other opinions out there.  I do believe that today we need to share all of the historical information with the younger generation who are the future of Guyana if they are to move in a direction of hope and equality.  To think of Guyana as a place where everyone has an equal opportunity is a myth.

Indians and Africans in Guyana have an interdependent and intimate relationship.
I heard from Guyanese and then I walked around to see if it followed.

Things I heard
1. race relations between Indians and Blacks are tense - hightened during the political times.
2. Indians run most businesses in places like the markets - my observations seemed to support this.
3. African Guyanese work for most of these businesses and they are the consumers - observations seemed to support this.
4. African Guyanese - some - believe that they are being robbed - they feel pushed aside and pushed out - marginalized.
5. Some people feel the election was a fraud.
6. Some people believe that there's an envy of Indian identity - knowledge of their roots, traditions related to their roots