TO MY BLACK GUYANESE BROTHERS AND SISTERS
East Indians did not put your ancestors in chains of slavery,
Nor held them 400 years in servitude
While unearned income and profits flowed to the slave master.
Your West African “brothers” and white slave owners did that deed.
So why do you hate East Indians so?
East Indians did not build the social structure that left you with post emancipation poverty.
Your generational slavery hangover of economic inequity is not East Indians' doing.
The colonial slavery system and failure of Black Guyanese leaders to engineer a level playing field are the culprits.
So why do you hate East Indians so?
Transmute your race hate into peaceful creative wisdom.
Fashion a pragmatic, attractive plan of action that levels the playing field
And entices Government embrace.
The opportune time is now to forever heal our national racial divide,
And let true Peace and Unity reign across the land.
(Wilbert M. Stephenson - September 2020)
East Indians did not put your ancestors in chains of slavery,
Nor held them 400 years in servitude
While unearned income and profits flowed to the slave master.
Your West African “brothers” and white slave owners did that deed.
So why do you hate East Indians so?
East Indians did not build the social structure that left you with post emancipation poverty.
Your generational slavery hangover of economic inequity is not East Indians' doing.
The colonial slavery system and failure of Black Guyanese leaders to engineer a level playing field are the culprits.
So why do you hate East Indians so?
Transmute your race hate into peaceful creative wisdom.
Fashion a pragmatic, attractive plan of action that levels the playing field
And entices Government embrace.
The opportune time is now to forever heal our national racial divide,
And let true Peace and Unity reign across the land.
(Wilbert M. Stephenson - September 2020)