…roosting in Charlottesville
Your Eyewitness wonders why some are surprised at what played out at Charlottesville, with white nationalists openly marching to protest the removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee. After all, who was Robert E. but the general who led the Confederate troops to defend their “right” to own slaves. The moment you understand that fact, everything should fall into place.
Can you imagine folks insisting that Africans should’ve continued being chattel property of whites, and being willing to fight a Civil War to defend that “right”? Well, Lee was invited to join the forces fighting to free the slaves — the Union Army — but REFUSED, and the rest, as they say, is history.
But that history obviously isn’t settled, is it? If Lee and the Confederate Army were DEFEATED by the Union Army, how come statues of Lee were allowed to be erected, and so many parks and public buildings are named after him? Not to mention, the Confederate flag is flying over so many of the said institutions into the present. This is tantamount to allowing statues of Hitler being erected in Germany after WWII, and having the Swastika of the Third Reich flying over public buildings there!!
When you come to think of it, what was allowed to take place in the South was WORSE than that. In Germany, the millions of Jews that Hitler and the Nazis gassed weren’t American citizens; but the African slaves that Lee and his South wanted to keep in slavery were! But that Lee: he himself owned slaves, and the records show he was a particularly nasty sort.
Fast forward to the future, and you should also understand the depth of the racism that still resides in the hearts of so many white Americans. And it’s not only in the South; that is merely the lightning rod, because of the symbols of racism that were allowed to stand for so long. In the North, these symbols were never erected, but the racism was there – in the hearts of so many. And that is even more insidious, because it thus became structural: framed in the everyday actions of those in power, and even those in the streets.
And it is ultimately this racism that lies at the heart of Trump’s ascension to the American presidency. This is the demographic — now dubbed the Alt-right — that made the racism respectable. First they came for the Muslims, then they came for immigrants; but the tip-off was they only came for the non-white immigrants.
Now with Charlottesville behind them, it’s OK to come after African Americans –who were their targets all along!
…roosting on the Hezekiah Doctrine
Your Eyewitness is also surprised so many Guyanese are upset that Government isn’t releasing the details of the oil contract with Exxon. After all, didn’t Trotman explain that decision based on the “Hezekiah Doctrine”?? Remember that, you inattentive reader, you!? Pressed a year ago, Trotman recounted the story of King Hezekiah exposing the riches of his nation to the Syrians, after which the prophet Isaiah accosted him for exposing all his possessions, telling him that all will be lost.
Trotman let on — Wink! Wink! — that he, being a modern-day Isaiah, would’ve advised our King…sorry, President… David, that revealing the details of the Exxon contract would’ve alerted our enemy, the Venezuelans, to “all our oil possessions”, and precipitated those Venezuelan hordes to scale our Walls of Ankoko!
But hold it! Doesn’t Venezuela already know about the size of the reserves? And the 2% royalty? And the 50% of “profits”?
What’s the secret?
…roosting in garbage
Town Clerk King just revealed the City can sue the contractors now that they’ve stopped collecting garbage, demanding they get paid the G$300 million they’re owned!!
Seems Cevons and Puran didn’t read the fine print of the contract! Which obviously was inspired by the Metres Contract!!