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A.P.N.U, in response to the concerns of citizens and our own increasing awareness of PPP racial profiling of Afro- Guyanese, is duty bound to make the following observations:
The PPP TV Ad that juxtaposes the enthusiastic supporters of APNU jostling to lift the Presidential Candidate, Brigadier (ret) David Granger, on Nomination Day 2011, with one of blacks rioting, is dangerous racial profiling and race baiting.
The fact that the PPP uses its unrestricted State Media and other media time to play and replay these images and other images of the past, under the call "we must never go back there" is a dangerous and racist attempt to drive fear into the minds of all people, but particularly citizens of Indian descent. Sadly, a Government that boasts of its 19 years of achievement is unable to portray its much touted"achievements" but, driven by panic, has to resort to this dangerous practice.
The member Parties and organizations within A.P.N.U are not afraid of a genuine examination of the brutal violence of the past in this country, including the awful violence of recent years in which both Indians and Africans were victims. We acknowledge all of the suffering of Guyanese citizens, as a consequence of the murders and the extra-judicial killings of Guyanese of Indian and African origin.
A Partnership for National Unity is more than the sum of its parts. It is a new entity here to usher in a new accountability and a new responsibility. We do not need to hang our electoral quest on the peg of racial fear and racial incitement. The PPP has governed for 19 continuous years. They should not be afraid to let their record speak for them.
We urge all Guyanese to make the distinction between the old politics and the new struggle that A.P.N.U has engaged, for a genuine partnership of Guyanese of all ethnicities, to build a Guyana of which we can all be proud. A country that is founded on economic, social and political justice for all of us.
YEAH ..............................APNU
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