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140,000
Guyanese immigrants in New York City
Escrito por ROGER SINGH los Derechos Civiles y el Centro de
Justicia (Queens capítulo)
Lunes, 10 de junio 2013 20:00
Con referencia al artículo publicado en la New York Times subtitulado: "Toma el tren de Richmond Hill", queremos comentar algunos temas. Hay vida más guyaneses en el área de Nueva York, pero no han participado en el proceso cívico y político que otros grupos tienen. Ellos tienen una de las tasas más bajas de participación en los censos y encuestas de la Comunidad que cuenta, así como en el ejercicio de su derecho fundamental y el deber de votar, tal vez un miedo residual que trajeron a América. Por lo tanto, no han asimilado como deberían, y muchos siguen considerando la participación política y ciudadana, ya sea de sentido o moralmente equivocado.
No es de extrañar que no hay guyaneses que haya sido elegido para el Ayuntamiento o la asamblea legislativa del Estado. Es posible que siempre tenga que lamentar el hecho de que uno de los suyos, el Procurador Albert Baldeo llegó a un récord de 500 votos, o el 0,5% de ganar un escaño en el Senado estatal en Queens y casi derrotó a 20 años corresponde y luego Presidente de la Queens Republicano partido, Siervo de Malta, en 2006. Un distrito estatal del senado se compone de más de 325.000 electores, y que les habría dado el reconocimiento político y económico que necesitan y merecen tan mal en los EE.UU., que atiende sólo a aquellos grupos que se posicionan en el mapa político.
Lamentablemente, si bien muchas etnias como los italianos, Judios, comunidades hispanas, irlandeses y afro-americanos comparten y aprecian el liderazgo visionario de Baldeo y motivación inspiradora a la altura de un reto sin precedentes al votar por un inmigrante de Guyana, sus compatriotas deberían haber adoptado tal esfuerzo por el que sale en forma proporcional mayor número a tomar su comunidad por encima. Nunca se puede tener esa oportunidad de nuevo.
Algunos nunca abandonaron las tiendas de ron a salir a votar, creyendo que tal objetivo no era posible, mientras que otros permanecieron egoísta e intolerante en pegarse a un programa de acumulación de riqueza material en el EE.UU..
Al igual que lo que el Sr. Totaram aludido, algunos por desgracia sólo se recostó en su silla y se negó a, u otros desanimados a participar en un movimiento que no les ofrecen ningún beneficio personal, en lugar de motivar a otros guyaneses de la importancia de votar en una país en el que su única oportunidad de empoderamiento pasa por el reconocimiento político y la aceptación de la clase que Albert Baldeo ha llevado su lucha por. No hay nada como la representación proxy. Usted tiene que elegir a uno de los suyos para conseguir una voz significativa.
Desafortunado estigma y la categorización que "guyanesa en Richmond Hill en su plenitud es el curry y roti, música salsa picante y música de la India, las faldas cortas y saris, hombres sin camisas, las personas con sus tazas de Totaram, los vendedores gritando, chicos maldiciendo, bares repletos de jóvenes beber ron ", es una condena de auto-derrota de una comunidad que han dado a muchas personas la vida lucrativo, pero también es un síntoma de un problema mayor que se encuentra dentro de la ceguera miope de muchos de nuestra comunidad de Richmond Hill, profesionales y líderes empresariales. Mientras que los llamados líderes dan un gran apoyo financiero y de otra a los demás candidatos políticos de otras comunidades que les ofrezcan un interés financiero o personal, que se oponen a su propio reflejo. Esta característica está arraigada históricamente en la mentalidad de plantación, y por instinto hacer que las personas actúan como spoilers, y hacer que se parlay descaradamente su falta de visión, la motivación o la voluntad política para potenciar los que les han dado una vida cómoda, pero son menos afortunados que ellos mismos. En el lenguaje de Guyana, se clasifica de manera única como "la mentalidad de cangrejo."
Albert Baldeo ganó el asiento del Líder de Distrito para convertirse en el único electo de Guyana en la historia de la zona en 2010, pero fue atacado por el establishment político poco después con los gastos que se derivaron no sólo de una caza de brujas y la persecución selectiva, pero nunca se le presentaron en la ciudad de elecciones al Consejo, ni en contra de los candidatos oficiales. Está claro que la aceptación social y el poder político no será fácil para cualquier guyanés. Si alguien alguna vez luchar contra los nobles luchas Baldeo luchó por ver, o Richmond Hill seguirá siendo invisible en el mapa de Nueva York, o en los Estados Unidos para el caso. Se debe tomar el consejo de la vida de grandes líderes como Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. y el nuestro Dr. Cheddi Jagan, que fueron blanco y aterrorizados por su liderazgo visionario, que fueron entregados por su propia cuenta, sino que finalmente triunfado sobre el mal en sus luchas por la justicia social y económica para el bien común.
Aunque acosado, Baldeo empujado recientemente la MTA para cumplir su promesa de construir lo que será el único ascensor que sirve Richmond Hill y sus muchos clientes de edad avanzada, personas con limitaciones físicas y embarazadas - el mismo tren el New York Times escritor Kirk Semple anima a los lectores a tomar para Richmond Hill. La diferencia es que, como con todo lo demás, Baldeo le dirá que él habría tenido que luchar 10 veces más para obtener beneficios para el barrio de Richmond Hill en comparación con otras comunidades.
140,000
Guyanese immigrants in New York City
Tomado de:
Written by
ROGER SINGH Civil Rights and Justice Center (Queens Chapter)
Monday, 10 June 2013 20:00
WITH
reference to the article reported in the NY Times captioned: “Take the A
train to Richmond Hill”, we wish to comment on a few issues. There are more
Guyanese living in the New York area but they have not participated in the
civic and political process as other groups have. They have one of the lowest
participation rates in the Census and Community Surveys counts, and also in
exercising their fundamental right and duty to vote, perhaps a residual fear
they brought to America. Consequently, they have not assimilated as they should,
and many still consider political and civic participation as either meaningless
or morally wrong.
It is little wonder that there is no Guyanese who has ever been elected to the City Council or State legislature. They may forever have to lament the fact that one of their own, Attorney Albert Baldeo came within an unprecedented 500 votes, or 0.5% to win a State Senate seat in Queens and almost defeated a 20-year incumbent and then Chairman of the Queens Republican party, Serf Maltese, in 2006. A State senate district consists of over 325,000 constituents, and that would have given them political and economic recognition they need and deserve so badly in the USA, which caters only to those groups who position themselves on the political map.
Unfortunately, while many ethnicities such as Italians, Jews, Hispanic, Irish and African-American communities shared and appreciated Baldeo’s visionary leadership and inspirational motivation to rise to such an unprecedented challenge by voting for a Guyanese immigrant, his countrymen should have embraced such an effort by coming out in proportionately greater numbers to take their community over the top. They may never get that chance again.
Some never left the rum shops to come out and vote, believing that such a goal was not achievable, while others remained selfish and narrow minded in sticking to an agenda of accumulating material wealth in the USA.
It is little wonder that there is no Guyanese who has ever been elected to the City Council or State legislature. They may forever have to lament the fact that one of their own, Attorney Albert Baldeo came within an unprecedented 500 votes, or 0.5% to win a State Senate seat in Queens and almost defeated a 20-year incumbent and then Chairman of the Queens Republican party, Serf Maltese, in 2006. A State senate district consists of over 325,000 constituents, and that would have given them political and economic recognition they need and deserve so badly in the USA, which caters only to those groups who position themselves on the political map.
Unfortunately, while many ethnicities such as Italians, Jews, Hispanic, Irish and African-American communities shared and appreciated Baldeo’s visionary leadership and inspirational motivation to rise to such an unprecedented challenge by voting for a Guyanese immigrant, his countrymen should have embraced such an effort by coming out in proportionately greater numbers to take their community over the top. They may never get that chance again.
Some never left the rum shops to come out and vote, believing that such a goal was not achievable, while others remained selfish and narrow minded in sticking to an agenda of accumulating material wealth in the USA.
Like what Mr.
Totaram alluded to, some unfortunately just leaned back in their chairs and
refused to, or discouraged others to get involved in a movement that did not
offer them any personal benefits, instead of motivating other Guyanese of the
significance of voting in a country where your only chance of empowerment comes
through political recognition and acceptance of the kind that Albert Baldeo has
led their fight for. There is nothing like proxy representation. You have to
elect one of your own to get a meaningful voice.
Totaram's unfortunate stigmatisation and categorisation that “Guyanese in Richmond Hill at its fullest is curry and roti, chutney music and Indian music, short skirts and saris, men without shirts, people with their cups, vendors yelling, guys cursing, bars packed with young men drinking rum,” is a self-defeating condemnation of a community that have given many people a lucrative living, but it is also symptomatic of a greater problem which resides within the myopic blindness of many of our Richmond Hill community, professional and business leaders. While these so-called leaders give great financial and other support for other political candidates from other communities who offer them a financial or personal stake, they will reflexively oppose their own. This trait is ingrained historically in the plantation mentality, and will instinctively cause people to act as spoilers, and cause them to shamelessly parlay their dearth of vision, motivation or political will to empower those who have given them a comfortable living, but are less fortunate than themselves. In Guyanese parlance, it is uniquely classified as “the crab mentality.”
Albert Baldeo won the District Leader’s seat to become the only elected Guyanese in the area’s history in 2010, but was targeted by the political establishment soon after with charges which stemmed not only from a witch hunt and selective prosecution, but were never brought before in City Council elections, nor against establishment candidates. It is clear that social acceptance and political power will not come easily for any Guyanese. Whether anyone will ever fight the noble fights Baldeo fought remains to be seen, or Richmond Hill will continue to be invisible on the map of New York, or the United States for that matter. He must take counsel from the lives of great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and our own Dr. Cheddi Jagan who were targeted and terrorised for their visionary leadership, who were betrayed even by their own, but who ultimately triumphed over evil in their fights for social and economic justice for the greater good.
Although embattled, Baldeo recently pushed the MTA to deliver on its promise to build what will be the only elevator serving Richmond Hill and its many elderly, physically challenged and pregnant patrons - the very same train the NY Times writer Kirk Semple encourages readers to take to Richmond Hill. The difference is that,as with everything else, Baldeo will tell you that he would have had to fight 10 times harder to get benefits to the Richmond Hill neighbourhood compared to other communities.
Totaram's unfortunate stigmatisation and categorisation that “Guyanese in Richmond Hill at its fullest is curry and roti, chutney music and Indian music, short skirts and saris, men without shirts, people with their cups, vendors yelling, guys cursing, bars packed with young men drinking rum,” is a self-defeating condemnation of a community that have given many people a lucrative living, but it is also symptomatic of a greater problem which resides within the myopic blindness of many of our Richmond Hill community, professional and business leaders. While these so-called leaders give great financial and other support for other political candidates from other communities who offer them a financial or personal stake, they will reflexively oppose their own. This trait is ingrained historically in the plantation mentality, and will instinctively cause people to act as spoilers, and cause them to shamelessly parlay their dearth of vision, motivation or political will to empower those who have given them a comfortable living, but are less fortunate than themselves. In Guyanese parlance, it is uniquely classified as “the crab mentality.”
Albert Baldeo won the District Leader’s seat to become the only elected Guyanese in the area’s history in 2010, but was targeted by the political establishment soon after with charges which stemmed not only from a witch hunt and selective prosecution, but were never brought before in City Council elections, nor against establishment candidates. It is clear that social acceptance and political power will not come easily for any Guyanese. Whether anyone will ever fight the noble fights Baldeo fought remains to be seen, or Richmond Hill will continue to be invisible on the map of New York, or the United States for that matter. He must take counsel from the lives of great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and our own Dr. Cheddi Jagan who were targeted and terrorised for their visionary leadership, who were betrayed even by their own, but who ultimately triumphed over evil in their fights for social and economic justice for the greater good.
Although embattled, Baldeo recently pushed the MTA to deliver on its promise to build what will be the only elevator serving Richmond Hill and its many elderly, physically challenged and pregnant patrons - the very same train the NY Times writer Kirk Semple encourages readers to take to Richmond Hill. The difference is that,as with everything else, Baldeo will tell you that he would have had to fight 10 times harder to get benefits to the Richmond Hill neighbourhood compared to other communities.
2005 La Guayana Esequiba – Zona en Reclamación. Instituto Geográfico
Simón Bolívar Primera Edición
Nota del editor del blog: Al
referenciarse a la República Cooperativa de Guyana se deben de tener en cuenta
los 159.500Km2, de territorios ubicados al oeste del río Esequibo conocidos con
el nombre de Guayana Esequiba o Zona en Reclamación sujetos al Acuerdo de
Ginebra del 17 de febrero de 1966.
Territorios estos sobre los
cuales el Gobierno Venezolano en representación de la Nación venezolana se
reservo sus derechos sobre los territorios de la Guayana Esequiba en su nota
del 26 de mayo de 1966 al reconocerse al nuevo Estado de Guyana:
“...por lo tanto, Venezuela
reconoce como territorio del nuevo Estado, el que se sitúa al este de la margen
derecha del río Esequibo y reitera ante la comunidad internacional, que se
reserva expresamente sus derechos de soberanía territorial sobre la zona que se
encuentra en la margen izquierda del precitado río; en consecuencia, el
territorio de la Guayana Esequiba sobre el cual Venezuela se reserva
expresamente sus derechos soberanos, limita al Este con el nuevo Estado de
Guyana, a través de la línea del río Esequibo, tomando éste desde su nacimiento
hasta su desembocadura en el Océano Atlántico...”
Mapa que
señala el Espacio de Soberanía Marítima Venezolana que se reserva, como Mar
Territorial mediante
el Decreto Presidencial No 1152 del 09 de Julio de 1968
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