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Ravi Dev embraces the PPP and Barack Obama! - Freddie Kissoon
Ravi Dev has the temerity to quote Barack Obama
When I reached a certain part of what is now one of the most famous speeches by a politician in modern history — Senator Barack Obama’s delivery on race as his reaction to those who claimed that his church preacher, Rev. Wright, is a racist — my mind went on two Guyanese persons, Ravi Dev and Eric Phillips.
I will quote Obama: “For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public…At times that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician’s own failings.” Read the rest of this entry »
