GUYANA PRESIDENT MEETS THE QUEEN

Anna Correia

April 26 at 6:10pm · 

ABOUT THIS EMBARRASSING IMAGE...

As a Guyanese, when I saw this image I was immediately embarrassed. Here we have the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana inclining submissively before Queen Elizabeth, former colonizer of British Guiana.
Body posture is extremely revealing of one's state of mind and completes or contradicts verbal language. And this is no posture for a President greeting the Queen as an equal.

I asked the person sitting next to me what he thought. Not knowing who Granger was, the person answered that he saw a house servant and his mistress... I then explained that that man right there is actually the Head of State... Of my country.

Granger automatically adopts this house slave posture not only physically, but also in his policy-making vis-à-vis the ABC. But to see him do it in front of the Queen of England is just humiliating. In contrast however, he straightens his back with pompous disdain when he turns it on the Guyanese people and refuses to hold the long overdue press conference we've been begging for since he was elected.

I hope he found the courage to pursue the agenda on African land reparation in his exchange with the Queen, with those who are more than anyone else responsible for this dilemma, and apt to bring satisfaction and "closure" to the issue of reparation.

I hope he has the same courage Stephen Campbell had when he relentlessly fought for his people's indigenous land rights in England when Guyana was yet a colony.

I hope this picture of him bowing before Massa isn't the best he can do.