ROC to give opportunites to express racial unity Stabroek News March 28, 2000 The Rights of Children (ROC) body is intent on providing more opportunities for the great majority of Guyanese to demonstrate that they want racial unity above all else, a press release from the racial harmony campaigners stated yesterday. The release noted that Sunday afternoon's downpour did not dampen the enthusiasm of the hundreds who braved the elements to participate in the 'ROC-A-Thon Against Racism' walk. The event ended a week of activities by ROC to celebrate the World Day Against Racism. The release said the walkers had been accompanied by the police steel-band which rendered the ROC's theme song, David Rudder's 'The Ganges and the Nile' while they chanted and waved their ROC 'rags'. The parade ended up outside Guyana Stores instead of the sea-wall which was the initial finishing line. Among the participants were young people from churches, business places, the United Nations system, the Guyana National Service and the Trades Union Congress youth movement who carried banners while chanting "Race is out, Love is in, Get together and All join in"; "We want love, peace and unity, 'cos this is our community; "Not the colour of the skin but the blood that flows, Not where we're from but the love we show"; "Don't be a racist, live as one, come together for work and fun," the release stated.