What Easter should mean
Editorial
Guyana Chronicle
April 12, 2004
GUYANESE are climaxing Easter celebrations today with traditional kite flying and family fun-day treats.
Kite flying is a business calendar bonanza. But it isn't exclusively commercial. Kite flying for many Christians symbolizes the ascension of Jesus into heaven days after his resurrection and their recognition of the hope His raising from the dead brings to human salvation.
As visits to the National Park, the seawall bandstand and other areas in Guyana will demonstrate, Guyanese of all shades and colours and affiliations will converge together to fly their kites or picnic in a spirit of camaraderie and togetherness, conscious of their uniqueness but also of their inescapable destiny as a multi-racial people molded into one nation. That's what Easter should mean.
Those who continually claim to speak for and represent each of the other major ethnic groups should go out there and learn from what they'll see. What they'll behold are gatherings of scores, hundreds and thousands of Guyanese living their convictions that we are all Guyanese, and that no activism revolving around race hate is going to detract from their choice, desire, obligation and commitment to being one people.