Forbes Burnham's Inaugural Speech 1964 Guyana

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  • Forbes Burnham's Inaugral Speech 1964 Guyana

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  • @shamyunramratan1795
    @shamyunramratan1795 Před rokem +4

    Any people can make a speech action proved different 28 years of dictatorship half the population migrated today the people coming home so action proved different

  • @daltonharmon5949
    @daltonharmon5949 Před 3 lety +11

    What a beautiful voice

  • @wyndhleodumegwu253
    @wyndhleodumegwu253 Před 4 lety +16

    ..."The East Indians are important; the Africans are important... "

    • @panditsharma3058
      @panditsharma3058 Před 4 lety +5

      The dictator that reduced Guyana to bankruptcy

    • @Nadi_ahh
      @Nadi_ahh Před měsícem

      ​@@panditsharma3058 My Grandfather was one of those IMPORTANT EAST INDIANS and because of my GRANDFATHER you were able to get your DIWALI Holiday.... and my grandfather was Indian and not Hindu. Don't speak ill of Mr. Burnham because my mother vouches for this man she met so many many times. I know how she was insulted by Guyanese (Indians) because of who her father was and the position he held in PNC Government.

  • @rennicabarnwell6255
    @rennicabarnwell6255 Před 2 lety +17

    Oh my word. I wasn’t yet born when he was president but i yarn to have a president who speaks so eloquently.

    • @nirvanabhagwandin6327
      @nirvanabhagwandin6327 Před 2 lety

      And he became a racist bigoted dictators. He was worst than the white slave masters.

    • @nirvanabhagwandin6327
      @nirvanabhagwandin6327 Před 2 lety +3

      His eloquent speech did nothing for the people of Guyana. He was a brutal dictator at best.

    • @FirstLast-pt7bm
      @FirstLast-pt7bm Před 2 lety +1

      Yarn? You want to sleep?

    • @nirvanabhagwandin6327
      @nirvanabhagwandin6327 Před 2 lety

      You would have most likely died of starvation, malnutrition or dehydration. Dictators are know for being eloquent speakers, comvincing, cunning, delusional, bigoted, corrupt, evil, wicked, nasty, demonic, selfish, useless, racist, heartless, lacks credibility, lacks honesty, lacks decency, very deceptive...

  • @evaallen9728
    @evaallen9728 Před 2 lety +5

    Exceptional speech by a world class Orator. A true visionary and remarkable leader of his country.

  • @anitasimeon9000
    @anitasimeon9000 Před 3 lety +14

    What a well spoken statesman I grew up in Guyana during his reign

    • @ananmai8700
      @ananmai8700 Před rokem

      Me too, I visited his home in Belfield two with my father.

  • @jamelaahamad515
    @jamelaahamad515 Před 5 lety +8

    Cheddar throw down the gauntlet in parliament , banned from speaking,but was horse riding with Burnham the following week end at Belbaag

  • @badboymontoya
    @badboymontoya Před 12 lety +14

    I'm a student- very big fan of politics, history and everything to do with it! Forbes burnham was a very smart man and good ideas but in the end greed took over. I can't deny or any smart person can't deny that he had good ideas. Guyana have a lot of potentials but they must over come greed, racism and foreign minded. They allow everyone to come and take advantage of their resources and people eg brazilians, Chinese, Indians, canadians and Americans. What burnham wanted is for us to sustain ou

  • @snowwhyte27
    @snowwhyte27 Před 11 lety +4

    This generation will make the change Guyana needs :)..and haters gonna hate ;p

  • @g7vak
    @g7vak Před 12 lety +4

    Say one thing, mean another.

  • @annouskhaadams1546
    @annouskhaadams1546 Před 5 lety +13

    Well spoken President, it's sad that many Guyanese focus on the regimented way in which he carried out his leadership. In my opinion he style of leadership is a reflection of the experience as aǹ individual living in British Guiana and the many challenges that came with that. He was much closer to the reliques of slavery and as a result must have had a great drive for national pride. National pride which many lack today. Burnham, like any other President isn't without fault and we surely should try to see the strengths of his leadership.

    • @bobbyramnauth2634
      @bobbyramnauth2634 Před 5 lety +5

      This DICTATOR starve the guyanese nation

    • @deb1271
      @deb1271 Před 4 lety

      So true

    • @yahwehloveme6819
      @yahwehloveme6819 Před 4 lety +3

      @@bobbyramnauth2634 And you still survived. Please explain starvation?

    • @bobbyramnauth2634
      @bobbyramnauth2634 Před 4 lety

      @@yahwehloveme6819 I fled to the USA bitch

    • @tommygibbs8247
      @tommygibbs8247 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bobbyramnauth2634
      You and yours fled to the US because you and others want to overthrow him and his administration and he has not going to have it. So you fled.

  • @mr.johnjones7346
    @mr.johnjones7346 Před 3 lety +8

    Great that’s all that needs to be said. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @carribgirl007
    @carribgirl007 Před 3 lety +6

    I was a little school girl in Guyana west indies when Forbes was president. My first time hearing him speak

  • @rovinhaimnauth6341
    @rovinhaimnauth6341 Před 3 lety +7

    Burnham suffer guyana for 20 years

  • @JamainHatton
    @JamainHatton Před 12 lety +2

    @badboymontoya Eloquently uttered!

  • @mLi75
    @mLi75 Před 12 lety +5

    The americans didn't see him as a communist but they saw Jagan as one?!!
    Socialism is what Jagan looked for. An indian would have never been a full fledged communist. Such a pity the americans had to interfere.

  • @michaelsansculotte7584

    Can this speech be played on social media platforms often

  • @robertslopez1812
    @robertslopez1812 Před 9 lety +11

    Today many look at Burham as a icon. Its unbelievable this man too away the basic rights of human in Guyana.
    Rigged elections, starvation, killing of political leader Walter Rodney, jailed political leader Jagan.

    • @lefairy77
      @lefairy77 Před 4 lety +2

      Roberts lopez You know what your problem is? You’re not Guyanese!

    • @yahwehloveme6819
      @yahwehloveme6819 Před 4 lety +2

      Really? He should have jail you. What happened to Minister shaw a sitting minister him and his family all murdered and the PPP did not, but open an inquiry for Walter ( which was ok) but what happened to mr. SHAW???

  • @cosmic808
    @cosmic808 Před 4 lety +2

    That's happening now omg

  • @kenosam6756
    @kenosam6756 Před 5 měsíci

    Wow

  • @rnjan9
    @rnjan9 Před 11 lety +12

    Burnham, indeed, was a superb, polished speaker. But behind those words was the Beelzeub. The man was a virtual authoritative monster! It was all for his own - a sad, long chapter from democracy.

    • @lefairy77
      @lefairy77 Před 4 lety

      Dave Bhoj SO?!

    • @michaelfitz56
      @michaelfitz56 Před 4 lety +1

      Dave Bhoj you don’t want to know why he adopted that style. Please listen to the first part of this speech

    • @pambennett6913
      @pambennett6913 Před 2 lety +1

      I always love that intellectual Educated man did read from any paper thatnwas within him as a father of this Nation

    • @pambennett6913
      @pambennett6913 Před 2 lety +1

      Did not read from any paper

    • @nandaneejokhu2830
      @nandaneejokhu2830 Před 2 lety +1

      True

  • @Godsoriginal
    @Godsoriginal Před 2 lety +8

    There will never be another President like President Forbes Burnham.

    • @nom5205
      @nom5205 Před 2 lety +2

      never say never.....in politics, war and love.

    • @brazims
      @brazims Před rokem +1

      Hopefully! Never!

  • @michaelhazell1642
    @michaelhazell1642 Před 4 měsíci

    God bless you very well speech😅

  • @whiteliketar
    @whiteliketar Před 11 lety +7

    Mugabe and burnham - pretty much the same type of folk - burnham was lucky he got the USA to support him at the time the US was paranoid against communism - IF Jagan was smart and embraced the american way - Guyana's history would have so different.

  • @bgsab7912
    @bgsab7912 Před rokem +1

    Since my dad was chief of Surinamese CID or Central Information Service, and Immigration in Nickerie, which is near British Guyana, and visited BG frequently we knew what happened there. The racist Burnham ruined BG and Indians who had the opportunity went abroad. Thousands came to Suriname, went to Canada, USA and some were entitled to enter England. I'm shocked how the blacks are still adoring the criminal racist Burnham. You better study your history...

  • @Inkscription
    @Inkscription Před 12 lety +7

    After assuring the Indians citizens that they have much to hope for, it is quite interesting what was transpired and became embedded in our society by 1985.
    The similarities between Gairy and Burnham !

  • @horseheadnebula4234
    @horseheadnebula4234 Před rokem +1

    He was a dictator and brutal to the East Indian, best in his speech but does not do want he said.

  • @jamessahoye1529
    @jamessahoye1529 Před 4 lety +6

    He created an Exidous of Guyanese,,,The same is Evident.

  • @EmanVenus
    @EmanVenus Před 12 lety +2

    A good history of what happened was written by CBJ himself.

  • @hymnsofpraise2841
    @hymnsofpraise2841 Před 3 lety +2

    The making of a Socialist Nation. Say what the people expect to hear, and when in power do just the opposite. I was there and heard those false promises....and by Divine intervention got out of Guyana before the destruction caused by Nationalization and his "Cooperative Republic" model of change, under this indoctrinated purveyor of Socialist ideals. The over seven hundred million dollars he spirited away to the Swiss Bank did not serve him well, as fate would have it, the horrific medical issues and sufferings he endured, leading to his demise, were appropriate as and by way of retribution. Fifty years later, this demon's legacy still haunts all of Guyana.

  • @alexanderfryer7605
    @alexanderfryer7605 Před 10 lety +11

    Never his equal! If he was still alive Guyana would be a different place. Has it been so long that we have forgotten....the bread basket of the Caribbean? Truly a Statesman and a Leader. Still to see his equal....regardless! Period!

    • @bobbyramnauth2634
      @bobbyramnauth2634 Před 5 lety +1

      DICTATOR WHO WAS WILLING TO FEED THE CARIBBEAN WITH RICE FLOUR BREAD ,

    • @yahwehloveme6819
      @yahwehloveme6819 Před 4 lety +1

      @@bobbyramnauth2634 And you survived! Guess what?? Rice flour is still selling.

  • @salatee1
    @salatee1 Před 2 lety +7

    What an evil man who ruined Guyana.

  • @tedwenbobb543
    @tedwenbobb543 Před 2 lety +2

    This is always my president and my mentor I grew up under him but others have strayed from his path even stubborn GRANGER who vex over my comment surely loose .

  • @arunakhan2343
    @arunakhan2343 Před 9 lety +16

    Such captivating speech but inhumane actions to his fellow country man, a classic example of deception that is the hallmark of a dictator , that is the man that I remember forbes burham. Why a dictator? Well none of his policies were democratic in nature that leaves us with him being either a communist or a dictator. Well a communist looks after the needs of its people but you have to work for the state at any cost.Burham did not look after the needs of his people but yet the citizens of guyana had work for the state at any cost.Thats why I refer to him as a dictator.

    • @sherwinbenjamin575
      @sherwinbenjamin575 Před 5 lety +5

      What craziness is this Forbes Burnham was the best politician who walked here in Guyana his policies were and is relevant even today. The most evil politician to walk here is one Barrat jagdeo

    • @jamelaahamad515
      @jamelaahamad515 Před 5 lety +1

      Burnham was a socialist ideologist

    • @jordonnelson5002
      @jordonnelson5002 Před 4 lety

      @@jamelaahamad515 the thing is socialism requires perfect humans, and humans are not perfect.

    • @mrrreddy8067
      @mrrreddy8067 Před 4 lety

      Sherwin Benjamin, black people scared of Jagdoe bad bad eh? Lol

    • @yahwehloveme6819
      @yahwehloveme6819 Před 4 lety +1

      @@mrrreddy8067 Thanks for your comment, is shows that BJ should not lead any nation. I have a problem with the drugs, because I live in Guyana and see the craziness he had the country in. Black people amt afraid of him we are afraid for GUYANA.

  • @nirvanabhagwandin6327
    @nirvanabhagwandin6327 Před 2 lety +2

    One of the worst rigga ever existed.

  • @yvonne30054
    @yvonne30054 Před 13 lety +3

    make me want to puke

  • @41100ameena
    @41100ameena Před 13 lety +10

    LEADER OF ALL LEADERS..

  • @shamainfowler1643
    @shamainfowler1643 Před 2 lety +3

    I love to listen to him speak. I have watched all the videos with him. He was a great speaker, leader and president of our beloved country, Guyana.

  • @URLOVED247
    @URLOVED247 Před 11 lety +7

    Eloquent speech indeed… and he was already criticizing Indians.
    Most Indians complained that Burnham was destroying the country - which was true…
    But guess what? What you focus on expands!
    To this day people are still complaining… proof from the comments below!

  • @URLOVED247
    @URLOVED247 Před 11 lety +6

    Guyanese lack of education prevented most of them from understanding the politics at the time…
    And yes, because he was black the Indians did not like that either.
    However, it was not a one sided clear cut racist thing…
    Indians who were PPP were forced to change to PNC in order to get a ‘good’ job and not be harassed by the PNC (who were mainly blacks)… these converts lived more comfortably than others who did not change parties.

    • @wyndhleodumegwu253
      @wyndhleodumegwu253 Před 7 lety +4

      URLOVED247 :In Guyana, East Indians and Africans - both of whom are black skinned; no significant so-called white.
      In street parlance, one says, "black and coolie" - colloquialisms.
      East Indians of Hindu and Muslim religious faiths with Indian and Pakistani Heritages respectively; n'est pas?
      Africans with African Ancestry, Portuguese with Portuguese Heritage, and so on...

    • @burchelledwards641
      @burchelledwards641 Před 3 lety +2

      He referred to himself as African, Guyanese African.
      Renember he was a native of Guyana, not of United States.

  • @goddessjustice6210
    @goddessjustice6210 Před 5 lety +5

    💋😍😘nothing but love and respect ! The cast break when you were manifested here. Haven’t seen another like you.FWP

  • @jrseetram
    @jrseetram Před 12 lety +11

    first and last true leader of guyana...R.I.P

    • @bobbyramnauth2634
      @bobbyramnauth2634 Před 5 lety +8

      Fucking DICTATOR

    • @johneilmattis4654
      @johneilmattis4654 Před 4 lety +1

      @@bobbyramnauth2634 so what

    • @wottt
      @wottt Před 4 lety

      @@bobbyramnauth2634 expound on your statement

    • @bubujooestes1499
      @bubujooestes1499 Před 4 lety +1

      First and I hope last dictator .Granger is a student of Burnham.If he is allowed to carry out his rigging we will suffer and starve like in Burnham days.
      God took him early because of the horrendous things this man did.

    • @tommygibbs8247
      @tommygibbs8247 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bubujooestes1499
      I guess Cheddi Jagan must have been more worst.

  • @JUNIORBEE
    @JUNIORBEE Před 12 lety +9

    all of you people are far from reality this man was the best thing that ever happen to guyana.all he wanted us to do is to be an independent nation and work together and use our natural resources that we have but some people didnt see it like that all they wanted was that junk food that was imported into ur country.all he wanted us to do is farm more and work hard but poepel didnt wanted to do that.he just wanted us to hustle hard and build the country.who ever say guyana is poor u not guyanese

    • @wyndhl9465
      @wyndhl9465 Před 6 lety +1

      jimmy chungah:
      The Burnham era, on the contrary, brought more socio-economic decline and harships to especially the Africans who have been (and are) the major buying consumers of scarce but necessary items; necessary items which were sold illegally, and very costly by business merchants who were able to smuggle in those scarce but necessary items from Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.
      These merchants profited immensely during the Burnham era by selling, very expensively, the cheaply-smuggled grocery from the abovementioned neighboring countries.
      One noted PLUS during the Burnham era was FREE EDUCATION from NURSEY to UNIVERSITY: Diplona/Associates, Bachelors/Baccalaureate, Masters and Professional Degrees.
      FREE without regards to "race" or political affiliations - EDUCATION!
      Freedom of Worship amongst Hindus, Muslims and Christians were preserved, as well as permission to assemble and protest - despite the assassination in Guyana of Dr. Walter Rodney, African world-renowned professor, author and co-leader of the Working People's Alliance.

    • @camilleseeram3223
      @camilleseeram3223 Před 4 lety +1

      Junior, it’s very sad to see we have people with your mentality in Guyana today.

    • @mrrreddy8067
      @mrrreddy8067 Před 4 lety

      Last time I checked Hennessy and coke a cola wasn’t Guyanese made. Lol

    • @amenhotepmaat3657
      @amenhotepmaat3657 Před 4 lety

      I ain't care ,I ain't want no blackman rule me

    • @bubujooestes1499
      @bubujooestes1499 Před 4 lety

      Did you like rice flour and cassareep everyday?????

  • @robertslopez1812
    @robertslopez1812 Před 9 lety +3

    @William Moore
    Giving the chinese land for harvesting Timber, and giving the Russian land to harvest out resources is not selling out Guyana its foreign investments.
    Who in Guyana with the money, skills and equipment to harvest our Timber?
    Learn economics and don't make a fool of yourself

  • @rudelenks
    @rudelenks Před 13 lety +3

    A true leader

  • @whiteliketar
    @whiteliketar Před 10 lety +8

    such evil - this man

    • @goddessjustice6210
      @goddessjustice6210 Před 5 lety +2

      whiteliketar , such a fool you are. You had 28years of the PPP- it was good for you I guess.

  • @bebimahamed222
    @bebimahamed222 Před 4 lety +7

    Burnham was a great leader

    • @bubujooestes1499
      @bubujooestes1499 Před 4 lety

      Burnham was all talk and no walk.He used his good education for evil things.
      The Indian Immigration Funds were confiscated and used to build the National centre for which no Indians benefited. A little show now and again.The Belfield State house and lands were stolen from an Indian family and his lordship built helicopter landing strip there.He thought he would live forever.God cut him down at 61 years which was pretty young.God doesn't like ugly.

  • @reyran2011
    @reyran2011 Před 11 lety +3

    Breezafun - If he had lived any longer you must understand we would have been like North Korea without the Nukes and a powerful army but with alot of starvation,deprivations zero press freedom and an opposition that would have been obliterated. Another example would be to compare Mugabe's Zimbabwe.. these are two classic examples on how the country would have been. You need to understand Forbes Burnham never won a single election fairly in Guyana.. in 1964 the UF helped him into power.

  • @YOUROLDFRIEND666
    @YOUROLDFRIEND666 Před 4 lety +4

    A man and President for all Guyanese. RIP

    • @soundcheck2k7
      @soundcheck2k7 Před 2 lety

      Yeah for all Guyanese except for East Indians. Screw him and his legacy.

  • @vyktor90
    @vyktor90 Před 13 lety +1

    GENIOUS

  • @charlesangel6429
    @charlesangel6429 Před rokem +3

    The greatest of all time LFSB a man of integrity and loved by all.

  • @oralcummings4850
    @oralcummings4850 Před rokem +1

    This crook spoke the Oxford's english.

  • @traderboi2662
    @traderboi2662 Před 5 lety +4

    All style, Zero substance!

  • @PoekeyEvans
    @PoekeyEvans Před 11 lety

    God didn't kill him, god would have let him rule forever

  • @mohamedrahaman9238
    @mohamedrahaman9238 Před 6 lety +1

    Great orator my ass. He trying to sound British. That is no Guyanese accent.

    • @audreyschultz6481
      @audreyschultz6481 Před 5 lety +3

      He was schooled in England what do expect.

    • @tommygibbs8247
      @tommygibbs8247 Před 2 lety +1

      I know dumbass Ali and many more in the PPP wish if they were as smart as him or can articulate themselves as he did. What a brilliant man. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    • @romemeka
      @romemeka Před dnem

      He was a trained English Debator and law student in England. Its not fake.