When I stop to try to take pictures of the temples in the crowded streets, I got waved down by these boys shouting to me "White Boy take my picture, take my picture."
I get called white boy all the time when someone wants to get my attention and usually it is with a similar level of excitement as with these boys. The Festival of lights represents the return of light into the world from the darkest night. Unfortunately here in Guyana it can also be read with some racial implications which are given credibility by the ancient stories from India about the seperation of the Aryan and Dravidian races. All traditions have their unique histories of much good and much evil. Hopefully we can acknowledge the unsavory aspects of our pasts and continue to move forward to messages of a more unifing nature.