“All black man ah same thing” – US fugitive Nazar Mohamed exposed as racist
Public outrage has erupted following the circulation of a leaked audio recording in which prominent businessman Nazar Mohamed is heard making racist and threatening remarks toward a man believed to be one of his workers.
In the recording, Mohamed repeatedly uses derogatory language, makes sweeping racist generalisations about people of African descent, and threatens to terminate the worker’s employment while demanding the settlement of an alleged debt.
“You need fuh go and work with yuh mattie black man. Because all black man a same thing, whether yuh come from Africa, whether yuh come from England, Caribbean, whatever,” Mohamed is heard saying. “All wa you want is money, money, money.”
As the worker attempts several times to explain his situation, Mohamed cuts him off, raising his voice and refusing to listen. “Don’t tell me nothing! I don’t wanna hear nothing!” he says, before threatening dismissal. “Me na think me want yuh back anymore. Me gon get somebody good fuh do me work, and you gon ga fuh go.”
The recording also captures Mohamed making remarks about replacing the worker with others, again framed along racial lines. “Go back to Rodell. It got couple black man get business in town and so on, they gon employ yuh,” he says.
At one point, the exchange escalates further, with Mohamed issuing what appears to be a threat of detention over an outstanding matter. “You ga settle up these things before you leave you know. Or else me gon lock yuh up,” he states.
The worker, sounding distressed, pleads to explain his situation and references health concerns, including pain affecting his head and eye, and a request for leave to seek medical attention. Those explanations are dismissed, with Mohamed directing him to speak to someone else instead. “Explain to Safraz, don’t explain to me, ‘cause the more you explain to me, the more mad I gon get,” he says.
The recording has since drawn widespread condemnation on social media, with many Guyanese describing the remarks as openly racist, abusive and degrading, particularly given the apparent power imbalance between employer and worker. Critics have also raised concerns about labour practices, workers’ rights and the normalisation of such treatment behind closed doors.
