THE EDITOR, Sir:
ON SEPTEMBER 30 riding on the No. 21 bus I overheard a misunderstanding between two women commuters - a Negro and an Indian. Reaching boiling point of her temper my sister dark skin said: "Coolie do not have any talk in this country."
Now, like my black brother feeling a misfit when called a Nigger, an Indian also feels insulted when called a Coolie. I remember a very long time ago, the late Prime Minister of Trinidad, Dr. Eric Williams, made an announcement that the people should cease using the words Nigger and Coolie.
Mr. Editor, God posted us on this terrestrial orb to be kind to each other, and not to practice racial discrimination.
Mr. Editor, calling an Indian 'Coolie' is a sign of disrespect and to say the people of Indian origin do not have any talk in Jamaica - is also disrespectful.
I am, etc.,
VERNAL BANKERSINGH
Constant Spring
