Shame on you, Ms Ritch
published: Sunday | September 28, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I RECENTLY read Ms. Dawn Ritch's exposition on the origin of her racial background. Never have I heard such absurdity. Ms. Ritch, how can you justify the slave trade? It was wrong 400 years ago and it is still wrong today. I am surprised that you, a black woman, made such comments.
The British did not civilise this world. Before the British went to Africa and enslaved the natives, there were no guns, no artillery, no missiles, no rockets on the African continent, so please tell me how they helped Africans. You need to free your mind from mental slavery.
You also mentioned Black Americans as loud and insolent. Ms. Ritch, you have no right to stereotype Black Americans. You do not know every Black American in the United States. I am a Jamaican, and I have lived in the United States for seven years. I am not African because that denotes a nationality not a race, but there is no doubt in my mind what my race is. I am black Jamaican. That is what I see myself and nobody can tell me differently.
ALL TYPES
There are all types of people from all racial and social backgrounds living in the U.S. There are caucasians who wear their pants below their buttocks and there are blacks who are very erudite. Ms. Ritch, next time you write please be more objective and not so subjective because your subjectivity squints of ignorance.
