Appalling commentary
published: Thursday | February 21, 2008
The Editor, Sir:
Dawn Ritch wrote a com-mentary that is inaccurate and ignorant. Barack Hussein Obama is a black man married to a black woman from the southside of Chicago … not that she would know where that is … being from Jamaica. He worked on the southside of Chicago in grass-roots efforts to inform a community plagued by drugs, economic disparity, violence, fear and many other ills that are infused in the ghetto. Michelle and Barack are both Harvard-educated and black. I am surprised at The Gleaner for allowing this buf-foonery to be printed.
As a Jamaican-born psychologist who has been educated in America after attending St Theresa's Prep in Kingston and married to an African-American man, we are truly appalled by such printed ignorance. How dare her question Senator Obama's ethnicity? Barack Hussein has more African genes than most of us who are "mixed-up" with various ethnicities. Someone from a country whose motto is 'Out of many, one people' due to intermarriages and relationships of Africans, Indians, Chinese, European, etc, questions Barack's racial identity?
First opportunity
This is the first opportunity for a well-educated black man who does not wear zoot suits and coons to be nominated for commander-in-chief and uninformed persons are writing articles based upon hearsay and disproportionate information. It is absolutely appalling. I am Jamaican and have always held on fiercely to my culture and citizenship. I am perplexed at the level of uninformed journalism. Ms Ritch needs to volunteer at the Obama headquarters and conduct appropriate research and investigative reporting before printing journalistic trash.
As a firm believer in the democratic process and freedom of belief and speech ... you can endorse whomever you like. However, do you 'dumb' down the other candidate from hearsay ... print the facts. Investigate information before it's printed.
