The Editor, Sir:

I wish to address this letter to your Sunday Gleaner columnist Dawn Ritch:

Dear Ms Ritch:

I am writing in reference to your article of February 17, "Obama the Imposter". The definition for miscegenation is "Interbreeding of races whites and non-whites." Now, Ms Ritch, who would be non-whites? Who makes these decisions? What category does Obama fit in?

You say that Americans are under the mistaken impression that Barack Obama is a black man or a brown one and all because he is the product of a black man and a white woman.

Ms Ritch, have you read what you wrote? I don't believe you have, because this statement doesn't make any sense. What does his father deserting him have to do with anything? He turned out all right without him so, apparently his mother did a good job.

More nonsense

Then, some more nonsense, and, I quote: "If he was brown he would have come from Baltimore or Philadelphia. The population of Philadelphia is 1,555,6000 and Maryland 4,860,000 so Baltimore, which is in Maryland, is much less.

According to you, all the brown people in the USA are accumulated in those small areas. What happens in the rest of the country with millions of fair-skinned people living in the USA? What are they? Or haven't you figured that one out yet? And where does Obama fit in?

I'll tell you where he fits in! As a child of God, and God is in charge of ALL COLOURS, he fits in everywhere, and to have reached the heights where he is now, he must be doing something right with God's blessings - lots of blessings! In America, he is in his country and has all the rights of a citizen of the USA.

Interfering

Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson have the right to do what they are doing for Obama. They certainly don't need your permission or your advice - especially your advice. You are in Jamaica interfering with the American people's business and politics and can't even get your facts straight. Things haven't turned out well for you politically in Jamaica, so you have reached over into another man's country trying to mind and run their business without success, of course, because this article was ridiculous and silly.

You know, you used to be one of my favourite writers in The Gleaner along with Morris Cargill. I looked forward to The Sunday Gleaner and reached for two articles, first Mr Cargill's and then yours; but Mr Cargill must be turning over in his grave after reading your article.I am, etc.,

C CRAWFORD

Catherine Mount, Montego Bay