THE EDITOR, Sir:
JAMAICANS ARE like a pendulum, swinging from one extreme to the other. When we are bad and violent, we are at our worst; when we are kind, we pour out our hearts, as the kindest, and when we are good we are the best.
With all our inadequacies, foreigners who visit our island are always amazed, and astonished by our positive energies of warmth, jovial attitudes and open smiles, regardless of the problems we face daily.
United States of America, the world's richest and most powerful country, whose motto is printed on its money, In God We Trust, that same country which wants to democratise the world, and pour Christianity down the world's throat, did not see it in her heart to accept those poor disenfranchised and starving black people, who would prefer to take that chance with their lives on rickety boats, fleeing their homeland to a safer and better life.
On the other side of the coin, if it were white-skinned, blue-eyed Cubans fleeing Cuba, a flotilla or armada with red carpet would welcome them to the shores of U.S. of A. but the people of this little rock, this paradise, West of Eden, this God-blessed country, and its people opened their hearts and pockets and welcomed our poor brothers and sisters from Haiti. As if they were our own flesh and blood.
Money and power are but material, only for a time. But love and kindness are goodness and godliness. Forever, God bless Jamaica and its people.
I am, etc.,
TREVOR RADWAY
Brown's Town
