No authority to criticise
published: Wednesday | June 18, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN REFERENCE to your June 14 story that the USA State Department is warning Jamaica against exploiting children or trafficking in children, I retort that the USA has no moral or other principled basis on which to criticise any other country for this practice which is worse in the USA than anywhere else on Earth.
References in the story to child prostitution rings and other similar abuses of children make it even more of a farce that the USA should be trying to blackmail other countries when their own regard for Black children especially is nothing to write home about. Because of its perpetual racist policies, the USA government continues to relegate Black children to ghettoes, lives of poverty, malnutrition, prostitution and other evils and the numbers grow annually, according to statistics provided by the NAACP and other concerned Black organisations.
The ultimate consideration in this matter is a nation's regard for human lives and when it comes down to that the USA has the worst historical record, as shown by the holocaust of slavery, the practices of lynchings, the murders and massacres of Indians, bombings in Vietnam, Iraq and hundreds of other places on Earth. Perhaps, if the USA government would stop and tally how many millions of children it is single-handedly responsible for destroying, then it would first cast the proverbial plank out of its own eye before trying to take the speck out of Jamaica's.
