The subject of J'can class
published: Sunday | December 21, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

COLOUR AND class are not subjects that this society will comfortably discuss, especially the middle class.

Michael Manley, despite his mistakes (and who among them has not screwed up?) attempted to create some equilibrium by bringing more blacks into the mainstream of business. Maybe he moved too fast, and the majority of the brown and white entrepreneurial class saw him as a Judas and most of the greedy emerging black entrepreneurs screwed up their opportunities.

The brown and white Jamaican entrepreneurial class who thought they were going to naturally inherit the role of our ex-colonial masters in 1962 are back again with renewed vigour and before someone like Dawn Ritch tells me that the majority of black entrepreneurs who were given opportunities, especially in the financial sector, messed up big time, I have already conceded.

If what I suspect is in the making, then an Idi Amin could rise up and those who had seen Michael Manley as a Judas is going to see him as Jesus Christ.

I am, etc.,

WAYNE COKE

purecoke@hotmail.com

Kingston 20