THE EDITOR, Sir,
AUBYN HILL'S proposal that Jamaicans be trained "for export" reads like a twenty-first century human trade without chains, (The Gleaner, February 6). Those that are "fit" will be exported to the United States and presumably other European countries so strapped for working cargo where their own home-bred supply cannot or will not meet the demands of their own economies.
This surplus of superiorly trained Jamaicans, who had not been trained to such a level to satisfy or exceed the demands of the domestic environment, to elevate them for their own good and to enjoy a livelihood in their own homeland, would be shipped overseas, separated from families, to be assimilated into an alien culture for the convenience and betterment of that culture. The most convenient and effective tool of destruction is separation and disorganisation.
Our educational situation seems to be in such tatters (but it really isn't) that we are now talking about a solution that will "drive" the Negroes into an upward spiral towards "backward integration". Slavery being legally abolished and no longer a "threat", we have no one but ourselves to blame for voluntary servitude.
The "Human Development Institute" would responsibly raise up the Jamaican "product" (i.e. person) where he will be stamped fit for export. The Jamaican raw material (i.e. undereducated person) will be given the opportunity to rise from the bowels of hopelessness in Jamaica to a bright future in the diaspora.
The major benefit of this trade in humans from the plan is the remittances that will be generated from the "exported product". This plan will feed itself as the tools for training the exportable Jamaicans will be made ready. The "product" will be assembled in Jamaica and shipped out. What replacement commodities have we bartered for the human cargo?
I am, etc.,
A. M. ANSARI
Stop1998@aol.com
Via Go-Jamaica
