THE EDITOR, Sir:
WHAT AN 'outrage!' that homosexuality, filthy as it is, has become the subject of open discussion. When did people who are doing the unthinkable become so brazen as to impose upon the rest of the population of humanity, something so reprehensible? Is it because, they, being trapped by the deception, must seek ways to find acceptance? What sheer arrogance! In other words: "Everybody shut up and let us speak."
But it is also good. Now the Jamaican dancehall artistes will have to find better use for their time. They can now create lyrics that uplift and better represent Jamaica. Killing has become a way of life in Jamaica. Acculturation to the gun is now so ingrained that the pointing of a gun finger, or the threat to shoot another, has found easy access even in the times of jest of some who should know better.
It shouldn't take the homosexual group Outrage! to make us stop inciting others to murder, rape or all the other evil works that dancehall music embraces. Our own sense of humanity and decency and love for our country should have calibrated our behaviour. Of all the people, their rebuke is the most demeaning that Jamaican artistes could suffer. But if you place yourself in a place of disrespect, expect to be disrespected by anyone.
The gifts and talents that these untrained artistes received from God, could never have been given to rain down violence, curses or disrespect. Outrage! has its own set of problems and they don't need our help to discomfit them. The lesson here is that we, that is, all of us, must be willing to learn the lesson "true respect for all" or it will be forced upon us in the most humiliating manner.
I am, etc.,
YVONNE O. COKE
Yvonne_Coke@hotmail.com
14-1/2 Half-Way Tree Road
Kingston 5
