Forgotten our history?
published: Friday | January 27, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

FLAGS FLYING, bands playing, speeches echoing in great halls, only a half century ago little Jamaica stepped from behind the curtain of its colonial past and presented itself to the world, a new and independent nation.

Today that same nation and its people are in denial. Like an alcoholic who refuses to admit the problem, Jamaica refuses to admit that for all its many accomplishments, its still-developing society has recently demonstrated the least respect for life of any free western democracy. 'Murder capital of the world' indeed! Have Jamaicans forgotten their history?

Their ancestors were some of the millions of black African men, women and children, innocent human beings, stolen from their homelands through the power of guns, brought to the New World, and used to build a white man's world of self-indulgence and materialism.

Today, Jamaicans have created that same world for themselves and are paying the price. Shame and congratulations are in order!

I am, etc.,

ED McCOY

mmhobo48@juno.com

Bokeelia, FL

Via Go-Jamaica