Dear Editor,

Columnist David Mullings in his piece in the Sunday Observer of October 10, “Better must come… but when” carefully skirts our historical realities of the 1970s as though he was walking between the raindrops. This is understandable as he wasn’t able to witness that grim period, as the stork landed him in 1981, and our journalists are yet to remove their tales from down under and let that part of our history hang out for objective scrutiny.

I had a ringside seat when an overwhelming groundswell of Jamaicans started to come together as one, with fixity of purpose to ensure that “better must come” enhanced and spearheaded by charismatic and creative leadership. But alas, it is easier to do bad than good. “Turn them back” was the mantra. For me, to look good you must look bad; it is easier to do bad than to do good

(9/11 draws on this.) It was an egregious alien culture with foreign collaboration that shredded the fabric of our culture and economy alike.

The prolonged silence from our so-called journalists is deafening and immoral, reminding us that “those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crises the hottest corner in hell is reserved for them” As if this is not bad enough, the cowardice within our journalistic community ventures to blame the effect of the worst destabilised economy in the Caribbean. On those who had the task to navigate us during this period, truth and objectivity are now endangered species.

Fitz Anderson

fitzanderson@yahoo.com