Dear Editor,

It is amazing how as Jamaicans we boast about Jamaicans who have made it overseas, for example Jamaican makes history as Toronto’s first black police chief, you all know what I am talking about.

Now, do not get me wrong, I  am not saying we should not be proud, however, while we heap accolades and sing praises about the ones who have made it overseas, what exactly are we doing as it relates to what is taking place at home?

Amazing how we want to boast about independence when our dollar has no value, Mexicans have the most shares in the airport at Montego Bay, the Norman Manley International Airport is up for grabs, health care is a joke, murders since the start of the year have already maxed three hundred, children are being raped, murdered, abused, and not a thing is being done about it. Everything that we hold true and dear that spells Jamaica is being sold out from under us, and we all remain silent.

And we have opinions about which political party is the worse and which is better, yet for 50-odd years both parties have ruled and where are we today? Nowhere. Yet we find the time to curse each other every day as we draw political lines and praise inept politicians, forgetting that at the drop of a hat the very politicians we give praises to really do not care.

When they are sick, where do they go? Overseas.

When their bank accounts are large, where are their savings kept? Overseas.

When they vacation, where do they go? Overseas.

And yet we fail to hold them accountable and glorify them as gods, and goddesses instead, what a sad set of people we are?

Ignorance, illiteracy and political tribalism is killing us, and sadly not too many of us are willing to see it, and too many of us have accepted it.

I suspect that at some point Jamaicans will be placed on auction blocks and sold to the highest bidders, oh well who cares? As long as we can give accolades to Andrew Holness, Portia Simpson Miller, and all the others, everything criss inna Jamrock..

Michelle Bradshaw