No man, Nigel!
Dear Editor,
Nigel Clarke is a brilliant minister of finance. He is equally tone-deaf and often comes across as pompous.
He is a skilled strategist who has successfully wrangled the country’s unwieldy civil service into shape, reducing the number of accounting categories from triple to double digits. But he has failed to master a vital aspect of negotiation: It is perfectly okay to lose a battle and later win the war.
Minister Clarke should have apologised for his “Massa Mark” comment. The apology should have come on the same day he made the comment in Parliament.
Sadly, he doubled down on his distasteful words on Tuesday and dug himself even deeper into a hole.
With reams of research and way too many big words, he attempted to pummel the nation into believing what he was spouting.
He quoted our revered Miss Lou, popular songs, he tried to rely on logic — as he sees it — but none of that could help.
As Jamaicans love to ask when they feel they are being talked down to: “Yuh tek man fi fool?”
No man, Nigel. You were wrong. You should have simply said, “I’m sorry.”
Sisappointed
St James