Dear Editor,
This refers the letter "US may well become classless, racism-free", in the Jamaica Observer of November 13, 2012.
The US is far from becoming "racism-free". Ninety-five per cent of blacks in the US voted for President Obama and 99 per cent of blacks in the Carribean support Obama, despite the fact that Obama opposes some moral values of almost all blacks - especially in the area of abortion and homosexuality. This shows that racism is greater now than at any time in history.
The Republicans did not lose the US election because of constituencies or demographics. Neither is Barack Obama the problem. We are! Abortion is. Public schools are. A rotting pop culture is. Modernism in the Catholic Church is. Divorce and homosexual "marriage" are. Obama has been re-elected simply because America, like any nation, will always get only the leaders she deserves. We told God to go to hell a long time ago, and God is now allowing us to see what life is like without Him.
America is a Christian nation, and our help is in the name of the Lord - not electoral politics. Out of fear and sheer desperation, most Americans threw their hats in the ring for a Mormon, big government-backing, sometimes pro-life, moderately pro-gay rights candidate. Even by John F Kennedy's standards, Mitt Romney is a rabid liberal who would not have altered the course for America.
We need something more. Much more! Two thousand years ago, a soldier with his metaphorical armour shining beneath the moon galloped through the land. Where hooves thunder, the ground became alive with sprouts and tendrils, bare trees started to bud, and grasses to blossom - the power of nature exploding into life. This soldier was able to rally the people to rediscover what is best in men. Today we need that soldier once more to inspire the masses to defend what was, and the dream of what could be once more.
Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada
pkokoski@shaw.ca
US nowhere near racism-free!
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This refers the letter "US may well become classless, racism-free", in the Jamaica Observer of November 13, 2012.
The US is far from becoming "racism-free". Ninety-five per cent of blacks in the US voted for President Obama and 99 per cent of blacks in the Carribean support Obama, despite the fact that Obama opposes some moral values of almost all blacks - especially in the area of abortion and homosexuality. This shows that racism is greater now than at any time in history.
The Republicans did not lose the US election because of constituencies or demographics. Neither is Barack Obama the problem. We are! Abortion is. Public schools are. A rotting pop culture is. Modernism in the Catholic Church is. Divorce and homosexual "marriage" are. Obama has been re-elected simply because America, like any nation, will always get only the leaders she deserves. We told God to go to hell a long time ago, and God is now allowing us to see what life is like without Him.
America is a Christian nation, and our help is in the name of the Lord - not electoral politics. Out of fear and sheer desperation, most Americans threw their hats in the ring for a Mormon, big government-backing, sometimes pro-life, moderately pro-gay rights candidate. Even by John F Kennedy's standards, Mitt Romney is a rabid liberal who would not have altered the course for America.
We need something more. Much more! Two thousand years ago, a soldier with his metaphorical armour shining beneath the moon galloped through the land. Where hooves thunder, the ground became alive with sprouts and tendrils, bare trees started to bud, and grasses to blossom - the power of nature exploding into life. This soldier was able to rally the people to rediscover what is best in men. Today we need that soldier once more to inspire the masses to defend what was, and the dream of what could be once more.
Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada
pkokoski@shaw.ca
US nowhere near racism-free!
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