These politicians never cease to amaze me with the kind of nonsense that just keeps pouring forth from their mouths. What’s disconcerting is that those listening on either do not understand what is being said, or are rendered deaf, blind and dumb by their political persuasion.
Two days ago I was listening to the news and I could hardly believe my ears when Luther Buchanan said the Opposition Leader was only issuing Jamaican flags over in Portmore because it has a “speck of green in it”. Can you imagine?!
What a way to politicise such a significant gesture. His ignorant utterances brought forcefully back to my recollection an incident where at a civic ceremony, no less, the People’s National Party or its decorator was reported to have failed to utilise the colour green, which forms a sacrosanct part of the Jamaican Flag. I wonder if one of the chief regrets of the PNP is that the Jamaican flag does not bear the colour orange. Given their fixation on the matter, I am convinced that were they able to provide just reasons, they would lobby for the green to be removed from the Jamaican flag.
I watched the news on the night the Opposition leader distributed those flags, and I concluded that, at the very least, it was a commendable and very thoughtful expression. If he’s to be criticised for anything, it certainly ought not to be for his efforts to unite Jamaica and to remind Jamaicans that the only flag that should be put in our communities, and that will eliminate division, labeling and strife, is the Jamaican National Flag.
Buchanan’s rant was nothing short of unintellectual and extremely juvenile and has won him nothing but great disapproval.
Aaron Spellman
aaronspllmn@gmail.com
Two days ago I was listening to the news and I could hardly believe my ears when Luther Buchanan said the Opposition Leader was only issuing Jamaican flags over in Portmore because it has a “speck of green in it”. Can you imagine?!
What a way to politicise such a significant gesture. His ignorant utterances brought forcefully back to my recollection an incident where at a civic ceremony, no less, the People’s National Party or its decorator was reported to have failed to utilise the colour green, which forms a sacrosanct part of the Jamaican Flag. I wonder if one of the chief regrets of the PNP is that the Jamaican flag does not bear the colour orange. Given their fixation on the matter, I am convinced that were they able to provide just reasons, they would lobby for the green to be removed from the Jamaican flag.
I watched the news on the night the Opposition leader distributed those flags, and I concluded that, at the very least, it was a commendable and very thoughtful expression. If he’s to be criticised for anything, it certainly ought not to be for his efforts to unite Jamaica and to remind Jamaicans that the only flag that should be put in our communities, and that will eliminate division, labeling and strife, is the Jamaican National Flag.
Buchanan’s rant was nothing short of unintellectual and extremely juvenile and has won him nothing but great disapproval.
Aaron Spellman
aaronspllmn@gmail.com