Dear Editor,
It is really disappointing that in 2016 the playful antics of an adult in full control of his faculties is a news item for more than 10 seconds. For some curious reason, we are obsessed with the sexuality and sexual activity of others, instead of being invested in fixing the nation’s problems.
Priorities?
First, Omar McLeod’s Olympic moment was soured by conversations and an unfortunate tweet. Whether or not he is gay or straight is of no concern to anyone, and certainly not right after he won Jamaica’s first gold medal in the Men’s 110m Hurdles.
Now that the dust has mostly settled, people are now turning up their noses at their recently dubbed Olympic legend, Usain Bolt, for partying and whatever else.
This must be a joke.
I have never understood how people in a country with such a high rate of crime and violence can afford to be so judgemental and self-righteous regarding issues of sexuality. While our economy struggles to recover and students are failing maths and English all around, we find time to wag our morally duplicitous fingers at people and how they live.
We are ready to rant if we see colourful flags in the sky; meanwhile, scamming continues to grow as a national crisis and children are molested and killed execution-style.
Perhaps, instead of tweeting and lecturing about sexual purity, we could address the now infamous tweet regarding employment opportunities after graduating university. The individual aptly pointed out that regardless of the tertiary institution you attended — and implicitly the nature and quality of your degree — you are likely to end up working in a call centre. Maybe we should rant about the quality of the “jobs, jobs and more jobs” that are being sourced for our youth, and the education system which fails to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, rather than lament about Bolt’s choices in how he has fun.
There are too many issues within our society to capture in one letter, but I am sure that none of them will be solved if we continue to bury our heads in the sand and only raise them up to quote Bible scriptures.
Glenroy Murray
glenroy.am.murray@gmail.com
It is really disappointing that in 2016 the playful antics of an adult in full control of his faculties is a news item for more than 10 seconds. For some curious reason, we are obsessed with the sexuality and sexual activity of others, instead of being invested in fixing the nation’s problems.
Priorities?
First, Omar McLeod’s Olympic moment was soured by conversations and an unfortunate tweet. Whether or not he is gay or straight is of no concern to anyone, and certainly not right after he won Jamaica’s first gold medal in the Men’s 110m Hurdles.
Now that the dust has mostly settled, people are now turning up their noses at their recently dubbed Olympic legend, Usain Bolt, for partying and whatever else.
This must be a joke.
I have never understood how people in a country with such a high rate of crime and violence can afford to be so judgemental and self-righteous regarding issues of sexuality. While our economy struggles to recover and students are failing maths and English all around, we find time to wag our morally duplicitous fingers at people and how they live.
We are ready to rant if we see colourful flags in the sky; meanwhile, scamming continues to grow as a national crisis and children are molested and killed execution-style.
Perhaps, instead of tweeting and lecturing about sexual purity, we could address the now infamous tweet regarding employment opportunities after graduating university. The individual aptly pointed out that regardless of the tertiary institution you attended — and implicitly the nature and quality of your degree — you are likely to end up working in a call centre. Maybe we should rant about the quality of the “jobs, jobs and more jobs” that are being sourced for our youth, and the education system which fails to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, rather than lament about Bolt’s choices in how he has fun.
There are too many issues within our society to capture in one letter, but I am sure that none of them will be solved if we continue to bury our heads in the sand and only raise them up to quote Bible scriptures.
Glenroy Murray
glenroy.am.murray@gmail.com