Dear Editor,

I wish to comment on the news item in the January 10 Sunday Observer, “J’can charged in N Zealand bomb scare”. We in Jamaica see right and wrong differently, so I am sure many will be appalled at this story and say Paul-Martin Williams is giving Jamaica a bad name, but wasn’t it “bad” that caused blacks to see the white man as superior? Wrong and right depends on who is doing what. All crimes committed by whites are based on situations, while those committed by blacks are dispositional, hence the lack of mental suggestion for Williams’s action.

Here in America it would appear that people will do anything that is illegal and then allow the system to catch up with them, if they can.

I was at a party put on by a millionaire Jew and during the course of the evening someone stole his expensive clock and I was shocked.

My Canadian girlfriend has a northern Canadian bear plate but she doesn’t want it on her vehicle as she feels people will steal it because it is unique.

Banks in New Mexico were broken some 50 times during 2009 and already I know that at least two bank robberies have taken place since the start of the new year.

As a Jamaican from Portland where many people to this very day leave their doors unlocked, all of this is very shocking to me.

And might I add, Buju Banton is not guilty of any drug charge. To understand America I’ll recommend two documentaries for your viewing pleasure and knowledge, about this system: American Violet and Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

Howard Rennis

hrennis@hotmail.com