Kamala Harris for president

THE EDITOR, Madam:

FAST-FORWARD, A few days, weeks, or months … to President Kamala Harris!

Oh, how wonderful! Her father was a Jamaican and how proud her extended family must be there on that little island in the Caribbean! Imagine the daughter of an immigrant, a woman of colour, working her way to the top of the American political ladder!

OK, so let’s hold her up next to George Washington, America’s first president, the slave owner with a change of heart who freed his captives, it’s said, after more than five decades of ownership, going against much of the prevailing thought at the time. He was a first!

She will be a first, too! Kamala, as we’ve all heard in the oft-repeated tale told often and so eloquently more than 150 years later, even as a little girl knew she wanted her “fweedom”. How inspiring she is today with her Venn diagrams, little yellow school buses, and a way of reasoning and articulative ability that goes unmatched against all women of her day, and let’s not forget to mention laughter that would make angels cry, really!

Now as we all know, the 2024 presidential elections are soon coming, and so let’s turn and look back at Jamaica today to see the enormous contrast between the two! And why? Jamaica was the nation her dad gave up on in order to make a better life for his family in the US. Like the 10-million plus, recently arrived immigrants, he, too, had little faith in his own origins.

From my 50 years of experience, I can tell you that today, Jamaica is a Third World democratic failure based upon a socialist model with poor public education, a high crime and murder rate, poverty, and a government run by criminals. No wonder her dad wanted to leave - even so many years ago. But wait! It sounds like some place I know all too well. Ah yes! The US will be in good company then.

ED MCCOY Bokeelia, Florida