THE EDITOR, Sir:

Every day we hear reports of fatal shootings and stabbings of Negroes by Negroes and this cycle of death and destruction seems never ending.

Now I, being an erudite Negro, am left to wonder if there is a movement for ethnic cleansing taking place in order to create a pie in the sky dream of a mongrel Jamaican society, because I beheld a pale horse and in its rider's hand is a sceptre marked death and destruction and hell follows after.

Well, whatever it is will be seen in the dawning, so I am urging all conscious black brothers and sisters among us to think on this saying "look when the rain is falling from the sky, I know the sun will only be missing for a while, that's why good people like you and me will be builders for eternity".

Here is a quotation from a Louie Armstrong's song "what did I do to be so black and blue? even the mouse ran from my house, they laugh at me and scorn you too. My only sin is in my skin".

I am, etc.,

Allan Martin

CSO

Kingston