PUAWUI…DR.SAMA BANYA
 
Some pro APC propagandists appear not to really understand some of the issues about which they write, sometimes spreading their confused logic over several pages of their newspapers. How often have I reminded them of Shaki’s adage, to “Engage brain before engaging mouth.’’  If only they carried out a little investigation so as to arm themselves with basic facts it would save them embarrassments in hindsight. Last week it was announced that a Togolese lawyer representing the families of the victims of the Paramount helicopter crash at Lungi airport which had claimed the lives of all 23 passengers on board had issued a writ of summons against the Sierra Leone government. I am not sure how many people were aufait with the legal grounds for the action and the SLBC took pains to get various people concerned with the facts to educate the listening public.

 Raynard Jackson

September 2, 2010(me and Bernice King—M.L.K.’s daughter)

Originally, I wasn’t going to write about radio talk show entertainer Glen Beck’s supposed “March on Washington;” but, because you, my readers, asked me to comment, I will. 

 The event was called, “Restoring Honor.”  Its stated purpose was to be a “celebration of America’s heroes and heritage.  So, I have a few questions that I wish Beck would have addressed.  You can only restore that which was lost.  So, what in Beck’s mind was lost and how is he going to restore it?  If it was a “celebration of America’s heroes and heritage,” then why was there no soldier of color participating in any of the activities?  All the soldiers were white men.  It reminded me of watching the Flintstones and the Jetsons cartoons as a kid---not one Black was ever seen in either.  The Flintstones were about the past and the Jetsons were about the future.  So, according to Hollywood, Blacks had no past and we don’t have a future.  Is that what Beck was trying to restore?