One of the reviewers of the now famous book Black Like Me penned the following words.

"He trudges southern streets searching for a place where he may eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labour, feeling the 'hate stare'..." He is John Howard Griffin, a white man who darkened the colour of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear and hopelessness - the country of the American black man.

Never did most of us envisage that at sometime soon, the holder of the highest office in the United Stated and, indeed, the leader of the free world would be anybody but a white male.

Development

American society has indeed reached a stage of development whereby they are now able to judge a man not by the colour of his skin, but the strength of his character. The American people deserve to be congratulated.

They have stunned the world and, for this, we salute a great nation and an extraordinary and remarkable people. Theirs is a lesson to all mankind - the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

The politicians of Jamaica should take a leaf out of the book of Americans and liberate the people of these political enclaves -garrisons. They are no different from the 'country' which John Howard Griffin 'entered' - a world of hate, fear and hopelessness.

I am, etc.,

P. LOGAN

Duncans PO

Trelawny