Letter: Bad behaviour matters

Glynn Williams of Brettenwood writes:

We need to be cautioned against being hoodwinked into believing that the biggest challenge facing our country is corruption simply because corruption is a relatively benign phenomenon compared to what has actually taken place in the country.

We need to acknowledge that this country has been comprehensively looted through outright theft and that while corruption can seriously affect a country, looting, on the scale we are witnessing, decimates a country completely.

It is unlikely that there has ever before been a country so comprehensively looted in such a short period of time by its own public officials and their cohorts.

Maybe by an invading army but not by its own people.

We are witnessing an orgy of gluttony on an unimaginable scale and sadly our fledgling democracy, though still so young and so frail, has simply been raped.

The consequences of this looting are many and varied the most obvious of which is the impact it has had on the poor, the sick, the aged and our children whose very survival has been seriously compromised by these criminals.

There is a further consequence.

While all race groups have been complicit in this corruption to some degree, the demographics are such that the world at large has no choice but to view these events as yet another failure attributable to the delinquent behavior of black folk and in particular black politicians.

With this in mind one wonders whether our criminals in suits have ever given even a moment’s thought to the irreparable damage they have done to the cause of black people throughout the world exactly at a time in history when there is a massive call for black folk to be afforded their rightful place in society?

Clearly they do not understand the universal truth that respect has to be earned and never has been and never will be a birthright.

The great irony here of course is that the very same country that produced the man who quite probably made the greatest contribution to the cause of black people in history, Nelson Mandela, should be the country to also produce these criminals who have now done such massive damage to the cause of black folk throughout the world.

Not only should these criminals be jailed, they should also be required to individually stand up on the world stage and publicly apologise to every other black person on the planet for the damage they have done to the cause of blacks.