Letter to the Observer Newspaper

Dear Observer,
                      I don't think that Bother Man deserved what was done to him. They beat him up in the public street just because he was a Rasta man. This was cruelty. After all, is he not the same as we are? Does he not bleed when he gets cut and cry when he is hurt? Not because he does not comb his hair and not because he has long facial hair means that he is any different from us. We should all be treated equally. People make it seem as though being a Rastafarian is a bad thing. It is not. It is only a religion. We all have different religions that we try to live up to and that is exactly what Brother Man is doing. It still baffles me as to why they would do such a thing to a man who has helped many people in more ways than can be counted. Is it because he loves and  cherishes his religion more than some of us do? Well isn't that what he is suppose to do? If he doesn't, then who is going to do it for him? It pains my heart to see people around the world do such things  to their fellow brothers and sisters. We may not all be related biologically but we are related in some way or another.
                      Back to the fact that he was a very helpful person. He helped many people, both those in need and the sick. Imagine how it must pain his heart to have to look up into the faces of many of the same people who he helped as they through a brick or something at him. Then there was this poor old lady who jumped to his defense and instead of stopping they cared not that she was there and she was pushed into the gutter. Imagine that being your mother or granmother or even some close family member. Things like these bring back memories of slavery days. The only difference is that it was the white men who beat us up then. Wehave now passed the whip to our fellow black men and we are only beating ourselves up. Just imagine that. I honestly think that this man deserves an apolpgy from all those who have wronged him. Nobody should be treated differently because of their religion or even race. We should all be treated as one because thats what we are.


                                                                                                      Yours truly
                                                                                                      Ashauna Adams