No! No! No!  Tell me you really didn't say those things Miss Jones. Tell me its all a lie.  Tell me you didn't call Roger Toussaint a "dumb coconut who probable don't have a green card".  Tell me that it wasn't you that labeled the Transportation workers as "uneducated and overpaid losers who made the wrong choices in high school".  

Please say it wasn't you, that you were miss quoted or something was misconstrued  as was reported in the article written by Plathelle Benjamin in the New York Daily News because if it was you then this "dumb coconut" has one thing to say and it's not polite!  

Ignorance of the mind is one thing, but ignorance of your heritage is another totally different thing altogether.   Too many times we hear the request for the Black race to unite against discrimination, and racial bias toward Blacks.  How many times have you Miss Jones ever felt stigmatized because of your race or culture.  Well if you really did write those things, please go back and hide, because you have just joined the ranks of the ignorant.  I hope you think about Officers Dillon Stewart, and Daniel Enchategui who were murdered defending your right to safety.  I also hope you remember Lowell Hawthorne the founder of the Golden Krust Franchise who provide another opportunity for our people to rise up the ladder of success. I hope you took into consideration Una and Yvette Clarke who have represented their constituency of Caribbean and African Americans ever so gracefully and selflessly.  I hope you remember Harry Belafonte and Marcus Garvey.  I hope you took into consideration all the individuals of Caribbean and African descent that have contributed so much to the advancement of the Black race and the American people in general.  It was on their backs that this country rode to reach the heights that it has attained to this day.  I am quite sure that Crispus Attucks is rolling over wherever he is buried at the commentary attributed to you.  

I feel slighted and disenfranchised by those ignorant statements. We the "dumb coconuts " and descendants of "dumb coconuts" feel greatly disrespected and alarmed by this.  We have to face mistrust and verbal assaults from the ignoramus' of other races, but to have to find it in our own is quite stunning.  Just another example of the "House Negro's" mentality surfacing once a person of color feels that they have arrived ".  Sorry  Miss Jones, you haven't quite reached your destination as yet.  When Marcus said "Up ye Mighty Race", he knew that the journey was only just beginning.  "Dumb Coconuts without a green card" have made more contributions to allow you to feel that you have "arrived", than you will ever do in your miserable pittance of a life.  I consider those statement to be an act of cowardice.  That is an assassination attempted on black pride.  If you really are guilty of those remarks, you should be purged from the public airwaves and relegated to being an afterthought under the boots of the disenfranchised.  I don't feel sorry for you for what you have unleashed, on the contrary, I feel anger that you have allowed yourself to be mislead.  How many times did you promise yourself growing up that you would make a difference in the world?  Well you have made your mark alright.  You are a stain on the fabric of the Caribbean people.  If these words are yours of course.  

I and the rest of the "dumb coconuts without a green card" await your response to the commentary attributed to you.  Roger Toussaint should be considered a modern day warrior fighting for the cause of the people that have placed their trust in his leadership.  He should be commended for taking a stand where others would like to but cower out of fear.  I wonder if you have ever given up a job based on principle, but then again I may me questioning the wrong person, because of course you have it 'made', and no one but yourself to thank for putting you in the position that you are in.  Marcus, Malcolm, Martin, Rosa, and the Roger Toussaints of the world did not make sacrifices at the risk of life and limb to help you did they?  You were there from creation, and had no assistance in gaining a position of recognition.  You are a sorry case!

If it is true that you made these statements, I hope that the management at Ennis Communications and HOT97 (97.1) radio station will not simply stand by and watch you spew the vile filth that has rendered your mind inept without planning severe repercussions.  I hope you find out soon side your bread is buttered on.  And on top of that I hope you never get a chance to step into another radio station or media house again.
 

Lance Cameron, NY