Do we imitate Mandela?

THE EDITOR: The recent visit to Trinidad by His Excellency Nelson Mandela is indeed a momentous occasion. But at the rick of incurring the ire of some, I ask the question: What good would the visit have served if after seeing this great man, listening to his wisdom and even sharing a meal with him we return to the rituals associated with the ethnocentric extremists among us?

Nelson Mandela, like Ghandi and others of that ilk before him, possess a clear understanding of the universal fact that the key to good living is a good relationship with God and one’s fellowman. These are the eternal things that we leave this world with and determine where we spend the rest of eternity.

VICTOR MALONEY
Diego Martin