RUEL LOWE'S EDITORIAL (10/28/14): Have we been failed by our parents? Are we failing our children, by preventing them from thinking freely? Is Christianity a natural religion for African peoples? These are some of the questions raised in this editorial by Jamaican, RUEL LOWE in trying to unravel the reason for the myriad of problems we are having today. WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHT?

Ruel Lowe

Those are the big questions we need to address immediately, because the answers will determine whether we continue to be mired in the slavery mentality engrain in us by our captors in the past, or move on to enlightenment and progress. 

A person, who is a free thinker, is a threat to the ruling class’ orderly society and the status quo! The ruler looks upon such a person as a mal-content and a rebel, which must be subdued, before his ideas awake the subjected/ruled and create a problem for him. 

How many of us have sat down and asked ourselves the questions, why am I here and what am I doing? If we did, we would see a picture that’s not pleasing! So many of us forget that our ancestors were kidnapped/captured and brought here (the western world) for a purpose! That purpose was and is to serve the captors!! more