Letter From Brooklyn

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One Caribbean Nation.

Letter From Brooklyn
  
By Michael Headley
It was a breath of fresh air  to hear that Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods had refused to apologize for praising   President  Donald Trump on his July 10th Hispanic Prosperity Initiative meeting, held at the White House. Unanue was honoring an executive order, from the president, to donate a million cans of  Goya products to American food banks.  Robert Unanue had simply said that the president was a blessing, a leader and a builder and he prayed for the leadership. 

The anti Trump cabal, with their mob like mentality, masked as Congressmen and twitter feeds, wasted no time,  and viciously attacked the CEO.  Like rabid dogs, they  threatened his company with boycotts which Unanue called  'suppression of speech".  Also, in the  FOX interview, he reiterated that  in 2012 he had accepted an invitation, from Michelle Obama, to promote her healthy-eating initiative in Tampa Florida.  There were no calls for boycotts then.

Apparently, the mob saw his company as a figurative  statue and were ready to climb on top of it, and used they ropes, with their maniac strength, to topple it to the ground .  It's not going to happen this time.  Freedom of speech cannot always be stifled.

I was similarly impressed with Prime Minister Mia Mottley's statement, after she was pressed to comment on the protest activities of Black Lives Matter,  where she candidly remarked that Government was not going by trends and she was not jumping on to any bandwagon but believed fundamentally in supporting principles (Nationnews 6/10/20).  The Prime Minister seemed to be taking an independent stand.

Lately, some inept government leaders,  and law enforcement officials have acquiesced, pandered and surrendered  once revered cities to the whims and fancies of mobs, who surreptitiously, invade peaceful protests,  and use them as a Trojan horse, to accomplish their nefarious goals. However, sound leadership must never cater to political correctness nor yield to any mob like tactics.    


Michael Headley is a social commentator

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