Dear Editor,
I agree with some portions of the comments of Parvati Persaud-Edwards in her letter captioned, ‘The word racist should not be so freely used,’ (SN, 28.5.08). What bothers me somewhat though, is that there has always been a blatant pattern of selectivity in the response to such “misuse,” so to speak. For example, the taxpayer funded public print media are the platform for an infinite flow of this kind of mislabelling and worse, specifically targeted at the Oppositon and its traditional constituents. We are yet to see those with unfettered access to its pages express the kind of outrage in their home pages or elsewhere, that they were driven to do in this instance.
