I take issue with the comments made by Ian Marshall [in his letter to the Editor on Tuesday] and in fact all others who had negative and inhumane comments to say about the search for Karen Harris.
I am black and in every sense of the word “black”. This whole Karen Harris affair should teach us blacks a great lesson. Why cry down the police and all the other organisations involved in the search for Mrs Harris?
Both you Mr Marshall and I know that we blacks hide up everything, from our sickness right through to our wayward children. We do things at the last minute because we don’t want our neighbours to know what’s going on with us. The police had nothing to do with the initial motivation search by what your own prejudice determined as white and upper class. Even blacks of “lower class” were involved in the search.
It was a matter of the immediate family notifying family, friends, business partners and the general public through the same media and technology that the negative comments have been made. The plane had nothing to do with the police. Why should Mrs Harris’ search be open to such harsh scrutiny?
The hard fact is that after a certain time, Mrs Harris would not usually be out and quick action was taken by her husband and immediate family members.
We “blacks” should now learn a lesson from this whole affair, even at the expense of Karen Harris and her family, friends and associates who have to suffer through this whole ordeal.
What about “Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus” that Mrs Harris was found with no injury to her person by some human being or found as a skeleton?
The simple lesson to learn from this incident is “ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be open”. That was great communication and human response coming to the rescue of another human being.
Kaycee George
