DEAR READER, WE ARE ALL GUILTY OF HAVING A GO OR TAKING A SWIPE AT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE THE SAME VIEW OR OPINION AS US. WE ARE GRADUALLY REDEFINING DEMOCRACY. HUMAN BEINGS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY VERY DIFFERENT, BE IT INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY. SO FAR AS WE APPRECIATE THIS IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE, THEN DEMOCRACY SHOULD BE A PIECE OF CAKE.... YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. OUR IDEA OF DEMOCRACY SEEMS TO BE SHOUTING THE ODDS AND BEING COMPLETELY RUDE AND ABUSIVE TO EVERY POTENTIAL OPPONENT, AND SOMETIMES THEY ARE NOT OPPOSED TO US BUT MAY HAVE A DIVERGENT VIEW TO OURS. THIS IS EVIDENT IN OUR RADIO DEBATES, OUR POLITICS AND OUR EVERYDAY LIFE. BRITAIN'S DEMOCRACY TOOK 50YRS. TO ATTAIN THE LEVEL IS NOW AND SURELY GIVEN TIME WE WIL GET THERE TOO. BUT WILL WE EVER ?? TODAY A CONFIDENT, ELOQUENT,OBJECTIVE AND COURAGEOUS YOUNG MAN HAS BEEN FORCED TO QUIT AS A CHAT SHOW HOST BECAUSE OF OUR VIEW OF HIM. HE TOOK A STANCE AND HAD THE GUTS TO STICK TO IT REGARDLESS OF WHAT WHOEVER SAID. IF WE CANNOT TOLERATE DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS AT THIS LEVEL, HOW CAN WE TO DO SO IN PARLIAMENT WHERE THE PROCESS OF POLICY MAKING TAKES PLACE. THIS IS TO THE "BASHING BRGADE" ,SEE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE FIRST AND MAY BE YOU MIGHT GET THE CHANCE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. UNITY IN DIVERSITY IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE AIMING FOR, NO MATTER ONE'S BACKGROUND, TRIBE OR ETHNICITY, LET US GET RID OF PREJUDICES AND STRIVE FOR ONE COMMON GOAL... A BETTER GHANA.
