Shannon’s Complexion Not The Issue

The ignorance of some people is really disheartening. Some folks actually believe the outcry over the murder of Shannon Banfield at a store on Charlotte Street in Port of Spain last week stemmed from her pretty face, complexion and job status.

It has nothing to do with that. Shannon Banfield went into a household store on Charlotte Street and ended up dead, her body found decaying in the store, stuffed behind boxes, on the top floor warehouse days later.

This is outrageous. How can we focus on who she was, or what she looked like? We should not care if it was a tourist visiting our country or someone begging for a donation.

A young woman walked off the streets at daylight into a store along with other shoppers and workers, and will never see her loved ones again.

The horror she would have gone through is unthinkable; bear in mind there was no robbery; there was no crazed gunman or anything accidental like a fire.

Another young woman is dead, another life snuffed out. This has happened to a young woman who had nothing to hide, since she spoke with her mother earlier informing her of her whereabouts and her plans for that afternoon. No one deserves that such an awful fate; what her family is going through is no less than hell.

How could we, as citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, make statements like what I’ve seen on social media stating, “If it was a black girl from Laventille, the nation would not react this way’’?

This could have been anyone. What is our country coming to?

You have the audacity to talk about face, complexion and job status?

Shame on you!