Emma Ferreira -- Christmas Miracle

This past Christmas WestJet brought Santa Claus and his elves to the Dominican Republic to give them a real Christmas miracle : A Response

Dear WestJet,

Feliz Navidad, prospero ano et felicidad. Globalization : the process of international integration arising from the interchange of worldviews, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. International integration otherwise known as westernization. See, it’s not the colour of your skin or the food you eat, it’s about how much you’d bleed for the powers at be. See, this airline goes down to my coastline and drops a blue sleigh with Santa Claus on the other line telling Tanisha no to worry about her dollhouse because it’s on the way but, didn’t they get the memo? In La Republica Dominicana we celebrate Three Kings Day. But, hey ok, I get it, provide a big American miracle for those beneath you, but what do you expect Tanisha to do for the other 364 days? When mami needs medicine for the little tyke or when Don Andres down the street needs yet another engine for his worn out motorbike? Where do you expect them to go when the blue sleigh’s gone and the elves are all but missing? Will you send in a new batch with asses severely in need of kissing? I doubt it, but hey once again, that’s ok, that’s just the way it goes right? Bring this “third world” country to your national - excuse me your world stage - exploit their weaknesses, edit a video and make those blissfully ignorant feel good about what they saw today. An impact made on a country in desperate need of some change. “You know I heard that when Michael was down visiting Punta Cana he went off the resort for a day to do some local excursions and oh well you know how dangerous that can be so of course he hired a tour guide. Well a poor, less fortunate boy came up to him and asked him for his shoes. Apparently Michael had an extra pair of flip flops in his bag so of course he gave the boy his shoes. Well what was he going to do? Let the poor boy run around barefoot on all those dirty unpaved roads to contract god knows what disease. Michael is such a good man, a saint really. He probably changed that boy’s life with just a pair of shoes.” Did you know that in 2014 there were 1,750,000 homeless people in the United States? That 31 million Americans live in hunger and that 12 million children live below the poverty line, and yes 50 percent of America’s homeless are African Americans. See, they seem to think that because we don’t talk like them, walk like them or consume like them that we must be hopeless. Drowning in an abyss of poverty, disease, drugs, unsurmountable debt and worst of all, government corruption. Foreign concepts to the United States I know. So hey, WestJet, drop a blue sleigh down in Ferguson and tell Lesley McSpadden and Louis Head not to worry, that their sons on his way,  see what they have to say. Lose the god complex, and solve your own problems before sending your Santa Claus ho ho hoing with Christmas miracles on Three Kings Day.