[Editorial]<\/p>\n
President George Weah\u2019s State of the Nation Address last Monday calling for citizenship and land rights to be granted people of non-Negro descent has sparked dissenting views from many quarters, even among those who are so loyal to him.<\/p>\n
A lot of social media comments and those published in newspapers,\u00a0including the\u00a0Daily Observer, <\/em>take serious exception to the President\u2019s advocacy to grant citizenship and the sale of land to people of non-Negro descent.<\/p>\n As reported by our Editor, Omari Jackson, in our\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0edition, Jacob Y. Willie said, \u201cI don\u2019t agree with President Weah on that one and my reason is that because people of non-Negro descent traditionally have money, there will be too much disadvantage over Liberians.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Willie, many other views suggest that granting citizenship to non-Negroes will be too much of a disadvantage to the poverty-stricken Liberians because those of non-Negro descent in Liberia already have complete control over the Liberian economy and have the potential to purchase as much land as possible, meaning the whole country.<\/p>\n