Altoona Mirror Sports Section of Nov. 19, 2024, carries an article that Trump could negotiate a PGA-LIV Golf deal in 15 minutes sets me to pondering the deal.

Would the deal involve only money for the professional golfers or for the already rich and famous of the sultanate and emir world of the Middle East and a few others in this country?

Perhaps the negotiations would take longer if a successful agreement could include convincing the sultans and oil rich, monied emirs to stop the land grab in the Serengeti Plains of Africa. Tribal peoples and their livelihoods be damned in this latest, rich-making-the-poor-suffer scheme.

The May 2024 issue of The Atlantic magazine reports fully on the Maasai tribal lands being grabbed by the Dubai Royals for hunting grounds, golf courses and luxury hotels while thousands of Maasai peoples are forced from their homes (mostly huts) by fire, killing of their livestock and being driven to areas out of sight of the coddled rich.

Folks, the exploitation of the poor continues from times long gone.

It’s not just the Native Americans pushed to reservations, but the greed goes on around the world.

Negotiation in 15 minutes may just need to involve more than “golf.”

William C. Harshman

Tyrone