http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/singapore-showbiz/local-actress-oon-shu-ann-open-letter-anton-031951568.html
The fall out against Anton
Casey continues and amid this, an open letter to
the
British expat who has now fled Singapore has gone
viral.
Penned by actress
and television host, Oon Shu An, 27, and
published on Facebook on Saturday, the letter explained to Casey
why these “poor people smell”, a reference to Casey's "poor people"
Facebook post earlier this
week.
“Poor people stink because they run ten times as fast to earn in
a lifetime what you earn in a month… Poor people smell. And it’s
the smell of a fight,” said the actress, who has been acting
since she was 14.
The 27-year-old Fly Entertainment artiste's letter has been
shared over 400 times and garnered over 200 Likes as of Sunday. It
has also received a string of praises from other Facebook
users.
Oon, who appeared in local
movie Becoming Royston, then turned
the table around and said the rich expat — who lost his job as a
private wealth manager and packed his bags and left for Perth with
his family on Friday -- had a stench too.
“You stink, like the rich people who think of ways not to change
the system that allows people to be paid less than minimum wage,
[the system] that allows contracts that terminate you for bogus
reasons because it’s cheaper to get someone else.”
![Actress and television host Oon Shu An, 27, publishes an open letter to Anton Casey over his offensive "poor people are smelly" remark. (Facebook photo)](http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/JCpzk3H45HOHFhI1kpCavQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-SG/blogs/singaporeshowbiz/630fb_oonshuan.jpg "Actress and television host Oon Shu An, 27, publishes an open letter to Anton Casey over his offensive "poor people are smelly" remark. (Facebook photo)")
Actress
and television host Oon Shu An, 27, publishes an open letter to
Anton Casey over his offensive "poor
people …
Here is her open letter in full:
"So he got fired, and he's left the country. But I still felt
like I wanted to say this to him.
Dear Mr Anton Casey,
Im sure you are having a hard time right now. I cant tell if it
is actually affecting you. I doubt it. I think you are sorry...
That people found out... maybe.
Anyway, i just wanted to tell you... That you are right. A lot
of poor people -do- smell. And you know why they smell? Some people
actually cannot afford soap. Some people haven't been taught
hygeine. Some people cant afford deodorants or fancy perfumes. Some
people work in the sun the whole day but get paid so little that
ten cent fare hikes make a difference. Some people work behind fast
food counters for such long hours until the smell of french fries
stick to them and the smell refuses to leave, refuses to be
scrubbed off, to feed other poor people who saved enough to bring
their families for a little treat of meat that isnt even real meat,
of food that claims to be cheap, fast and good when -we know- that
of this holy trinity, u can only buy two, and maybe, the illusion
of the third. This fast food, is their good food. because the "good
food" has been priced out of their reach.
Poor people stink because they run ten times as fast to earn in
a lifetime what you earn in a month.
So yes. Poor people smell. And its the smell of a fight. You.
You. Have a different kind of stink.
The stink of entitlement. The stink of a rich person who thinks
his money should buy him respect. Who thinks that his money is a
result of his hardwork. And only his hardwork. Nothing to do with
his race, with his birthplace, what he was born with, with his
parents, with his education, with people that believed in him. None
of those things. His hardwork, and only his hardwork, brought him
his money, and therefore, he has earned it.
You stink, like the rich people who think of ways not to change the
system that allows people to be paid less than minimum wage, that
allows contracts that terminate you for bogus reasons because its
cheaper to get someone else. Thank you for your years of service.
But we will be letting you go. You stink like the rich people who
only want to game the system. Which is fine, to each his own. But
then they turn around and piss on the people who make their world
run.
Mr Casey, Id rather be on the train."
