Racism is targeting someone or group due to their race, Haitians are members of the same race, so we can be sure this isn’t racist.
We can objectively consider these actions as driven by nationalism, often these tactics are referred to as xenophobic in nature.
Xenophobia, well that runs very deep in our society, sanctioned by most of the political elite. All but a few Bahamians have strong xenophobic views, the nation is proud of this! So you’re preaching to the wrong choir with this article.
You might address the logic, or lack thereof , as we are a nation of such lousy people, that xenophobia doesn’t make sense, as anyone who comes from anywhere will most surely be an improvement over our own homegrown excrement we call “real Bahamian”.
Perhaps if you improve your education, you can look into some of countries in the world that do exist and have homes government. Just one example for you would be Switzerland, and it’s direct democracy. I’m sure you can’t be aware or can’t comprehend what a direct democracy is, but one it can not be is dishonest. After all, every major issue is required by law to be settled via referendum, doesn’t seem to permit dishonesty over the public.
Do you really believe all politicians are that bad? You suggest that all believe in climate change, but won’t act due to business interests? That’s a fools argument. They could ban so many things to help reduce emissions without any impact to business. Ie large gas guzzler suvs. Burning yard waste. Etc
All one must do is talk to a fellow bahamian (including our politicians) and you can come to a clear judgment of our education system.
Myself and other "top students" who were lucky enough to attend latter years of high school and college / university abroad know all too well that what we had to do was play catch up all the way through.
Arriving in another country having been a top student, and to find myself what seemed like miles behind the other students showed me what a farce our system is.
Fellow students at my boarding highschool spoke better and had more knowledge than my Bahamian teachers.
Speaking to my fellow Bahamians, Listening to their thoughts and opinions , sparks an outrage from within, a whole populous defrauded with garbage education.
Notice, the leaders don't care, and will do as little as possible. If they cared , and wanted a truly educated populous, they would throw every dollar and possible trick into the educations system to make things right. But they don't !
Its just like "health care", just enough so that you can continue to be a little worker slave, and nothing more.
You are so wrong saying stop buying goods from China. Painting China as the boggieman does nothing for the cause. Sure china is the worlds largest polluter. But the responsibility for pollution lies in consumption, i.e. the consumer. China could close all the factories, which would greatly reduce their emissions; though the goods would just have to be made somewhere else, shifting the location of the pollution. But it is the demand and consumption of goods that creates the manufacture/pollution.
Noteworthy, china has about 18% of world population , and pollutes with 7.1 metric tons of co2 per capita, usa has 5% of world population at pollutes at 16.2 metric tons per capita. Noteworthy, if pollution /emissions were allocated based on consumption, USA's pollution would be far greater per capita than china. As is, and would our's be here in the Bahamas. If you want to complaint about environmental issues,we need to start by being hones, and accepting that consumption is the cause, not point of manufacture. I.e. would relocating our power generation 100% to Andros , and running a big extension cord to New Providence make new providence a greener Island??? Obviously not.
As I said, no government believes in climate change.
Your guess is as good as anyone’s as far as what the “climate change” scenario is all about, but I’d say follow the money.
If the Bahamian government really thought the islands were going to be lost to climate change at the end of the century, they wouldn’t be worried about adding more power. They’d tell us to take out our air conditioner, use less, not more.
Obviously, if we consider government action around the world regarding climate change, we can only come to one conclusion, that climate change is just not true, or the anthropogenic part of it.
If climate change is true, governments would be acting. Ie, if it was thought that Florida and other places ( maybe Bahamas) would be under water at the turn of the century, private jets, yachts, gas guzzling cars, bonfires etc etc etc would already be banned.
Obviously not 1 single government in this world genuinely believes this story.
Chucky says...
Racism is targeting someone or group due to their race, Haitians are members of the same race, so we can be sure this isn’t racist.
We can objectively consider these actions as driven by nationalism, often these tactics are referred to as xenophobic in nature.
Xenophobia, well that runs very deep in our society, sanctioned by most of the political elite. All but a few Bahamians have strong xenophobic views, the nation is proud of this! So you’re preaching to the wrong choir with this article.
You might address the logic, or lack thereof , as we are a nation of such lousy people, that xenophobia doesn’t make sense, as anyone who comes from anywhere will most surely be an improvement over our own homegrown excrement we call “real Bahamian”.
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Chucky says...
Women seem to be getting lots of charges these days: forgery, embezzlement, fraud etc etc
I suggest women set a better example at their jobs before we vote them in government
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Chucky says...
If you root out all the corruption, how will the two remaining Bahamians look after and run this country.
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Posted 12 November 2019, 7:44 a.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
That is what it is to be Bahamian; the lack of education manifests itself in many ways.
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Chucky says...
Perhaps if you improve your education, you can look into some of countries in the world that do exist and have homes government. Just one example for you would be Switzerland, and it’s direct democracy. I’m sure you can’t be aware or can’t comprehend what a direct democracy is, but one it can not be is dishonest. After all, every major issue is required by law to be settled via referendum, doesn’t seem to permit dishonesty over the public.
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Posted 7 November 2019, 4:54 p.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
Do you really believe all politicians are that bad? You suggest that all believe in climate change, but won’t act due to business interests? That’s a fools argument.
They could ban so many things to help reduce emissions without any impact to business. Ie large gas guzzler suvs. Burning yard waste. Etc
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Posted 7 November 2019, 4:50 p.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
All one must do is talk to a fellow bahamian (including our politicians) and you can come to a clear judgment of our education system.
Myself and other "top students" who were lucky enough to attend latter years of high school and college / university abroad know all too well that what we had to do was play catch up all the way through.
Arriving in another country having been a top student, and to find myself what seemed like miles behind the other students showed me what a farce our system is.
Fellow students at my boarding highschool spoke better and had more knowledge than my Bahamian teachers.
Speaking to my fellow Bahamians, Listening to their thoughts and opinions , sparks an outrage from within, a whole populous defrauded with garbage education.
Notice, the leaders don't care, and will do as little as possible. If they cared , and wanted a truly educated populous, they would throw every dollar and possible trick into the educations system to make things right. But they don't !
Its just like "health care", just enough so that you can continue to be a little worker slave, and nothing more.
On Lloyd: Public doesn't understand exam results
Posted 7 November 2019, 1:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
You are so wrong saying stop buying goods from China. Painting China as the boggieman does nothing for the cause. Sure china is the worlds largest polluter.
But the responsibility for pollution lies in consumption, i.e. the consumer.
China could close all the factories, which would greatly reduce their emissions; though the goods would just have to be made somewhere else, shifting the location of the pollution. But it is the demand and consumption of goods that creates the manufacture/pollution.
Noteworthy, china has about 18% of world population , and pollutes with 7.1 metric tons of co2 per capita, usa has 5% of world population at pollutes at 16.2 metric tons per capita.
Noteworthy, if pollution /emissions were allocated based on consumption, USA's pollution would be far greater per capita than china. As is, and would our's be here in the Bahamas.
If you want to complaint about environmental issues,we need to start by being hones, and accepting that consumption is the cause, not point of manufacture. I.e. would relocating our power generation 100% to Andros , and running a big extension cord to New Providence make new providence a greener Island??? Obviously not.
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Posted 7 November 2019, 1:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
As I said, no government believes in climate change.
Your guess is as good as anyone’s as far as what the “climate change” scenario is all about, but I’d say follow the money.
If the Bahamian government really thought the islands were going to be lost to climate change at the end of the century, they wouldn’t be worried about adding more power. They’d tell us to take out our air conditioner, use less, not more.
Obviously, if we consider government action around the world regarding climate change, we can only come to one conclusion, that climate change is just not true, or the anthropogenic part of it.
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Posted 6 November 2019, 2:58 p.m. Suggest removal
Chucky says...
If climate change is true, governments would be acting. Ie, if it was thought that Florida and other places ( maybe Bahamas) would be under water at the turn of the century, private jets, yachts, gas guzzling cars, bonfires etc etc etc would already be banned.
Obviously not 1 single government in this world genuinely believes this story.
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