If the Bahamas wants more trade with the European Union they should maybe avoid suing some of it's key members for $200 billion on a pathetic excuse to just make money...
Asking for reparation is completely and utterly nonsense... Those who needed reparations were the people who suffered from slavery and suffered the horrors of slave owners. Today, black people (notice I did not say African-American because if you don't live in Africa you're not African) do not suffer anything from slavery anymore... Black people are equal especially in a country like the Bahamas in which the Black community is definitely not a minority. In 1991 the Swiss government was offered to give billions of dollars to American Jews because of the Holocaust... that money did not belong to them. The American Jews were Jews that suffered nothing from the Holocaust and had been established in the United Sates for many generations. They simply received money that did not belong to them. I am not against paying tribute or respecting those who suffered from slavery, but no one today deserves reparation. How are you suppose to hope for equality if you acknowledge that there is a difference. The only way forward is by truly being equal... no differences between white or black people. The second you start giving Black people additional rights that white people do not have, the true meaning of equality is threatened.
It's not about it being more important, it's the fact that this murder specifically will probably have a bigger impact on the community as a whole because it affects more than just one family, it affects a whole political party and the followers of that party. Every human life is equal but every human death has a different impact. Maybe this particular one will help solve the Bahamas' problems with crime... in my opinion there is no way in moving forward if the Bahamian people keep gunning down the people that are the closest to making a change in this society.
EddyC says...
If the Bahamas wants more trade with the European Union they should maybe avoid suing some of it's key members for $200 billion on a pathetic excuse to just make money...
On Bahamas represented at CARICORUM meeting
Posted 25 October 2013, 11:48 a.m. Suggest removal
EddyC says...
Asking for reparation is completely and utterly nonsense... Those who needed reparations were the people who suffered from slavery and suffered the horrors of slave owners. Today, black people (notice I did not say African-American because if you don't live in Africa you're not African) do not suffer anything from slavery anymore... Black people are equal especially in a country like the Bahamas in which the Black community is definitely not a minority. In 1991 the Swiss government was offered to give billions of dollars to American Jews because of the Holocaust... that money did not belong to them. The American Jews were Jews that suffered nothing from the Holocaust and had been established in the United Sates for many generations. They simply received money that did not belong to them. I am not against paying tribute or respecting those who suffered from slavery, but no one today deserves reparation. How are you suppose to hope for equality if you acknowledge that there is a difference. The only way forward is by truly being equal... no differences between white or black people. The second you start giving Black people additional rights that white people do not have, the true meaning of equality is threatened.
On Lawyers want Bahamians to help determine slavery impact
Posted 25 October 2013, 11:46 a.m. Suggest removal
EddyC says...
It's not about it being more important, it's the fact that this murder specifically will probably have a bigger impact on the community as a whole because it affects more than just one family, it affects a whole political party and the followers of that party. Every human life is equal but every human death has a different impact. Maybe this particular one will help solve the Bahamas' problems with crime... in my opinion there is no way in moving forward if the Bahamian people keep gunning down the people that are the closest to making a change in this society.
On Bran's brother shot dead
Posted 25 October 2013, 11:23 a.m. Suggest removal