> According to the former St Anne’s MP, the idea that racial lines still exist within the country’s political forum is absurd. He stressed that voters see political candidates through a colourless lens, where skin colour takes a backseat to work ethic and ability.
This, actually, is not true. Mr. Symonette may want to it be true, but it is not true. The fact is, race does matter to people - whether "white" or "black" or "in-between". If it did not matter, it would not be a viable stratagem - and it is. This is the problem we have when dealing with race. We do not deal with it truthfully, we deal with it based on the way we want it to pan out or through our own rose-colored glasses. Some white people see black people a certain way and vice versa. The key is not to deny that reality, but rather to understand it and all the hard truths that come with it, and then reach people from that standpoint. This does not mean all the judgement calls we make based on race are either moral or logical - it simply means they exist and are pervasive and to deny that is to deny reality. Every time someone says they are colorblind, I laugh at how dishonest that is. You are not colorblind - you see exactly what color society has labeled a person as. Now, if you want to say you don't make a judgement call solely on color, that's one thing. But to say you do not see it at all as though it does not exist is a lie and is actually insulting, since race as a dynamic of culture, ethnicity, etc is not only skin deep. Even though Mr. Symonette is at least a mulatto (his grandmother is black), people see him as a white man and the son of a UBP Premiere. He cannot escape that if he hopes to run, nor can he think he can successfully beat people down for how they may see certain things relative to race - especially since the issue of judgement calls based on race go in both directions. It is true that we should deal with persons based on the content of their character but we do not, even in the systems of this world that we live by. What Wells is doing and Minnis is co-signing is of course a disgrace simply because of how lazy and trite it is politically and how base it is socially - but simply dismissing it and tactics like that as that, won't make dealing with the stratagem any easier. The reality is, race is not simply a card. And no, it is not something that just does not exist. And what is also reality is how people view calling for the race card to be put away and who tends to call for it in the world and in society, especially since the race card is not put away when the reverse is the case.
No, it is not true because those who were present confirmed that it isn't true, and I am referring to persons who are not team Minnis at all and never have been. The persons responsible for this planted story were boasting about their latest pathetic exploits that while seemingly are doing wonders for their narcissism, are doing nothing beneficial for their party or the country. Minnis is a teeming waste of political space for sure, but the role of the media in a nation is supposed to trump agendas of anyone who might wish to use the media to accomplish his or her own ends. The media is supposed to be a watchdog, not a lapdog.
> “Out there some people are saying that it is time, I completely agree. It’s time for us to rally behind Hubert Alexander Minnis. It is time for us to get rid of the PLP. It is time for us to deliver South Beach,” he continued.
There was no need for Johnson to throw a jab like this at his own party colleague. It is just another example of how these people talk with two tongues. You don't have to tear at one of your own just to show support for one of your own. How are you on the one hand calling for unity while on the other hand being as they say, shady - and being unnecessarily shady as a male no less!
Publius says...
Deficit - not debt, which is often confused one for the other - is a function solely of expenditure vs revenue. Is the CB report therefore a shock?
On Gov’t ‘exhausts’ 95% of deficit projection
Posted 10 February 2016, 3:06 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
> According to the former St Anne’s MP, the idea that racial lines still exist within the country’s political forum is absurd. He stressed that voters see political candidates through a colourless lens, where skin colour takes a backseat to work ethic and ability.
This, actually, is not true. Mr. Symonette may want to it be true, but it is not true. The fact is, race does matter to people - whether "white" or "black" or "in-between". If it did not matter, it would not be a viable stratagem - and it is. This is the problem we have when dealing with race. We do not deal with it truthfully, we deal with it based on the way we want it to pan out or through our own rose-colored glasses. Some white people see black people a certain way and vice versa. The key is not to deny that reality, but rather to understand it and all the hard truths that come with it, and then reach people from that standpoint. This does not mean all the judgement calls we make based on race are either moral or logical - it simply means they exist and are pervasive and to deny that is to deny reality. Every time someone says they are colorblind, I laugh at how dishonest that is. You are not colorblind - you see exactly what color society has labeled a person as. Now, if you want to say you don't make a judgement call solely on color, that's one thing. But to say you do not see it at all as though it does not exist is a lie and is actually insulting, since race as a dynamic of culture, ethnicity, etc is not only skin deep. Even though Mr. Symonette is at least a mulatto (his grandmother is black), people see him as a white man and the son of a UBP Premiere. He cannot escape that if he hopes to run, nor can he think he can successfully beat people down for how they may see certain things relative to race - especially since the issue of judgement calls based on race go in both directions. It is true that we should deal with persons based on the content of their character but we do not, even in the systems of this world that we live by. What Wells is doing and Minnis is co-signing is of course a disgrace simply because of how lazy and trite it is politically and how base it is socially - but simply dismissing it and tactics like that as that, won't make dealing with the stratagem any easier. The reality is, race is not simply a card. And no, it is not something that just does not exist. And what is also reality is how people view calling for the race card to be put away and who tends to call for it in the world and in society, especially since the race card is not put away when the reverse is the case.
On ‘Time to stop using the race card in politics’
Posted 10 February 2016, 2:49 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
Truth
On BEC general manager leaves role, becomes advisor
Posted 9 February 2016, 8:45 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
Journalism is DOA.
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Publius says...
ha!
On ‘What are you going to do with the grenades?’
Posted 4 February 2016, 8:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
ha
On FNM ‘outraged’ over ‘false’ report that Dr Minnis attempted to expel four MPs
Posted 3 February 2016, 6:43 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
No, it is not true because those who were present confirmed that it isn't true, and I am referring to persons who are not team Minnis at all and never have been. The persons responsible for this planted story were boasting about their latest pathetic exploits that while seemingly are doing wonders for their narcissism, are doing nothing beneficial for their party or the country. Minnis is a teeming waste of political space for sure, but the role of the media in a nation is supposed to trump agendas of anyone who might wish to use the media to accomplish his or her own ends. The media is supposed to be a watchdog, not a lapdog.
On FNM ‘outraged’ over ‘false’ report that Dr Minnis attempted to expel four MPs
Posted 3 February 2016, 6:07 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
Ha!
On MINNIS TELLS SUPPORTERS: DON’T LOSE FOCUS
Posted 3 February 2016, 6:03 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
Wow.
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Publius says...
> “Out there some people are saying that it is time, I completely agree. It’s time for us to rally behind Hubert Alexander Minnis. It is time for us to get rid of the PLP. It is time for us to deliver South Beach,” he continued.
There was no need for Johnson to throw a jab like this at his own party colleague. It is just another example of how these people talk with two tongues. You don't have to tear at one of your own just to show support for one of your own. How are you on the one hand calling for unity while on the other hand being as they say, shady - and being unnecessarily shady as a male no less!
On MINNIS TELLS SUPPORTERS: DON’T LOSE FOCUS
Posted 3 February 2016, 1:28 p.m. Suggest removal