"There are still many students who do not have a device or the internet, and would, necessarily, have been deprived of the benefit of continuing school,”. So why the hell are you pushing them for what we all know most cannot possibly be ready for??
My GOD man have a heart! Most of these kids and their parents are suffering from multiple effects of COVID19 and the debilitating lockdowns, the mental anguish of watching parents worry about rent, food, light, medical bills, and this George Floyd matter which is very disturbing even to adults has to be most troubling to children. How the hell can you expect them to concentrate on studies while being bombarded with so many life-changing negatives happening?
What is the harm of delaying exams and giving these children every possible opportunity to catch up?
We don't need white police brutality. From the ridiculous coconut man judge to Jeff Lloyd, why are the Bahamas always ready to beat up, degrade, and hurt our own people?
WTF?.....Brave Davis had no problem with police brutality and excessive force being used on our people on the paradise island bridge with the vendor beach fiasco and thousands of complaints in the courts of police beating suspects throughout his entire political career!
The PLP as a party was never interested in bridging any gaps in economic inequality or showed any signs of intervention through "social programs", in fact, the record shows they did the exact opposite by stifling as many Bahamians as possible and giving everything to foreigners.
This same clown stood before the nation yelling "Bahamians First" & "We Believe In Bahamians" and what happened? Now he wants us to believe he will suddenly have his minions "reach their hands down and pick up their brothers and sisters"? Lol. This guy must think we eat stupid for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
**NOBODY** can be stupid enough to believe anything from Davis and the PLP. What they have not done in 50 years certainly cannot be expected now!
As an individual that lived in the US for 13 years and traveled extensivly interstate and across 4 continents, Alicia Wallace is 110% right with her summation of white privilege, racism, police brutality, and the difference in the standard of living for white people and black people.
Protest around the world proves these are not just USA centric issues but are generational engrained global problems that must be addressed!
Many white Bahamians dislike black Bahamians because they believe "black Bahamians were not equal to them before majority rule, still are not equal now, and don't know their place". Alternatively, Haitians are subservient and therefore acceptable to white Bahamians and ex-pats.
As bahamianson wants to "remove boards from our own eyes", before talking about Haitians, he needs to first acknowledge the generations of economic marginalization suffered by black Bahamians, and continue suffering today. We do not see any white Bahamian ghettos over the hill or white Bahamians in soup kitchen lines begging for food!
This silly argument that black Bahamians hate Haitians and people of Haitian descent is a white Bahamian and ex-pat fallacy that they use to justify their own hate of black Bahamians.
The facts are black Bahamians do not hate Haitians as a people. What Black Bahamians *do hate about* Haitians is the socio-economic issues caused by illegal Haitian migration which is supported by legal Haitians, which has driven far too many black Bahamians to poverty.
These socio-economic issues in which **white Bahamians are immune to**, are factors that have negative influences on black Bahamian economic activity, diminishes quality and availability of adequate education, deminished health care, cultural discrimination, filthy shanty-towns, overpopulation, greatly increased unemployment, corruption, income, and wealth.
None of these socio-economic factors have any effect whatsoever on the lives, livelihood, children, or in any way impacts white Bahamians, which is why they cannot begin to comprehend why Haitians are "the" major threat to the very survival of black Bahamians!
Regarding the "One teacher told her students in a Bahamian Public school , " We will never have a white Prime Minister". Why praytell would black Bahamians have **wanted** a white prime minister after having recently emerged from generations of minority white rule and racisim mirroring the USA at that time? Where was the outcry from white Bahamians?Secondly, why are you holding onto a few ignorant statements from school children?
At this juncture after 50+ years of consistant, utter, failure under majority rule, black Bahamians would welcome a white prime minister if they thought he would finally deal with the injustices, systemic and endimic corruption that has destroyed our country and people!
Police brutality here is a well known normal occurrence. Everybody knows of numerous instances where "BLACK" Bahamians have been brutalized and tortured into confessions!
In the U.S. It is white cops and a white Justice system brutalizing black people. The really hurtful thing is, In the Bahamas, it is black cops and a black Justice system brutalizing black people.
The PLP and FNM are equally guilty of condoning police brutality for decades!!
Unfortunately, the Bahamas and the entire region find ourselves between a rock and a hard place, with no other choice than to risk re-opening the tourism industry come what may if we want to survive!
While we are happy to "provide target markets with a comfort level that The Bahamas is a safe and healthy destination",....our main target market (U.S.) is the global sickest epicenter for covid19, and our protocol does not insist these people prove they are virus-free, AND we admit some will be carrying the virus with them, meaning a percentage of Bahamians will undoubtedly again become infected, sick and some will ultimately die.
How do we justify this to the coconut vendor and all the others harshly charged and or jailed before the courts for frivolous reasons? What was the point of locking up and charging Bahamians when they always knew we would be forced to open the country 24/7 to virus-carrying tourist sooner rather than later?
Besides being "all-powerful" the courts must show the capacity for virtues of mercy and compassion, especially having demanded so much from citizens least able to pay during the hardest economic times experienced by Bahamians in living memory. The least humane thing the courts should do is to fully compensate and apologize to these people for all the stress and trauma they endured for what now amounts to nothing!
Professor Christopher Curry's summation is absolutely correct! History is bound to repeat itself mainly because nothing has ever been done to correct the many wrongs.
The elites only know oppression and only respond to violence!
Mr. Hershall Hoyte said..........“Personally, I feel like protesting doesn’t do anything,” he said. “I’ve seen it happen too many times before. They protest and you see this whole big thing about it for two weeks and after that, it fades away and everyone acts like it never happened. So after I keep seeing that, I don’t even pay attention or get involved in that because it doesn’t change anything."
Spoken like a true complacent Bahamian!
Our complacency is the reason the PLP and FNM have gotten away with any number of crimes against Bahamians for so long!
Ironically, white Americans now complaining about the protesters looting, burning, and violence, play ignorant to the fact that they themselves gained everything they have including the United States of America through violence, civil unrest, carnage, and a war against English oppression!
The American Indians lost their entire country to the invading white man whose mantras included: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (Patrick Henry. March 23, 1775)
“If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done.”! (Thomas Jefferson)
Minorities in the U.S. must stand and do whatever must be done to effect change if they wish to gain respect from the Anglo Saxons!
SP says...
Sad!
On Mum’s agony as car kills teenage son
Posted 9 June 2020, 8:09 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
"There are still many students who do not have a device or the internet, and would, necessarily, have been deprived of the benefit of continuing school,”. So why the hell are you pushing them for what we all know most cannot possibly be ready for??
My GOD man have a heart! Most of these kids and their parents are suffering from multiple effects of COVID19 and the debilitating lockdowns, the mental anguish of watching parents worry about rent, food, light, medical bills, and this George Floyd matter which is very disturbing even to adults has to be most troubling to children. How the hell can you expect them to concentrate on studies while being bombarded with so many life-changing negatives happening?
What is the harm of delaying exams and giving these children every possible opportunity to catch up?
We don't need white police brutality. From the ridiculous coconut man judge to Jeff Lloyd, why are the Bahamas always ready to beat up, degrade, and hurt our own people?
On ‘YOU WERE TOLD - EXAMS GO AHEAD’: Lloyd insists lockdown was ‘not a holiday’ and state tests will proceed
Posted 9 June 2020, 8:04 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Lol..hope he raped her properly!
On Davis: We support worldwide protests over Floyd killing
Posted 6 June 2020, 7:44 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
WTF?.....Brave Davis had no problem with police brutality and excessive force being used on our people on the paradise island bridge with the vendor beach fiasco and thousands of complaints in the courts of police beating suspects throughout his entire political career!
The PLP as a party was never interested in bridging any gaps in economic inequality or showed any signs of intervention through "social programs", in fact, the record shows they did the exact opposite by stifling as many Bahamians as possible and giving everything to foreigners.
This same clown stood before the nation yelling "Bahamians First" & "We Believe In Bahamians" and what happened? Now he wants us to believe he will suddenly have his minions "reach their hands down and pick up their brothers and sisters"? Lol. This guy must think we eat stupid for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
**NOBODY** can be stupid enough to believe anything from Davis and the PLP. What they have not done in 50 years certainly cannot be expected now!
STFU Brave!
On Davis: We support worldwide protests over Floyd killing
Posted 5 June 2020, 11:36 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
As an individual that lived in the US for 13 years and traveled extensivly interstate and across 4 continents, Alicia Wallace is 110% right with her summation of white privilege, racism, police brutality, and the difference in the standard of living for white people and black people.
Protest around the world proves these are not just USA centric issues but are generational engrained global problems that must be addressed!
Many white Bahamians dislike black Bahamians because they believe "black Bahamians were not equal to them before majority rule, still are not equal now, and don't know their place". Alternatively, Haitians are subservient and therefore acceptable to white Bahamians and ex-pats.
As bahamianson wants to "remove boards from our own eyes", before talking about Haitians, he needs to first acknowledge the generations of economic marginalization suffered by black Bahamians, and continue suffering today. We do not see any white Bahamian ghettos over the hill or white Bahamians in soup kitchen lines begging for food!
This silly argument that black Bahamians hate Haitians and people of Haitian descent is a white Bahamian and ex-pat fallacy that they use to justify their own hate of black Bahamians.
The facts are black Bahamians do not hate Haitians as a people. What Black Bahamians *do hate about* Haitians is the socio-economic issues caused by illegal Haitian migration which is supported by legal Haitians, which has driven far too many black Bahamians to poverty.
These socio-economic issues in which **white Bahamians are immune to**, are factors that have negative influences on black Bahamian economic activity, diminishes quality and availability of adequate education, deminished health care, cultural discrimination, filthy shanty-towns, overpopulation, greatly increased unemployment, corruption, income, and wealth.
None of these socio-economic factors have any effect whatsoever on the lives, livelihood, children, or in any way impacts white Bahamians, which is why they cannot begin to comprehend why Haitians are "the" major threat to the very survival of black Bahamians!
Regarding the "One teacher told her students in a Bahamian Public school , " We will never have a white Prime Minister". Why praytell would black Bahamians have **wanted** a white prime minister after having recently emerged from generations of minority white rule and racisim mirroring the USA at that time? Where was the outcry from white Bahamians?Secondly, why are you holding onto a few ignorant statements from school children?
At this juncture after 50+ years of consistant, utter, failure under majority rule, black Bahamians would welcome a white prime minister if they thought he would finally deal with the injustices, systemic and endimic corruption that has destroyed our country and people!
On ALICIA WALLACE: There is reason to be enraged, to protest, not to remain silent
Posted 5 June 2020, 10:51 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Police brutality here is a well known normal occurrence. Everybody knows of numerous instances where "BLACK" Bahamians have been brutalized and tortured into confessions!
In the U.S. It is white cops and a white Justice system brutalizing black people. The really hurtful thing is, In the Bahamas, it is black cops and a black Justice system brutalizing black people.
The PLP and FNM are equally guilty of condoning police brutality for decades!!
On ‘WHY IGNORE THE PROBLEMS HERE?’: Activist asks why U.S. police brutality enrages us but not local issues
Posted 4 June 2020, 3 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Unfortunately, the Bahamas and the entire region find ourselves between a rock and a hard place, with no other choice than to risk re-opening the tourism industry come what may if we want to survive!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sea-sand-soc…
While we are happy to "provide target markets with a comfort level that The Bahamas is a safe and healthy destination",....our main target market (U.S.) is the global sickest epicenter for covid19, and our protocol does not insist these people prove they are virus-free, AND we admit some will be carrying the virus with them, meaning a percentage of Bahamians will undoubtedly again become infected, sick and some will ultimately die.
How do we justify this to the coconut vendor and all the others harshly charged and or jailed before the courts for frivolous reasons? What was the point of locking up and charging Bahamians when they always knew we would be forced to open the country 24/7 to virus-carrying tourist sooner rather than later?
Besides being "all-powerful" the courts must show the capacity for virtues of mercy and compassion, especially having demanded so much from citizens least able to pay during the hardest economic times experienced by Bahamians in living memory. The least humane thing the courts should do is to fully compensate and apologize to these people for all the stress and trauma they endured for what now amounts to nothing!
On Minister: Bahamas Ltd 'must get going again'
Posted 3 June 2020, 5:34 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Professor Christopher Curry's summation is absolutely correct! History is bound to repeat itself mainly because nothing has ever been done to correct the many wrongs.
The elites only know oppression and only respond to violence!
On FACE TO FACE: Think there are no lessons for us to learn in what’s happening in the US?
Posted 2 June 2020, 7:41 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Mr. Hershall Hoyte said..........“Personally, I feel like protesting doesn’t do anything,” he said. “I’ve seen it happen too many times before. They protest and you see this whole big thing about it for two weeks and after that, it fades away and everyone acts like it never happened. So after I keep seeing that, I don’t even pay attention or get involved in that because it doesn’t change anything."
Spoken like a true complacent Bahamian!
Our complacency is the reason the PLP and FNM have gotten away with any number of crimes against Bahamians for so long!
On Bahamian consulates monitoring protests over George Floyd killing
Posted 2 June 2020, 4:32 p.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
Ironically, white Americans now complaining about the protesters looting, burning, and violence, play ignorant to the fact that they themselves gained everything they have including the United States of America through violence, civil unrest, carnage, and a war against English oppression!
The American Indians lost their entire country to the invading white man whose mantras included: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (Patrick Henry. March 23, 1775)
“If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done.”! (Thomas Jefferson)
Minorities in the U.S. must stand and do whatever must be done to effect change if they wish to gain respect from the Anglo Saxons!
On 'No justice, no peace': Protests resume in NYC for 4th day
Posted 1 June 2020, 5:54 p.m. Suggest removal