July 29, 2012Dear Sir,A great woman has been telling a story for many years. Before her, many other great men and women have been telling the same story. We listened intently as these stories were the stories of our everyday existence.We thought to ourselves: “Oh, so I am not alone! Most of the other folks I know and am related to have the same stories.” Even if the stories were harsh stories, we felt comforted knowing others were sharing our burden.Some of our elders felt brave enough to tell others our stories. Amazingly some of the others listened and learned. Yet predictably, most of them told us our stories were fairy tales and myths made up to scare our offspring.They then proceeded to tell us their version of our story. Sadly many of us now believed their “gospel” to now be our “gospel”.So time after time, generation after generation our elders saw the need to reinforce “our story” no matter what “gospel” was being force fed onto our minds. It took a mighty long time yet, over the years, many of us realised the truth of “our story” was a better food to digest than their “gospel”.We reached a point near 50 years ago that we were no longer listening to the gospel. We yearned for and learned more about our own story from our own elders. Once firmly embellished with our story we permanently rejected the “gospel”. Banishing it to the likes of Mother Goose and Dr Suess.Family, I have purposely avoided speaking directly about the race issues in Bermuda. Why, you ask? Because like you, I wish for us as a country to focus on the issues that affect us all. Yet for the last few months it has become more and more apparent that race itself is an issue that supersedes almost everything else. What crystallised it for me was this “Gospel” from Kevin Comeau.In my next letter I will address this new gospel according to Cardinal KC.Stand Strong Family.CHRISTOPHER FAMOUSDevonshire