Praise for editorialNovember 14, 2012Dear Sir,May I commend you for the Editorial of Tuesday, November 13. Its significance for me is that you recognised and acknowledged the long-term economic impact of centuries of racism and segregation. That is something that most— black and white prefer to ignore. Your columnist, Al Seymour, feels that the lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the PLP has left a taste of bitterness with many. I can assure him that decades of white supremacy and racism has left an even greater taste of Bitterness (with a capital B) with many more. That is even more entrenched and destructive because the long term impact has not only been economic but psychological. In my view many of the blunders of the PLP have been a direct result of the fact that the doctrine of white supremacy has left many black people continuing to believe that “white ice is colder” and the PLP effort to respond has often reflected that they too have been impacted psychologically. While I do not necessarily agree with Mr. Seymour I believe that if the PLP has made mistakes that I need to ensure that they are returned to correct their own mistakes.The last thing that the black community needs is to have the political party that represents 95 percent of the white community be given the opportunity to say that it has corrected mistakes made by the PLP which represents 95 percent of the black community. The PLP is far more likely to correct its mistakes than the white Community/OBA is likely to rid itself of the sense of white supremacy and racism since it far more entrenched. Their resistance to the Equity Bill proved that. Decades of racism and segregation has been far more destructive to the entire society than any recent lack of transparency and lack of accountability which has often been nothing more than a negative response to “the white man still being in our heads”.EVA N HODGSONHamilton Parish