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"Bean calls for blacks to cooperate with one another"

Environment Minister Marc Bean urged black people to cease complaining and start making their own luck, during a fiery House of Assembly speech. Mr Bean also hinted cannabis smokers could soon avoid harsh penalties as he spoke from Government’s front...
Nov 21, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"White appeasement "

A poison that contaminates November 1, 2011 Dear Sir, My question initially to Lawyer Charles Richardson and then to a wider audience was not a rhetorical one. It was a serious one. It was a serious one because so many Bermudians, including so many b...
Nov 15, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"We need to bridge our differences "

November 1, 2011 Dear Sir, One of your most regular and consistently-themed contributors to these columns wrote, in a letter published on October 27, that: “It is our deep racial divide with all of its inequities that is a greater problem (than Bermu...
Nov 07, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"Closing the racial divide "

October 29, 2011 Dear Sir, In view of Sir John’s failure to address the racial divide or to acknowledge either its origin or implication and the OBA’s promise to do politics differently, I would like to direct to a wider audience a question that I re...
Nov 01, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"You’re welcome here "

October 27, 2011 Dear Sir, I was saddened after reading a letter in last Tuesday’s Royal Gazette written by, I presume, a black lady. Apparently this type of behaviour goes on today. I would like to invite her, with or without her husband, to attend ...
Nov 01, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"Disingenuous of Sir John "

October 23, 2011 Dear Sir, On Sunday Morning Sir John Swan gave but a passing nod to our problem that is even more fundament and intransigent than our failing economy. He acknowledged neither its origin nor its implications-----although he did blame...
Oct 27, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"Polarising politics "

October 19, 2011 Dear Sir, The other day I was in a restaurant when a white Bermudian whom I had met briefly waved at me. As a non-white foreigner, I immediately thought he was speaking to someone behind me, because although I have been married to a ...
Oct 25, 2011
Opinion Writer

"Seeing each other as equal"

Racism always ignites an avalanche of emotions from all directions, with people on both sides of the issue often going overboard in venting views on how best to move to a new day of inter-racial harmony, understanding, and cooperation. Most of us who...
Jul 05, 2011
Other

"DeSilva apologises to Jewish community "

Health Minister Zane DeSilva has apologised for using the “disgusting, derogatory and disgraceful” term “jewing down” in Parliament. Progressive Labour Party MP Mr DeSilva was lambasted by the Opposition after he used the phrase during a debate in th...
Jun 21, 2011
Opinion Writer

"Transcending the race barrier"

This article was first published in October, 2007. Some years ago I was introduced, by a mutual friend, to the owner of China White, a famous London nightclub in one of the world’s most multi-cultural cities. Within a few minutes our discussion touc...
Apr 27, 2011
Letters to the Editor

"Break free from the cycle of hate"

Break free from hate cycle February 17, 2011 Dear Sir, This race issue needs to die because it's us blacks who are our worst enemies. We often treat other black people badly and it goes a long way. You have blacks that can't respect the privacy of ot...
Feb 22, 2011
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