July 15, 2005
Racism Rampant in The Bahamas
Nassau Guardian executives Anthony Capron and Charles Carter must love the taste of their own words, because they sure end up eating them often enough. Once again, the careless fools at the helm of the nation's most embarrassing publication have made complete jackasses of themselves.
First, they attacked BahamasB2B.com for saying that there was a problem with racism in The Bahamas, which there really is. They called the leading Bahamian Website, "dangerous", because the site truthfully reported on the growing trend, and apparent Bahamian government support for anti-white attitudes.
Not a week went by before they were eating their words, after it was discovered that the paper's own editor had pointed out the dangerous racist trends in a previous article.
The second mistake the failing paper made, was to defend a well-known Bahamian "snake" who allegedly called the Guardian's editor whining about the fact that he was refered to as a "gangster" in a BahamasB2B news article. The paper quickly earned the moniker of "Newspaper for the Mob".
Now, the disgraced newspaper executives have more egg on their faces after, yet another, Bahamian government official, in a fiery senate address, made additional racist remarks regarding white Bahamians.
With crime at an all-time record level, and already affecting tourism, the last thing you'd expect the goverment to be doing is bashing white people, who constitute over 75% of the tourists to the Bahamas.
It is a fact that, too many Bahamians harbour anti-foreigner, racist attitudes and the government is only fueling that fire by blaming everything that's wrong with the country on whites, foreigners and Haitian immigrants. While there is certainly a problem with illegal immigration, it is not the root of all evil in the Bahamas. Haitian immigrants have nothing to do with the many deeper social problems affecting the country and they should not be used as a scapegoat to fuel anti-foreinger or racist attitudes.
Instead of attacking BahamasB2B, the Nassau Guardian needs to wake up and smell the stench of racism, which will surely destroy the country's economic base if not recognised and addressed immmediately.
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