More infantile race baiting in Parliament on Friday night from Derrick Burgess during the Motion to Adjourn: “Then you got Trevor Moniz over there asking what they did to George Scott. Come on, Trevor, you are the Portuguese consul and can’t speak a word of Portuguese — cut your nonsense out boy. As Trevor Moniz [...]
Entries Tagged as 'race'
Mincy-ing Words
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The Mincy Report is entitled “A Study of Employment, Earnings and Educational Attainment Gaps Between Young Black and White Men in Bermuda” (pdf). Yet, when Dr. Brown introduces a motion to the House of Assembly to debate the report, it gets repositioned to “the long-standing effects of institutionalised white supremacy on our young black males”. So [...]
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Mincy Report
November 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Education
The long-awaited report by Ronald Mincy of Columbia University has been released. A Study of Employment, Earnings, and Educational Gaps between Young Black Bermudian Males and their Same-Age Peers (pdf, 1 Mb) At 233 pages, it is worth skimming, and then reading again properly. This subject tends to be clouded by staccato emotion and political [...]
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Back in 1967
July 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Independence
The following is from a debate in the UK Parliament in 1967 surrounding the introduction of Bermuda’s new Constitution. It is popular today in some quarters to decry the Brits today for their colonial past, but in many respects they forced the liberalisation of Bermuda’s power structures. Reading this stuff, we seem to still be [...]
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Get Real
July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Yeah yeah, I know I’m supposed to be enjoying retirement. But the PLP’s spokesman has jumped to Minister Bud’s defence alleging that critics of Dr. Brown and the PLP clearly suffer from a “genetic predisposition or a socialisation experience”. Seriously. Did I miss something? Is Boss Hogg running Alaska Hall? I look foward to hearing [...]
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Poll Says Uhoh PLP
June 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Profiles of Bermuda has just released results showing that registered voters in Bermuda bigtime disapproved of Ewart Brown’s actions to solicit detainees from Guantanamo Bay by a margin of 3 to 1 (nearly 70% opposing). Some voters wanted to make it clear, however, that they were not against the Uighurs staying in Bermuda, but against [...]
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Consider Carefully
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
The Governor gave a press conference this morning: “Because it breaches the Constitution, this exchange of notes [leading to the Premier's Great Uighur adventure] which was negotiated and sent on June 10, was in our view, invalid. In other words, the Bermuda Government’s action to solicit the arrival of the four Uighurs was unacceptable. I [...]
Tags:Constitution·Guantanamo·race·Uigurs
The Shift
May 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Business
On May 15, Parliament debated a report commissioned by the Bermuda Employers Council entitled The Shift: An Examination of Employment Trends in Bermuda. The debate was desultory and weak. But you should read the report yourself. It points out that should Bermuda’s economy expand even moderately in future years, our need for expatriate workers will [...]
Tags:race·Workforce Equity Act
Opportunity Missed
May 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
On Friday, following seven hours of speeches, the House of Assembly unanimously passed a motion put forward by Wayne Furbert (past leader of the UBP and recently declared Independent): “We affirm our wholehearted commitment to the cause of reconciliation between all races; and that we ask for forgiveness for the role that this House has [...]
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House Divided
March 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Tourism
I know that the UBP’s Sir John Swan doesn’t carry much freight with the current PLP leadership, but I do wonder why so many voices of moderation have been excluded from the big conversation. This is common sense: If Bermuda continues on its present trajectory of playing the racial blame game instead of committing to [...]