Sonny Singh on the Zimmerman Verdict
This deal with race is not easily solved. Simply declaring that people are equal does not make us all so. At best there are wounds and scars that will not heal because they have been opened again and...
View ArticleConcerning Reparations for Slavery: Part One
This past October, a tiny tempest-in-a-teacup erupted in the wake of a fairly routine report on a decision taken by CARICOM to sue the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands for reparations for...
View ArticleI thought I was liberal and open minded about race … until I realised what...
The additional suspicion with which my black guests are treated is not a form of obvious violence. Compared to the actions of the Klan, being asked to wait a few minutes in the lobby is, some will...
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Reparations Part II: A Lecture by Prof. Hilary Beckles
Hilary Beckles on Reparations The lecture is not short. Watch it at your own leisure. You may well not agree with it, all of it or some of it or a little of it. But if you have anything at all to say...
View ArticleResponse to the homophobic hysteria surrounding the proposed amendments to...
I am the founder of the grassroots social media group Bahamas Against Sexual Violence & Child Abuse and, in accordance with my belief in transparency, disclose that I am a member of the LGBT...
View ArticleBahamas Constitutional Reform To Address Citizenship, Gender Equality ·...
My first guest piece on Global Voices’ blog, The Bridge. I’ll reprint the whole thing here after the weekend. But for now check it out in situ: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is amending its...
View ArticleLandscapes of Inequality: reforming the Bahamian Constitution
First published on Global Voices’ The Bridge 10 October 2014 The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is amending its 41-year-old constitution. I’m using the present continuous tense, because the amendment is a...
View ArticleWatching Baltimore Burn
The title says it all. I’m watching the burning on MSNBC right now, having started watching it on CNN, and I’m thinking of all the mistakes we have made over the past ten years, the past twenty years,...
View ArticleConsidering the constitution
The real victims of [the] unequal entitlement to Bahamian citizenship … are … children, regardless of their sex. The key provision in the Constitution, where the debate is framed around gender, but...
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Li(v)es that matter
Last week, following the exchanges that were taking place on travel advisories to the USA, I felt I should weigh in. I didn’t. The issues at hand seemed too big, too heavy to lift. And the discussion...
View ArticleHurricane Matthew: #massivefail (2)
I’m writing this in the cool breeze and dark room of a home in an area which not only has yet to see electricity restored, but even to see any presence of our Power and Light company for blocks...
View ArticleThe NEW age of revolution
There’s a video I shared on Facebook. Its purpose: to explain to the world the real purpose behind the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement in France. The speaker in the video calls it “the...
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