"black dudes were getting out of their truck at the same time, and as we walked across the parking lot, they were eyeing me up with anger and hatred, I overheard "fvcking white boy"" That has NEVER happened to me in the 35 years I have been here... and if it ever does...YES I will speak up BIG TIME!!! I don't care if they use violence against me, or not, they will pay even more in the courts if they but touch me!! Seriously... I WILL NOT STAND FOR THAT KIND OF CRAP AT MY AGE."
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Re: Sell me on the PLP « Reply #53 on: Today at 01:30:32 PM »
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I have experienced it before, but more as a youth getting on the Warwick Sec bus at Warwick Academy(which was always an experience), or various times in town, but I was young, and they were young, and I am largely non-confrontaional, so I just grin and bear it.
Perhaps if I was in my mid 30s, 20 years ago and this had happened, I would have said something, but I am not interested in finding out which black youths have guns or not.
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Re: Sell me on the PLP « Reply #58 on: Today at 02:01:13 PM »
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Uncle Elvis on Today at 12:10:10 PMWhen I read things like I did the other day, where someone said
"I am starting to get the sense that anti-UBP (aka anti-white) prejudice is so deeply engrained among a dismayingly high number of black Bermudians that they will never consider voting for a 'white' party. (And I believe I said as much at the time I first posted the suggestion, so no "moral superiority of black folks" here.)
My pessimistic sense is that that feeling is not going to abate any time in the next couple of decades. For one, there's still too much resentment over the past, and the economic disparities (which are written off as being caused by white prejudice). The fact that this election is even close is, IMO, sad testament to that.
Because I get the feeling that if the UBP can't win this election, nothing short of mass unemployment and hunger in the streets is going to have a hope of changing enough people's minds about them."
Noel
