This lady is an idiot. There is no such thing as ‘white mental illness’. There is such a thing as ‘mental illness’ but this is NOT what she wrote.
How is something that does not exist i.e ‘white mental illness’ able to kill African Bermudians?
Which black Bermudians died as a result of this imagined ‘white mental illness’ which afflicted so many many black Bermudians? Please name the actual illness that killed these people. Where does she obtain her information? is she medically trained? if not, how does she know about mental illness and what is the actual definition of white ‘mental illness’. I ask this lady/idiot to supply her sources. I refer to her as an idiot because that is what she is. If you are going to say/write something and place it in a public forum then she needs to know that very educated people will critique her commentary. This is why foreigners view Bermudians with contempt. The rubbish that comes out of their mouth’s leaves me with my mouth agape.

If you will remember, Eva Hodgson and Ewart Brown have enlighten us that blacks “cannot be racist.” There you have it and now you know!

The political action purpose is to make people feel guilty when they as individuals have done nothing wrong claiming we have been unwitting participants in some one else’s wrongdoing or crime.

“False Guilt” is taking on the guilt to your self that rightfully belongs to another person. The lady and her supporters behind the sign is trying to promote personalization which is a mental cognitive distortion and that might be the mental illness the very thing her unforgiven mental sate causes her unresolved anger against white people!

May be the Pastor Tweed can overcome the anger and forgiveness to minister a bit of love to his marching flock!

Do not let others put a false guilt trip on your beautiful Bermuda Emancipation Day holiday (Cub Match).

So my comments about the younger generation not looking for excuses and telling them they can be whatever they want is embarrassing? My comments about the older generation saying negative comments about others that we the younger generation have to listen to, when what you should be giving the younger generation is positive information, mentioning this is embarrassing to you?
As for my comments about Malcolm and Mandela I said that as they got older they changed specifically Malcolm x and he stopped his sweeping negative statements about others and I said that if someone like Malcolm x can do it then some of this older generation that still feel like this can do it also – That was my message in a nutshell. I never said they were perfect for their entire lives.
So the message of hope and people getting along and moving forward for a better Bda this is what you want me to stop?
I see.

The response to the sign is not due to the “hurt feelings” of the “white political support”. That characterization is, in itself, racist. The sign is condemned by all those that want to stamp out racism in Bermuda.

Got it… I’ll settle on having my future decided before I was born. I have (unfortunately) both strains of this toxic Bermudian blood in my veins my (white) old man saw fit to have sex with my mom…but the family would have nothing to do with her now would they? Racist white Bermudian families die hard (no not literally just a figure of speech…)

We should just forget it all when the whites control most all of the wealth on earth (through their phony FIAT currencies based on nothing but some fat banker deciding how much to print this month and contract the next…)

We should forget the lands (ALL OVER THE WORLD) that were brutally stolen from indigenous peoples (and then retroactively made legal! SMH)and falsely recorded in some history book as a great act of valor…

We should accept the BS argument that it “wasn’t my mommy or daddy that had slaves” so how could I be the beneficiary of this system? – whites world wide with their perceived intellectual superiority that cannot grasp this concept baffle me to no end.

The truth is – and I do not have the time to get into the details of it all – is that whites in general differ from most indigenous peoples of the world – especially eastern civilizations. Whites are concerned – just look around if you will – (and have infected many world wide with this mental illness) with land grabbing, wealth accumulation and lies based on “humanitarian” concerns to justify their incessant thievery of resources in capital producing lands.

IT IS MENTAL ILLNESS! What else would give a race a justification for all the crimes they have committed throughout history…shoot even the dictatorial regimes worldwide killing their own people have received financial and military backing from either America, England, Russia, France or Israel – get the drift? A common color here?

Who Funded and Armed the Taliban? White Man. America – then more Recently Russia…
Who Funded and Armed Mao Tse Tung? White Man.
Mugabe? Oh you think he made those weapons in his mud hut?
Saddam Hussein? Who armed this man in his war with Iran?
Muammar Ghadaffi? Get it yet?
The Biggest Genocide in recent history? Hitler? Hmmm?

There is a common denominator here and you and I know what and who it is.

So yes I think the mental illness argument is legitimate.

I’m sorry that a small group of people angers you so much that you take it so deeply to heart, the same as I’m sorry that Ms Burns has never opened herself up to experience a different reality. Both of you need to open your eyes to the reality that not everyone is the same, defined solely by the colour of our skin, we are all unique individuals, with differing experiences and views. By closing yourself off, you’ve missed one of the true beauties of the world.

The PLP would have had the BIU Stop everything immediately in protest and there would be so-called *Marches* nearly everyday!!!

Racial politics will be in BDA forever as it has been for the last 50+ yrs!!! And we have ALL seen the damage it has done to the Island (Lost Tourism – Business – No outside investment confidence, etc) over the years!!! Why do you think so many people have left for good??

I still have a *Bee-in-my-Bonnet* about the 1981 Island-wide strike and madness – and the lasting damage that did to the tourism product – courtesy of Ottiwell Simmons!!

The PLP / BIU don’t want to be reminded about ALL that nonsense – as it is a very inconvenient *Truth* for them to admit to their own people!!! And I guess they won’t be completely happy – until they have put the “final nail” in BDA’s coffin!!!

At this rate that won’t be too far away!!! I could go on and on – but what’s the point as we ALL know what the REAL “truth” is!!

Tell your story, in written word or spoken, video, music, dance, however best suits each person. Put it out there for those of us who are willing to hear, but don’t accuse or punish us for something in which we had no part.

Not every white person is the descendant of an oppressor, the same as not every black person is the descendant of a slave.

Know your story, embrace it, but please don’t presume my story, it may be far closer to yours than you could ever imagine.

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Please join and invite others. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, creed or national origin, (to name a few).

PRC holders should be assessed on a case by case basis keeping within the restrictions of legislature; however, I’ll add… A government that deliberately operates on flawed legislature has no integrity.

Still no apology from the PLP. They were in the march as well. Presumably the PLP has no problem with the sign.

Your comments are embarrassing. The Mandela you claim is the kindly elder statesman presented to the world as a symbol of the capacity of Black people to forgive. You and many others would do well to remember Mandela, the revolutionary and Mandela the terrorist (as defined by successive western regimes). Mandela possessed all of those qualities you mention and more but DO NOT SPIN a tale of him being anything other than committed to righting the wrongs in his country. The discussion in South Africa immediately following the end of apartheid was led by the Truth and Reconciliation commission. All of those people who you suggest are full of hate were permitted to tell their stories as a means of cleansing the soul of the nation. NO ONE, Mandela included told them to let it go.

Why is it that ONLY IN BERMUDA THE TRUTH CAN NEVER BE TOLD AND THE PEOPLE CANNOT EVEN OWN THEIR OWN HISTORY?

The danger in your comments is that some young person might read them, believe them and then be damaged for life when confronted with the very real racism that exists in the country.

PLEASE STOP!