Comments on: “Island Flames” Book Details Executions, Riots

By: Second

Second — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:58:25 +0000

PLEASE READ the book before you make negative or positive comments. DUH!!!!!

By: Jonathan D Smith

Jonathan D Smith — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:44:54 +0000

If you deem the title inflammatory, then one should go back to the Pitt Commission for the explanation.

In the Pitt Commission’s report, they used the phrase “…flames of racial enmity.” Their statement was that the riots erupted in Bermuda (Island) because the “…flames (Flames) of racial enmity” could no longer be controlled. Thus, Island Flames is not intended to be inflammatory but instructive and, importantly, historically relevant and accurate. There’s a title explanation contained in the book which explains this is greater detail.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:14:57 +0000

Well nobody got convicted in South Africa either. The fact is “impressive” is that the Europeans are STILL benefiting from that embarrassing era and would prefer if you would just get over it and let it go and try to insult you and call you ignorant.
But if a Jewish person comments on the Holocaust they will get compassion, but let African descendants talk about their Holocaust(which we are still feeling the effects through Racism, Economic Disadvantage and Social Privilege) and you get reprimanded.
That’s the world we live in.

By: thelmafoster

thelmafoster — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:38:45 +0000

let the truth be told

By: Widget

Widget — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:41:08 +0000

And your point is? And where is your book?

By: Never never

Never never — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:47:47 +0000

You need to watch Selma I believe you will see yourself in the movie racist idiot smh

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:39:41 +0000

“I hope the book adds to the rich fabric of our tragic past, yet hopeful future. In order to forge a path ahead, we need to be acutely aware of the path taken.”

I agree that we have to study history and we should certainly leaven from it…

However, in my opinion, this is only going to inflame more division and more racism in Bermuda. I just can’t get my head around how this book is going to help Bermuda heal? You can say all you want that making everyone aware of the path taken is going to help us forge ahead. I just don’t see it working in that direction! I see it working the opposite direction! The title alone makes it unnecessarily sensational.

Good luck to the author…I hope you make lots of money off the story!

By: learn

learn — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:26:45 +0000

Learn about your pass so you do not repeat it.

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:26:29 +0000

What’s hidden in the dark shall soon be revealed !

By: Never never

Never never — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:30:35 +0000

What a a@@you are smh

By: Sav Vie

Sav Vie — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:24:31 +0000

This is true History yup all just SHUT yourselves and slowly enjoy the BOOK .I Need and want 2 please Fill me in ok

By: Bermyman

Bermyman — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:23:22 +0000

Can you explain how hundreds of thousands of people were captured by just a few in the first place?

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:39:49 +0000

Only the folly of a few would deny that, and as the ‘history’ lecture at Liberty a couple weeks ago shows, it is still being kept alive and well.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:37:54 +0000

I prefer electronic reading, but I can’t find it in any electronic format… I don’t have a lot of book shelf room, so my kindle has been great for increasing my reading habits. Might have to breakdown and eventually buy a hard copy, though is would hope that an electronic would still become available in the near future.

By: Keepin' it Real!...4Real!

Keepin' it Real!...4Real! — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:50:37 +0000

You’re quite correct…It’s in the global agenda…and the sheep will follow.

By: Jonathan D Smith

Jonathan D Smith — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:06:25 +0000

No, the book will certainly not start a riot. You ask why now, why couldn’t this have been written much earlier. This book could not have been possible prior to 2008. A substantial part of the research is based on previously classified UK Government files held at the UK National Archives where they were sealed for 30 years. The most current documents used in the book were from 1978.
Why 2015? The answer: why not? The book invites the reader to compare and contrast the post 1977 era of the Pitt Commission and all of its recommendations to chart a new path for Bermuda, with 2015. Although the substantive book is not an opinion piece, I did invite well respected researcher and statistician, Cordell Riley to complete the book with a chapter examining what has happened since 1977. There are some striking similarities in the issues raised in 1977 and those being raised today. We have not yet resolved several of the pressing problems we face – such as race based politics, education, immigration policy, disparity in earnings, tax structure, and there are more (also raised in the Pitt Commission report 38 years ago).

By: Coffee

Coffee — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:05:24 +0000

If only the release of this book calls back home the many thousands of Bermudians who left before , during and immediately after the riots of ’77 up to 1981 . Come back home ! Let’s bring about the new Bermuda that was envisioned when a lot of us went to college and university abroad . Let’s bring our families back , some for the first time ! Buy the book ! We lived it , we know it , we understood exactly what we were up against ! Many of the mean characters of that era are dead or dying . This book should be the clarion call for the Bermudians scattered throughout the diaspora . There is a place for all of us , let’s take it and make it .

By: kangoocar

kangoocar — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:42:27 +0000

SI hope every page does not have the usual script of ” blind faithfulness ” in it, along with a hundred periods, in between the words? example being, really…………….REALLY……….. .reallly……..

By: kangoocar

kangoocar — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:38:56 +0000

@impressive, maybe you should be asking if those that actually captured and SOLD the people from their homeland, were ever convicted???

By: Vulcan Trash Cleaner

Vulcan Trash Cleaner — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:26:22 +0000

you have a chip on your shoulder,that’s tough!

By: Come Correct

Come Correct — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 17:32:18 +0000

Your history is a little one sided and ignorant, but carry on. Your answer is no.

By: chip

chip — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 17:28:49 +0000

THIS BOOK SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUT WHY NOW 2015? U GOING TO START A ROIT!

By: impressive.

impressive. — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:27:49 +0000

which is “documented” as recent as 1977.. That’s less then 40 years ago.. but heh,, its all in their minds..

By: impressive.

impressive. — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:25:13 +0000

Did anyone ever get convicted for capturing hundreds of thousands or people from their home land, storing them in the pit of ships, taken them to a new land, selling them like cattle, beating them, raping them, forcing them to work.. Then give them so called liberation, but not equality?? just asking,,

By the way, may these innocent tourists and hotel worker rest in peace.. God Bless their families

By: Toodle-oo

Toodle-oo — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:22:29 +0000

If memory serves me correctly one person was convicted and served a prison term . I also believe that soon after his release he was involved with another crime (on a tourist) a put a hatchet in their skull .

By: WOLF

WOLF — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:11:28 +0000

Wait, what!?

By: be

be — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:33:03 +0000

Did anybody ever get convicted for killing three innocent people, two tourists and a Bermudian hotel worker?

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:22:58 +0000

You mean there is racism in Bermuda ?

By: Poor foke

Poor foke — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:19:16 +0000

Any price set yet? I need to know how much to set aside so I can get a copy on time.