How much were these two U.S. experts paid by Government to focus the blame for perpetuating racism on "the media"?

Doesn't this RG article smack of the Doctors saying exactly what the public wants to hear?  Blaming "structural inequality" is a nebulous way to take the responsibility away from the individual and make it somebody else's problem.

Make the people feel better, but accomplish nothing.  Sounds like it is serving another agenda... 

grats - that's not actually what i said. it's a clunky ham and eggs summation that is inaccurate enough to be completely misleading.

what i said was, the pro-queen's bday facebook group(s) membership is largely white and that i THINK the petitioners who are upset about the holiday change based on a desire to maintain a colonial relationship are white. could be wrong, but all anecdotal/hard indicators i've come across so far bear that out to be true.

now, i believe this to be significant 'cause it demonstrates quite forcibly the different attitude that the different races have towards the monarchy here on island. my experience is that black folk connect the queen with colonialism and as such with the sharp end of arbitrary imperalism i.e. slavery; therefore, it's not a relationship they spend a lot of time celebrating, y'know?

generally speaking, white folk don't have that same attributive sequence, because of an entirely different p.o.v. towards the issue of colonialism.

as such, like i said, i can understand why there are legitimate reasons that the attitude towards the queen would be different for white brothers/sisters, but what bugs me is that they can't seem(based on the pro-colonialists p.o.v. as it's been presented)understand why black folk have just as valid reasons to feel differently about what the relationship means. y'see?

i really do appreciate you listening to the show, but if you're gonna quote me PLEASE do it accurately. seems like i annoy you on general principle, but there's no need to massage what i've said to suit your pre-conceived notions about why i bugs ya. it's textbook circular reasoning, dude. un-kosher.

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i can kinda see why you'd feel that way, but if you finish the thought, changing structural inequality obviously all comes back to personal responsibility. there have to be systemic shifts in how false/regressive racial assumptions are formed/presented, but it's up to us to parse this slanted data properly and constantly question our own individual interpretations of stuff that is...let's say, accidentally racist.

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Touche...

I was obviously thinking just last names.......

I vote we have a public holiday without any 'isms' for the day...... ....

Piglet

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Yes, the RG is to blame for falling academic results at Berkeley since ca. 1980. Oh, wait, it's the legacy of slavery and/or legal segregation/discrimination. Yup, all during those decades of the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, when Berkeley was going from strength to strength academically, the full impact of the past hadn't hit yet.
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To be serious for a moment, as long as the focus seems to be trying to find someone to blame, it's no wonder people aren't very interested. Perhaps if 'black Bermuda' were more obviously being painfully self-critical (and there are some, I know, whom I salute for their intestinal fortitude), 'white Bermuda' might be more receptive to following that example, and be willing to look more critically at their own faults.

Noel

I am white and like many others I chose not to sign this petition based on the monarchist wording which I cannot agree with.  I am pretty sure that there are many others who have made the same decision and any others who want to keep a June long weekend and have decided to sign it even though they don't agree with the wording.

Thaao,

I haven't seen the facebook group but if it looks to be a white thing I would not be surprised.  Rightly or wrongly white Bermudians tend to read betweeen the lines when the government makes these kind of attacks on the old ways; seeing them as an attack on their own heritage.  That said, can't Bermudians of all races agree that trading a June holiday featuring, among other things, long-standing Comet and Dinghy racing mainstay events for an October holiday when such events could not be held would be a tragedy?  Would you be willing to hold a discussion on your show about the possibility of holding National Heroes Day in June?  

jnc - Well, considering we're a British colony, I'd kinda expect that the Abolitionists would be British. And call me a skeptic, but I don't think that the UK suddenly grew a moral backbone and decided to crusaders against slavery... especially since they managed to resurrect suppression and social and economic slavery in the form of colonialism... More like they felt threatened by the US's economic and emerging international dominance, both of which was dependent upon slave labour.

But that's a story for another day.