"Imagine if the UBP were going to run Tony Brannon and the PLP had put his mug up in the same way. Do you don't think people would have seen it as a racial issue?"

There - fixed it for me. Don't do double negatives......

Noel - I guess lugging a Dell around would just be showing off.....

 4: White people who listen to Hott Radio are UBP bashers undercover.......

   Smokes, your part 3 of the reply a few posts above is much, much on the money. The people who don't fit into the bicameral black-white thing are conveniently ignored - at least from my point of view which, admittedly, is that of a Bermudian who's lived away for a long time. I keep a very close eye on Bermuda being a media kind of guy though.
    I don't know a damn thing about Thaoo Dill though, beyond what I can read of him in the Gazette online. If anybody'd like to pass on a simple address where I could hear his radio stuff online, cool. Otherwise it's up to me and my dyslexic navigation of this confounded internet thunderbox ...
    I haven't worked properly as a reporter in Bermuda for years. But speaking generally, if I may - just to avoid singling anybody out - sure, there were some of us who were painfully conscious of the lack of a real connection to what was going on in the black community. Some of us went to a lot of effort, far beyond the norm for usual stories, to get good stories on topics that you knew would be of interest to the black community. And of course, I recognise the artificiality of speaking of "the black community", but you know what I mean ... average enough working black Bermudians ... sure, plenty of reporters were painfully aware of a disconnect there, and there was. I tended to get interviews with church people or the elderly. Ya do what you can.
    I don't blame the media. I personally think the Gazette was openly biased against the PLP in the 80s, and a lot of that would translate into an anti-black thing in the simplistic rhetoric ... we could argue over that. But an institutionalised bias against blacks generally still existing in the mainstream Bermudian media ... I don't buy it. The ad with the crosshairs was an unfortunate misunderstanding. Lots of us were very familiar with both parties. It was a screw-up, that's all. Most of the outrage struck me as contrived.
    Recent events in Bermuda sure shake things up media-wise, though. We could use that.
   But you can see the artificiality of the Great Racism Snowball as it rolls in Bermuda nowadays, just in the pointed exclusion of everybody else from the Black White Thing in Bermuda. People can decide whatever they're set on deciding, but you can't stop racial mixing, and I do reckon that the many-shaded Bermudians of the not too faraway future will look back on our frenzied nervousness regarding race and pitying us.

Ha ha! Awesome. Ah, god. Yeah, it's an important thing, that racial mixing. Do it for Stephen Jay Gould. Heh ... karma to ya hombre ...

I'd also say that attitudes among whites today, particularly younger whites, are not remotely like those of whites during and immediately post segregation.  What they do not like is being constantly called racist for not voting for a party which has pretty open told them they don't need them and aren't particularly interested in their views ("learn to live with that" kind of talk).

Thank you very much spin for the above. 

I am a younger white Bermudian, who has not experienced the days of segregation and other disgustingly racist policies.  So when I read the paper and hear the racial rhetoric of the PLP rallies, it is only natural for me to become defensive.  For I do not harbor any untoward feelings to my black Bermudian comrades (at least based on the color of their skin, everyone has people that they can't stand, no matter what color they maybe) and to persistently hear about how racist you are, based on the color of my skin, leads to the inevitable result of me not voting for the party which has already deemed a segment of the population as the enemy (again, this can easily be seen by the comments) based on a bunch of ignorant idiots years before my time.

No one, well at least myself, has never said in any of my posts to simply forget the past, as it is what shapes the future.  But don't judge me because of the past.  Do you honestly expect me (or other whites or my generation) to sit back and take in all this slander and accusations of being racist because of some white people way before my time? 

Would you support a party/institution that always used this language to describe your race?  And because I don't, I am in turn called a racist?  Despite the fact that you have no idea about me,  my past, my friendships or my situation in Bermuda.  And you wonder why the reaction is the way it is from the younger white generation of this island.  I know myself, as well many others, that are simply tired and fed up with being unfairly labelled by this governmentm, due to the past actions of individuals that I never knew.

Before someone says, "Now you know what it feels like" (as is the usual justification for such actions), keep in mind that I (along with the majority of my generation) have NEVER discrimnated against a fellow Bermudian or person based on the color of their skin.   

 I think I'll stay away from post#443 for a while until I can formulate a reply. Your last paragraph speaks volumes but I'll have to sort out the 'wavelengths'.........

   Well, the dating scene seems quite the free-for-all. Heat of the moment, jnc. Still, your point stands: perhaps "not too faraway" is an example of talking the crap talk. Ah, but it's the inexorable force. Muddies that whole crazy setup. Still, would it be insane to think that Bermudians in just a couple decades might think we were just a crowd of wankers? Doom settles over the environment ... nobody in Bermuda seems to be finding accommodation that isn't monstrously expensive ... and meanwhile we were all distracted with Race Madness. I think a fair slice of the population doesn't fit into it.

No argument from me on that one!

Noel